As seen on Forbes.com
It requires a lot of thought, effort, and patience to build or update software. This hard work typically results in satisfied users as a reward, however, sometimes developers are faced with low adoption rates.
It can be frustrating when people do not use the software that you have worked meticulously on to produce. A panel of Forbes Technology Council members shared their top strategies to get users to adopt new or updated versions of your software.
Move To The Cloud
“I’ve experienced this pain personally. Dealing with end users that call about a bug that was fixed and released six months ago, only to learn their IT department deploys updates only once a year. On-premise deployment makes sense for some products, but many would be better delivered via the cloud. That eliminates discussion about “rolling out the new release” as the product is always up-to-date.” – Dave Todaro, Ascendle