Software Improvement Group

Discovering the ROI of your software development decisions is essential. However, predicting it accurately can be challenging. Fortunately, you no longer need to rely on manual calculations. We’ve introduced our new ROI Calculator, which provides a tailored overview of potential savings from better software by answering just three quick questions. Get your results in under a minute, and it's completely free. ✅ Our advanced ROI Calculator evaluates your specific circumstances, such as IT budget and maturity level, to estimate the potential savings of upgrading your software. Specifically, it calculates the ROI of utilizing Sigrid®, the software excellence platform. Try it today at https://lnkd.in/dgT65PRb #ROI #Calculator #Tool #SoftwareDevelopment #Sigrid

The critical role of source code in green IT success 💚💻 Green IT aims to minimize the negative effects of tech operations on the environment. During his inspiring keynote, "The State of Software Quality" at #SCOPE2024, our CEO Luc Brandts highlighted a critical, yet often overlooked aspect of sustainability—the software itself. "When you want to do things on sustainability in software, it is really about looking at the code." – Luc Brandts, CEO, Software Improvement Group 💡 Key Insight: Our research shows that optimizing software can reduce energy consumption by an average of 17%. In extreme cases, this could even reach a 90% improvement. Adopting more efficient programming methods, such as reusable code, can be a green alternative that leads to significant energy savings. 🔎 Current Focus: Most sustainability efforts target hardware and infrastructure, making them more energy-efficient. However, there are significant opportunities in optimizing software, as it impacts the environment too. That's right, Applications that transmit large volumes of data can consume substantial energy, and inefficient coding practices, like poorly designed loops, can further increase this consumption. 🎯 Takeaway: To achieve meaningful Green IT goals, we must focus more on writing energy-efficient code. Additionally, it's important to understand that even when we want to save energy on the hardware side, the software that operates that hardware needs to be fit for purpose. Watch the full keynote to learn more about the current state of software quality. Link in the comments! #Sustainability #GreenIT #ITLeadership #SoftwareDevelopmentAttached

New M&A Deal Update! Congratulations to Main Capital Partners, a leading software investor with over 20 years of experience in strengthening software companies, on the acquisition of a majority stake in Whitevision, a leading Dutch provider of Intelligent Document Processing software solutions. Together with Main, Whitevision will pursue a strategy to enrich its product offering further and expand internationally to become a leading player in the European market. We're happy to share that we supported Main Capital Partners with our thorough IT Due Diligence (ITDD) report. #Acquisition #MandA #MainCapital #MainCapitalPartners #WhiteVision #Investment #ITDD

Exciting news! 📣 We’re proud to announce the release of our 2024 Maintainability Model, now available to all Sigrid® customers. Certified by TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH - TÜVIT (TÜV NORD GROUP) and based on the ISO - International Organization for Standardization 25010 standard, our model is updated annually to ensure it reflects the latest advancements in software quality. 🔎 Why is this important? Maintainability is crucial for ensuring that your software systems remain efficient, secure, and easy to update. By benchmarking your code against the world’s largest database—over 200 billion lines of code across more than 18,000 systems and 300 technologies—our model provides an objective, reliable frame of reference to assess and improve your software’s build quality.   💡 Want to know more? Our Sigrid expert, Hugo Schoonewille, has written an in-depth article explaining why we update our maintainability model every year, the importance of benchmarking, and how Sigrid helps you translate these insights into actionable goals for your software assurance strategy. 👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eZAsX4Ui #SoftwareQualityManagement #Maintainability #ISO25010 #TüVITCertified

We can all agree that modernizing applications can vastly improve your systems' security, reliability, and scalability. However, we see many organizations facing significant challenges with their modernization projects. Here's why: Many organizations opt to “rip and replace” legacy systems with a new system built from the ground up. But large-scale modernization efforts like these are often risky, costly, and tend to exceed both time and budget constraints "It's nice to replace your entire service portfolio with shiny new technology and a platform, but you cannot wait until all of that is developed." – Ravish Gopal Discover why large-scale modernization projects may not be your best bet 👇 There’s a more effective strategy: incremental modernization. In this first episode of a series around legacy modernization, our Director Delivery EMEA & APAC Ravish Gopal, deep dives into the benefits of incremental modernization. This method reduces risk and cost by breaking down the process into smaller, manageable steps. ✅ Incremental modernization offers numerous benefits, including reduced technical debt, continuous feedback, and enhanced business continuity. By addressing specific components step-by-step, you can maintain operations smoothly and make necessary adjustments. Watch our first video where Ravish breaks down these concepts and more. Stay tuned for practical insights that can transform your modernization journey. #LegacyModernization #TechnicalDebt #IncrementalModernization #BusinessContinuity #ITManagement #DigitalTransformation

