Webinar: AI-Powered Modernization for OpenEdge Applications
 

Webinar: AI-Powered Modernization for OpenEdge Applications

18 September 2025

Join our next webinar on September 18th!

As legacy systems no longer meet the demands of modern businesses, modernizing OpenEdge applications has become an urgent priority.  

In this webinar, Mike Fechner will demonstrate how the the SmartComponent Library combined with artificial intelligence, can support and accelerate the transformation of classic TTY and GUI applications into modern, web-enabled architectures.


Using a concrete application scenario, we’ll demonstrate how AI can:

  • Analyze legacy ABL code in depth and detect implementation patterns
  • Generate foundational application components such as business entities and business tasks and UI-layout from existing source code
  • Harvest and centralize application logic, such as validation and data processing into maintainable components

 

You’ll also gain insight into:

 

  • Automated migration techniques
  • Modern approaches to data validation
  • Proven architectural strategies for  scalable, multi-channel solutions

 

Along the way, we’ll explore AI developer tools like Windsurf, Devin by Cognition and Claude Code. We will show how pairing them with a robust developer framework like the SmartComponent Library ensures consistent code quality, long-term maintainability, and a clear architectural direction. We will demonstrate how the right combination of Generative AI and classic code generation can not only speed up modernization but also safeguard against the inconsistencies and limitations of AI’s non-deterministic nature.

Highlights include:

  • AI-assisted code analysis and optimization
  • Migrating application layout and logic from legacy to modern environments

 

Whether you're just beginning your modernization journey or looking to enhance ongoing efforts, this session will offer practical insights to help you succeed.

Register now and take the next step toward a smarter modernization strategy for your OpenEdge applications.

 

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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