What Enable Development OÜ does

Enable Development OÜ is a private Estonian company founded in 2018 that specializes in modernizing, staffing, and maintaining legacy PowerBuilder applications. The company serves enterprise and government organizations in regulated sectors including financial services, insurance, government, healthcare, defense, and logistics, all of which run mission-critical PowerBuilder systems that face UI obsolescence, developer-pool erosion, and security debt. The firm's core methodology is a Preserve-Rehost-Replace framework that preserves PowerScript business logic and DataWindow definitions, rehosts DataWindow logic into a proprietary .NET DataStore library exposed via a versioned REST API, and replaces the presentation layer with React, Angular, or Vue frontends. An automated regression testing harness and parallel running / shadow mode ensure zero business logic loss before cutover.

The company operates three service lines: PowerBuilder Modernization (project-based consulting to migrate legacy applications to web/mobile platforms), PowerBuilder Outstaffing (placement of senior PB developers embedded in client teams with mentorship and knowledge transfer), and PowerBuilder Maintenance (ongoing bug fixes, version upgrades including PB2025, security patching, and performance optimization). A fourth line, Enable Multilingual, is a productized internationalization tool for PowerBuilder with dynamic language switching, full Unicode support including RTL languages, and a royalty-free translation engine. Revenue is generated through professional services fees, managed-services contracts, and licensing/support for the Enable Multilingual product. Pricing is quote-based, beginning with a free 30-minute technical scoping call.

Enable Development operates from Tallinn, Estonia (Õismäe tee 16-69) with a delivery subsidiary in Bangalore, India (EnableDev Software Pvt Ltd), and in October 2025 acquired a 50% stake in Fidelius Online, the creator of the Fidelius ISV unified messaging API. The company holds official Appeon Authorized Consulting Partner status and formal relationships with Novalys and Fidelius, positioning it inside the PowerBuilder vendor ecosystem. Headcount is 9 employees and no external funding rounds have been disclosed.

Name

Enable Development OÜ

Legal name

Enable Development OÜ

Website

https://enable-dev.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Enable Development OÜ is a private Estonian firm that modernizes, staffs, and maintains legacy PowerBuilder applications for enterprise and government clients. It uses a proprietary Preserve-Rehost-Replace framework with .NET DataStore migration, parallel running validation, and is an official Appeon Authorized Consulting Partner.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legacy Application Modernization Services

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Legacy Modernization & Application Rationalization (BPAEAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Legacy Application Modernization (Re-platform/Re-host/Re-factor) (BPAEAFAB)

Keywords

• Legacy application modernization
• PowerBuilder consulting
• DataWindow migration
• Software outstaffing
• Application maintenance services

Headquarters

HQ city

Tallinn

HQ country

Estonia

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. PowerBuilder Modernization Services: Full-service modernization engagements converting legacy PowerBuilder applications to modern web/mobile platforms. Engagement includes discovery and inventory, regression harness setup, screen-by-screen migration, parallel running validation, and rolling cutover. Revenue generated through project-based consulting engagements.
2. PowerBuilder Outstaffing: Placement of senior PowerBuilder developers embedded in client teams with ongoing leadership, mentoring, and monitoring. Flexible engagement models including part-time, full-time, short-term sprints, and long-term retainers. Revenue generated through developer placement and ongoing engagement fees.
3. PowerBuilder Maintenance Contracts: Ongoing maintenance agreements covering bug fixes, version upgrades including PB2025, performance optimization, security patching, and scheduled improvement sprints. Structured around application risk profiles with SLA-based response commitments.
4. Enable Multilingual Product: Internationalization tool for PowerBuilder distributed as a downloadable product (Enable Engine). Royalty-free licensing model for translation engine. Revenue from software licensing and support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Enable Development modernizes legacy PowerBuilder applications into responsive web and mobile frontends while rehosting DataWindow business logic into a native .NET DataStore, using an incremental Preserve-Rehost-Replace methodology with automated regression and parallel-running validation. The firm also provides senior PowerBuilder developer outstaffing into client teams and ongoing PB maintenance contracts including version upgrades to PB2025, security patching, and performance optimization. Its standalone product, Enable Multilingual, delivers runtime internationalization and localization for PowerBuilder applications with full Unicode and RTL support.

