Fixed-price development services from a team that has worked with PowerBuilder since version 4 — for when hiring a PowerBuilder developer in the US is slow, expensive, or both.
Request a free technical review +44 (0)1293 562730Powersoft does not supply contractors. We take on development work as a service: an agreed scope, a fixed price, and a delivered result. You are buying an outcome, not a seat at a desk and a timesheet to check.
That matters more than it sounds. A fixed price means the estimating risk sits with us rather than with you, it means we have every reason to be efficient, and it means your finance team gets a number they can approve rather than a range they have to defend. We prepare a full project plan and fixed-cost proposal that defines phases, milestones, acceptance criteria and contingency measures before work starts.
If the scope genuinely changes mid-project, we say so and re-quote the change. What we do not do is let a project drift and send you the bill.
PowerBuilder skills are scarce and expensive in the US market, and hiring takes months you may not have.
Our fixed-price quotations compare well against the cost of employing PowerBuilder developers in the United States — and behind each one is a team with forty years of accumulated PowerBuilder experience, not one person and a risk register entry. Ask us for numbers early; we would rather you compare properly.
Extending an existing application with new functionality, built on a current PowerBuilder release and designed to fit how your users actually work.
Connecting your PowerBuilder application to other systems — APIs, web front ends, Microsoft Office, Sage and third-party platforms.
Bringing the interface up to date so the application looks and behaves like a modern Windows application, without disturbing the logic underneath.
An independent review of your estate and the risks in it, or reverse engineering and documentation of what the code actually does. Both are fixed-price pieces of work.
Powersoft has worked with PowerBuilder since version 4, giving our team deep expertise in building robust, long-running applications. Our developers think beyond the code — focusing on usability, workflow and real-world business needs to deliver solutions that are intuitive, reliable and built to last.
With nearly four decades designing, developing and supporting business-critical systems, we bring operational insight as well as technical skill. We have built systems that ran 500 concurrent users selling more than £2 million of travel product a day, and hotel platforms integrating with over 150 booking channels. We know what happens to software under load, and we design for it.
You get the same named people across projects, because the same team supports the applications afterwards. That continuity is the point.
PowerBuilder: version 4 through PB12.6, and every Appeon release to PB2025.
Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Anywhere and mixed estates.
Around it: EAServer 5 and 6, Appeon PowerServer, .NET, Microsoft Office integration, Sage integration.
We develop your team's skills while we deliver the solution. On the Kansas banking project that meant training the bank's own staff as part of the migration. At Western University in Ontario it meant extracting the business knowledge out of the PowerBuilder code and documenting the key business functions, so the university could plan its next move with confidence.
If you would rather bring the work back in-house eventually, say so at the start and we will build towards it. We have been trading since 1986 by being the supplier people come back to, not the one they cannot leave.
We will be straight with you: Powersoft is a British company. We have been based in West Sussex since 1986 and we have no US office. What we do have is one of the deepest concentrations of PowerBuilder experience anywhere in the world, and a long record of delivering for clients outside the UK — in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark and across Europe.
In practice, distance matters far less than it used to. PowerBuilder work is remote work: source control, screen shares, test environments and controlled cutovers. Our clients in North America deal with the same named engineers year after year.
Our working day covers the US East Coast morning, which is when most support calls and planning sessions happen. Cover outside those hours is arranged as part of your support agreement rather than assumed.
PowerBuilder skills are scarce and expensive in the US market, and a single in-house PowerBuilder developer is an expensive single point of failure — particularly when they retire or move on.
We sell services, not contractors. Development is quoted as a fixed price against an agreed scope, and those quotations compare well against the cost of employing PowerBuilder developers in the United States — with a whole team behind the work rather than one person. We are happy to talk numbers early so you can compare properly.
Tell us the PowerBuilder version you are on, the database behind it and what is worrying you. We will come back with an honest assessment of your options — including whether you need to do anything at all. Initial application analysis is free of charge.
Telephone: +44 (0)1293 562730
