As your business grows, it becomes increasingly unclear which applications and services you have in your application network and who is responsible for each of them. If your documentation isn’t updated regularly, communication can break down and result in wasted time and frustration.
It’s easier to manage your applications and services when you can see and understand everything you have in your application network. Using a tool like Starlify allows you to organize and visualize your systems and services in application networks where they are searchable and discoverable.
The current state of your application network gives your stakeholders insight into where to focus and what to focus on moving forward. With searchable assets and a clear overview of who is responsible for which systems and services, digital transformation of a large business is easy and intuitive.
By visualizing of how your systems, applications, and services are connected and how the information flows, you’re able to base operational decisions and long-term planning for your business on data that all stakeholders, including those in non-technical roles, can see and understand.
When you have your application network mapped out, you can easily see which services you have. In some cases, your developers will be able to confirm that the solution they need does not already exist in your network and they need to build a new one. In other cases, they will see that an existing service can be reused for a different process in your business or that the new solution can be designed from a service that has already been created.
Reusing a service eliminates the need to create a new one, reducing unnecessary extra work for your developers and saving your business time and money. That way you’re able to work in an agile way and develop new applications more efficiently.
When your business is scaling up, reusing services makes it easier and faster to scale as your applications expand to include more functions or enter new markets. Plus, if you know that you have a high-quality service, reusing it ensures reliability and continued high quality, adding value to your business. Service discoverability, made possible with a service like Starlify, is the key to having this competitive edge as a large enterprise.