Product overview

Enable Development OÜ offers a portfolio of three core services for PowerBuilder applications: Modernization (web/mobile UI replacement via React/Angular/Vue with .NET DataStore backend), Outstaffing (senior PB developer placement with mentorship), and Maintenance (support, upgrades, security). The company also offers Enable Multilingual, a product for internationalizing PowerBuilder applications, supporting dynamic runtime language switching with full Unicode including RTL support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Enable Multilingual: Internationalization and localization tool specifically designed for applications developed in PowerBuilder.
• Enable for PB

Products and services

• PowerBuilder Modernization Service that replaces the PowerBuilder presentation layer with a modern responsive web or mobile frontend (React, Angular, or Vue) while rehosting DataWindow business logic into .NET DataStore, using the Preserve-Rehost-Replace methodology with parallel running and automated regression testing. Targeted at enterprises running mission-critical legacy PB applications in regulated industries.
• PowerBuilder Outstaffing
• PowerBuilder Maintenance
• Enable Multilingual for PowerBuilder Standalone internationalization and localization product for PowerBuilder applications providing dynamic language switching at runtime, full Unicode support including RTL languages, multilingual database, royalty-free translation engine, and a developer control API. Distributed under royalty-free licensing for the translation engine.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10× faster delivery compared to conventional rewrites
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• AppeoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAppeon is the developer and custodian of PowerBuilder. Enable Development is an official Appeon Authorized Consulting Partner, authorized to provide consulting services on Appeon products including PowerBuilder, PowerServer, and .NET DataStore. The partnership provides Enable with direct relationships with Appeon engineering, beta program access, and product roadmap visibility that are brought into every client engagement.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Itransition: Eastern European software development and modernization vendor headquartered outside the UK/EU core, often competing on cost for custom development and legacy migration projects. Comparable as a regional alternative for outsourced legacy application work.

Others

• Appeon: Vendor and custodian of PowerBuilder, PowerServer, and .NET DataStore. Enable is an Appeon Authorized Consulting Partner; Appeon is an ecosystem enabler rather than a direct competitor, but its roadmap directly governs Enable's service offering.
• Novalys: PowerBuilder ecosystem ISV offering tools that extend and enhance PB applications. A listed partner of Enable Development; serves the same installed base with adjacent tooling rather than competing modernization services.

Direct peers

• BluePhoenix Solutions: Legacy modernization vendor historically focused on COBOL, PL/I, and other mainframe/long-lived stacks. Comparable because it competes for the same modernization budget that enterprises allocate when retiring legacy languages and platforms.
• TSRI (The Software Revolution, Inc.): Long-standing legacy application modernization specialist with automated refactoring tooling. Directly comparable to Enable's Preserve-Rehost-Replace approach and its positioning around risk-reduced, automated migrations of business-critical code.
• Heirloom Computing: Specialist in migrating legacy enterprise applications (including PowerBuilder-adjacent stacks) to modern Java/cloud platforms. Comparable as a niche modernization competitor targeting similar regulated-industry modernization engagements.

Emerging players

• vFunction: AI-driven application modernization platform that analyzes monoliths and accelerates refactoring to microservices. Comparable as an emerging technology that competes for the same legacy-modernization budget and may erode manual migration approaches like Enable's.
• Evolveware: Legacy modernization provider with automated code-transformation tooling for enterprise stacks. Comparable because it offers an alternative delivery model (tooling-led) for the same end-state outcome Enable delivers through services.

Broad incumbents

• Infosys: Global IT services incumbent with broad legacy modernization, application management, and cloud transformation practices. Competes for the same large-enterprise modernization RFPs, but without Enable's narrow PowerBuilder specialization.
• Cognizant: Large IT services provider with significant application modernization and maintenance practices. Comparable as an alternative supplier when enterprises opt to bundle PB modernization into a broader transformation engagement.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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