Move off Progress OpenEdge to a modern cloud stack, de-risked by AI.
Rewriting a mature OpenEdge system by hand can take years and stall the business. Paradym Next reads the ABL, recovers the business rules and rebuilds the application on .NET with a React or Vue 3 front end in the cloud: in months, with your engineers approving every stage.
Your OpenEdge system still runs the business. Fewer people can change it every year.
Progress applications often sit at the heart of distribution, manufacturing and finance operations. Their code mixes user interface, business logic and database access, which makes every change slow and every upgrade risky.
Scarce ABL skills
Experienced Progress developers are hard to hire and harder to replace, and their knowledge is rarely written down.
Licensing and lock-in
Runtime and database licences tie you to one vendor and one deployment model.
Hard to integrate
Character and GUI clients and tightly bound database access make modern APIs and web front ends difficult to add.
Pricing rules, stock allocation and approval logic are spread across procedures, include files and database triggers built up over decades. Until they are recovered and documented, any replacement risks dropping behaviour the business depends on.
How our AI-powered modernisation engine works.
Four stages take your Progress application from undocumented code to .NET services with React or Vue 3 front ends on Azure or AWS. AI agents do the reading, mapping, writing and testing. Your engineers approve every stage.
Automated discovery and code parsing
Next parses your ABL procedures, include files, triggers, AppServer logic and OpenEdge database schema and extracts the business rules, data flows and integrations inside them. Every rule is traced to the code it came from, so nothing drifts in translation.
AI-assisted architecture blueprint
Agents map each module to clean target patterns: .NET service layers, REST APIs, React, Vue 3 or Nuxt front ends and managed SQL databases. Your architects review and approve the blueprint before any code is written.
Automated refactoring
From the approved blueprint, Next generates production-ready code for .NET services with React or Vue 3 front ends on Azure or AWS. It consolidates duplicated logic and removes dead code, and your engineers review every change.
AI-driven regression testing and validation
Generated test suites run the old and new systems on the same inputs, validating 99% functional equivalence before deployment. Any difference goes to your team to resolve.
What AI acceleration changes.
Compared with a standard manual migration of your Progress application.
less development effort than a standard manual migration.
faster upgrade and migration cycles.
lower operational and cloud infrastructure overhead.
Our preliminary review of four modernisation projects, including a Progress OpenEdge system, found time and cost around 70% below the commercial estimate for traditional delivery. Early evidence from four projects
AI does the heavy lifting. Your engineers make the decisions.
For a CTO or CIO, the risk in a rewrite is not speed but correctness. Human review is built into every stage, so AI output never reaches production unchecked.
Traced to source
Every extracted rule and generated module links back to the Progress code it came from, so reviewers can check it line by line.
Human approval gates
Discovery, blueprint, code and release each need sign-off from your people. Nothing moves forward on AI output alone.
Equivalence testing
Old and new systems run the same test cases side by side, validated to 99% functional equivalence before deployment.
Governed AI
You choose which models are used and where they run, and every agent action is recorded for audit.
Schedule your AI-driven Progress architecture audit today.
Start with a free assessment of one Progress application: what it does, what depends on it, and what moving it to .NET services with React or Vue 3 front ends on Azure or AWS would involve.