Transform legacy data platforms, reporting systems and batch processing infrastructure into modern, cloud-native solutions, with AI-accelerated migration, human-in-the-loop validation and a proven delivery framework.
Organizations across regulated industries are running mission-critical data infrastructure on aging platforms: IBM Cognos for enterprise reporting, Unix Shell scripts for batch processing, and Informatica for ETL and data integration. Each represents a growing modernization risk: rising licensing costs, vanishing talent pools and incompatibility with modern cloud platforms.
Kumaran's Data & Reports Modernization practice delivers structured, AI-accelerated migrations across all three domains, moving enterprises from legacy constraint to cloud-native capability with zero business logic loss, human-in-the-loop accuracy and a proven phased delivery model.
Nine outcomes enterprises achieve when they retire legacy reporting and data infrastructure for cloud-native equivalents.
Eliminate Escalating Legacy Licensing Costs
Unlock Self-Service Analytics & Real-Time Data Access
Move Batch Jobs To Cloud-Native Schedulers & Pipelines
Replace Shrinking Legacy Talent Pools With Modern Skills
Enable Cloud-Native Integration & Data Platform Strategies
Improve Data Quality, Governance & Compliance Posture
Accelerate Time-To-Insight For Business Decision-Makers
Reduce Technical Debt Across Data & Reporting Systems
Build A Scalable, Future-Ready Data Architecture
Kumaran’s approach combines platform-specific deep expertise with a consistent, structured delivery methodology - ensuring every migration engagement delivers proven accuracy, phased execution and cloud-native outcomes.
AI Assisted reverse engineering and analysis to understand the scope, complexity, integration dependency, orchestration sequence.
Each solution is delivered as a structured, phased engagement with AI-assisted tooling, human oversight and validated outcomes.
Migrate legacy Unix KSH scripts with embedded Sybase SQL to cloud-ready Python with Oracle scripts and jobs. Powered by a GenAI agentic pipeline with human-in-the-loop review gates, ensuring business logic fidelity and accurate Sybase-to-Oracle SQL translation while adopting best practices of reusable code modules.
Automate end-to-end conversion of Informatica PowerCenter and IICS mappings, workflows and transformations to Databricks-native PySpark. Our AI-powered migration platform combined with DQV data validation delivers up to 80% business logic accuracy from day one, eliminating manual rewrites and accelerating Databricks adoption.
Six commitments that make Kumaran the partner of choice for enterprises modernizing reporting, data integration and batch processing at scale.
Hands-on expertise across Cognos, Unix Shell/Sybase, Informatica, Power BI, Python and Azure Databricks, not a generalist migration shop.
GenAI-powered discovery, assessment and conversion tooling cuts migration timelines by up to 70% compared to traditional manual approaches.
All source reading, target writing and transformations are understood conceptually and verified with human-in-the-loop validation.
AI drives scale and speed; human engineers validate accuracy at every critical milestone, ensuring outcomes your stakeholders can trust.
All modernized assets, Power BI reports, Python jobs and Databricks pipelines, are designed for cloud-native deployment and long-term maintainability.
Legacy and modern systems coexist throughout every migration. Business operations never stop, cutover happens only after equivalence is confirmed.
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Accelerates data transfer and comparison across diverse sources, integrity guaranteed at every stage.
Explore DQVReal-time visibility into team performance with full transparency across every level of the org.
Explore eTRKReusable frameworks that slash test creation time, built for teams that ship fast and can't afford gaps.
Explore KTAC
Computer-vision pipeline that extracts complex tables, text and layouts straight into clean JSON.
Explore IDP
Real outcomes delivered through data and reports modernization engagements across enterprises.
Legacy application performance transformed through a seamless Informix-to-Oracle migration — leveraging Kumaran's deep database modernization expertise.
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A US automobile giant with 12 manufacturing plants improved mainframe batch SLA from 32% to 99% using Kumaran's proprietary NxTran tool - delivering an estimated $13.13 million in 5-year savings by migrating COBOL/JCL to Java Spring Batch and z/OS DB2 to LUW DB2.
A US automobile manufacturer modernised its PowerBuilder V8-based Warranty Management System to a modern .NET web application using agile methodology - completing discovery to deployment in just 13 months and eliminating all legacy technology risk.
Kumaran was engaged by Microsoft India to deliver a B2B data exchange solution for a major enterprise with 900 wholesale dealers - replacing manual Excel-based data transfer with a centralised SQL Server platform supporting both internet-connected and offline XML-based exchange.
One of Canada's largest furniture retailers modernised its mainframe EDI application to HTML5, Angular, and J2EE using Kumaran's NxTran tool - completing the migration on time and within budget, and cementing a 15-year strategic IT partnership.
