The Challenge of Legacy Visual Basic Applications
For over a decade, your organization has relied on custom Visual Basic applications to support critical workflows, operations, and lines of business. These legacy systems served you well in the past but their limitations have now become burdensome.
Reducing technical debt and modernizing legacy systems are the top IT priority for 41% of Enterprise Architects and IT leaders. Close to 60% of respondents gave high priority to migrating key applications to the cloud in support of this. The code for these Visual Basic applications is dated, making enhancements difficult and time-consuming. Older versions have known security vulnerabilities and integration issues. Additionally, their user experiences can frustrate users and reduce adoption rates. Finding developers with the needed Visual Basic expertise has grown challenging as well.
You recognize modernizing is necessary before these aging applications completely hinder your ability to compete and innovate. However, undertaking such a project seems risky and costly. Facing such hurdles, where does an organization even start?