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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

In my role as DataDirect Systems Engineer + IBM Certified Cognos Developer, I have been integrating data for IBM Cognos shops ranging from relational data sources on premise to SaaS data sources in the cloud; and next up: “Big Data”.  IBM’s Apache Hadoop solution, InfoSphere BigInsights, integrates nicely with IBM Cognos 10.2 using DQM.  However, my [...]

As businesses expand on a global scale, it is important that they are able to maintain communication fluidity and consistency within their offices and with their customers. Four Soft, a logistics software specialist, chose our Progress OpenEdge 11 platform to help them do exactly that. Their 4S eTrans SME freight management system is expanding on [...]