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Maintain, modernise or migrate your Progress / OpenEdge ERP?
Independent advice, with no incentive to sell you a migration you don't need.
My position
Progress/OpenEdge is a robust, durable ERP, often underrated. In the vast majority of cases I've seen over 30 years, maintaining and evolving it is the more rational choice — technically and financially — compared to a full, long and risky rewrite.
- Analysis of your current situation and real constraints (team, budget, timeline)
- Objective comparison: maintain/modernise vs migrate to another ERP
- Decision support, with no commercial bias towards migration
- If migration is the right call: scoping and support through the transition
Short format : a few days of discussion and analysis, remote-first, with one or two visits to meet the teams involved if useful.
Maintain / modernise vs migrate: comparison
Criterion
Maintain / modernise Progress-OpenEdge
Migrate to another ERP
CostControlled, proportionate to the real scopeHigh: licences, integration, data migration
TimelineWeeks to a few monthsOften 1 to 3 years for a full ERP
Business riskLow: the existing system keeps runningHigh during cutover (parallel run, data migration)
ContinuityNo disruption for usersTraining and change management required
Makes sense whenThe application meets business needs, technical debt is manageableThe target IT landscape changes fundamentally (acquisition, full business overhaul)
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Remote-first, occasional travel to meet you in person — France and Europe.