Mid-Market Applications
Development of Mid-Market Applications Requires Superior Deployment Platform
Mid-market businesses have a significant challenge when seeking to develop and deploy business critical applications. While these organizations require much of the same functionality and benefits from their software as enterprises do, they lack the vast resources and budgets the enterprise can allot forapplication infrastructure. To cost-effectively development mid-market applications requires a low-overhead deployment platform that can quickly deploy software and integrate it with existing technology. Such a platform should provide the flexibility to adapt quickly to changing business requirements, allowing the business to extend critical functionality to every user anytime and anywhere. For the deployment of mid-market applications, more and more businesses are turning to solutions from Progress Software.
Progress Software Application Infrastructure Supports Mid-Market Deployment
Progress Software supplies business infrastructure software to simplify and accelerate the development, deployment, integration and management of applications for mid-market to enterprise level businesses. The Progress® OpenEdge® platform is perfectly suited for the deployment of mid-market applications. At the core of its deployment infrastructure are two powerful and highly scalable engines. The OpenEdge Application Server delivers superior business process management capabilities, while OpenEdge RDBMS is a leading embedded database that offers highly reliable and efficient access to data. Both engines support a variety of data sources, client types and platforms, as is necessary in today's integrated information environments. Mid-market applications can be accessed by Web services, Web browsers, .NET or Java interfaces, graphical character user interfaces and even by wireless devices. With OpenEdge, businesses of every size gain a cost-effective way to deploy and integrate the software and infrastructure to achieve greater agility, real-time visibility and performance.
A Partner Program for Mid-Market Applications
Progress Software is an ideal partner for independent software vendors that focus on mid-market applications. The Progress Partner Program provides a wealth of support and resources to help ISVs meet customer needs, increase profitability and reach long-term business objectives. Progress technology helps to power partner innovation with products for developing and deploying service-oriented business software, integrating and connecting business services, and managing and distributing data in an SOA infrastructure. Progress enables its partners to achieve greater differentiation and offer greater value to their customers. By reducing TCO, minimizing risk and delivering rapid ROI, Progress helps its partners succeed in a highly competitive global market.
Progress Software also provides development tools for writing Progress applications and creating hybrid applications; solutions for software integration, SOA architecture, application integration; and more.