Technical debt can quietly drain a significant portion of your IT budget. Question: What percentage of an organization's technology budget do you believe is allocated to addressing tech debt issues? 👇 A. Less than 10%  B. Between 10% - 15%  C. Between 15 - 20%  D. More than 20% ---  Wondering what technical debt is? In 1992, Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, compared shipping first-time code to going into debt. This debt involves trade-offs in software development when shortcuts are taken on code quality for immediate needs.  A bit of debt can speed up development if repaid quickly through a rewrite. However, if left unpaid, a development team loses productivity. This loss of productivity is the interest that the team pays. It starts with a single line of code, which is generally fine, but when it’s not structurally dealt with, it could spiral out of control in the millions of lines of bad code in an enterprise.  --- The above definition is taken from a blog written by our M&A and ITDD expert and Managing Director Jasper Geurts, wherein he describes five specific types of technical debt that are often overlooked but shouldn't be. Read the article to learn how to manage technical debt more effectively and what types to look out for specifically (link in the comments). #TechnicalDebt #ITBudget #SoftwareDevelopment #ITLeadership

When it comes to software development, why invest in code scanning and proper guidelines? 👇 At SCOPE 2024, Cor van Herk, IT Director at Keylane, had an engaging discussion with our Senior Director Werner Heijstek about managing technical debt. Cor van Herk highlighted the importance of getting software right from the start and developing an engineering culture that embraces code scanning. 👏 By reducing instances of technical debt, Keylane ensures higher software quality and better client functionality, making fewer errors and leaving more time for their developers to innovate. Want to delve deeper? Find the link to the full video in the comments! #TechnicalDebt #SoftwareQuality #SoftwareDevelopment #ITLeadership #SCOPE2024

When your tech team grows more than 4 times in size in just 18 months, how do you effectively address software development challenges and prevent the accumulation of technical debt? 👇 Let's hear it from Laurie Cunningham, CTO of TerraQuest, a UK-based company leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial data management platforms. "We engaged with SIG to get an impartial opinion backed with industry expertise. Since then, the Sigrid platform has been embedded into the culture of our business" – Laurie Cunningham. We're very proud that Terraquest reduced its technical debt by 20% and increased its Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) release output by 15% by using Sigrid®, our software assurance platform. #TechnicalDebt #Sigrid #Terraquest #SoftwareDevelopment

Effectively managing a software portfolio is about a lot more than relying on just functional aspects of the software, and there is a lot to consider even after a system is deployed. Besides continuous maintenance efforts and bug fixes, new features are often introduced. What do these things have in common? They all require your development teams to either write new code or change existing code. So as a business, how will this impact you, and when? To help answer that question, we’ve analyzed 500 different enterprise software systems –and specifically looked at the yearly growth and change rates of code per life-cycle phase. #SoftwareDevelopment #SDL #SoftwareDevelopmentLifeCycle

"The cost to fix bugs during the testing phase can be 15x higher than the cost of fixing those found during design" 🥶 You've read that correctly. That's what the Systems Sciences Institute at IBM found some time ago. In addition, we found that lower build quality of software is correlated with a higher relative risk of vulnerabilities. Why? In a nutshell, lower-quality software is harder to understand, modify, and test, increasing the potential for error significantly. Lack of quality in design, architecture, and process, can fundamentally increase the risk of future security vulnerabilities as well. So, addressing security issues during development can save you significant costs and headaches later. In our second snippet from the "Avoiding a False Sense of Cybersecurity" webinar, we discuss the importance of secure coding and early vulnerability detection. Tibor Lapikas is joined by experts Asma Oualmakran, Yiannis Kanellopoulos, and Elias Vafiadis to share valuable insights. Yiannis highlights: "We educate our clients on secure coding and establish straightforward guidelines. Addressing security issues early in the development lifecycle not only reduces costs but also fortifies your system's security." Learn how to implement these crucial practices in your organization. Watch the full webinar recording (created in collaboration with code4thought) here: https://lnkd.in/ex6t5Yt5 #Cybersecurity #SecureCoding #EarlyDetection #SoftwareSecurity #CostEfficiency