Re-engineering restores stability, maintainability, and future-readiness to existing enterprise software without having to rewrite the entire code base.
In production and manufacturing facilities with critical systems, there often comes a point where the existing software can no longer be reliably maintained or upgraded. When you recognize this, it’s time for a targeted re-engineering effort .
In this article, we’ll show you exactly what software re-engineering entails, why SMEs in industry and manufacturing are particularly affected by it, and how soxes, as a partner, provides structured support along this journey.
In many machine, plant, or MES environments, solutions run on outdated platforms (e.g., Delphi, Access, monolithic C++) that are barely scalable and require increasingly frequent maintenance.
The loss of expertise (due to retirement or a change of employer) makes maintenance riskier.
Costs are rising: Every additional feature becomes a challenge, the time until production stops is getting longer, and the risk of downtime is increasing.
Your competitiveness will be significantly reduced; if modern software methods no longer work, you’ll find yourself in a rut.
By this we mean the targeted modification, modernization, or restructuring of an existing application without rewriting it from scratch. This is not about short-term fixes, but rather about sustainable system renewal with a focus on operational reliability, maintainability, and efficiency.
Re-engineering focuses on optimizing the system structure and improving the application’s usability for the end user. By improving the architecture and underlying structures, it is also possible to reduce maintenance effort and the associated costs.
This approach is ideal for SMEs in the industrial, manufacturing, or logistics sectors that:
If you know that your application is difficult to scale, our analysis phase will show you exactly where the risks lie and what steps make sense.
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Anyone who continues to operate old software pays more each year for stagnation, risk, and maintenance than a Modernization would cost.
Many companies know that their software is reaching its limits, but don't know whether they should modernize or develop new software. This article provides clarity in this area.
Delphi- und Access-Anwendungen steuern oft noch kritische Produktionsprozesse, doch sie sind anfällig für Ausfälle, Sicherheitslücken und hohe Folgekosten. Der Artikel zeigt die grössten Risiken.
soxes breathes new life into your application. If your company is looking for a software development partner in Switzerland specializing in software re-engineering, you've come to the right place. Our clients benefit from more than 25 years of experience in modernizing software solutions.
Software maintenance keeps software functional and up-to-date: bug fixes, maintenance, customisations and performance improvements ensure reliability.
Re-engineering can affect an entire software application or only selected software components. At soxes, experts analyse, evaluate and modernise your applications and show you ways in which architectures can be improved with re-engineering. With architecture adaptation, modernisation and process digitalisation, soxes creates security and opens up new integration possibilities for companies. Many companies have application software and systems whose smooth operation is essential for success. They often form the foundation of the central work processes in companies and are therefore a valuable asset. It is therefore important for the success of a company that these systems remain agile and scalable. Often applications have been extended and complicated over several years. Such concocted architectures are a corset for any innovation-driven company.
Is your business software getting on in years and causing more problems than solutions? With proven methods such as re-factoring or re-engineering, soxes can already successfully overcome challenges.
After the successful commissioning of the individual software, the operating phase begins. Even with software of the highest quality level, errors can occur during operation that must be corrected. These errors can be caused by hardware as well as external software. In addition, updates of the individual components must be carried out regularly in order to avoid security gaps and ensure compatibility. Change requests from the customer often arise during operation that have to be recorded and processed. What to consider while maintaining IT systems? Generally, soxes takes over maintenance and support for customers after successful development. Regular security and software updates are urgently needed to keep the software as secure and stable as possible. In order to be able to identify errors as quickly as possible, soxes relies on monitoring the software with the help of monitoring tools. In this way, even unpredictable problems can be identified quickly. With its comprehensive maintenance and support offer, soxes ensures long-term and sustainable operation of the individually developed software for decades.
Legacy software causes high maintenance costs and security risks. The slice-and-dice approach enables gradual, low-risk modernisation and avoids the disruption of a «big bang».
Software re-engineering is a complex process that serves to modernise outdated software systems. It usually consists of several sub-processes that focus on different areas of the application. The desired end results of a re-engineering are, among others, the increase of maintainability, performance, scalability and security of a software system without significantly changing the underlying logic. Successful re-engineering can be very challenging given the objectives and therefore needs to be carefully planned and prepared. However, the effort can be worthwhile because re-engineering is a cost-effective alternative for the further development of the systems. Re-engineering can be seen as an intermediate step before developing a completely new solution. Under certain circumstances, the reprocessing of existing systems is a sufficient step for the necessary modernisation. When ist Re-Engineering appropriate? In many cases, things are only repaired when they are already worn out or broken. In IT, however, it is worthwhile to maintain systems at regular intervals and to carry out "repairs" when necessary. As technology advances very quickly and systems become more and more complex, it is easy for architectures and structures to become outdated and for fatal errors to creep in. This ageing process can be counteracted with re-engineering. Re-engineering is a good option in the following scenarios: When new security updates and patches for technologies in use are no longer available, there is no way around re-engineering. Dramatic leaps in technology can overtake even the most promising technology in the blink of an eye. To keep software systems modern and competitive, the adaptation of new technologies is therefore very important. If applications produce faulty output or do not function as desired, this hinders the company's performance. In most cases, a revision of the application can help. The maintenance of outdated systems consumes a lot of resources and time, which is often not cost-efficient. With such solutions, it can be worthwhile to switch to modern technologies. Re-engineering can create a lot of freedom for a company's processes. It may be that software systems have constrained the design of processes, making growth difficult. Re-engineering can expand the boundaries and possibilities so that processes can be designed more efficiently and innovatively.
Unsere Experten bei soxes haben eine Lösung für Ihre veralteten Bestandssysteme und sind ein wichtiger Partner bei der Modernisierung Ihrer IT. Gemeinsam entwickeln wir eine fortschrittliche Cloud Strategie um eine ideale Basis für Ihre Datenmengen zu schaffen.
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