A Canadian government ministry re-engineered its legacy Clipper audit application to a modern J2EE web platform on WebSphere 4.0 - enabling 4,000 staff to access the system from any location across Canada with a centralised DB2 database and multi-language GUI.
One of Ontario's largest colleges validated the modernisation of GeneSIS - its Student Information and Administration System - from a legacy platform to .NET, preserving every business rule across scheduling, student progression, and Ontario policy compliance for 40,000+ students.
Canada's largest volume retailer consolidated 6 regional data sources from 100+ stores into a single secure DWBI platform - enabling drill-down analysis across 50+ KPIs, real-time dashboards for leadership, and OLAP-powered historical analysis and future sales prediction.
A major oil shipping company re-engineered its mission-critical Risk Assessment System from Oracle to Microsoft .NET - achieving zero downtime during migration, full internal system embedding, and web service-based third-party data exchange, winning the engagement against Tier 1 competitors.
The Foreign Trade Standards (FTS) division partnered with Kumaran to build ADES - a secure internet-based Authorization Document Entry System supporting Pre-Shipment Inspection across 11 government clients and offices in 94 countries, handling 1,000+ daily transactions with 24/7 availability.
A global personal care products retailer migrated its Taiwan ERP application - 318 objects across Finance, Product Management, and Order Processing - from Oracle Forms 4.5 character mode to a fully web-based Oracle Forms 6i GUI, with Traditional Chinese character set preserved across all tiers.
A healthcare technology company partnered with Kumaran to build a highly secure, HL7-V3 compliant Personal Health Record system - delivering offline capability, bidirectional EMR integration, full file encryption, DICOM imaging support, and extensible patient search in a portable, multi-browser solution.
A leading manufacturing company replaced its fragile Assembly Line integration subsystem with a cloud-compatible platform built on Apache Camel and Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3 - unifying 11 internal systems and 60+ data feeds with no impact to connected systems.
The Ontario College Application Service migrated its SSOLA system from Oracle Forms 6i to a thin-client Java solution - eliminating the JInitiator plug-in dependency that blocked student access and achieving 80% reduction in conversion time using Kumaran's Forms-to-Java migration tools.
A major US public sector employment corporation migrated its legacy Oracle Forms 6i applications to a modern ASP.NET platform - achieving 30% cost savings versus a ground-up rebuild while preserving all functionality, role-based security, and enabling centralised deployment.
A US public sector environmental agency migrated its complex PowerBuilder 6.5 environmental management platform to Oracle Forms 6i and Reports 6i using Kumaran's semi-automated PB*Converter tool - preserving all functionality across permit management, inspection, violation tracking, and complaint handling.
A leading telecom network infrastructure company modernised its AccessCare Operating Support System from legacy Oracle Forms 6i to a full J2EE platform - delivering an exact one-to-one migration, benchmarked to support 1,200 simultaneous users with zero user retraining required.
The fifth-largest bank card provider in the USA achieved 100% migration accuracy from Informix 4GL and ESQL/C to Oracle PL/SQL packages and Pro*C - using a tool-assisted approach with manual quality assurance to replicate all original functionality with improved performance.
The largest transit authority in North America modernised its capital funding system to a J2EE platform, achieving 10x the processing volume of the legacy system with real-time workflow automation, accelerated vendor payments, and open integration across J2EE, SOA, and open-source stacks.
A leading retail bank in Canada decomposed its monolithic Loan Origination and Processing System into independently deployable Spring Boot microservices on Red Hat OpenShift - eliminating full regression cycles and system-wide downtime with every code change.
A leading US federal healthcare agency modernised its Oracle Forms-based grant management system to a modern J2EE web platform - achieving 30% cost savings versus rebuilding from scratch and enabling online grants management across 3,000 users.
Enterprise meeting transcription in MS Teams presented significant challenges for a Tier-1 Global Bank. Transcription ownership is tied to the meeting organiser, and bots require higher-level permissions that are unsuitable for enterprise environments. Existing MS Teams Copilot solutions locked the
A Tier-1 Global Bank was extensively reliant on Informatica for their ETL processes, resulting in high licensing, infrastructure, and operational costs. The client required a cost-effective, modern, cloud-based alternative and identified Databricks as their preferred target platform for modernization
A Tier-1 Global Bank needed to validate 600+ printed customer communication letters - covering images, text, and formatting - against strict print specifications. Each test case was manually written by the client, requiring precise validation of formatting, text positioning, and layout adherence. Th
Customer service representatives at a Tier-1 Global Bank were tasked with answering complex queries across a wide range of product procedures, rules, and features. The information needed to respond accurately was dispersed across the product website, internal SharePoint, documents, and training mate
The client had developed 600+ KornShell (KSH) and Sybase SQL custom scripts over the years, relying on an outdated version of FIS Mid-Office. When FIS announced a tight deadline for sunsetting support of this version, the client was required to migrate all custom scripts to a new version compatible
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