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AI-Powered Application Modernization

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.

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COBOL Modernization Demo
End-to-end AI/ML conversion of legacy COBOL to modern microservices architecture
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ADABAS/NATURAL Modernization Demo
AI-driven transformation of ADABAS Natural legacy systems to cloud-native platforms
White Paper
The Overlooked Legacy
Monolith and middleware to microservices — a strategic guide for enterprise leaders
Platform
POWERON — Cost-Optimized Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise-grade compute at cloud scale — ML, BigData, distributed systems

Platform-agnostic. We modernize any legacy.

IBM Mainframe
COBOL / CICS / RPG
JCL Batch
ADABAS Natural
AS/400 — IBM i
Oracle Forms / ADF
Visual Basic / Delphi
IBM BPM / WebSphere
VSAM / DB2
Fujitsu / Unisys
PL/SQL
Microsoft Legacy

Why Ionate

Core Differentiators

Industry veterans with a proven enterprise track record — disrupting the application modernization market through proprietary AI/ML technology.

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Deep Domain Experience
Veterans who command both Technology and Business
20+ years across large-scale products, legacy systems, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and data science
Alumni of Akamai, IBM, Oracle, and Apple
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Our Commitment
100% Business Parity — every rule, process, and edge case functions exactly as before
Delivery in 3–6 months versus the industry norm of 2–5 years
Full support for thick clients, mainframe, and monolithic architectures
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Sustained Partnership
We remain engaged post-modernization — long-term support included
Production-environment products that make cloud infrastructure affordable
Global best-of-breed SI partner network
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Business Acceleration
Integrated suite: security, predictive intelligence, monitoring, and high-performance infrastructure
Measurable cost reduction and net ROI within months
Double-digit top-line growth enabled for clients

Global Footprint

Pioneers Who Trusted Us

From Fortune 500 enterprises to sovereign government agencies — delivering measurable results through AI-driven modernization.

UPS
Mainframe Modernization
JCL Batch → Spring Batch Microservices

End-to-end migration of mission-critical JCL batch workloads to modern Spring Batch microservices, eliminating mainframe dependency while preserving 100% business logic parity.

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CVP Brasil
Mainframe Modernization
COBOL/CICS/DB2 → .NET Core Microservices

Full transformation of a COBOL/CICS/DB2 mainframe stack to cloud-native .NET Core microservices architecture, enabling scalability, cost reduction and operational agility.

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SERPRO
Government · IRS of Brasil
ADABAS Natural → Angular Micro UI + Java Microservices

Modernization of the Federal Revenue of Brasil (IRS) platform from ADABAS Natural to Angular micro-frontend architecture with Java microservices and WebSocket for stateful real-time handling at national scale.

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UNFI
Mainframe Modernization
COBOL/DB2/CICS → Angular Micro UI + Java Microservices

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.

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Hapvida / GNDI
Healthcare · Brasil
IBM BPM / WebSphere Modernization

AI/ML completed the transformation in 50% of the time traditional approaches would have required — delivering 60% annual cost savings and future-readiness for Brasil's leading healthcare network.

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Davivienda
Banking · Colombia
Oracle Forms / Reports Modernization

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.

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Measured Client Outcomes

Results That Speak for Themselves

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Increase in Developer Agility
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Reduction in Operational Costs
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Reduction in Time to Market

Track Record

Proven at Enterprise Scale

A decade of proprietary R&D. 500M+ lines modernized. 50+ enterprise clients. No competitor possesses this institutional knowledge.

500M+
Lines of legacy code transformed with 100% business parity
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Enterprise clients across banking, insurance, government & logistics
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Years of proprietary AI/ML R&D — no competitor has this institutional dataset

The Industry Challenge

Challenges We Are Built to Solve

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Of digital transformation initiatives fail, predominantly due to organizational resistance (McKinsey)
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Of enterprise IT budgets consumed by legacy maintenance, leaving no capacity for innovation (GAO)
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Of Fortune 500 companies run mission-critical workloads on mainframes — requiring the right modernization partner

Our Platform

Our Product Offerings

Three core products delivering end-to-end application modernization — from discovery through cloud-native production deployment.

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IONATE™ APPDATE

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.

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Why APPDATE?
100% data, business logic and process parity — guaranteed
6× faster than traditional approaches — months, not years
Zero business disruption throughout the migration lifecycle
Fully automated AI/ML conversion and validation engine
Cloud-agnostic — Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud
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IONATE™ SOTERIA

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.

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IONATE™ KÍRKĒ

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.

