OpenEdge Resources
Accelerate your application development process with Progress® OpenEdge®, a scalable and open platform that is compatible with any database, user interface (UI), and operating system. Learn more about OpenEdge and application modernization by reviewing our broad selection of white papers, guides, on-demand webinars, podcasts, books and other helpful learning resources.
Modernizing and Process-Enabling Your OpenEdge Business Applications
This valuable paper explores how OpenEdge BPM delivers the next-generation platform you need for building business process-enabled applications that support your dynamic business and application needs. Get started transitioning your (or your customers') organization into an efficient BPM environment today.
An Introduction to Cloud Computing
Read this white paper to learn the basics of cloud computing, who some of the key players are in the industry, and the things you should consider as you explore the possibility of taking advantage of the cloud with your business.
Getting Started with Progress OpenEdge in the Amazon Cloud
With these three white papers, you can achieve a solid understanding of the AWS environment, including features and benefits, learn how to create your own images in the AWS cloud, and how to install and execute OpenEdge applications in this environment.
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Part 1: Overview of Amazon Cloud Computing
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Part 2: Your First Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Instance
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Part 3: Installing OpenEdge and Bundling Your First AMI
Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact of Upgrading to Progress OpenEdge Release 10
Forrester Consulting examined the total economic impact that Progress users may realize by transforming an application on the Progress® OpenEdge™ platform versus an alternative (non-Progress) platform. This study found that the estimated cost of transforming an application on the Progress platform and bringing it to market was 40% less expensive than an alternative platform.
Migrating UNIX/LINUX OpenEdge Applications from a 32-bit to a 64-bit Operating System
This whitepaper highlights the benefits of migrating to a 64-bit environment. It explains how OpenEdge has provided customers with the ability to easily migrate their 32-bit applications to a 64-bit environment and discusses the potential performance benefit you may see by taking advantage of the capabilities provided by 64-bit systems.
Application Development Environment (ADE) Addenda in OpenEdge 10
This attached Web paper collects notes and enhancements about the application development environment (ADE) for Progress® OpenEdge® Release 10.
SaaS Architecture
Overview of architectural elements to be considered before moving an existing application to SaaS or before developing a new Saas-deployed application.
On-demand Lean Manufacturing: A Whitepaper by The Technology Evaluation Centers
Read this new whitepaper from David Bourque and Sherry Fox of The Technical Evaluation Center that talks about how QAD and Progress are working together to deliver new on-demand, SaaS-based SOA capabilities to mid-sized manufactureres around the world.
Progress Empowering Software as a Service
This whitepaper provides general information on the delivery of Progress-based business applications, as a service. The target audience is ISVs and Application Partners (APs) that are developing, or have developed, an application that is to be delivered as a service.
SOA 101: Simplifying Enterprise Integration for OpenEdge Applications
Listen as Progress Software employees Gary Clink, Senior Solution Engineer, and Matt Cicciari, Product Marketing Manager, discuss how to leverage OpenEdge and Sonic to simplify the deployment of an integrated service-oriented architecture (SOA) business applications.
BPM 101: Introduction to BPM within OpenEdge
Progress Software and our special guest industry expert, Sandy Kemsley of Kemsley Design, discuss Business Process Management. Topics include: What is BPM, how does it work, and what does it mean to my business?
This one-hour Webinar provides an overview of the benefits and considerations for implementing Business Process Management capabilities for your business.
Modernizing Your OpenEdge Application with BPM
Listen as Progress' Colleen Smith and Dr. Ketabchi explain how you can process-enable your OpenEdge application to be more competitive and position your customers to be more successful in their markets.Start transitioning your business into an efficient BPM environment.
Ensure Reliability and Scalability with Progress OpenEdge Application
Replay this on-demand webinar and hear how the OpenEdge Application Server saves you time and resources by:
- Providing a foundation for building a flexible, scalable application infrastructure
- Supporting an open, component-based model for partitioning applications
- Enabling the easy distribution and reuse of business logic
Disaster Recovery and OpenEdge 10
In this webinar learn why every IT implementation should have a built-in disaster recovery plan. This is especially true for mission-critical processes for which downtime can translate into lost data, directly impacting your company's bottom line.
