Bengaluru: Data is at the heart of digital transformation, but it is posing new challenges in today’s high-speed development environment.
A report on data and innovation by open-source database solutions provider MongoDB found 86% of respondents saying working with data is the hardest part of building applications, and that it keeps them away from innovating. Software developers on average spend only 27% of their time on building applications.
The report surveyed 2,000 developers and IT decision-makers across Asia, including over 400 in India. Despite 94% of respondents agreeing that building new applications and features regularly is important, many organisations said they are not able to spend their time on innovation.
Developers said they are being held back from driving innovation because of complex and legacy data architectures that take significant time and resources to work around. MongoDB calls it the recurring tax on innovation.
Sachin Chawla, vice president for India and Apac at MongoDB, said 74% of the respondents found the biggest issue to be the complexity of the data architecture and the tech debt that organisations carry (legacy IT infrastructure). “You’re trying to build modern databases using these complex architectures. Even though cloud has made digital transformation easy, it has thrown new challenges. Some of the cloud players have 10-15 databases and make it extremely complex for users,” he said.
Nearly half (48%) of businesses reported having more than 10 databases. This complexity often requires developers to spend time maintaining the different data models, integrating data sources, supporting legacy systems and bolting on security fixes.
A report on data and innovation by open-source database solutions provider MongoDB found 86% of respondents saying working with data is the hardest part of building applications, and that it keeps them away from innovating. Software developers on average spend only 27% of their time on building applications.
The report surveyed 2,000 developers and IT decision-makers across Asia, including over 400 in India. Despite 94% of respondents agreeing that building new applications and features regularly is important, many organisations said they are not able to spend their time on innovation.
Developers said they are being held back from driving innovation because of complex and legacy data architectures that take significant time and resources to work around. MongoDB calls it the recurring tax on innovation.
Sachin Chawla, vice president for India and Apac at MongoDB, said 74% of the respondents found the biggest issue to be the complexity of the data architecture and the tech debt that organisations carry (legacy IT infrastructure). “You’re trying to build modern databases using these complex architectures. Even though cloud has made digital transformation easy, it has thrown new challenges. Some of the cloud players have 10-15 databases and make it extremely complex for users,” he said.
Nearly half (48%) of businesses reported having more than 10 databases. This complexity often requires developers to spend time maintaining the different data models, integrating data sources, supporting legacy systems and bolting on security fixes.