In Enterprise IT, change doesn’t always announce itself with a bang. More often, it’s a quiet recalibration. A shift from “we’ve always done it this way” to “we must do this better.”
That’s what’s happening with IBM i.
For the organizations that rely on the IBM i platform to run their mission-critical workloads, modernization shouldn’t be a teardown. It’s a series of smart, deliberate moves that protect what works and improve what doesn’t.
IBM has long supported that shift, offering pathways that meet partners and clients where they are. IBM Power Virtual Server is one of those pathways - designed to bring flexibility, scalability, and hybrid cloud advantages to core business workloads. Partners like Fresche accelerate those pathways, delivering focused solutions that remove friction and drive real momentum for IT teams.
"At Fresche, our focus is always on helping clients achieve success with their IBM i environments. IBM Power Virtual Server provides the industrial strength and feature-rich platform needed to support mission critical applications, offering unmatched reliability and flexibility. We’re proud to bring our deep IBM i expertise to clients adopting this platform, ensuring they have the support and solutions they need to fully leverage its potential." – Lief Morin, General Manager, Managed Services, Fresche Solutions
A Partnership Built on Progress
Fresche is pleased to announce a suite of outcome-based services designed to accelerate modernization on IBM i. These Service Tiles, now published in the IBM Cloud Catalog, enable partners and clients to provision managed and application support (KTLO) along with software designed to secure, extend, and modernize the IBM i experience.
“IBM Power Virtual Server is a great IaaS for mission critical IBM i applications and eco-system partners add crucial services that help clients with successful adoption. Fresche Solutions have a long history with IBM i and they offer valuable IBM i expertise and solutions that can benefit clients moving to IBM Power Virtual Server. I am excited to see these services launched in the IBM Cloud Catalog and I believe IBM i clients will benefit from having these services readily available. “ - Anthony Ciccone, Director, Product Management, IBM Power – Cloud Offerings
As part of IBM’s ecosystem, Fresche helps organizations address the real-world constraints that slow modernization efforts. We stabilize and enhance decades-old RPG applications, address the scarcity of in-house expertise, and reduce the complexity of moving mission-critical workloads to the cloud.
Together, IBM and Fresche help organizations modernize without disruption, move without risk, and make progress that actually sticks.
Start Where it Matters. Build from There.
The Fresche services launched in the IBM Cloud Catalog are focused solution areas designed to meet IBM i partners and clients where they are. Each one maps to a real business need and are practical, tested approaches to fixing what’s slow, risky, or inefficient in an IBM i environment.
Let’s break them down by the challenges they solve.
1. Technical Debt has Become a Business Liability.
Modernization Service
Many IBM i environments still rely on legacy RPG code and green-screen interfaces. These technologies are stable, but increasingly difficult to maintain.
For most teams, that stability has come at a cost: complex codebases no one fully understands, limited UI capabilities, and workflows that don’t reflect how the business operates today. That’s where Modernization as a Service (MaaS) comes in.
Fresche’s MaaS offering is built for organizations that know they need to modernize but can’t afford disruption, runaway costs, or open-ended timelines. It delivers modernization in focused, manageable phases, at a fixed monthly price, with Minimum Viable Product (MVP) outcomes that are aligned to business priorities from day one.
Our AI-Powered Application Intelligence toolset helps organizations take a focused, low-risk approach. This solution helps partners and clients understand what exists, identify what is business-critical, and modernize the user experience and code to drive the greatest impact.
For IT leaders, this means better visibility into complex systems. For development teams, it means fewer roadblocks and more room to move forward. Explore the Modernization Service.
2. Your Best Developers are Retiring.
Tile: KTLO (Keep the Lights On)
As seasoned IBM i developers retire, many organizations face a quiet crisis: essential knowledge is leaving with them. Much of the day-to-day operation depends on undocumented processes or legacy expertise that’s difficult to transfer.
Fresche’s KTLO (Keep the Lights On) services are designed to reduce those risks by documenting key workflows, automating repetitive tasks, and improving operational visibility. Fresche works with both partner and client IBM i teams to stabilize core systems and transfer the knowledge needed to ensure steady operations across a 24x7x365 support organization.
For partners, this means more satisfied clients. For IT leaders, this means fewer surprises. For teams, fewer fire drills and more time to focus on what’s next. Explore the KTLO Service.
3. The Gap between Cloud Goals and IBM i.
Cloud Managed Services
Enterprise cloud strategies demand speed, scale, and resiliency. For IBM i environments, getting there requires the right foundation.
With IBM Power Virtual Server, organizations can run IBM i workloads in the cloud on high-performance architectures built for mission-critical workloads. It’s a secure, scalable platform that supports hybrid frameworks, extending IBM i without compromising agility. Development, production, and disaster recovery environments can be deployed in hours and scale as needed, with no CapEx or hardware needed.
Fresche enhances this with disciplined managed services that take the burden off internal teams. That includes end-to-end support, from migration and environment provisioning to predictive monitoring and performance optimization.
Backup and disaster recovery are inherent in every solution. Compliance is covered, with adherence to SOC, ISO, and GDPR standards. And support is available 24/7 from IBM i specialists who understand both the infrastructure and the applications.
The result: partners and clients modernize infrastructure without disruption, align with enterprise cloud goals, and gain the flexibility and resilience needed to support growth. Explore Cloud Service.
Progress That Aligns with Reality
Fresche and IBM deliver a practical path forward. Focused, high-impact changes that reduce pressure on internal teams, lower operational risk, and give your business the flexibility it needs to keep moving.
That might mean transforming a green screen into a browser-based UI. Or spinning up a DR environment in the cloud in minutes. Or automating the daily work that keeps tying up your senior developers.
Whatever it is, the goal is to enable partners and clients to take the next step; clearly, confidently, and without disruption.
If that sounds like what you’ve been waiting to do, now’s a good time to start.
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