About Us

We know what lives inside your DataWindows.

We are a team of PowerBuilder specialists who have spent years inside the most complex PB applications in financial services, insurance, government, healthcare, ticketing, defense, logistics. We don't talk about PowerBuilder from the outside — we've lived it.

Our Story

Built by people who have read the code.

We've worked on PowerBuilder applications with 10+ GB source code and monster DataWindows. We've seen what happens when teams try to rebuild them from scratch — and we've seen what happens when they don't have to.

Our approach is surgical: keep the business logic that works, rehost it in .NET so it can serve a modern API, and build a React/Vue/Angular frontend on top. Your users get a responsive, mobile-ready application. Your business gets continuity — every validation, every computed value, every edge-case rule behaving exactly as it always has.

The engineers who built your system spent years encoding organizational knowledge that cannot be reconstructed from memory or documentation. That knowledge is the real product. The PowerBuilder runtime is just the container it happens to live in.

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PreserveBusiness logic & DataWindow rules

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RehostMigrate to .NET DataStore API

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ReplaceBuild modern web/mobile UI

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ValidateParallel running & regression tests

The hidden complexity

A single DataWindow can encode a parameterized SQL query joining a dozen tables, computed columns performing financial calculations, and validation expressions adjusted hundreds of times over decades — and none of it is documented anywhere.

18 months

What a typical team spends rebuilding what .NET DataStore gives you on day one

Our Approach

The Preserve-Rehost-Replace framework.

Every successful PowerBuilder modernization follows the same three-part logic. We have built our entire practice around it.

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Preserve

Treat PowerScript business logic and DataWindow definitions as assets to be preserved, not liabilities to be discarded. Catalogue everything. Run the legacy system as the system of record throughout the transition.

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Rehost

Migrate DataWindow logic into .NET DataStore — a library that executes DataWindow objects natively within .NET. Expose it through a versioned REST API that any modern frontend can consume.

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Replace

Replace the presentation layer comprehensively. Build a React, Angular, or Vue frontend that is responsive, accessible, and designed for how users actually work today — phone, tablet, and desktop.

Our People

Senior professionals. No juniors on mission-critical projects.

Every engagement at Enable Development is staffed with senior-level specialists. We do not place junior developers on complex PowerBuilder codebases and call it consulting.

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30+ years of combined PB expertise

Our professionals have been working inside PowerBuilder applications since the 1990s. We have seen every architecture pattern, every migration antipattern, and every DataWindow edge case that exists in enterprise PB systems.

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International, remote-first team

Our specialists are distributed across the world, covering multiple timezones and languages. Every developer we place is assessed on real codebases — not on theoretical knowledge of the platform.

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Led, mentored and monitored

When we outstaff a developer, we do not disappear after placement. Our senior architects stay involved through regular technical reviews, knowledge transfer milestones, and quality checks for the duration of the engagement.

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Part of the Appeon ecosystem

As an official Appeon Consulting Partner, our team has direct relationships with Appeon engineering. We know what is on the product roadmap, we participate in beta programs, and we bring that insider knowledge into every client engagement.

What We Stand For

Honest. Technical. Accountable.

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Surgical precision

We identify what must be preserved, what can be rehosted, and what should be replaced. No unnecessary rewrites. No unnecessary preservation.

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Verified parity

We run automated comparison between the legacy system and the new one — output by output — before any module goes live. If it doesn't match, it doesn't ship.

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Knowledge transfer

Every engagement leaves the client with more documentation than they started with. We encode institutional knowledge into tests, inventories, and annotations — not just in people.

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No lock-in

Our goal is to make ourselves unnecessary. Modernized systems run on standard .NET and modern frontend stacks — maintainable by any competent developer without PowerBuilder expertise.