Transform your legacy IBM AS/400 (iSeries) applications into agile, intelligent, and future-ready solutions by adopting modern cloud-native architectures and AI-driven capabilities. This 8-week consulting engagement by Tech Unicorn helps reimagine core business workflows using Microsoft Azure, Power Platform, and Azure OpenAI—delivering process automation, real-time dashboards, and cognitive services.

Key Benefits

  •  Eliminate rigid, monolithic workflows with modular, intelligent automation

  •  Enable faster decision-making with real-time dashboards and analytics

  •  Increase operational efficiency and reduce manual tasks using AI/ML

  •  Align IT systems with modern business needs and digital transformation goals

Engagement Deliverables

✅ 1. Legacy System & Process Mapping

  •  Inventory and review of AS/400 applications, functions, and usage patterns

  •  Process mapping: Identify high-impact areas for automation and intelligence

  •  Stakeholder workshops to define modernization priorities

✅ 2. Solution Design & Architecture

  •  Target architecture using Azure PaaS, Power Platform, and AI services

  •  Integration strategy with SQL Server (modernized backend) and external systems

  •  Security, scalability, and governance planning

✅ 3. Workflow Modernization & Automation

  •  Rebuild critical business processes using Microsoft Power Automate

  •  Apply Azure Logic Apps for enterprise-grade orchestration

  •  Integrate AI models (document classification, chatbots, decision trees) using Azure AI or OpenAI

✅ 4. Dashboarding & Intelligence Layer

  •  Design and implement interactive dashboards using Power BI

  •  Enable real-time data streaming and business insights

  •  Role-based access controls and visual storytelling

✅ 5. Delivery, Testing, and Enablement

  •  Agile sprint-based build and UAT cycles

  •  Deployment to Azure (Dev, Test, Production environments)

  •  User training, change management, and documentation handover

Target Audience

  •  Enterprises looking to sunset AS/400 legacy applications

  •  Businesses seeking intelligent automation to replace manual, repetitive tasks

  •  CXOs aiming for data-driven decision-making and digital agility

  •  Industries: Manufacturing, Logistics, BFSI, Healthcare, Public Sector

Outcome

A modern, AI-enabled digital application layer on Azure that replaces outdated AS/400 processes with automated, data-driven workflows, and dashboards—equipping your business with future-ready insights, agility, and innovation potential.

Technology Stack

  •  Azure SQL, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions

  •  Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI

  •  Azure OpenAI & Cognitive Services

  •  Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, and Dataverse (as needed)