22/01/2022
Are you familiar with what Software/Application maintenance means and does for your business?
Well, Software/Application maintenance is everything your software provider does after delivery of the software. It might include improving the design, integration with other systems, fixing bugs, implementing enhancements and additional features.
Software maintenance has become an indispensable part of software/app development. Facilitating proper functioning, better performance and glitch free operations. Maintenance of your software is an advantage to your business.
How? Check the following reasons
1. Fixing Bugs
Bugs can occur due to bad code, change in hardware and platform or version upgrade causing fault. Just to avoid this, the corrective maintenance will come to play.
2. Upgrade & User Adoption
Upgrades means newer features, more efficiency, higher scalability. Whereas user Adoption relates to coming up with functionality which engages and delights the users. Adaptive maintenance takes up the lead here. It takes care of updation's required for the software to operate on new hardware, platform or operating system.
3. Software/Application Re-engineering
Re-engineering recognizes and modifies your existing software. Now you might think if this can help, here it is. Software or Application re-engineering is essential as it can help future-proof your business due to technological or changes in the business environment. If you ignore it, not only will you lag behind user expectations but also reduce its overall durability.
4. Grow with your Business
You got your software/application developed so that it can handle the additional traffic when your business scales. On other hand, you are not maintaining or upgrading it. How can you expect it to match the performance expectation level? So for a software which grows with your scaling business needs, try maintaining it.
Hence saving money on software maintenance might actually lead you to spend more on developing new software/app.
Get Smart and Pound wise.