Application Modernization: Your Foundation for Agile Growth
Listen to Progress OpenEdge experts as they share Progress' approach to application modernization. Uniting the latest Progress technologies and proven methodologies, Application Modernization improves OpenEdge's application flexibility and scalability -- enabling you to make changes faster, at lower cost, and without fear.
Maximize Your OpenEdge Application Investment with Actional
Are you ready to achieve new levels of visibility and management control? If so, then view this archived webinar and see how the latest release of OpenEdge is integrated with Actional. Bring these two technologies together will give you unprecedented visibility and transaction management capabilities that go above and beyond your existing OpenEdge applications.
Migrating your Distributed Application from V9 to OpenEdge 10 with (almost) No Downtime
This presentation will guide you through a number of possibilities to upgrade your production systems running V9 to OpenEdge 10. Did you know that you do not necessarily have to upgrade all the products and components of your system at once? We will have an in-depth look at the OpenEdge distributed components such as Fault Tolerant Name Servers and the Load Balancer, and we will demonstrate their strengths and their flexibility to help you migrate your distributed applications to OpenEdge 10 with almost no downtime.
OpenEdge Auditing for DBAs
Join Michael Jacobs as he covers a range of topics that will assist a DBA in getting their auditing solution running faster and with fewer problems. This session will span a number of auditing related topics such as installation and configuration, auditing policy architectures, on-line audit policy management, auditing data management, and reporting.
OpenEdge Reference Architecture (OERA) for SaaS
Designed to help you accelerate your technology initiatives, this Application Modernization series will cover three areas of focus-User Interfaces (UI), Integration and Interoperability, and OpenEdge Reference Architecture (OERA) for Software as a Service (SaaS)-giving you the opportunity to choose the information that is most compelling and relevant to your needs.
SaaS On Demand Delivery - The Right Solution for a Challenging Economy
Recently, Progress conducted an online, global Empowerment Webinar entitled: SaaS On Demand Delivery - The Right Solution for a Challenging Economy. More than 150 Partners from around the world participated in the Live Webinar that featured Colleen Smith -- a noted SaaS speaker and Director of the SaaS Program at Progress Software.
Virtual Appliance-based SaaS Deployment Model: Is It Right for Your Business?
The webinar discusses how you can easily expand your application deployment options to help you achieve new market opportunities. You will hear how Progress Software partner QAD recently expanded its offerings to include: On Premise, On Appliance and On Demand to its product roadmap to simplify deployment and maintenance for its customers.
Contracts And Set-Up Fees: How You Can Profit From The SaaS Business Model?Presented By Colleen Smith Progress Software kicks off a three part Q&A podcast series with Colleen Smith, SaaS expert, to address the most frequently asked questions by our application partners as they consider moving their software applications to an On Demand SaaS offering. |
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Technical Concerns: Does SaaS Involve Reengineering Your Traditional Applications?Presented By Colleen Smith Progress Software kicks off a three part Q&A podcast series with Colleen Smith, SaaS expert, to address the most frequently asked questions by our application partners as they consider moving their software applications to an On Demand SaaS offering. |
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SaaS vs Traditional On-Premise ImplementationsPresented By Colleen Smith Progress Software kicks off a three part Q&A podcast series with Colleen Smith, SaaS expert, to address the most frequently asked questions by our application partners as they consider moving their software applications to an On Demand SaaS offering. |
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ISVs Winning with SaaSPresented By Colleen Smith Opportunities abound for independent software vendors (ISVs) that comprise what some term "The Long Tail" of the industry. Colleen Smith discusses trends and best practices for Software as a Service (SaaS) with Interarbor Solutions' president and principal analyst Dana Gardner. |
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SaaS Heads Toward Vertical Business NetworksPresented By Colleen Smith Colleen Smith, Vice President of SaaS for Progress Software, recently joined Krissi Danielsson for a discussion on the SaaS trend for vertical business networks. |
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Are you ready for the Cloud? With OpenEdge 11.0, you can develop dynamic solutions that incorporate business process and integration capabilities securely across multiple platforms and devices. Whether you deploy on-premise or in the Cloud, OpenEdge 11.0 offers a single integrated development platform that is 40% more productive and provides a 30% cost savings versus the competition. With OpenEdge, we help you grow—faster!
