Business Applications

Superior Business Applications Drive Enterprise Competitiveness

Technology and communications are critical components of competitiveness in the global marketplace. Competitive enterprises rely on top notch business applications to take products to market faster than competitors, communicate quickly and easily with customers and partners, improve productivity throughout the organization and refine and optimize business processes. To develop, deploy, integrate and manage robust applications, enterprises require a flexible and reliable platform that can utilize and integrate legacy systems and new technology with ease. For many enterprises in a wide variety of industries, Progress Software provides the solutions to develop business applications that facilitate and promote competitiveness.

Progress Delivers Robust Platforms for Business Applications

Progress products and technologies simplify the development, deployment, integration and management of the world's best business applications. In collaboration with more than 2,000 Application Partners, Progress offers more than 5,000 business applications designed to meet highly specific customer needs and provide competitive advantage. Our legacy product line, Progress® OpenEdge®, features a comprehensive platform for the rapid development and deployment of solutions that are standards-based and support any service-oriented architecture. Easily deployed and managed over a wide range of computer platforms and across the Internet, OpenEdge delivers a unified environment that includes development tools, management tools, application servers, an embedded database and the ability to easily integrate with other data sources and business applications.

Integration of Business Applications Made Simpler with OpenEdge

Integrating technology and solutions is an important component of responsiveness and agility. Enterprises must be able to adapt old technology, combine it with new systems, connect it to the various technologies deployed by partners, and allow it to scale and evolve quickly to meet changing market requirements. Progress OpenEdge enables the efficient and effective integration of business applications through a standards-based, distributed infrastructure, tightly coupled with the industry's most reliable Java-based integration solutions. Business applications using the OpenEdge Application server can support virtually any user or client interface, while OpenEdge Studio – a development environment – provides tools to create components for .NET, Java, XML and Web services interfaces. With OpenEdge, enterprises can reduce the costs associated with integration, achieve results more quickly, and significantly improve agility.

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