Yana Ni

Businesses look to modernizing their existing systems to make them more scalable, faster, and easier to operate. Unfortunately, reality too often proves the opposite when instead of the growth you hoped for, you’re instead facing application modernization challenges. When performance regressions, increased latency, or scalability and integration issues start to creep up, the cause is not the modernization process itself,...

Ten years ago, EdTech platforms could get by and  perhaps even thrive on a centralized, monolithic learning management system and entertain learners without personalized UX. Back then, basic analytics and limited mobile support were enough to grow a customer base and stabilize the platform. But in 2026, the modern EdTech platform stack needs to be able to support personalization in...

According to the Pew Research Center, a quarter of U.S. teachers say that AI tools do more harm than good in K-12 education. But is it actually true, or is such a perception merely the result of not finding the right solutions to tackle the challenges of using AI in education? It’s a question we at CHI Software think about...

Facial recognition technology was a product of fiction for most people just about 20 years ago. However, it’s not new – the first solution was made around the 60s.  What started as a technology that recognized faces from newspapers and drawings evolved into today's greatest surveillance and personalization tool. At this point, facial recognition is widely implemented by different companies...

Legacy systems rarely fail overnight. More often, they continue running and gradually slow growth, increasing operational effort over time. The legacy modernization examples in this article show how business-critical systems reach a point where their structure no longer supports how companies work or scale. We’ve seen these outcomes in our own delivery. In one healthcare modernization project, automation and analytics...

As we look into the legacy modernization industry, steady growth remains on trend, with the market now standing at USD 24.98 billion in 2025 and headed toward USD 56.87 billion by 2030. But what is really driving the numbers upward? Predictably, AI is leading legacy modernization trends and strategies, but key market drivers also include data modernization, multi-cloud environments, API-first...