The nightmare scenario
You go into work one Monday morning. Everything looks the same. Same traffic, same people, same office. Except for one difference.
Your core software application, the one your business or organisation depends upon, is not running.
What do you do?
First, you contact the software supplier. Yet nobody answers the phone. Worse, you get that irritating ‘the number you have dialled has not been recognised’ message.
You start to think about the vast amounts of data locked in the application. Customer profiles. Financial information. Personal details of your staff. Stock details. Pretty much everything you need to run your business.
To put it bluntly, without the source code you’re up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
Of course, you could try to revert to the way you did business before you introduced the application. You may even have had the foresight to devise a disaster recovery plan which will include some form of regression strategy. Yet unfortunately, in today’s information age turning the clock back is impossible.





