Webinar: AI-Based Modernization with the SmartComponent Library
 

Webinar: AI-Based Modernization with the SmartComponent Library

16 April 2026

Join us for our next webinar on April 16th, 2026!

AI-Based Modernization with the SmartComponent Library

How can you modernize OpenEdge applications efficiently while ensuring consistency, scalability, and speed?

 

In this webinar, we demonstrate how OpenEdge GUI and TTY applications can be transformed into modern web applications using a structured, proven approach. At the core is the SmartComponent Library - Consultingwerk’s modernization framework—enhanced by AI-powered developer tools such as Windsurf and Claude Code.

Based on real-world modernization projects, we show how this approach works in practice.

The SmartComponent Library provides a solid, structured foundation for consistent modernization, while AI and MCP servers support the analysis of legacy applications and help map existing patterns to modern architectures.

This approach is further enhanced by MCP servers that:

  • Deliver structural knowledge of legacy applications and databases
  • Provide rule sets to guide AI agents
  • Enable the transformation of legacy patterns into modern application structures using SmartComponents

 

What you’ll learn

  • AI-assisted modernization of legacy OpenEdge applications
  • Natural language access to business data
  • Integration of OpenEdge systems into AI-driven workflows and user-facing applications

By combining the SmartComponent Library with AI developer tools and the OpenEdge MCP Connector, organizations can achieve:

  • Faster delivery cycles
  • Reduced modernization effort
  • Consistent and scalable results

We also provide an outlook beyond modernization - showing how AI systems can securely interact with OpenEdge applications, retrieve business data, and execute transactional logic.

 

Webinar Details:

When: April 16th, 2026 - 16:00 CET
Speaker: Mike Fechner, Lead Modernization Architect

Join us to see how modernization works in practice with SmartComponents and AI.

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Speaker

Mike Fechner

Mike Fechner, lead modernization architect at Consultingwerk started using Progress over 30 years ago and ever since has supported Progress Application Partners and end customers in adopting the features of the latest OpenEdge and Progress releases to enhance the capabilities of existing applications. With his framework design skills he has set the stage for development of many successful OpenEdge applications.

Mike is specialized on object orientation in the ABL, software architectures, the GUI for .NET, web technologies and a wide range of Progress products such as OpenEdge, Telerik and Corticon. He is involved in software modernization projects on a day by day basis.

He is a well-known and active member of the international OpenEdge community, frequent presenter at conferences around the world and is a board member of the German PUG and founder of the committee of the EMEA PUG Challenge. He’s also a founding member of the Common Component Specification project.

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