There is an old saying in business, “what got us here, won’t get us there”. At some point in the lifetime of your business you will undoubtedly outgrow the processes and the systems that helped you grow to that point and to achieve the next milestone you will need to upgrade your systems and processes. While system migration is inevitable in the quest to stay competitive, those of us that have lived through it know that it can be one of the most challenging tasks for an organization. There are many challenges that will be faced when migrating systems: Adapting your internal processes to fit the capabilities of the new system; data migration; and integrating the new system landscape. Fortunately, if you are reading this you have found a platform that is ideally architected for making system migration easy. In this blog post, we will discuss how Decisions can be used to assist with three common challenges of syastem migration.
Challenge 1: Adapting Your Internal Processes to Fit the Capabilities of a New System
This is one of the most common challenges and often the most daunting. During the startup phase of an organization, the main concern is growing sales and there’s little concern for developing long-term scalable processes. Keeping costs low, flexibility high, and doing whatever it takes to get the sale is all that matters. While this is the right approach during the startup phase, eventually your organization will have to migrate to a more scalable system with more scalable processes. If the new system your migrating to is Decisions, the transition is relatively easy. Our graphical designers allow you to customize your new system to replicate your existing processes in a more scalable way. Decisions allows you to completely customize your system, without burying all the logic in hard to understand code. With Decisions you can take your “secret code” and turn it into building blocks that are now understood and easily modified by your business users. This gives your company the agility needed to grow to the next level.
Not Migrating to Decisions? That’s ok, we have tools to help you with migration to other systems too. One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced when doing system migrations in the past, is getting an organization to change their processes to fit into the big “out of the box solution” that we just spent millions of dollars on. Even in the best-case scenarios, you typically are only able to get 80% of these processes to fit into these large monolithic systems, without either sacrificing some of the things that make your organization special or spending a small fortune on custom coding. Decisions can easily connect to these systems and be used to handle those 20% of processes that make your organization special. Our no-code building blocks make it possible for you to customize whatever you need, and our clients have found that not only are they able to implement their new systems faster, but they’re also getting more useful life out of these systems. With Decisions acting as a configuration layer that adapts better to the needs of the business overtime, you can keep these expensive large scale systems longer.
