Business Application Platform

A Robust Business Application Platform Increases Operational Responsiveness

Competitiveness in the global marketplace demands operational responsiveness at every level. Businesses must respond quickly to meet customer demand, improve speed to market, react swiftly to changing market conditions and constantly seek gains in productivity and profitability. One way to meet this need is to develop and use services designed for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and for deployment in the cloud.  This is true both for companies developing their own applications and ISVs and business service providers (BSPs). The right business application platform today provides SaaS enablement. This can speed the delivery of applications and services to all areas of the organization and integrate and extend core business process to anyone, anywhere—while reducing IT costs. The result is improved effectiveness and productivity throughout the enterprise. For a superior business application platform, enterprises around the world have turned to Progress Software.

Progress OpenEdge — a Superior Business Application Platform

Progress® OpenEdge®, the leading business application platform, is designed to assist software developers to become more operationally responsive to market and customer needs now and in the future.  With OpenEdge, service and application development is agile and cost-effective, and the ensuing applications are reliable, easy to maintain, and cost-effective. As a result, companies are able to capitalize on new opportunities by getting competitive applications to market more quickly.  In addition, OpenEdge is also a leading SaaS platform for ISVs and Business Service Providers to simplify SaaS application development and delivery for the cloud, resulting in greater operational responsiveness. What’s more, a study performed by an outside research organization commissioned by Progress found the estimated cost of transforming an application on the Progress platform and bringing it to market was 40% less expensive than an alternative platform.

The OpenEdge Application Platform Delivers Competitive Business Advantage

OpenEdge is the leading business application platform for building, deploying, and managing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering because it provides: 

• Superior development productivity—with the fastest path for developing reliable, high-performance SaaS business applications—for a 73% reduction in total cost of ownership.
  
  
• One of the world's leading embedded databases to ensure the high availability and scalability demanded by SaaS business applications.
  
  
• User interface flexibility and scalability—Progress-based SaaS applications can be delivered by Web browsers, mobile devices, thin-client technologies, and other interface options, such as Java, .NET, and Web services.
  
  
• Robust, cost-effective application and data management and administrative tools—40% less expensive.
  
  
• Multi-site integration of processes across SaaS deployments by exploiting the Progress® Sonic® ESB, the industry’s first enterprise service bus.
  
• The end-to-end visibility needed for business transaction assurance—through integration with Progress® Actional®.
  
  

Progress Software also delivers solutions for application integration, creating hybrid applications, custom system development, complex event processing (CEP), runtime governance, and intelligent BPM solutions.