Exiting Sybase Under Compliance Pressure

A healthcare network faced escalating PCI-DSS and SOC 2 findings tied to its unsupported Sybase ASE environment. S2PIM automated over 90% of the schema and T-SQL conversion to PostgreSQL, closing the finding at its root within a single audit cycle.

Healthcare S2PIM PCI-DSS & SOC 2 PostgreSQL 16

90%+

Schema & T-SQL conversion automated

30-Day

Hypercare window post-cutover

14 Wks

Duration

An Audit Finding That Kept Reappearing

Compliance

Recurring PCI-DSS and SOC 2 Findings

The network's patient billing and claims database ran on an aging Sybase ASE instance that auditors had flagged as an unsupported platform in back-to-back annual reviews — a finding that remediation plans kept deferring rather than closing.

Cost

Escalating License Renewal Costs

Sybase ASE license renewal quotes had climbed year over year, with no roadmap improvement to justify the spend — proprietary licensing was becoming an increasingly hard line item to defend internally.

Scale

A Large, Business-Critical Schema

Hundreds of tables and stored procedures underpinned claims adjudication and billing workflows — a manual, hand-written conversion to any new platform would have taken years and carried substantial regression risk.

S2PIM-Driven Conversion With a 30-Day Hypercare Window

OptiSol used the S2PIM accelerator to automate the overwhelming majority of the schema and T-SQL-to-PL/pgSQL conversion, freeing specialist engineers to focus entirely on the edge cases that required judgment.

Discovery & S2PIM Scan

S2PIM catalogued every table, index, constraint, datatype, and stored procedure in the source Sybase environment, producing a structured conversion report scoping complexity and timeline before any DDL was touched.

Automated Conversion

S2PIM converted schema objects and translated T-SQL stored procedures to PL/pgSQL automatically, clearing over 90% of the conversion workload without manual rewriting.

Expert Resolution & Regression

Sybase and PostgreSQL specialists resolved the remaining T-SQL patterns with no direct PL/pgSQL equivalent, then ran a full regression suite against the claims and billing workflows to confirm functional parity.

Cutover + 30-Day Post-Support

The JDBC driver was swapped from jTDS to the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, incremental data sync kept source and target aligned through cutover, and a 30-day hypercare window absorbed issues surfaced under full production load.

Multi-Year Rewrite Compressed Into a 14-Week Program A conversion that a manual, hand-written rewrite would typically be quoted at multiple years was completed in a single 14-week engagement by automating over 90% of the schema and T-SQL conversion with S2PIM.

A Standing Compliance Finding Closed at the Root Instead of another deferral, the network went into its next audit cycle with a fully migrated, PostgreSQL-based platform — converting a repeat PCI-DSS and SOC 2 finding into a closed remediation.

Sybase Licensing Exited Entirely Retiring the ASE instance removed recurring proprietary licensing costs from the claims and billing platform going forward, replacing an escalating renewal line item with an open-source database engine.

Patient-Facing Operations Undisrupted A 30-day hypercare window absorbed post-cutover issues under full production load, so claims adjudication and billing workflows continued without patient-facing service interruption.

The Business Impact

Recurring PCI-DSS and SOC 2 audit finding closed at the root
90%+ of schema and T-SQL conversion automated by S2PIM
Claims and billing workflows migrated with full functional parity confirmed
JDBC connectivity re-pointed from jTDS to the PostgreSQL JDBC driver
30-day hypercare window absorbed production issues without patient-facing disruption
Multi-year manual rewrite estimate replaced with a single-cycle, accelerator-driven program

"The finding had appeared on three consecutive audits. This time, we had a closed remediation to show instead of another extension request." — OptiSol S2PIM Delivery Lead

Exiting Sybase Under Compliance Pressure