Break Down Integration Barriers Without Breaking Your Systems
Turn IBM i Assets Into Enterprise-Ready APIs in Hours, Not Months
Your IBM i systems contain decades of refined business logic and critical data that power your operations. But when you can’t easily connect to cloud services, AI platforms, or partner systems, that valuable IP becomes a competitive liability instead of an advantage.
The challenge isn’t your IBM i platform; it’s accessing what’s inside it. We help you expose data and functionality as modern APIs while enabling your legacy applications to consume external services, whether you’re staying on IBM i or planning to migrate. Stop letting integration barriers slow your business down.
Need help bridging the integration gap?
Our IBM i integration experts understand both legacy architectures and modern API ecosystems. Whether you need developers who can quickly build API layers around existing RPG programs, architects who can design scalable integration strategies, or specialists who can enable traditional applications to consume cloud services and AI platforms, we accelerate your integration initiatives without disrupting operations.
Integration doesn’t have to be your bottleneck.
The Enterprise Integration Challenges Blocking Your Progress
You need your IBM i systems to participate in modern enterprise architecture. APIs should be straightforward, but traditional approaches create friction that slows everything down. You’re facing integration challenges that Development Managers, IT Directors, and CTOs confront daily:
Legacy System Isolation
Your most valuable business data and proprietary logic remain trapped behind green screens and batch processes that can’t communicate with modern systems. While competitors integrate AI-powered analytics, real-time partner data feeds, and cloud-native services, your custom algorithms sit inaccessible. Each integration request requires custom development that takes months, not weeks. Meanwhile, SaaS vendors and cloud platforms that could transform your operations remain out of reach because your core systems can’t speak their language.
Legacy development processes weren’t designed for today’s pace or today’s expectations. Manual testing, limited tooling, and technical debt create friction at every step. Business leaders see development as a bottleneck, not an enabler.
Development Capacity Crisis
Your backlog grows faster than your team can execute. Every API integration project requires specialized IBM i knowledge that’s increasingly scarce and expensive. Traditional API development demands expertise in both legacy systems and modern REST architectures—a combination that’s nearly impossible to find and retain. Simple integration requests that should take days stretch into months because you lack the developer capacity. Projects sit frozen while you search for talent or wait for overloaded teams to free up.
Legacy development processes weren’t designed for today’s pace or today’s expectations. Manual testing, limited tooling, and technical debt create friction at every step. Business leaders see development as a bottleneck, not an enabler.
Speed and Risk Trade-offs
Manual API development is slow but predictable. Quick integration solutions like screen scraping are fast but fragile and insecure. You’re forced to choose between velocity and reliability, between innovation and operational stability. Traditional approaches require extensive custom coding for every endpoint, comprehensive security implementations, and ongoing maintenance as systems evolve. By the time you finish one integration, business requirements have changed and new integration demands have accumulated.
Legacy development processes weren’t designed for today’s pace or today’s expectations. Manual testing, limited tooling, and technical debt create friction at every step. Business leaders see development as a bottleneck, not an enabler.
The integration gap widens every day. Digital initiatives stall waiting for data access. Partner onboarding stretches from weeks to months. Your competitive agility erodes as competitors leverage integration capabilities you can’t match fast enough.
You need an integration approach that eliminates these barriers without compromising security or reliability.
The Solution
Low-Code API Creation and Consumption for IBM i
Expose Legacy Systems and Enable Modern Integration in Hours
Traditional integration approaches force impossible choices: wait months for custom API development, risk unreliable screen scraping, or accept that critical systems remain isolated. We eliminate that false dilemma.
Profound API delivers enterprise integration you can trust and velocity your business demands:
Visual, low-code API development turns Db2 data, RPG programs, and ILE procedures into RESTful APIs without extensive coding – dramatically reducing time-to-market from months to hours.
Bidirectional integration doesn’t just expose your systems; it enables legacy RPG and COBOL applications to consume external APIs, connecting them to cloud services, AI platforms, and partner systems.
Automatic OpenAPI documentatio generates comprehensive, interactive API documentation that accelerates adoption and prevents API sprawl across your organization.
Enterprise-grade security provides built-in authentication, authorization, and encryption so you can expose functionality safely without custom security implementations.
Performance monitoring gives real-time visibility into API usage, response times, and errors, ensuring reliability for mission-critical integrations.
Customer Success
Real Integration Transformations: Measurable Results from IBM i Organizations
From Banking to Fashion Logistics See How Profound API Delivers Enterprise Integration Outcomes
Banking Institution: From 8 Weeks to 45 Minutes
The Challenge:
A large banking institution faced a critical competitive disadvantage. They relied on their core banking software provider for every service change, waiting 4-8 weeks per request while paying premium rates for each modification. Their competitors were launching new banking products and services while they were still waiting for vendor releases.
The Profound API Solution:
By implementing Profound API, the bank gained independence from their vendor and the ability to create services internally using their existing IBM i infrastructure.
