Customer Quotes

 Mobile Applications

"Progress has hit a home run with OpenEdge Mobile. The easy-to-learn yet powerful cross-platform mobile development environment, coupled with Progress' proven back end cloud-based technologies, will enable us to build and deploy cutting-edge business applications to help our customers stay competitive."
—Carl Pritchard, CEO & Founder, Franchise Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of POS and business operations systems for the quick serve restaurant industry

“GMT Europe is very excited about the launch of OpenEdge Mobile. The write-once-and-deploy-anywhere approach makes building apps much easier and faster. Thanks to OpenEdge Mobile, there is no need for investment in multiple coding languages nor in maintaining separate platforms. It allows talent and code to be reused, whilst ensuring perfect integration with enterprise applications. We have started to build several multiple-purpose, task-oriented waste management apps for release later this year.”
—Mark Abbas, Managing Director, GMT Europe

“I’m really impressed with what Progress have done here. As a company, we’ve looked at other technologies for urgent apps while waiting for OpenEdge Mobile, and this technology stack beats them hands down for ease of use and an integrated process”
—Brian C. Preece, R & D Director, Business Computer Projects Ltd

“OpenEdge Mobile provides the perfect extension to a wide range of mobile devices for our SmartComponent Library framework. The strategy of leveraging and extending the capabilities of the AppServer did provide a strong runtime environment that allowed us to plug in our solid backend architecture and have a complete solution in little time. I must say I was positively surprised by the stability of all areas of the pre-release product so that I’m looking positively towards using the released software in the real world. During the beta testing Progress’ staff provided valuable support and solutions also to nonstandard enquiries that allowed a quick adoption of the mobile features. Well done, Progress Software!”
—Mike Fechner, Director, Consultingwerk

Application Development Platform

“Rather than being constrained by technology, OpenEdge actually gives us the freedom to do what we ‘want’ versus what we ‘can’.”
— Einar Rasmussen, CEO, Consolidate AS

Business Process Management

"The move of Progress to embrace business process management, particularly with OpenEdge BPM, is giving us technology that will allow us to move to the next level of responsiveness within our application environment."
— Gordon Fleming, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, QAD

Cloud Computing

"With the Progress roadmap that is available to us, we can take our existing application that we built over the years and move it into the next step, into the Cloud, to enable our application to become an operationally responsive application."
— Carl Pritchard, CEO and Founder, Franchise Technologies

Application Data Security

"Every single day our company manages around a half a billion transactions, updating transactions using these databases against encrypted objects...we have not had a single encryption related problem [since using OpenEdge Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)]."
— Software Architect, Leading Claims Management Services Provider

Application Reliability

"OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Replication paid for themselves in their first year of deployment…If our systems went down for an hour we could lose about $400,000 in revenue, and customers would take their business to our competitors."
— Mike Fabrico, Vice President of Information Technology, Broder Bros. Co.

Multi-tenancy

“The new Multi-tenancy capability in OpenEdge dramatically reduces administration overhead and improves application performance, all while keeping our customer data physically separated and secured. Efficiency and profitability are the driving forces behind everything we do for our large customer base of nationwide vehicle rental companies. Multi-tenancy allows us to organize our data into regions to better align with the needs of our customers for improved reporting, streamlined maintenance, and simplified support activity.”
— Phil Jones, VP of Support and Development, Bluebird Auto Rental Systems, L.P.

“Progress provides us with the technology to power our Infor10 Distribution Business, a distribution application specifically designed to help distributors with complex business models run an efficient, end-to-end operation. We are interested in the new multi-tenancy capabilities in the OpenEdge platform that could provide us with the flexibility to add an additional level of security and separation of data at the database level that is unique in the industry.”
— Jeffrey Brown, Sr. Development Project Manager, Infor

Progress Software understands the needs of medium-sized businesses and helps us provide value to our customers and accelerate our time-to-market with new solutions. We took part in the OpenEdge Early Adopter Program and Multi-tenancy Workshop, and in only five days were given the tools and expertise needed to get our new release ready for launch in early 2012.”
— Michael Förster, Chief Information Officer, ESS AG

