End-to-end migration of mission-critical JCL batch workloads to modern Spring Batch microservices, eliminating mainframe dependency while preserving 100% business logic parity.
Visit UPS →Application Modernization
At Scale
Modernize any legacy system — Mainframe, COBOL, AS/400, Oracle, Fujitsu — with 100% business parity using AI/ML in as little as 6 months. Faster. Economical. Secure.
Platform-agnostic. We modernize any legacy.
Why Ionate
Core Differentiators
Industry veterans with a proven enterprise track record — disrupting the application modernization market through proprietary AI/ML technology.
Global Footprint
Pioneers Who Trusted Us
From Fortune 500 enterprises to sovereign government agencies — delivering measurable results through AI-driven modernization.
Full transformation of a COBOL/CICS/DB2 mainframe stack to cloud-native .NET Core microservices architecture, enabling scalability, cost reduction and operational agility.
Visit CVP Brasil →Modernization of the Brazilian Federal Revenue (IRS) platform from ADABAS Natural to Angular micro-frontend architecture with Java microservices and WebSocket for stateful real-time handling at national scale.
Visit Receita Federal →Container management modernization from COBOL/DB2/CICS 3270 green screens to Angular micro-frontend with Java microservices and WebSocket for stateful real-time container tracking.
Visit UNFI →AI/ML completed in 50% of the projected timeline what traditional approaches estimated at 3+ years — delivering 60% annual cost savings and future-readiness for Brazil's leading healthcare network.
Read Case Study →End-of-life Oracle Forms and Reports modernization reduced time-to-market by 80%, eliminating critical EOL risk for one of Latin America's leading financial institutions.
Read Case Study →Measured Client Outcomes
Results That Speak for Themselves
Track Record
Proven at Enterprise Scale
A decade of proprietary R&D. 500M+ lines modernized. 50+ enterprise clients. No competitor possesses this institutional knowledge.
The Industry Challenge
Challenges We Are Built to Solve
Our Platform
Our Product Offerings
Three core products delivering end-to-end application modernization — from discovery through cloud-native production deployment.
The industry's most advanced AI/ML application modernization engine. Converts any legacy system — COBOL, Oracle Forms, BPM, Visual Basic, RPG, Natural — to modern .NET Core, Java Spring Boot, Angular, or React with 100% business parity in 6 months.
Learn More →Intelligent discovery and risk assessment platform. Delivers a multi-dimensional Risk Score across Composition, Complexity, Dependency, Vulnerability, and Portability dimensions — providing complete visibility before commitment to migration.
Learn More →End-to-end modernization process management platform. Test generation, CI/CD pipeline orchestration, upstream and downstream workflow management, job controls, SRE instrumentation, and performance monitoring.
Learn More →AI-powered modernization intelligence and reasoning agent. Built on 8+ years of structured legacy domain knowledge — not a generic LLM wrapper. Purpose-engineered to accelerate complex legacy transformation workflows.
Ecosystem
Our Partners in the Mission
A global ecosystem of systems integrators, cloud hyperscalers, and strategic partners — collectively delivering application modernization at enterprise scale.
Global Systems Integrator Partners
Cloud & Technology Partners
Strategic Partners
Enterprise Clients — Selected
Value Proposition
Triple Value Proposition
Application Modernization At Scale — the Ionate standard of delivery.
Proprietary AI/ML engines compress years of manual migration effort into months — with deterministic accuracy. Unlike rule-based tools, our platform learns the full semantic context of the source system, producing idiomatic target-language code that is functionally equivalent and maintainable.
Turnkey and feature-complete. One platform replaces a fragmented ecosystem of vendors, licenses, and consulting engagements. Clients consistently realize positive net ROI within the first year — through reduced infrastructure spend, eliminated licensing, and accelerated revenue from new digital capabilities.
Security is architectural, not an afterthought. Zero-Trust architecture, SOC 2 compliance, air-gapped BYOL deployment, and proactive container and application firewall protection from day one. Your intellectual property and code never leave your controlled environment.
The Mission
Modernizing the World's Mission-Critical Legacy Systems
Founded in 2016, Ionate addresses one of enterprise computing's most persistent and costly challenges. We deploy the most efficient end-to-end cloud modernization journey — migrating any legacy system to cloud-native microservices while enabling advanced security, predictive intelligence, and data protection at scale.
| City | Country |
|---|---|
| San Francisco, California | United States |
| Kraków | Poland |
| Mexico City | Mexico |
2016 – 2021
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Market Opportunity
A $220B+ Problem — A $52B Opportunity
95% of the world's digital transactions run on systems built before the internet existed. The modernization imperative is structural, urgent, and growing.
Extended Platform
Supplemental Products
AI-powered products extending your cloud-native environment — advanced security, predictive intelligence, Kubernetes orchestration, and high-performance compute.
AI/ML Predictive Analytics Engine delivering business-critical KPIs. Pattern discovery, forward projections, what-if scenario modeling, recommendation engine, and Black Swan estimation.
Learn More →Cloud-native Zero-Trust security fabric. AI-driven anomaly detection, container firewall, WAF, live CVE vulnerability scanning, and GDPR compliance automation.
Learn More →Production-ready Kubernetes with integrated CI/CD, private registry, ELK observability, service mesh, distributed tracing, secrets management, and embedded AIOps/DevSecOps.
Learn More →Serverless high-performance compute platform. Cost-optimized infrastructure for ML workloads (TensorFlow, PyTorch), BigData pipelines (Hadoop, Spark), and distributed streaming (Kafka, Flink) at cloud scale.
Learn More →— George Westerman, MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy"When digital transformation is done right, it's like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar."