A Leading Textile Services Provider Futurizes Mission-Critical Operations with Profound AppDev
Case Study Highlights Industry: Textile Rental and Laundry Services Client: Major UK Textile Services Provider Operations: 16 plants across the United Kingdom Technology Legacy: IBM i platform with RPG applications Core Challenge: 6-month deadline to replace failed third-party system Technology Approach: Rapid IBM i futurization using Profound AppDev Key Results: Met critical deadline, zero operational disruption, successful rollout to all […]
The IBM i Transformation Decision: A Framework for Choosing the Right Path
The IBM i transformation decision is a business architecture choice, not a software selection. This framework gives IT leaders five questions to answer about their own situation so they can identify the right path, futurization, hybrid, or migration, before any vendor hands them a recommendation.
Your Toughest Futurization Problem Is the People, Not the Platform
A futurization effort can clear every technical hurdle and still stall, because the people who run the business on the same screens every day are afraid of what’s coming. The platform problem is largely solved. The adoption problem is the one your vendor can’t solve for you. Here’s how Agentic Futurization is structured to lower that fear, and the leadership playbook for bringing your team along.
International Equipment Rental Company Futurizes Equipment Management with Profound Logic
A major equipment rental company with 1,250+ locations partnered with Profound Logic to replace fixed-terminal data entry with mobile barcode scanning — futurizing their IBM i operations with Profound AppDev and achieving a 70% efficiency gain.
What Your Green Screens Signal to the Market
Most IBM i organizations frame green screens as an internal problem. An interface issue. Something to get around to eventually. But when your competitors have moved and you haven’t, that calculus changes. The risk isn’t just internal friction. It’s market position.
CoderFlow on IBM i: What Real Development Tasks Actually Look Like
Descriptions of agentic coding are easy to find. What is harder to find is a straight answer to a simple question: what does it actually look like when you hand a task to an agent in a real IBM i environment? This post walks through three examples.
AI Digital Labor on IBM i: Scaling Delivery Without Scaling Headcount
The question IT leaders are asking is no longer whether AI can write code. It’s whether AI can take on the sustained delivery work that enterprise teams need done without expanding payroll. On IBM i, the answer is already being demonstrated in production.
IT Builds It. IT Controls It. The Case for Agent-Driven Business Automation on IBM i.
Every IBM i shop has business processes that run on human effort today: repetitive, documented workflows that someone executes manually because no one has gotten around to automating them. CoderFlow gives IT the ability to set up AI agents that handle those workflows autonomously, with full governance and control staying exactly where it belongs.
Agentic Display Files: The UI Breakthrough IBM i Teams Have Been Waiting For
What if an AI agent could design a complete, responsive web screen from a plain-English description of what it should do? With Agentic Display Files in Profound UI, that’s exactly what becomes possible and it changes what IBM i futurization looks like.
Why We Built CoderFlow for IBM i Instead of Retrofitting Something Else
The IBM i market has watched a lot of “solutions” arrive from the outside, built for other environments and adapted for legacy systems as an afterthought. CoderFlow was built differently: starting from a deep understanding of how IBM i systems actually work and designing an agentic platform that reality, rather than around it.
One Template. Hundreds of Programs. That’s What Scale Looks Like on IBM i.
Converting a single RPG program to free-format is a task. Converting 500 of them is a project that can consume an entire development team for months. CoderFlow’s templates and batch processing change that equation, turning repeatable futurization work into scalable, parallel execution with a human review step at the end.
Legacy Transformation Without the Risk: A Manufacturing Futurization Success with Profound Logic
Case Study Highlights Industry: Manufacturing Technology Legacy: IBM i (AS/400) Core Operations: Production control Inventory management Order entry Customer item tracking Technology Approach: Hybrid transformation from RPG to JavaScript with phased implementation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8SmfXQISJo The Challenge In the rapidly evolving manufacturing technology landscape, this major manufacturer found itself at a critical crossroads where their reliable but aging systems threatened to become a […]
Beyond the Green Screen: What Profound AppDev Makes Possible for RPG Teams
Most IBM i teams know their RPG code is worth keeping. What’s harder to see is what becomes possible when you build on top of it rather than around it. Profound AppDev gives RPG development teams the tools to create modern, browser-based applications without abandoning the business logic they’ve spent decades refining.
CoderFlow on the Go: Mobile Access for Your Agentic Workflows
Your autonomous agents don’t stop working when you leave your desk. Neither should your ability to manage them. CoderFlow’s responsive web UI puts task monitoring, environment control, and agent activity review in your pocket, with no app to install.
What a Junior Developer Learns in Six Months, CoderFlow Teaches Itself in Six Minutes
Hiring a junior developer to work in an IBM i environment doesn’t solve the knowledge problem. It transfers it. CoderFlow takes a different approach, and the implications for teams facing the talent cliff are significant.