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Core Product — AI/ML Modernization Engine

Legacy to Microservices
with 100% Business Parity

IONATE™ APPDATE is the industry's most advanced AI/ML application modernization engine. Convert any legacy system — COBOL, Oracle Forms, BPM, Visual Basic, RPG, Natural — to modern .NET Core, Java Spring Boot, Angular, or React in as little as 6 months.

True Modernization

We Absolutely Preserve

Rehost or replatform approaches leave the heart of the problem untouched. APPDATE performs true modernization — preserving every rule, edge case, and process exactly as it was.

100%
Of Your Data

Every data structure, relationship, and persistence pattern is faithfully migrated to the modern target stack — zero data loss, zero schema compromise.

100%
Of Business Logic

Every business rule, calculation, validation, and conditional branch — no matter how deep in the legacy code — is converted with deterministic accuracy.

100%
Of Business Processes

End-to-end workflows, batch jobs, integrations, and UI interactions function identically in the modernized system as they did in the legacy environment.

Platform Capabilities

Why APPDATE?

Our solution is turnkey. The AI/ML engine learns the syntax of your source language and performs an idiomatic transformation — not a line-by-line transliteration — to the target technology.

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Fully Automated AI/ML Engine

Our machines perform the transformation in a completely automated manner. The platform learns the full semantic context of your legacy system — not just syntax — producing idiomatic, maintainable target code.

6× Faster Than Industry Norm

Complete enterprise-scale migrations in 3–6 months. The industry average for comparable projects is 2–5 years. Our automation eliminates the manual effort that consumes traditional engagements.

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Zero Business Disruption

Parallel execution, continuous validation, and automated test generation ensure your business keeps running throughout the migration lifecycle. No big-bang cutovers.

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Cloud-Agnostic

Converted code runs on any cloud provider — Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud — or on-premise. Works with vanilla Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift, and more.

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Automated Test Generation

APPDATE generates a comprehensive test suite from the legacy system behavior, providing functional equivalence validation throughout the conversion process.

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Net ROI Within Months

Clients realize measurable returns through eliminated mainframe licensing, reduced infrastructure spend, and accelerated release cycles — typically positive ROI within the first year.

Legacy Agnostic

We Modernize Any Legacy

APPDATE is platform-agnostic. Our AI/ML engine has been trained on decades of enterprise legacy systems across all major categories.

Thick Clients
GUI Legacy Systems
Oracle Forms & Reports · Visual Basic · Delphi · PowerBuilder · Centura · Gupta
Mainframe & Mid-range
COBOL / CICS / RPG
IBM Mainframe · AS/400 (IBM i) · Fujitsu · Unisys · HP NonStop · CA Technologies
Monolithic & Middleware
Enterprise Platforms
Java WebLogic / WebSphere · IBM BPM · Oracle ADF & SOA · JBOSS · MQ Series
Data Platforms
Databases & Query Languages
ADABAS Natural · VSAM · DB2 · PL/SQL · IMS · IDMS · Hierarchical DBs
Batch & ETL
JCL & Batch Processing
JCL Batch · SYNCSORT · DFSORT · CA7 · TWS · Control-M job streams
Target Stack
Modern Output
.NET Core · Java Spring Boot · Angular · React · Microservices · REST APIs · Cloud-native containers

The Industry Challenge

The Solutions That Aren't

None of the common methods focus on modernizing the business logic. They are inherently short-term, lead to temporary gains, and do not improve business agility.

❌ Short-term fix
Rehost

Lift and shift physical infrastructure — moving from on-premise to cloud. Fetches savings in infrastructure costs, but leaves the heart of the problem untouched. Your legacy code runs on modern iron, with all its original constraints.

Business logic unchanged
❌ Short-term fix
Replatform

Modernize to a newer version of the platform — Java 1.2 to Java 17, for instance. Delivers security and performance improvements in the runtime, but the application itself is untouched. Technical debt accumulates.

