Modernizing Operator Rounds Software: Why Migrating from Legacy Apps Matters in the Energy Sector

The Field Is Evolving—Is Your Mobile App Keeping Up?

Energy organizations across the globe seek to provide innovative tools, not only in their corporate offices, but for their field engineers as well. Yet, many organizations today are relying on legacy mobile applications or paper processes for maintenance, inspections, and operational efficiency.

Making the move from legacy mobile applications to modern mobile solutions for Asset Performance Management (APM) can address the key challenges of legacy applications, such as:

In this blog, we will explore how GE Vernova’s Power & Energy Resources Software business has modernized APM Health’s mobile offering, Rounds, into a more productive and effective Rounds Pro application.

With the end-of-life of GE Vernova’s Rounds application announced in Q3 2025, it is integral to help organizations more easily migrate from the legacy application to Rounds Pro. For our existing APM Health users, we’ve developed a migration tool that makes it easier to shift Rounds data to Rounds Pro to take advantage of new features and functionality that we will discuss shortly. For new customers, Rounds Pro will be the new baseline offering going forward.

This migration tool helps:

With the migration tool, you will also be able to start using Rounds Pro in less than a few minutes for a majority of routes.

Listed below are some additional highlights of the migration tool.

Designed to run multiple times : Since data structures are different, this would lead to modifications being made to the legacy Rounds data to get migrated. The migration tool has been designed to run multiple times for the same data. For example, when you migrate a route from legacy Rounds to Rounds Pro and identify an issue during the migration process after reviewing the migration log, you have the provision to correct the data in legacy Rounds and rerun the migration utility.

Migrate all (or) migrate through a query: User may require the flexibility to migrate all the data at once or roll out Rounds Pro in batches. To accommodate this, you can use queries to migrate specific data, for example, all the routes that belong to a specific site or just a single route for testing.

Migrate specific items: Helps you to migrate specific data item like routes, route with readings, or routes with OPR recommendations.

No data deletion: The migration tool will not delete any data in legacy Rounds.

Logging: The tool provides capabilities for extensive logging. After each run a long entry gets created with extensive information about the action taken on each record. This helps in taking the required corrective actions.

Tangible Value for Energy Enterprises

The shift from legacy Rounds to Rounds Pro in GE Vernova’s APM Health application provide organizations the ability to:

Check out our latest blog on the benefits of Operator Rounds software and the latest features of Rounds Pro.

By deploying Rounds Pro, organizations can also take advantage of a modern condition-monitoring solution that can help shape the path to expanded connected worker initiatives, robotics routes, and enterprise scalability for all operators.

With the enhancements made to Rounds Pro, new and existing GE Vernova APM customers can take advantage of a truly enterprise-ready APM software suite. As APM Health and Rounds Pro users, organizations get the benefit of Essentials—a microservice-based SaaS architecture for data operations. Essentials and APM Health together give organizations the ability to deploy and scale condition-based maintenance programs, identify asset monitoring blind spots, and ultimately reduce overall operational risk.

Due to the advancements of Rounds Pro, GE Vernova’s APM has plans to integrate AI-based computer vision models from Autonomous Inspection and expand data collection into robotics via API integration with Robotic Operating Systems (ROS). Today, GE Vernova and ANYbotics have signed a formal collaboration agreement to make advancements of condition-based monitoring via mobile robots possible for asset intensive organizations across the globe.

Why Modernize Your Mobile Applications?

Mobile transformation isn’t about replacing what worked in the past—it’s about preparing for what’s next. The longer organizations hold onto legacy mobile systems, the more value they leave on the table in the form of lost time, missed insights, and frustrated workers.

With the right migration strategy and tools, you can turn that inertia into momentum and give your field teams the tools they need to keep your assets running and your business moving forward.