Is your data access strategy blocking adoption of your SaaS application?
Automating Decision Making Logic with Progress Corticon for OpenEdge
High Productivity, Low Frustration: Progress OpenEdge 11.3 Integrates Business Process and Business Rules Management
Going Deep with Pacific – Introducing Our New Platform for Connected Apps
June 19, 2013 
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Data access is a critical factor in adopting SaaS solutions for organizations, and the Salesforce developer evangelists that sponsored my Dreamforce session last year shared that data connectivity is the most popular topic on the developer track. Michael Biddick, CEO of Fusion PPT and contributor to InformationWeek, recommends getting senior executive support and involvement to [...]
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June 19, 2013 Comments Off from View from the Edge
Business processes often require complex decision logic that must be continuously applied at high speed and frequently updated to meet changing business conditions. Progress Corticon Business Rules Management System (BRMS) for OpenEdge allows developers to externalize business logic and achieve new levels of agility required to meet business demands. Current OpenEdge Database Schema can be [...]
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June 12, 2013 Comments Off from View from the Edge
Following on the heels of our exciting Progress Pacific platform-as-a-service announcement, today we’re pleased to announce the latest version of Progress OpenEdge. The OpenEdge 11.3 platform brings together our leading Business Process Management (BPM) and Progress Corticon business rules management system (BRMS) capabilities to streamline business processes and reduce application development change cycles by up [...]
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June 10, 2013 Comments Off from View from the Edge
Have you heard? Today Progress Software introduced Progress® Pacific™, a powerful, easy-to-use platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building and managing “connected apps” on any cloud, mobile or social platform. Progress also announced today that it has acquired California-based Rollbase Inc. and will incorporate that technology into the Pacific platform. This is the foundation of a major PaaS [...]
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June 10, 2013 Comments Off from Business Making Progress
Have you heard? Today Progress Software introduced Progress® Pacific™, a powerful, easy-to-use platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building and managing “connected apps” on any cloud, mobile or social platform. Progress also announced today that it has acquired California-based Rollbase Inc. and will incorporate that technology into the Pacific platform. This is the foundation of a major PaaS [...]
June 7, 2013 Comments Off from Data Connections
People like fast. Fast cars, fast commutes, fast Internet speeds. What about fast connections to SaaS apps? While this may not seem quite as exciting, being able to quickly connect to your data sources is critical when making business decisions. One way to establish fast connections is through the DataDirect OpenAccess solution, which makes SaaS [...]
June 6, 2013 Comments Off from Data Connections
You may have read my recent blog post on how to ensure that business applications are able to make the most from efficient data connectivity. So now that you’ve uncovered the mysterious data lurking in the depths of your data stores and begun to grasp the new application development environment, it’s time to get a [...]
June 4, 2013 Comments Off from View from the Edge
Regardless of the size of your business, or the industry it is in, dynamic business process management (BPM) is at the core of every responsive business and modern IT infrastructure. By integrating BPM into your business applications, you can extract old hard-coded processes and workflows and replace them with process models that enable common applications [...]
June 3, 2013 Comments Off from Data Connections
Public data breaches in one form or another are more prevalent than ever these days, so it’s important to use a variety of tactics to keep hackers at bay. While a database on your network or in your application is safe enough on its own, when you connect perfectly secure web interface to a perfectly [...]
May 31, 2013 Comments Off from Business Making Progress
We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for Progress Exchange 2013, Luke Williams, a Professor of Innovation, NYU, and international bestselling author. Don’t miss the globally recognized authority on disruptive innovation, as he challenges you to turn assumptions and expectations upside down to spark transformation in your business. “By artfully smashing ideas together—Luke [...]
May 31, 2013 Comments Off from Data Connections
We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for Progress Exchange 2013, Luke Williams, a Professor of Innovation, NYU, and international bestselling author. Don’t miss the globally recognized authority on disruptive innovation, as he challenges you to turn assumptions and expectations upside down to spark transformation in your business. “By artfully smashing ideas together—Luke Williams [...]
May 31, 2013 Comments Off from View from the Edge
We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for Progress Exchange 2013, Luke Williams, a Professor of Innovation, NYU, and international bestselling author. Don’t miss the globally recognized authority on disruptive innovation, as he challenges you to turn assumptions and expectations upside down to spark transformation in your business. “By artfully smashing ideas together—Luke Williams [...]
May 30, 2013 Comments Off from Data Connections
Today we’re excited to kick off our “Data Point of the Week” series, a four-part blog series that will offer advice and pointers and answer questions about different data access issues. First up: Why do we need standard-based connectivity? Most SaaS applications like Salesforce.com expose their functionality through the Web interface to allow it to [...]
May 29, 2013 Comments Off from Data Connections
May has been a very busy month for us in EMEA. First, Bradley Wright hosted a Roundtable Session at Big Data Innovation Summit in London “Big Data Access: High-throughput Data Access to Data Sources Involving Hadoop Systems”, then, with two Salesforce Customer Company Tours, one in London and one in Paris, the rest of the month was [...]
