GUEST BLOG: Greg Frank of Presagium Discusses Trading System Performance Improvements With Apama

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This week the Cap Markets blog is featuring a guest blog from an Apama customer, Presagium LLC. Presagium is a quantitative fund and a commodity trading advisor that strives to capitalize on momentum and reversion in the market. In the post, founding partner Greg Frank shares some details on his company’s use of Progress Apama:  By [...]

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Tips for Adaptive Application Development and Data Connectivity in the Cloud

Jeff Reser

Cloud computing is not only changing the data connectivity space, but also how we develop applications. So how can IT organizations ensure that applications adapt faster to changing conditions and cloud data migrations both inside and outside the business? The first step is to look further than traditional on-premise data connectivity towards a hybrid environment [...]

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Cloud is about Improving the Delivery of Business Applications

Colleen Smith

Progress Software sponsored the All About the Cloud Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 7-9, 2013. I had the pleasure of attending the conference with a chance to participate in a panel session titled “How Cloud Solutions Work Together in an Integrated Fashion.”  There were over 275 ISVs at the conference and lots of [...]

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B&L Information Systems Empowered Through Progress Software

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A Progress partner for over 12 years, B&L Information Systems is a leading provider of ERP software for foundries and die casters. The company built its Odyssey software on Progress OpenEdge, which allowed it to develop and go to market faster than with any other database. When B&L decided to offer a SaaS version of [...]

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Update on Progress Exchange 2013

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We are happy to be able to share additional information on Progress Exchange 2013 tracks and some of the exciting things we have planned for October. With three full days of valuable content and more than 70 hours of breakout sessions across eight tracks, the event will be packed full of networking opportunities and sessions [...]

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Update on Progress Exchange 2013

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We are happy to be able to share additional information on Progress Exchange 2013 tracks and some of the exciting things we have planned for October. With three full days of valuable content and more than 70 hours of breakout sessions across eight tracks, the event will be packed full of networking opportunities and sessions [...]

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Update on Progress Exchange 2013

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We are happy to be able to share additional information on Progress Exchange 2013 tracks and some of the exciting things we have planned for October. With three full days of valuable content and more than 70 hours of breakout sessions across eight tracks, the event will be packed full of networking opportunities and sessions [...]

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Websphere Liberty Profile JDBC NTLM Windows Authentication from Unix/Linux to SQL Server

Sumit Sarkar

In introducing Websphere Liberty Profile (WLP), Dr. Ian Robinson, IBM Distinguished Engineer asks these three questions when choosing a tool for any kind of job: Is this going to be able to do the job? Is this the easiest way to do it? Do I like using it? The answers for WLP were all yes; [...]

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Another Shot at Design Previews

Jeff Reser

Did you miss our Design Previews event in Bedford last week? Fear not, you have another shot at it! If you’re in the Bay Area, join us on May 22 at the San Mateo Marriot for Design Previews round two! This is your chance to hear about our exciting product roadmap and planned activities for [...]

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Choose Your Own Path: Buy, Build or Both?

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Imagine this scenario:  you represent a firm doing business in capital markets whose business model depends on innovative and agile use of technology.  You are being impacted by the recent regulatory initiatives requiring brokers-dealers to have better risk controls in place with respect to Automated Trading and HFT.   These changes may have come from ESMA [...]

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York Risk Services Group finds OpenEdge Platform more reliable and efficient compared with Oracle & Microsoft

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Progress partner York Risk Services Group provides services to insurance companies and self-insured businesses and governmental entities. These include claims management, specialized loss adjusting, managed care, loss control and so forth. Searching for software that would enable rapid development of a highly transactional browser-based application, York found that the OpenEdge Application Development platform was the [...]

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EVVO Labs helps ISVs in Singapore, Malaysia & India extend their offerings in the cloud and on mobile platforms

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Progress partner EVVO Labs aims to innovate by providing technical solutions and creating advanced products for the marketplace. Specifically, EVVO enables ISVs in Asia to build their ideal cloud or mobile applications on dedicated virtual machines. The video below explains how EVVO Labs uses Progress OpenEdge Application Development platform to provide a solid foundation for [...]

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BlueBird Auto Rental Systems – “We would not be where we are today without Progress Software.”

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Progress partner Bluebird Auto Rental Systems makes the familiar “Driver’s license and credit card, please” software that most travelers encounter at the car rental counter. Bluebird’s more than 500 worldwide customers range from single operators with ten vehicles to agencies with over 300 users and 16,000 vehicles. All of them have one thing in common: [...]

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An Invitation to Progress Exchange 2013 from our CEO, Phil Pead

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We are all very excited for Progress Exchange 2013 – an experience you don’t want to miss. Our CEO, Phil Pead and members of the Progress executive team share their thoughts on why you should attend. Watch to learn more: Pre-registration is available now – save $700 if you register by 10 May and don’t forget [...]

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