Technology
Readiness Assessments
Know what's holding your solution back.
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Over time, all software becomes obsolete. Only actively maintained software can avoid this fate.
Even if your solution hasn’t changed its functionality in the last few years, the technology that it was built on has advanced significantly to patch software vulnerabilities and mitigate other cybersecurity threats.
Without keeping pace with those enhancements, your solution begins to accrue technical “debt,” falling further behind the curve and increasing your risk of a cybersecurity incident.
We offer a broad and comprehensive technical review to examine and identify any issues, complexities, risks, or areas of concern with respect to its systemic health and long-term sustainability.
Make sure the technology powering your platform is future ready.
Having a technology readiness assessment can:
- Identify risks before they become a crisis. Know what needs to be addressed before the accumulated technical debt triggers expensive remediation, compliance lawsuits, or loss of business.
- Accelerate the release of new features. Get a handle on the technical debt that is slowing you down today so that you can better respond to the market needs of tomorrow.
- Maximize your return on engineering investment. Stop wasting limited engineering resources on manual maintenance, workarounds, and putting out fires. Have a roadmap that prioritizes paying off the biggest areas of debt to free up future engineering efforts.
- Avoid losing customers for non-compliance. Educational institutions are obligated by law to provide accessible products and are beginning to require more from their vendors to mitigate cybersecurity risks and protect their data.
It’s more than just evaluating software
There are several reasons to assess your technical readiness. For example, in the last decade:
- Best practices for data interoperability have standardized.
- The legal requirements for accessibility has changed (twice).
- States have aggressively legislated how personally identifiable information (PII), and education data specifically, can be used.
- Automation and improved tooling has changed how software is managed.
- User expectations have evolved for how content is organized and presented.
All of this adds up, which is why staying on top of it is essential. The first step is assessing your current situation.
