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 working with Progress over 30 years ago. Since then, he has supported Progress Application Partners and end customers in adopting the latest OpenEdge and Progress features to enhance and extend existing applications.

With his strong framework design expertise, he has laid the foundation for the development of many successful OpenEdge applications.

Mike specializes in object-oriented programming in ABL, software architecture, GUI for .NET, web technologies, and a broad range of Progress products including OpenEdge, Telerik, and Corticon. He is deeply involved in software modernization projects on a daily basis and is a passionate modernization enthusiast.

He is a well-known and active member of the international OpenEdge community and a frequent presenter at conferences around the world. Mike serves as a board member of the German PUG as well as a board member of the PUG Challenge.

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