{"id":2196,"date":"2026-06-11T04:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog2wrkdev.wpenginepowered.com\/how-enterprise-automation-enables-application-modernization\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:19:13","slug":"how-enterprise-automation-enables-application-modernization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/how-enterprise-automation-enables-application-modernization\/","title":{"rendered":"How Enterprise Automation Enables Application Modernization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there\u2019s nothing wrong with this initial line of thinking, an enterprise automation platform can also help you address another business-critical area: application modernization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ll review the role an enterprise automation platform can play in modernizing your applications by covering 3 distinct approaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end, you\u2019ll hopefully identify not only how you can leverage your enterprise automation platform further but also your next step in advancing your application modernization strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n    <div class=\"article__cta\">\r\n\t\t            <div class=\"article__cta-right\">\r\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__cta-right_image\" src=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AD_4nXcOwkKcrrTEe2h5Uh3Y0JgSO9grPIl3dfscv-VpSgbFyy4CugiH6fzvyiSO7dQTgpn3guRD2nErQYcNLFWUo7PqdmzFb56nDOKN69K2O8mlrcSC8Ahc5Zeg-E3ZQP1OLyqNFgmOPAkeycsFHeprG52GEgFrBoBrMojE7-150x150.png\"\r\n                     alt=\"\">\r\n                <div class=\"article__cta-right_content\">\r\n                    <h4>Want to learn more?<\/h4>\r\n                    <p>These insights were presented during one of our \u201cCoffee with Massimo\u201d monthly webinars. You can watch the session\u2019s full recording to catch everything Massimo shared.<\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t                    <a class=\"article__cta-right_btn\"\r\n                       href=\"https:\/\/discover.workato.com\/coffee-with-massimo\/p\/1\/?ref=connector\">Watch the recording<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t            <\/div>\r\n\t\t    <\/div>\r\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Backend API enablement<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Backend API enablement, which is the most common and long-standing of the 3 modernization approaches, allows you to connect your \u201clegacy\u201d system of record (SoR) applications (ERP, CRM, core banking, claim management, billing, SCM, etc.) to your modern, digital applications through APIs. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this scenario, your SoRs won\u2019t change, but your digital applications will be able to leverage their data and business logic\u2014a necessary precondition for most digital applications (think about mobile banking or mobile commerce, for example).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workato.com\/the-connector\/integration-and-automation-strategy\/\">enterprise automation platform<\/a> plays a significant role in supporting this architecture. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/topics\/api-gateway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">API gateway<\/a> capability publishes, monitors, manages, and secures the APIs that can be consumed by your digital applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, on the other end of the architecture, the enterprise automation platform\u2019s data and application integration capabilities connect the composite services that implement the APIs\u2019 functionalities to the various SoRs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you\u2019ve established all of the above, these composite services can respond to the digital applications\u2019 API calls by retrieving the requested SoR data and sending it back to the digital applications that need it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/how-enterprise-automationblog-image-1-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/how-enterprise-automationblog-image-1-2-1024x480.png\" alt=\"Diagram showing an enterprise automation platform connecting digital applications through API gateway, composite services, integration layer, and backend systems.\" class=\"wp-image-35436\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While this architecture is clearly valuable, popular, and amply proven, it comes with scalability, performance, and availability limitations. For example, if a system of record is temporarily unavailable, certain API calls won\u2019t work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, the digital applications can\u2019t retrieve the data they need from a given SoR. Moreover, your SoRs likely aren\u2019t designed to support the high workload required by digital applications\u2014as the latter can serve hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of users. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, since your SoRs cannot efficiently serve in a low-latency fashion with a high number of incoming API calls, your digital applications may not be as responsive as they need to be in order to keep customers happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workato.com\/the-connector\/it-modernization\/\">What is IT modernization?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The digital integration hub<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The digital integration hub (DIH) architecture works the same as the previous approach\u2014with one big exception. There\u2019s now a data management layer that sits between your SoRs and your APIs, the associated services, and digital applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This layer essentially stores a consolidated and optimized copy of the SoRs&#8217; data that\u2019s needed to support the APIs. This allows API services to retrieve the data they need by querying the data management layer\u2014as opposed to triggering transactions in the SoRs, as is the case in the classic back-end API enablement scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data management layer is connected to your SoRs by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workato.com\/the-connector\/automated-business-ideas\/\">enterprise automation<\/a> platform\u2019s application and data integration tools. And by using event-based technologies, like change data capture and\/or event brokers (e.g., Apache Kafka), the new layer and your SoRs\u2019 data can be kept in sync in real-time or near real time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, if a certain piece of SoR data is, for example, modified, then the associated data item in the data management layer is also updated as fast as possible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/how-enterprise-automationblog-image-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/how-enterprise-automationblog-image-2.png\" alt=\"Diagram showing an enterprise automation platform with API gateway, services, in-memory data store, event-based integration, and backend systems.