Old technology is difficult to update
Because many of these legacy software rely on code dating back to the late 90’s or the early 00’s, they cannot be easily updated, mostly due to technical limitations and scarcity of software developers.
Legacy vendors’ business model relies on standardisation, not customisation
Thereby the amount of time and budget needed for legacy vendors to customise a traditional software to every single business need would be too high in comparison with expected returns.
In real business life, if you need a custom software development, all you can do as a Client is fill in a functional request form in your legacy vendor's website, which will be queued among many dozens of other Client requests.
Can your business afford to wait?
Depending on the number of similar requests, it will either be part of your vendor’s development roadmap, short-term if you are lucky, longer-term if you are not, or stored in the basement as the worst case scenario.
Have you planned a significant budget for unplanned custom needs?
Furthermore, it is part of the legacy vendors’ strategy to make their software as opaque as a black box, so only a few designated partners can provide integrated custom development services, at a heavy cost.
These are the main reasons why software new releases are not very frequent, heavy, and costly to implement. Most importantly they answer only partly to your specific business needs.
The almighty Legacy vendors
Moreover, legacy vendors use their sales & marketing power to make you believe that they are not legacy, and can adapt to all your needs, just to win your business.
If they cannot satisfy all your needs, they will pretend your needs are unreasonable and cannot be fulfilled by anybody else anyway.
Have you witnessed such situations?
Think twice: a black box can turn white
We at Heavenize are experts in transforming black boxes into white ones. We leverage the value of your legacy systems by building your specific solution on top, which will reflect your business uniqueness.
