IBM i · BI · AI — Melsele & Madrid
We build and modernise the IBM i systems that Belgian and Spanish companies actually run on — from a furniture maker in West Flanders to a bank in Madrid. Thirty years of business logic, kept. Everything your people have to look at, replaced.
What we actually do
On the left, order entry on an IBM i. On the right, what comes out of the factory it runs. Between them sit thirty years of business rules — pricing, configuration, planning, capacity — and our job is to keep those rules working while everything around them changes.
The system of record
ORDER ENTRY - MAINTENANCE CD100 16/09/26 Customer . . . 104821 JORI NV Order . . . . 0038412 Date . . . . . 160926 POS MODEL QTY PRICE AMOUNT 001 DAYDREAM 2 1.845,00 3.690,00 002 SOPHIA-3 1 2.390,00 2.390,00 003 ________ _ ______ _____ TOTAL 6.080,00 Delivery . . . 271026 Terms . . 30D Whse . . . . . 01 VAT . . . 21 Config . . . . FABRIC 7241 / OAK BASE Planned . . . WK 44 Capacity OK F3=Exit F5=Refresh F6=Add F12=Cancel F14=Prices F15=Stock F24=More keys Order accepted - 2 lines written to PFORD
Illustrative — a 5250 order-entry screen
The result
A JORI chair — configured, priced and planned by the system on the left
In their words
These are on the current site, buried at the bottom of the services page. They belong here.
Deploying the new manufacturing application from CD Invest on IBM Power Systems slashed our lead times by up to 66 percent. We can typically deliver orders to customers within a week, giving us an edge over many of our competitors.
The market adoption rate of the CD-Invest solution is higher than we ever could have predicted — last time we checked, 90 percent of the Belgian market was using it.
With the innovative potential of IBM i and the expertise of CD Invest, we have modernised our business while retaining our legacy of excellence.
Thanks to our partnership with IBM and CD Invest, we are building the digital retail capabilities we need to thrive in B2B and B2C markets, and we are excited by what the future holds.
What we do
Everything below sits on IBM i, DB2 for i and thirty years of working inside other people's business rules. If a job does not touch that foundation, we will tell you to hire someone else.
RPG brought forward, databases converted to SQL, screens moved to the browser.
Step by step, with the business running throughout. We have never recommended a big-bang rewrite, and we are not going to start with you.
Custom applications, and the integrations that let them talk to everything else.
Production planning, configurators, portals, messaging. SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics and Exchange on one side; your IBM i on the other.
System administration, high availability, single sign-on, new hardware.
PTF installs, HA setup, capacity and the unglamorous work that decides whether any of the above stays up. We also help you buy the next machine.
Analysis, education and sourcing — so the knowledge does not walk out with us.
We are a family business of specialists, not a body shop. The goal of every engagement is that your own department can carry the result.
Recognition
The Benelux Power Excellence Award goes to the most innovative software project built on IBM technology that year. We have won it four times.
Case
JORI had already worked with IBM on a 3D configurator so customers could see a chair before buying it. When the pandemic closed the stores, they used the pause to replace the simple calculation their ERP used for production planning — a model that could not handle the extra steps the new situation demanded.
We built the replacement on the IBM i they already had. The rules that make a JORI chair a JORI chair never moved. IBM filmed the result as a customer story, and the American trade press picked it up.
Our own product
Forty years of undocumented RPG is not a documentation problem. It is a knowledge problem. Stratum reads your source — RPG, CL, SQL, DDS, Java, Python, C++ — and turns it into a queryable, lineage-annotated knowledge base an AI coding agent can actually use.
We built it because we needed it. It is the reason we can quote a change to a program nobody has touched since 2004.
$ stratum impact --object CDACC450 --field BAANZ object CDACC450 (SQLRPGLE, srvpgm) field BAANZ PFBEW / settlement flag callers 7 programs ├─ CDACC140 payments batch ├─ CDACC500 open-item settlement └─ … 5 more writes 2 paths reads 19 paths lineage PFBEW.BAANZ → ACCAUDIT.AUKEY risk provisional flag; batch sets the final
Next step
No slides. You show us the process; we tell you whether it is a two-week job, a two-month job, or something you should not modernise at all. That last answer is free too.
info@cdinvest.eu · Melsele · Madrid