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.NETigration™

PBSI's migration experts have developed a complete migration methodology to provide AS/400-iSeries users with a bridge from legacy to the .NET world ...

Software Factory

The core of PBSI's business has always been it's custom IT services in application software development, systems integration, and ...

The Company

PBSI, founded in 1982, is a company with a successful history of: AS/400-iSeries software development; Windows-based software ...

The Microsoft Midrange Alliance Partnership

Using the tagline: "One map, Many Roads," Microsoft seeks to inform the AS/400-iSeries community of the software, hardware and system support resources available to assist in AS/400-iSeries extension or migration.

The Midrange Alliance Program includes a select group of companies that provide hardware, software products or service offerings focused directly at AS/400-iSeries extensions, re-platforming and migration.

PBSI is an active member of Microsoft's Midrange Alliance Program (MAP) service provider group, participating in the MAP launch conferences in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Irvine and Dallas. As one of the first MAP service providers, and a vendor attending these MAP launch conferences, PBSI has been encouraged by the customer response to its iSeries extension and migration offerings.

The end result of extending your software is a robust, modern, and intuitive application running on the Windows platform with an iSeries application and database providing data processing support. The advantage to this approach is to harness the performance capabilities of the iSeries, while taking advantage of the power of Windows and .NET.

Choosing to migrate your legacy system to .NET will enable seamless integration with Word, Excel, and the Internet while preserving the business rules that drive system functionality. Not only are future hardware purchases from a wide variety of commodity products now available, .NET provides a highly efficient, integrated software development environment for all types of software applications supported by multiple programming languages. A complete migration enables participation in the contemporary information technology environment and provides the IT department with highly leveraged opportunities to support growth critical to success.

"PBSI's .NETigration technology is an exciting offering for iSeries software vendors and customers alike."
-- David Delisi, Microsoft

The advantages of teamwork

PBSI and Microsoft experts have teamed up to create a full suite of offerings to assist the industry in migrating valuable business assets.

PBSI provides the depth of iSeries technical expertise, the technology which migrates legacy applications to .NET, and the technical expertise to maximize the effectiveness of Microsoft's technology within iSeries installations.

Microsoft and PBSI work together through the Midrange Alliance Partner Program to provide Proof of Concept projects which allow iSeries customers to see how their legacy applications can look in the .NET platform.