To survive and thrive as an independent software vendor (ISV), you must be able to respond faster than the competition while coping with tight budgets and timeframes. With OpenEdge BPM, the old, hard-coded processes and workflows can be extracted and replaced with end-user configurable and flexible workflows—enabling common applications to be tailored for and by the consumers of the applications.
Whether you are an executive, a business analyst, or an application developer, you can increase visibility into what drives your business processes and improve your ability to rapidly customize your applications to provide continuous process improvement. OpenEdge BPM helps empower your business managers—not IT—to drive the business.
The OpenEdge product platform is a complete “In-the-Box” solution for business applications. Consisting of a development environment and a deployment platform, it allows you to build your software with our high-productivity development tools. You can then run and manage it with our reliable, scalable, low overhead, multi-operating system deployment platform.
The Progress® OpenEdge® development environment is designed to meet the needs of today’s programmer. Based on our extensive experience working closely with the development community, it addresses the unique challenges developers face today and provides a platform to continue to build for tomorrow.
Whether you use Windows, Linux, or any major UNIX system, one key
answer is: by deploying your services and applications on Progress® OpenEdge®
RDBMS. This is a high-performance, relational database that scales from single-user
laptop systems to massive multiprocessing environments that support thousands
of concurrent users and terabytes of data.
Built on the eclipse environment, Progress OpenEdge Architect is an integrated development environment (IDE) with an open and extensible toolset that enhances productivity.
OpenEdge DataServers provide application developers with a transparent interface to a wide range of non-Progress database management systems.
OpenEdge offers architects and developers a platform for building and deploying highly responsive business applications within service-oriented architectures (SOA). Learn how Sonic ESB streamlines the use of SOA through flexible open services and integration standards that simplify the integration of OpenEdge applications across multi-application, multi-site, and distributed environments.
Get a closer look at how Actional monitors a wide variety of technologies and systems including OpenEdge and proactively manages end-to-end operations—to ensure transaction success and optimize business outcomes.
Learn about the latest OpenEdge release in the "What Is New In OpenEdge 10.2B" data sheet. This includes details on the key benefits and features.
Roundtable Team provides easy and effective management of the software development process and serves as a vital resource for team collaboration and parallel development. Roundtable team is built on OpenEdge tachnology delivering proven performance, security, dependability and scalability.
Roundtable's Change Management solutions provide configuration management software for development departments. These solutions ensure that standardized procedures are used when handling all changes to the IT systems.
At Progress Software, our goal is to address the unique challenges you face as an operations manager and make you successful. We do so by providing you with a platform that has the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of any business environment- 25% less than Microsoft and 73% less than Oracle.
Using Progress OpenEdge solutions as the cornerstone of your disaster recovery plan allows you to address requirements and keep your business running.
Translation Manager and Visual Translator are powerful tools that enable organizations to create and deliver multilingual versions of their applications without having to modify the original source code.
Increase team productivity, improve software quality and decrease time-to-deployment with Roundtable Total Software Management System
WebSpeed® is a proven solution for quickly building and deploying business applications across corporate intranets, extranets, and the Internet. With WebSpeed, business applications that require powerful database connectivity and state management – such as supply chain management, order entry, customer service, and inventory control – can keep pace with the rapidly evolving world of multi-tier, multi-platform Web application development.
The 4GL Development System provides all the tools required for writing applications using the full power of the ABL, a business-purposed programming language.
Application Modernization unites the latest Progress technologies and proven methodologies to improve your OpenEdge application’s flexibility and scalability. It lets you make changes faster, at lower cost, and without fear of breaking the application, your budget or your reputation.
The OpenEdge® Application Server is a standards-based transaction engine that provides a reliable foundation for high-volume secure transactions, user interface independence, and a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
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The Value of OpenEdge BPMHear from Progress Software Partners and Customers on how they are using OpenEdge BPM to quickly respond to changing market demands. |
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ProAlpha Helps ATR Make ProgressBy deploying a ProAlpha solution built using Progress Sonic ESB and Progress OpenEdge, ATR - an agricultural trade business based in Germany - has achieved better control of inventory, faster response to customers, and a reduction in costs. View the video in German. |
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Datasul Uses SaaS to Speed Customers' Time to ValueProgress Application Partner Datasul has increased its market and accelerated customers' time to value with its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. |







