Every major business process in your company is built on sophisticated applications. As a result, the stability of your business is often tied to the stability of your applications. So, how can you make sure that the applications that run your business are matched with the goals of your business -- goals like risk-avoidance.

One key way is to understand your applications. These applications have developed over the course of years or even decades, growing in size and complexity. In fact, many have become so complex that it is difficult for your IT team to adapt these systems to support new requirements. For instance, to support a new product line or to eliminate redundant functions following a merger. Making changes to applications without adequately understanding the repercussions is a recipe for problems. Uniformed changes could lead to a temporary outage of your operations… which is an unacceptable loss.

But your business processes must change, and that means that your applications must change. So, how do you overcome complexity? It is by understanding the structure and behavior of your applications. Armed with business intelligence about the structure and function of your applications, managers can better choose priorities for development teams. And developers can ensure that the changes they make won’t affect other core systems.

At Micro Focus Live, we’ll take a look at this concept of application understanding from both the management side and the technical side. You’ll learn how managers can plan modernization activities that yield the biggest returns for your business. And you’ll see how development teams can quickly deliver on these requirements, emptying their development queues.