Survey Report: 2024 Visual FoxPro Industry Best Practices & Trends
Macrosoft conducted the fourth annual industry best practices of VFP – Survey in the month of May 2024 using Survey Monkey with 18 multiple choice questions. We received responses from 278 individuals from more than 200 identified companies.
Survey Report
Download the full report here and gain access to the interactive reporting portal
The survey provides several key insights that are worth summarizing:
- Industry in Transition: The survey results reveal an industry in major flux, with sharp differences of views about the role of Visual FoxPro (VFP) applications in the current technology landscape. Despite facing significant end-of-life challenges and competing technologies, some participants still view VFP as their preferred language/platform. This diversity of opinions highlights the need for best practice advocates and tech support vendors to assist companies in managing their current VFP applications and potential future migrations or modernization efforts.
- Modernization Priorities: When considering application modernization, implementing new features emerged as a top priority, with 40% of respondents viewing it as a key motivator and another 28% considering it somewhat important. Interestingly, the ability to work in the cloud, which was a top priority in 2022, has decreased in importance. This shift may be due to many companies having already adapted to cloud environments or the assumption that modern applications inherently have cloud capabilities.
- Workflow and Reporting Considerations: The survey showed a split opinion on the importance of changing the application workflow during modernization, with equal numbers of respondents considering it important and not important. However, data from 2022 and 2023 indicated that 57% of respondents viewed workflow changes as a driving factor for modernization. Enhanced reporting capabilities were generally seen as somewhat important but not a decisive factor in migration decisions, possibly because respondents expect improved reporting features to be a natural outcome of modernization efforts.
Download the full report to learn more about Visual FoxPro best practices and usage statistics in 2024. We are also offering interactive web page for better understanding of the results.
Survey Report
Download the full report here and gain access to the interactive reporting portal
Macrosoft is available to provide an industry expert who can present these results as requested to industry user groups.
Direct Questions about this survey and request for speaking engagements to
Joe Rafanelli
Director, Technical Solutions
Macrosoft Inc.
jrafanelli@macrosoftinc.com