Application Modernization

"[Our application] ProMark has been transformed into a state-of-the-art application; we have no more technology restrictions. We can now go into any prospect and proudly present our application without having to defend ourselves because of a dated UI, lack of functionality or an inability to scale. Our technology related limitations have simply disappeared."
— Niels Bredegaard, Chief Technology Officer, Mark Information

Software as a Service (SaaS)

"We don't have to worry about upgrades, patches, unexpected disasters, etc. We focus on managing our business, and [Progress partner] ROYDAN focuses on managing the technology to support our business."
— Gloria Gerber, Co-owner, Oliver Adjustment Company of Kenosha & Racine Inc.

Partnership

"I can't imagine having a better company to be partnered with right now in the IT industry where consolidation and change is just so constant. Progress has been very stable and reliable and we appreciate that."
— David Richard, Senior Vice President Information Technology-Systems, FARA

Customer Videos

Application Development Platform

Franchise Technologies: Franchise Technologies recommends Progress Software and the Progress portfolio to any developer or any solution provider looking to deliver a reliable, scalable and future-proof business application.
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Business Process Management

VanMeijel: OpenEdge BPM enables VanMeijel to expand its market opportunities and maintain a competitive edge by deliver ongoing  benefits to its customers, including greater control over their operations and reduced costs. 
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SaaS

Bluebird Auto Rental: Angela Margolit, President of Bluebird Auto Rental, talks about her company's early adoption of SaaS with Progress OpenEdge. Progress has helped them to develop "technically, managerially, and strategically."
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Carrier Logistics: Ken Weinberg, Vice President, describes how Progress has been an essential part of its company's growth. Since 1972, Carrier Logistics has specialized in transportation and freight management.
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Application Modernization

QAD: Progress' continued investment in new technologies and innovation is enabling QAD to meet changing customer requirements and deliver the best enterprise applications to the market.
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Application Reliability

B&L Information Systems: OpenEdge delivers critical rock solid reliability for B&L Information Systems and its customers, never crashing or causing unplanned downtime.
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Developer Productivity

Vermont Systems: OpenEdge delivers the productivity and tools Vermont Systems' developers need to continuously manage and evolve responsive business applications to meet customer and market demand.
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Case Studies

Application Data Security

A Leading Claims Management Services Provider: Leading claims management services provider—responsible for managing terabytes of data and a half a billion transactions a day for its Fortune 500 clients—ensures the security of its customers' sensitive data by encrypting its data-at-rest with OpenEdge TDE. 
> Read the case study.

Application Reliability

Broder Bros., Co.: Operating the largest distribution network within its industry, Broder Bros., Co. ensures business continuity with OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Replication.
> Read the case study.

Application Integration

Ahlers Logistics and Maritime Services: International liner agency service provider integrates its state-of-the-art ERP system with numerous existing systems across multiple global locations using OpenEdge. 
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Developer Productivity

Brenntag: Global market leader in full-line chemical distribution continuously evolves its OpenEdge application to manage business growth and support the ever-changing and complex needs of an international business. 
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Application Modernization

Mark Information: Long-time Progress application partner Mark Information modernized its existing OpenEdge-based application to grow its market share and meet growing customer requirements. 
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TIE Kinetix: Publically traded on the NYSE Euronext, TIE operates globally with offices in the United States, Netherlands, France and Australia. Their stable and scalable E-Commerce solution enables leading global retailers including T-Mobile, KPN and Royal Ahold’s Albert Heijn to connect to the cloud without development complexity and internal resource constraints. TIE Kinetix relies on Progress® OpenEdge® and its underlying n-tier architecture application development platform to continuously evolve and adapt its E-Commerce solution to deliver a state-of-the-art SaaS-, Cloud-, Mobile- and Social Media-enabled solution that meets new market and customer demands.
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Software as a Service (SaaS)

T-Mobile By outsourcing its entire platform [through SaaS], T-Mobile achieves an optimal balance between technological possibilities and the ever-changing demands of the business. 
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