The first thing a client does when a modernization finishes is count the lines of code (LOC). Three thousand lines of PowerBuilder went in. Twenty-five thousand lines of React and …

We looked at 1,105 modernization inquiries from a twelve-month period. Two-thirds of them named a language that shipped in 1998. The size of the world’s legacy code estate gets estimated …

Every engineering team modernizing a legacy application has already run the experiment. Someone pastes a VB6 module, a PowerBuilder datawindow, or a .clw file from Clarion into a chat window …

Most conversations about PowerBuilder modernization start with age. The platform is old, the vendor support is thinning, the developer pool is shrinking. All true, and all beside the point. Age …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …