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PowerBuilder Application Modernization

Eliminate costs, risks, and scalability issues of PowerBuilder applications

PowerBuilder Application Modernization Solution

Harness modern web, cloud, and mobile-friendly technologies by migrating, transforming, and modernizing your client/server PowerBuilder applications. Our comprehensive PowerBuilder application modernization solution accelerates migration projects while offering flexibility to define the modernization path that best suits your business and technical goals.

Whether you prefer a wholesale migration or an incremental approach, our solution enables seamless transitions to your target programming language and architecture. Choose from options like C#/.NET or Java/JEE for desktop GUI applications, or transform your system into a single-page web application leveraging modern reactive JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, or Vue. These can integrate seamlessly with Java EE or .NET application servers, or even open-source, cross-platform backends like Node.js.

  • Retain the power of DataWindow constructs for data access and presentation, supporting both .NET controls for desktop environments and JavaScript components for web interfaces.
  • Preserve the rich reporting capabilities of PowerBuilder, including detailed layouts, bands, headers, footers, and summaries, all with high fidelity in both print and interactive formats. 
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A PowerBuilder Application Modernization to C#/.Net for Nation’s Largest Natural Gas Distribution Utility
Thousands of hours were saved and the project was completed on-time, on-budget and to specification by using MLP: 
  • 1M+ lines of code
  • 3,3K+ data windows
  • 650+ screens
  • 700+ test scenarios
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PowerBuilder Application Modernization Options

Using our technology, we can approach the modernization in the way best suited for your future-state and business needs.

Windows Desktop Client/Server

When Windows desktop is the target architecture, all desktop integration components are preserved in their original form and UI replicates exact original layout through custom controls. Provides shortest path to C#/.NET platform with lowest cost and risk.

PowerBuilder Application Modernization to C#/.NET platform Architectural Diagram

Desktop Web Client/Server

To deliver as a desktop using modern web technologies, the user interface is migrated to modern web UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) with the business/presentation/data access logic migrated to Node-JS. Node modules are leveraged to provide access to data and OS services. User interface may retain Windows desktop look or adopt modern web designs. Business logic in Node-JS can be further decoupled and reused as services.

PowerBuilder Application Modernization to Desktop Web Client/Server platform Architectural Diagram

Thick Web Client 3-Tier

Migration to 3-tier architecture using a thick client allows faster migration and lower risk with minimum component decoupling. Recommended for intranet applications, the migrated logic runs in Javascript on the browser using modern web UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) with data access extracted into mid-tier services along with replacement of desktop functionality.

PowerBuilder Application Modernization to Thick Web Client 3-Tier Architectural Diagram

Thin Web Client 3-Tier

The thin web client provides the most forward looking architecture option for taking a desktop to web, cloud and mobile. Client code is decoupled from business, presentation and data access logic which runs securely behind application server. Choice of server-side language (C#, Java/Spring Boot, Node-JS) and Web UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) presents the highest flexibility.

PowerBuilder Application Modernization to Thin Web Client 3-Tier Architectural Diagram

Why Synchrony Systems for PowerBuilder Application Modernization

Synchrony Systems’ comprehensive PowerBuilder modernization solutions empower organizations to mitigate risks, reduce costs, and unlock scalability.

  • Automation-Driven Efficiency: Our MLP platform accelerates migration processes, ensuring accuracy and traceability across all stages.
  • Preserving Critical Features: Maintain business-critical functionality, UI fidelity, and user experience during the transformation.
  • End-to-End Expertise: With years of experience modernizing complex systems, we address your technical debt without compromising operational continuity.
  • Scalable Outcomes: Achieve a modernized application that is scalable, maintainable, and future-ready.
Conceptual images of software windows and challenges during the modernization from PowerBuilder to modern cloud architectures Generated by Canva
Technical challenges of modernizing PowerBuilder applications to web

Avoid common pitfalls in your PowerBuilder modernization journey. This post covers technical challenges, architectural considerations, and data migration strategies for modernizing PowerBuilder to web. 

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