Solutions To Digital Transformation Challenges

- Overview

In the coming years, digital transformation is expected to become a top strategic business priority for companies in almost every industry. In a 2021 IBM survey, 60% of CIOs and CTOs said their IT modernization plans were not yet ready for the future, and we’re seeing many moving forward quickly with their digital technology plans this year.

Digital transformation provides your organization with the opportunity to reimagine how business operates through the use of new digital processes and tools. However, at every stage of the digital transformation process, you will need to face challenges.

As a business leader, you must understand that digital transformation challenges are not always directly related to technical issues or technical barriers. They also include people-centered issues, organizational structure, and other non-technical factors. The best way to overcome these issues is to identify and assess which specific issues will impact your business.

The challenges of digital transformation can be enormous, and there are factors beyond your control. However, the failure rate of digital transformation is very high, and some measures must be taken to overcome them and lead your organization to a smooth and seamless transition into the digital future. Here are some solutions for overcoming obstacles.

- Microservices

In a nutshell, microservice is a group of little autonomous services that work together. Microservices fixes three of the aforementioned challenges instantly. It reduces time to market because each small service is autonomously designed by separate development teams. Hence, new functionalities can be released without a central restriction.

Supports technology heterogeneity with its use of service interface. That is, different technologies can be used within each microservice. It enables flexibility as each microservice can take up new functionality of its own.

- API Design

Application Programming Interface (API) is what connects microservices. API is a big deal in software development. Big social media platforms like Google cannot function without an API. The API offers business functionality, gives flexibility to content creation and allows developers to transform new use cases for services.

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- Automation

The ability of a company to drastically reduce the time and effort dedicated to recurring tasks is what determines its success. Companies like Amazon are successful because they continue to deploy new applications that reduce time-to-market.

- Design

Most of the time, a digital product (service) will stand out from the competition due to its design. By design, we mean a potential customer’s first impression of a product. And this could go beyond the user interface. A good design will always satisfy the customer’s requirements.

- Heterogeneity Support

There wouldn’t be a high demand for software developers if all new technologies had the same design and functionality. It is in fact, this heterogeneous technology landscape that motivates companies to adapt their services to new technologies. For any company to undergo full digital transformation, its software engineering team must work and learn new, modern and rapidly changing technologies.

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