India, Oct. 31 -- The 'killer app' of the early days of computing, Lotus 1-2-3, withered away in three decades after Microsoft Excel bloomed. It redefined and ruled spreadsheets until free-on-cloud Google Spread came handy. The script is largely the same behind the rise of Google Docs, outwriting mighty Microsoft Word that had struck through WordPerfect. Lightroom too framed its journey from Adobe Photoshop that had overshadowed Barneyscan XP.

All software programs had to face the hard realities of evolving needs. Tally Solutions, one of India's most enduring enterprise software companies to launch code-less accounting software for businesses, didn't yield to newer peers and, instead, synced itself with the changing dynamics to stay rele...