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✨ MIRA Codex Studio

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

NTT Data
NTT Data
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Capgemini
Capgemini
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Deloitte
Deloitte
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Accenture
Accenture
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Kyndryl
Kyndryl
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Atos
Atos
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SONDA
SONDA
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Globant
Globant
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Infosys
Infosys
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Coforge
Coforge
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EXL
EXL
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Avanade
Avanade
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FCamara
FCamara
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Entelgy
Entelgy
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Cast Group
Cast Group
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Memora
Memora
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PPN Technologies
PPN Technologies
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Cloud & Technology Partners

Amazon AWS
Amazon AWS
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Google Cloud
Google Cloud
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
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Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud
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IBM
IBM
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Intel
Intel
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Red Hat
Red Hat
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Strategic Partners

EXIM Bank (US)
EXIM Bank (US)
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MIT ILP Startup Exchange
MIT ILP Startup Exchange
2016 – 2021
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US Federal Reserve
US Federal Reserve
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Enterprise Clients — Selected

UPS
UPS
Logistics
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Scotiabank
Scotiabank
Banking · Canada
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Fidelity
Fidelity
Finance
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SERPRO
SERPRO
Government · Brasil
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MUFG
MUFG
Banking
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SURA Group
SURA Group
Insurance
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Hapvida/GNDI
Hapvida/GNDI
Healthcare
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VW Brasil
VW Brasil
Automotive
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Marriott
Marriott
Hospitality
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AIG
AIG
Insurance
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Prudential
Prudential
Insurance
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Davivienda
Davivienda
Banking · Colombia
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CVP Brasil
CVP Brasil
Insurance
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Pimco
Pimco
Finance
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ALJ Group
ALJ Group
Conglomerate
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Value Proposition

Triple Value Proposition

Application Modernization At Scale — the Ionate standard of delivery.

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Faster & Accurate

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.

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Economical & Net ROI

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.

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Secure

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.

Industries Served
Financial Services & Banking Insurance Government & Public Sector Oil & Gas Healthcare Logistics & Retail
Office Locations
Headquarters
San Francisco
California, United States
Brasil Headquarters
São Paulo
Brasil
European Headquarters
Kraków
Poland
LATAM (ex-Brasil)
Mexico City
Mexico
Engineering Offices
CityCountry
San Francisco, CaliforniaUnited States
KrakówPoland
Mexico CityMexico
MIT ILP Startup Exchange
MIT ILP Startup Exchange Member
2016 – 2021
ilpstex.mit.edu ↗
Core Principles: Relentless Customer Focus · Own the Action · Do Things that Don't Scale · Together We Can
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100% Business Parity — Guaranteed
Every business rule, process, and edge case migrated with zero data loss and complete functional equivalence. Contractually guaranteed.
AI-Accelerated Delivery
Our platform learns the semantic context of the source system and performs idiomatic, maintainable transformation — in months, not years.
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Proven Global Track Record
Validated at enterprise scale across financial services, healthcare, government, and logistics — across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
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Air-Gapped Deployment & SOC 2
Your source code and business logic never leave your controlled environment. BYOL model purpose-built for regulated industries: financial services, government, insurance.
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Sustained Engagement Model
Ionate remains engaged beyond go-live. Production-environment products, dedicated support, and a global SI partner network ensure long-term success.

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.

$7.9B
Mainframe Modernization Market 2025 — growing at 9.7% CAGR
$52.5B
Application Modernization TAM by 2030 — 16.7% CAGR (GVR)
95B
Billion lines of active COBOL in production worldwide — estimated $0.5–1T in business value
$12B
Ionate Serviceable Addressable Market — $300M SOM three-year objective

Extended Platform

Supplemental Products

AI-powered products extending your cloud-native environment — advanced security, predictive intelligence, Kubernetes orchestration, and high-performance compute.

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IONATE™ MENTIVE

AI/ML Predictive Analytics Engine delivering business-critical KPIs. Pattern discovery, forward projections, what-if scenario modeling, recommendation engine, and Black Swan estimation.

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IONATE™ CRYPTOID

Cloud-native Zero-Trust security fabric. AI-driven anomaly detection, container firewall, WAF, live CVE vulnerability scanning, and GDPR compliance automation.

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IONATE™ KUBERNETES

Production-ready Kubernetes with integrated CI/CD, private registry, ELK observability, service mesh, distributed tracing, secrets management, and embedded AIOps/DevSecOps.

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IONATE™ POWERON

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.

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"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."

— George Westerman, MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy