OpenEdge Products

Simplify the Job of Creating the World's Best Business Applications

Progress® OpenEdge® 10.1B, the most flexible, reliable, and integrated business application platform available, will help you to differentiate your business and sustain competitive advantage. OpenEdge lets you develop, deploy, integrate, and manage business solutions more efficiently, ensuring faster return on investment. Through a service-oriented architecture, it delivers unparalleled flexibility so that you can leverage existing technology, quickly adapt to new technology, easily connect with customers, partners, and suppliers, and rapidly adapt as market and business requirements change. OpenEdge provides your surest path to long-term success.

Improve Business Efficiency with an Application Development Platform Designed for Speed

OpenEdge provides the power needed to implement reliable, high performance business applications quickly and with confidence. The OpenEdge development environment provides the fastest path for developing and delivering today's complex business applications. The OpenEdge application framework enhances developer productivity with a simple, yet powerful, architecture designed specifically for business logic development and reuse. Simply stated, OpenEdge is the most efficient way to express business practices in software, keeping business developers from being distracted by underlying technology and letting them focus on their expertise-the business logic.

Deploy on an Open, Flexible Platform

Flexible applications start with efficient data management. OpenEdge® RDBMS, one of the world's leading embedded databases, delivers the high availability and scalability demanded by advanced business applications. For maximum integration and deployment options, OpenEdge® DataServers also provide complete access to alternative data sources, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, and DB2.

As business and application needs become more complex, deployment flexibility and scalability grow in importance. OpenEdge applications can be easily deployed to any interface, including Web browsers, mobile devices, thin-client technologies, and other interface options, such as Java™, .NET, and Web services. OpenEdge® Application Server provides transparent access to common business logic from any interface and easily scales applications across system, company, and geographic boundaries. Regardless of the requirement, OpenEdge lets you quickly deploy applications to match your business application needs.

Integrate with a Service-oriented Architecture

To meet the growing requirements for application integration, OpenEdge offers the industry's most reliable Java-based integration solutions - SonicMQ® and Sonic ESB®. Fully compliant with JMS and J2EE standards and providing a full complement of connection and routing options, SonicMQ and Sonic ESB make it easy for OpenEdge developers and integrators to respond quickly to evolving supply chain integration and enterprise application integration requirements.

The OpenEdge commitment to industry standards and support for a service-oriented architecture make it easy to minimize initial costs, maximize future options, and protect your investment. Whatever your challenge, OpenEdge lets you easily connect and extend your enterprise, across the building or across the globe. OpenEdge turns your business applications into a sound investment for your future operations.

Manage More Effectively with a Powerful Platform

Providing an effective platform for development and deployment is a good beginning. But to offer a complete solution, a platform must provide robust and cost-effective tools for managing the business applications as well as managing the business itself. OpenEdge meets this commitment with the OpenEdge® Manage product family, a suite of enterprise-class application management and business management products.

OpenEdge application management makes it easier to achieve business continuity and operational effectiveness by focusing on optimizing the availability and performance of your mission-critical business applications OpenEdge business management not only offers competitive business intelligence (BI) and reporting solutions, but also advanced data search and query solutions, so that you can manage your business strategically and effectively.