What We Offer: Product Lifecycle Optimization: Product Modernization

Why Modernize?

Over time, software products follow a path to obsolescence; they fall behind technological and architectural advances and many cycles of coding changes increase component complexity and decrease maintainability. While the core functionality retains business value, technical and structural challenges decrease salability and push a product into lifecycle decline. Modernization is a cost-effective way to reverse these trends and rejuvenate existing products, thereby extending their useful life and maximizing their revenue potential. It provides a financially attractive alternative to the time, cost and risk of replacing aging products. Modernization uses techniques such as Agile re-factoring to redesign and rewrite software to improve function, performance and maintainability. A modernization effort can also create market opportunities by porting products to new or additional platforms or by converting product components into services for repackaging into new and enhanced offerings.

How Dextrys Can Help

Whether refurbishing an aging product or moving an entire family of products to a new platform, Dextrys has the capabilities to help clients leverage and extend their product investments. Our development centers in China offer experienced teams of experts to transform the viability and useful lifespan of aging software products. Dextrys experts can bring a new look and feel to legacy products, re-factor components to improve performance and maintainability, update obsolete technology and migrate to new platforms and architectures. If desired, technology modernization can be combined with functional upgrades to enhance asset value further. Our Product Lifecycle Optimization: Product Modernization services:

  • Capitalize on the cost, time and skill advantages of China-based development centers
  • Provide world-class project management to ensure projects stay on track and meet intended objectives
  • Minimize transition time and disruption of client engineering teams through our advanced Global Delivery Model
  • Include integrated QA to ensure the quality of project deliverables

Benefits

  • Sustain and grow asset value by extending the useful life of aging products and product lines
  • Create new revenue opportunities by expanding into new markets
  • Increase profitability by lowering support and enhancement costs
  • Faster, more cost effective and less risky than developing new products to meet the same business objectives