Measurable Results:
Service development time: 8 weeks → 45 minutes (99% reduction)
Processing capacity: 2,000 transactions per second achieved
Revenue increase: 23% directly attributed to Profound API adoption
Vendor dependency: Eliminated – full autonomy to customize and iterate services
Cost optimization: Significant through reduced external development expenses
The bank transformed from vendor-dependent to agile innovator, seizing opportunities that were previously lost to long development cycles.
Fashion Logistics: Doubling Capacity Through Modern Integration
The Challenge:
Witra Logistics needed to integrate a sophisticated automated sorting system with their IBM Power i (AS/400) environment for client LERROS Moden. They required real-time communication between modern sorting technology and their mission-critical legacy systems, all without disrupting operations.
The Profound API Solution:
Task Force (a Profound Futurization Alliance partner) implemented Profound API to create seamless REST-based interfaces between the high-tech sorting system and IBM i applications, enabling RPG and Node.js integration.
Measurable Results:
Processing capacity: Doubled from 6,000 to 12,000 SKUs daily
Delivery volume: 30% increase achieved
Delivery times: Significantly reduced to point of sale
Warehouse efficiency: Optimized through better space utilization
Sales periods: Extended through faster delivery capabilities
The Enterprise Integration Challenges Blocking Your Progress
Integrate Safely
Expose business-critical data and functionality through secure, enterprise-grade APIs without custom security coding. Multi-database support and flexible deployment options let you integrate IBM i, cloud, and hybrid environments while maintaining compliance and audit requirements. Built-in authentication, role-based access control, and encryption ensure your APIs meet enterprise security standards from day one.
Accelerate Delivery
Prove integration value in days, not months. Visual, low-code development enables rapid API creation while auto-generated documentation accelerates adoption. Development Managers can deliver more projects with existing teams. IT Directors can finally clear integration backlogs that have accumulated for years. Target high-impact integrations first, demonstrate ROI quickly, then scale confidently across the enterprise.
Unlock Enterprise Capabilities
Post-integration is where competitive advantage emerges. Enable real-time data access for AI and analytics platforms. Connect seamlessly to cloud services and SaaS applications. Facilitate rapid partner onboarding through self-service API portals. Transform legacy systems from isolated silos into active participants in modern enterprise architecture.
Your existing IBM i investments become strategic assets, not integration obstacles.
Business Outcomes
Strategic Impact Development Managers, IT Directors, and CTOs Can Measure
Reduce integration project timelines from months to weeks, clearing backlogs and accelerating time-to-market for digital initiatives
Enable AI, analytics, and cloud service integration without replacing proven IBM i systems that run your business
Facilitate faster partner and vendor onboarding through standardized, well-documented APIs
Extend developer capacity by enabling low-code API creation that doesn’t require deep IBM i expertise for every project
Maintain platform flexibility—run on IBM i, migrate to cloud, or support hybrid architectures based on business strategy
Staff Augmentation
Expert Integration Capacity When You Need It Most
Integration initiatives fail more often from insufficient capacity than inadequate technology. Our Premium Staff Augmentation connects you with IBM i and API integration specialists who understand both legacy architectures and modern integration patterns.
Whether you need immediate API development capacity, architectural guidance for complex integration strategies, or long-term support for enterprise-wide API initiatives, our experts become part of your team. We don’t just fill seats—we deliver integration outcomes.
What makes our augmentation different
Unlike traditional staffing firms that provide generic developers, we deploy IBM i specialists trained in Profound API and modern integration architectures. They understand your business-critical systems and can immediately accelerate API creation, enable legacy application integration with external services, and establish best practices that build internal capability.
Engagement models designed for enterprise reality
We adapt to how you work—short-term sprints for urgent integrations, long-term partnerships for comprehensive API initiatives, on-site collaboration or remote delivery, easily scalable teams that grow and shrink with project demands.
Development Capacity Crisis
Immediate Development Capacity: Experienced API developers who can start creating and deploying APIs in days, not months, clearing your integration backlog quickly
Architectural Guidance: Strategic advisors who design scalable integration architectures that support both current needs and future growth
Knowledge Transfer: Embedded experts who work alongside your team, building internal API development capability while delivering projects
Risk Mitigation: Experienced oversight for business-critical integrations, ensuring security, reliability, and compliance from day one
Flexible Engagement Models: Short-term project acceleration, long-term strategic support, or hybrid arrangements that scale with your needs
Areas of Expertise
IBM i integration architecture, RESTful API design and development, legacy application integration with cloud services, security and authentication implementation, API governance and documentation, performance optimization and monitoring.
We bridge the gap between your business requirements and technical execution, ensuring your integration initiatives deliver business value on schedule and on budget.
Ready to Break Down Integration Barriers?
Every enterprise’s integration needs are unique. We meet you where you are—whether you need to expose legacy systems as modern APIs, enable traditional applications to consume cloud services, or build comprehensive integration architectures that span IBM i and beyond.
Integration shouldn’t be your constraint. Your valuable business logic and data should fuel innovation, not limit it.