In the digital age when technology is evolving faster than ever. Many companies are struggling to take advantage of cutting edge technologies. Even the high growth companies are not upgrading their business applications fast enough.

For companies to remain competitive in the market companies have to be

• Agile

• Continuously improve

• Innovate

• Adopt service orchestration

• Reducing costs while improving operational efficiencies.

The question is where comes the justification from for investment?

Very few enterprises believe that up-to-date applications help them gain access to new sales and delivery channels, improve scalability, reduce time-to-market or it can drive revenue growth.

What is holding back the enterprises growth?

• The burden of legacy systems

• A linear development approach

• Siloed organizational structures

• And sub-optimal automation of traditional models 

Let's talk about Top Challenges Companies facing. Some of them are

• Inability to change - the legacy systems burden

• Slow delivery speed - limited collaboration, waterfall-delivery structure

• Inefficient processes - Manual processes and fragmented governance processes

• Limited innovation - mostly focusing on "keeping the lights on". Innovation is key to faster adoption of newer technologies.

Now let's talk about implementing those principles to transform the application service environment

1st step is to Forster the product-oriented approach to drive innovation

2nd step is to leverage the intelligent automation

3rd step is to optimize and modernize the application portfolio

and the 4th step is to Embrace and implement the DevOps practices

If I have to summarize this concept of application service transformation aligned to Digital Age.

• Check in your organization how to make continuous improvements in cost and operational efficiencies

• Check and focus on business value while transformation delivery of applications and services

• Continuously check and evaluate the application portfolio against the industry benchmarks. 

• and the last one is to encourage innovation-led approach for application transformation, leverage applications innovation as catalyst for accelerating the business initiatives.