Application enhancement is the process for improving the value of an application asset during its operational lifetime. Applications tend to wither over time. They use old technologies and gets slow and cumbersome, when compared to new applications. Retaining all the knowledge and skills that is built into the old application and integrating it with the new systems, builds and enhances its value.

It enables businesses to achieve greater productivity and higher ROI. It also addresses application modernization and upgrade issues to boost business processes, which are otherwise tedious or laborious to monitor and manage. By leveraging the latest technology, complex application portfolios drive and sustain businesses. Across domains, application enhancement

The open-source model also offers increased security. Being in the public view exposed to extreme scrutiny, problems are found and fixed instead of being kept secret. It can also be touted as a tool to beat monopoly.