by Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Jul 16, 2026, 11:59:59 PM

PowerBuilder has powered mission-critical business applications for more than three decades. Many of those applications still run core operations today, and the organizations that depend on them face a familiar …

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Topics:PowerBuilderVELO

by DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 12, 2026, 12:15:00 AM

The parts of PowerBuilder modernization that don't show up in a line-count. There's a comforting fiction in application migration: that a database-heavy app is mostly its queries, and if you …

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Topics:PowerBuilderPowerBuilder modernizationPowerBuilder SQLCA migration

by DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 6, 2026, 6:11:45 PM

Two users open the same customer record at 4:58 on a Friday. Both change the credit limit. In the PowerBuilder application that's run the business for eighteen years, the second …

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Topics:PowerBuilderPowerBuilder modernizationPowerBuilder datawindow migration

by DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 6, 2026, 5:21:52 AM

Preserve Behavior, Not Just Code There's a particular kind of modernization failure that never shows up in a demo. The new application compiles. The screens render. The tests, the ones …

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Topics:PowerBuilderPowerBuilder modernization

by Cheyenne Sokkappa, on May 15, 2026, 12:00:00 AM

This guide walks through what PowerBuilder modernization actually looks like today, what the options are, and how Agentic AI platforms like VELO are making automated conversion a realistic alternative to …

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Topics:PowerBuilderBlazorVELOPowerBuilder modernization

by DeeDee Walsh, on Apr 26, 2026, 7:58:36 AM

What to Expect: Timeline, Cost, Architecture, and What Makes It Hard If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re responsible for a PowerBuilder application that still runs a big …

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Topics:.NETPowerBuilder.NET 10VELO

by DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 18, 2026, 8:53:15 PM

Why Your Next VDI Bill May Be the Best Reason to Finally Modernize PowerBuilder There is a specific kind of dread reserved for the person who has to justify a …

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Topics:PowerBuilderCitrix renewal price increasePowerBuilder modernizationCitrix pricing

by DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 11, 2026, 1:06:41 PM

Why wrapping legacy DataWindows in REST endpoints isn’t modernization. It’s embalming. PowerBuilder 2025 shipped with a feature that’s going to get a lot of attention: automatic REST API generation from …

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Topics:.NETPowerBuilder

by DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 1, 2026, 9:43:01 AM

For decades, PowerBuilder modernization was something enterprises talked about at annual planning meetings and then quietly shelved. The apps still worked. The business still ran. And the cost and risk …

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Topics:PowerBuilder

by Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Aug 15, 2025, 10:57:50 AM

Coming this month, we are releasing the latest version of our PowerBuilder AI Migrator for Java tool designed to accelerate and simplify modernization from PowerBuilder to Java/Angular with Telerik Kendo …

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Topics:PowerBuilder

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