\" class=\"wp-image-35425\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This approach addresses the previous one\u2019s shortcomings in terms of resiliency, scalability, and performance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s no longer necessary for your SoRs to be available 24\/7, as your digital applications can locate the data they need in the data management layer. Furthermore, it\u2019s significantly easier and cheaper to scale your data management layer up or down, thus optimizing your digital applications\u2019 performance over time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, it\u2019s much easier to scale a data management layer built on NoSQL or in-memory technologies than it would be with a system like a mainframe core banking application or a classic ERP system.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you\u2019ve successfully established a DIH, you can also leverage it to gradually modernize your SoRs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, the DIH acts as a strong decoupling layer between the digital applications and the SoRs. In principle, they don\u2019t need to know anything about each other, as the only thing they have in common is the DIH\u2019s data management layer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, a new digital application has no or minimal impact on the SoRs, and replacing a SoR is transparent to the digital applications as long as the new SoR can provide the same data to the data management layer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually, a DIH allows you to start modernizing your legacy SoRs one by one, at a pace that makes sense for your business, and through a variety of approaches. This includes anything from replacing a legacy system with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workato.com\/the-connector\/saas-integration\/\">SaaS<\/a> application to rebuilding the SoR in a cloud-native way to lifting and shifting a still-valuable application to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/blog-image-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/blog-image-3-1024x512.png\" alt=\"Three-step diagram illustrating a phased modernization journey: decouple and digitize, incrementally modernize, and innovate, while transitioning from legacy to fully modernized systems.\" class=\"wp-image-35453\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Composable business applications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most advanced approach to modernizing applications involves adopting the composable business strategy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It requires your legacy SoRs to be replaced with multiple well-defined, packaged application components\u2014often referred to as packaged business capabilities\u2014that can be consumed via the APIs and events they make available. The idea is that applications are \u201ccomposed\u201d by a joint venture between your IT <em>and<\/em> business teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More specifically, they work together in what\u2019s referred to as \u201cfusion teams\u201d, and they use an orchestration low-code tool to glue these components together in ways that lead to uniquely valuable solutions for the business.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/how-enterprise-automationblog-image-4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog2workato.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/how-enterprise-automationblog-image-4-1024x442.png\" alt=\"Diagram showing composable business applications built from reusable business capabilities, supported by an application composition platform and integrated with legacy systems of record.\" class=\"wp-image-35446\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The top benefit of engaging in this approach comes down to agility: Your fusion teams will be able to build and continuously enhance a high volume of applications quickly and more easily than conventional approaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while building composable business applications requires multiple technologies (which make up your \u201capplication composition platform\u201d), many would already be part of your enterprise automation platform\u2014making it all the more critical to invest in your enterprise automation platform sooner rather than later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply put, today\u2019s investments in enterprise automation technology put you on the launch pad for application composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now it\u2019s your turn: Take a moment to reflect on your current approach to modernizing applications and see what\u2019s needed to move on to the next level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, if you\u2019re using the backend API enablement architecture, you can explore the requirements for extending it with a DIH. And if you\u2019ve already adopted a DIH and modernized your SoRs, start to take stock of the technologies you have and those you still need in order to build composable business applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n    <div class=\"article__cta\">\r\n\t\t            <div class=\"article__cta-no\">\r\n\t\t\t\t                    <a href=\"https:\/\/discover.workato.com\/coffee-with-massimo\/p\/1?ref=connector\">Catch everything Massimo shared by watching the recording of his session, \u201cHow enterprise automation can enable application modernization.\u201d<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t            <\/div>\r\n\t\t    <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there\u2019s nothing wrong with this initial line of thinking, an enterprise automation platform can also help you address another business-critical area: application modernization. We\u2019ll review the role an enterprise automation platform can play in modernizing your applications by covering 3 distinct approaches. 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