Fresche Solutions

The company helps organizations manage, maintain, and modernize their IBM i and Microsoft systems. In practice that means three things. It builds and sells software tools that let companies understand and transform decades of legacy code. It runs the infrastructure - hosting, security, disaster recovery - so those systems keep running. And it turns the data trapped inside them into analytics that leadership can actually use.

The through-line is a belief the company states plainly: no system is too complex or outdated to be modernized, and every business deserves a clear, strategic path to the future. That is a deliberately un-dramatic promise. Fresche is not in the business of telling customers to tear everything out. It is in the business of making what already works, work in the modern world.

What started as application and developer tools has grown into full-scale modernization: web and mobile UIs, code transformation from RPG, COBOL, and Synon into modern languages, database moves from DDS to DDL, cloud migration, and AI-driven analysis. It is one vendor for a job that would otherwise require several.

Fresche's customers are mid-market and large enterprises - manufacturers, banks, insurers, retailers, and distributors - whose core operations run on IBM i and Microsoft systems. Many of these applications were written 20, 30, even 40 years ago. They are stable, fast, and profoundly important. They are also increasingly hard to change.

The first problem is people. The developers who wrote the original RPG and COBOL are retiring, and few new graduates learn those languages. That is a demographic clock, not a software bug, and it is ticking inside thousands of companies at once. The knowledge of how the business actually works is encoded in software that fewer and fewer people can read.

The second problem is expectation. Customers, employees, and executives now expect web interfaces, mobile access, real-time dashboards, and cloud economics. A green-screen terminal application, however reliable, does not meet that bar - and rewriting it from scratch is expensive, slow, and risky.

The third problem is fear of the big-bang project. Every CIO has heard the horror stories of multi-year replacement efforts that ran over budget and broke on go-live. The instinct to leave a working system alone is rational. Fresche's business exists in the gap between "leave it alone" and "rip it out" - modernize in steps, keep the business running, remove the downtime from the conversation.

The modernization market has plenty of players - Profound Logic, ARCAD Software, LANSA, Rocket Software, Eradani, and Remain Software among them, plus the ever-present alternative of ripping everything out for a new ERP. Fresche's argument for itself rests on three claims.

Depth. Forty-plus years anchored specifically in IBM i and Microsoft ecosystems is unusual. This is not a general consultancy that also does legacy work; legacy work is the whole company. The leadership team alone is described as bringing 150+ years of combined industry experience.

Breadth under one roof. Most competitors do one slice - a tool, a UI layer, a hosting contract. Fresche spans the code, the cloud, the data, the security, and the ongoing managed services. For a customer, that means one accountable vendor instead of stitching several together across a multi-year project.

Outcome framing. The pitch leads with cost reduction, risk removal, and measurable business impact rather than technology novelty. Modernizing without downtime is treated as the core engineering constraint - the thing that makes the difference between a project that ships and one that stalls.