Application unchanged
✓ True modernization
APPDATE — Rearchitect

AI/ML automation modernizes both the business logic and the architecture in a way that is natural, maintainable, and extensible. The result is idiomatic modern code your team can own, extend, and evolve.

Architecture + logic transformed

Methodology

How APPDATE Works

A structured, automated end-to-end process — from legacy analysis through cloud-native deployment — with continuous validation at every phase.

Discovery & Analysis

SOTERIA scans and inventories the full legacy estate — code, data, dependencies, and risk — producing a multi-dimensional Risk Score before any migration begins.

AI/ML Conversion

APPDATE's engine learns your source language semantics and transforms code, data structures, and architectural patterns to the target modern stack in an automated batch process.

Test Generation

Automated test suites are generated from legacy behavior profiles, providing deterministic functional equivalence validation between the legacy and modernized systems.

Parallel Validation

Legacy and modern systems run in parallel under KÍRKĒ's orchestration. Discrepancies are detected in real time, with automated reconciliation and human escalation paths.

Cloud Deployment

CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes orchestration, and SRE instrumentation are provisioned automatically. Your modern system is production-ready on day one of cutover.

Measured Client Outcomes

Results That Speak for Themselves

Across 50+ enterprise clients — banking, insurance, government, logistics — consistent measurable outcomes.

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Increase in Developer Agility
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Reduction in Operational Costs
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Reduction in Time to Market
500M+
Lines of legacy code modernized with 100% business parity
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Enterprise clients across banking, insurance, government & logistics
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Years of proprietary AI/ML R&D — no competitor has this institutional dataset

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

APPDATE is legacy-agnostic. We modernize any system including: IBM Mainframe COBOL/CICS/JCL, AS/400 RPG, ADABAS Natural, Oracle Forms and Reports, Visual Basic, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Java WebLogic/WebSphere, IBM BPM, Oracle ADF/SOA, and more. If you have a legacy system not listed here, contact us — chances are we've seen it.
APPDATE produces .NET Core, Java Spring Boot, Angular, React, and cloud-native microservices. APIs are generated as RESTful services. The output is idiomatic — not machine-generated spaghetti — and is maintainable by your engineering team from day one.
Any cloud provider — Microsoft Azure (AKS), Amazon AWS (EKS), Google Cloud (GKE), Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud (OpenShift), and others. It also runs on vanilla Kubernetes and on-premise deployments. There is no cloud lock-in. For cost-optimized infrastructure, consider pairing with IONATE™ POWERON.
Most enterprise-scale projects complete in 3–6 months. The traditional industry expectation for equivalent scope is 2–5 years. Our automation eliminates the manual discovery, rewrite, and testing phases that account for the bulk of traditional engagement timelines.
Yes. We offer a Test Drive where we convert 3–5 representative end-to-end flows from your legacy system as a proof-of-concept. This gives you a concrete basis for evaluating APPDATE against your actual code — not synthetic benchmarks. Contact us to schedule.
APPDATE works in concert with IONATE™ SOTERIA, our intelligent discovery and risk assessment platform. SOTERIA delivers a multi-dimensional Risk Score across Composition, Complexity, Dependency, Vulnerability, and Portability dimensions — giving you complete visibility before any migration commitment.

Ready to modernize your legacy estate?

Start with a Test Drive — we'll convert 3–5 end-to-end flows from your actual legacy system as a proof-of-concept, at no commitment.

The Platform

APPDATE Works Best With

APPDATE is the conversion engine. These companion products complete the end-to-end modernization platform.

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IONATE™ SOTERIA

Intelligent discovery and risk assessment. Delivers a multi-dimensional Risk Score across Composition, Complexity, Dependency, Vulnerability, and Portability — before you commit to migration.

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IONATE™ KÍRKĒ

End-to-end modernization process management. Test generation, CI/CD orchestration, upstream/downstream workflow management, job controls, SRE instrumentation, and performance monitoring.

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IONATE™ POWERON

Cost-optimized cloud infrastructure for your modernized workloads. Enterprise-grade compute at cloud scale — ML, BigData, distributed systems — without hyperscaler lock-in.

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