Powersoft is Europe’s most trusted PowerBuilder consultancy—40 years of legacy modernization, Appeon-approved expertise. Known as “The PowerBuilder Experts,” our consultants deliver PowerBuilder support, security, and modernization services across Europe, the UK, and the USA.
We work closely with Appeon, contributing to the ongoing development of the PowerBuilder product. This ensures our clients benefit from the latest innovations. Powersoft is recognized as the European centre for Appeon PowerBuilder consultancy and support. Trusted by leading organisations in Banking, Insurance, Financial Services, Legal, and Local Government, we deliver secure, compliance-focused modernization strategies. Our consultants help safeguard and future-proof legacy PowerBuilder systems.
If you have systems written in PowerBuilder then you do not need to redevelop them with all the risk and cost that involves. We can help you migrate to a later version and then enhance your application to bring it forward and up-to-date, saving you time and money. Powersoft provides experienced consultants from Project Managers to Developers and for short and long-term assignments/projects and can tailor our services to meet our customers needs.
Powersoft offer a fully customised support for your application, this can range from full 1st level support to 3rd level support as and when it is needed. We see support as the most important service we offer and our customers will testify to the quality of support we give.
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Full migration support from the initial consultancy, analysis and planning through to rollout and support. We work with your development team to build their skills and ensure that the project objectives are fully met.
Customer Focused Projects
Examples of modernization, migration and support projects we’ve delivered across sectors. Each summary highlights the challenge, our approach, and the outcome — use these to understand how we tackle legacy systems and deliver measurable value.
Western University planned a rewrite but first needed the business logic extracted from an existing PowerBuilder application so they could decide the best path forward.
Delivered clear, actionable documentation of business logic that enabled the university to plan a rewrite with confidence and reduced risk during transition.
Teachers Assurance had a broken EAServer PowerBuilder application and their existing support supplier could not fix it. They needed a reliable fix and a path to modernisation.
Powersoft resolved the immediate failure, completed the migration and database upgrade, and onboarded the system to our support service — restoring stability and removing the previous vendor risk.
COWI had a PowerBuilder application supporting construction and property asset maintenance. They wanted a UI refresh and multi‑lingual support to modernise user experience and support international teams.
Delivered a fully multi‑lingual version with a refreshed UI. The new release improved usability across regions and allowed COWI to continue development with minimal interruption.
Inara moved from a shop retail model to a fully online money transfer service specialising in South America. They needed a performant web front end integrated with their PowerBuilder back office.
Enabled a seamless transition to online services, improved performance, and supported regulatory approvals. The client scaled transaction volumes without proportional staffing increases.
Short summaries of projects delivered in the USA, UK, New Zealand and Canada. More case studies will be added over time.
Legacy PowerBuilder 6 customer account management system with outdated SQL Server and security gaps. Internal support expertise was no longer available and the bank faced operational risk if the system failed.
Delivered on time and on budget. The bank avoided a costly rewrite, removed operational risk, and regained confidence in application support and compliance. In‑house staff were trained for day‑to‑day oversight while Powersoft retained full support responsibility.
The customer was running a multi‑million pound infrastructure upgrade (Oracle and Windows). Legacy PowerBuilder applications were blocking progress. Powersoft stepped in at short notice to remove that blocker, upgrade the PB estate and then deliver a new multi‑channel price management solution.
All work delivered on time and on budget. The immediate project blocker was removed so the infrastructure upgrade could proceed. The new price tracking system monitors cost prices for thousands of SKUs, computes channel sell prices in real time and provides MIS reporting — improving competitiveness and protecting profitability.
The council had a large PowerBuilder estate supporting property and asset management, maintenance and planning. With limited in‑house PB resources they felt vulnerable and needed assurance, additional development capacity and a plan to mitigate operational risk.
All engagements delivered on time and on budget. The council's operational risk was significantly reduced and their internal PowerBuilder capability was materially supplemented by Powersoft resources, enabling continued development and stable operations.
The customer had a large PowerBuilder estate and faced a critical skills gap as key PB resources were retiring. They needed assurance that applications would remain supported and a plan to mitigate operational risk across global business units.
Support was delivered to mitigate the customer's operational risk. Powersoft significantly supplemented the client's PowerBuilder capability, ensuring continuity of critical applications and enabling the business to continue operations without disruption.
