Profound AppEvo
Transform Your Legacy Systems into Futurized Applications

Don’t Just Modernize. Futurize. Unlock the Full Potential of your IBM i Applications with Profound AppEvo.

Your IBM i (AS/400) applications have served you well for decades. But in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, you need more than reliability – you need development agility, business innovation, application integration, and the power to compete in an increasingly digital world. 

Introducing Profound AppEvo: The flexible, services-led, phased approach to application futurization that preserves your valuable business logic while transforming your legacy systems into modern, adaptable applications ready for whatever tomorrow brings. 

Why Choose Profound AppEvo?

Preserve Your Investments

Our automated conversion technology maintains your critical business logic while transforming your applications into modern, open-source languages

Minimize Risk

Our unique coexistence capabilities let you futurize at your own pace, ensuring business continuity

Expand Your Talent Pool

Access a wider range of development talent by moving to in-demand open-source languages like Node.js and Python

Enhance User Experience

Convert green screens into modern interfaces using Profound UI or popular frameworks like React and Angular, running on a browser and/or mobile

Drive Innovation

Easily integrate with cloud services, AI, and emerging technologies

Modernize Your Data Layer
Transform your DB2 for i database to popular platforms like MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle while preserving data integrity and relationships for enhanced analytics and integration capabilities
Become Platform Agnostic
Transform RPG and COBOL based applications into portable, platform-agnostic solutions that can run anywhere you need them to, including but not limited to remaining on the IBM i, going to the cloud, a hybrid cloud, Linux, Windows, or elsewhere

Transform Without Disruption: The Power of Built-In Coexistence

Profound AppEvo’s revolutionary coexistence technology lets you futurize your legacy applications while keeping your business running smoothly, providing a bridge between old and new systems as you transform at your own pace.

Transform one application or module at a time while maintaining full system functionality

Give users time to adapt gradually to new interfaces and capabilities

Keep your business running without interruption throughout futurization

Protect your existing investments while building for the future

Eliminate the risks of "big bang" cutover approaches

Control costs by spreading investment over time while realizing immediate benefits

Seamlessly flow between applications at any stage of futurization(on and/or off platform and/or hybrid) within the same browser session.

The Profound AppEvo Advantage ​

Custom-fit Solution:

Choose the right futurization option (transform, replace, rewrite, retire) at an application level

Automated Code, UI, and Database Conversion:

Transform up to 100% of your legacy RPG and COBOL code automatically

Seamless Coexistence:

Run modernized and legacy components side-by-side

Multiple UI Options:

Choose from Profound UI, React, Angular, or custom solutions

Expert Guidance:

Benefit from our decades of IBM i transformation experience

Comprehensive Support:

From initial analysis through deployment and beyond

Start Your Futurization Journey

Analyze your current systems and business processes

Identify opportunities for innovation and improvement

Create a customized futurization strategy

Develop a phased implementation plan

Provide detailed investment projections

Don't Wait to Futurize

The cost of maintaining legacy systems continues to rise while the pool of skilled RPG/COBOL developers shrinks. Now is the time to transform your applications into future-ready assets that will drive your business forward.

Choose Your Path to Futurization

Prefer to manage futurization on your own? Learn more about Profound AppDev, the one suite to supercharge your IBM i development in-house 

Schedule a Consultation with our Futurization Experts

Additional Resources

Ready to dive deeper into Profound AppEvo and your futurization options? Explore more here:

Automated Transformation
Cloud Migration vs. Futurization: Which Path is Right for You?
The Value of Legacy Code & When to Move On

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