Software maintenance often accounts for 70 percent of overall cost and that includes licensing. Enterprises have to worry about maintaining their software, which includes product updates, security updates, hardware updates, and environment refreshes. These are time-consuming tasks that require human expertise in several areas. As the software ages, an enterprise still needs to maintain this human expertise for legacy software that, while critical to the business, can be expensive and sometimes negate the overall business value by increasing the cost of ownership.
More and more enterprises are turning to automated lifecycle management tools to help with this heavy lifting related to software lifecycle maintenance. It is important to have the right strategy in place to plan for maintenance. Maintenance should be part of the overall strategy, not an afterthought.
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Challenges
Solution
Step-by-step exercises:
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