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.
Evaluate the Economic Impact of the Progress OpenEdge Platform
Forrester Consulting examined the total economic impact that Progress users may realize from building an application on the Progress® OpenEdge® platform versus an alternative (non-Progress) platform. This study found that the estimated cost of building an application on the Progress platform and bringing it to market is 40% faster with 30% cost savings verses alternative platforms.
Accelerate Time to Value and Increase Business Flexibility
Nucleus Research found Progress OpenEdge customers and partners deliver application innovation at a faster pace and lower overall cost than competing development environments.
Build For Change - Turn Policies Into Action
This whitepaper examines the intersection of business rules management and business process management: what they are, how they interact, and why this is important to the agility, accuracy, cost and compliance of your business processes.
Accessing the Progress OpenEdge AppServer from Progress Rollbase Using the JSDO
Learn How to User Progress Rollbase to Access Progress OpenEdge. The Progress OpenEdge Mobile JavaScript Data Object (JSDO) can be used to access the OpenEdge AppServer and the OpenEdge Database from JavaScript. This technical white paper describes how to call the JSDO from a Rollbase Web application.
MDW Advisors: Seven reasons to build business applications on BPM technology
This new report from MWD Advisors outlines the seven key benefits ISVs can achieve by building their business applications on BPM technology.
Drive employee productivity with mobile business applications
OpenEdge Mobile allows you to chart a course for evolving your current architectures to support mobile business applications for the optimal productivity.
Extend your business application beyond the desktop: A step-by-step guide
Learn how OpenEdge Mobile helps you extend the reach of current Business Applications and go mobile quickly.
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.
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.
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
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.
What's New in OpenEdge 11.3
Release 11.3 builds upon preview OpenEdge releases to further increase developer and business analyst productivity while still reducing the total cost of ownership of the business application. New capabilities accelerate and streamline processes by automating complex decisions - a must in today's rapidly changing business climate.
Progress OpenEdge for BPM
Progress OpenEdge BPM provides an integrated authoring and runtime environment for developing, simulating and deploying process-oriented business applications.
Progress Corticon BRMS for OpenEdge
This unique combination of Progress OpenEdge and Progress Corticon empowers OpenEdge customers and partners to build true business applications that improve productivity and responsiveness to their customers.
Disaster Recovery
Progress OpenEdge enables you to prepare for the unknown. Using Progress OpenEdge Management, Progress OpenEdge Replication and Progress OpenEdge Clusters, you can achieve the ultimate protection against the unforeseen.
OpenEdge Management
Progress® OpenEdge® Management is a systems management center providing visibility, analysis, and proactive monitoring of critical information assets. OpenEdge Management empowers you to become more efficient, decrease the cost of managing your OpenEdge environment, and ensure
high availability and performance.
OpenEdge Replication
Progress® OpenEdge® Replication and Replication Plus protect against the
potential loss of the database by automatically duplicating changes on the production database to a set of mirrored databases at hot standby sites.
Application Evaluation
Application Evaluation is a unique offering to help understand where you want to take your business and to align your existing OpenEdge application, both technically and commercially, with your strategy.
OpenEdge eLearning Library
The OpenEdge eLearning Library, empowers users to become proficient in Progress products and technology, leading to increased productivity and efficiency and empowering you to offer contemporary applications to your customers.
OpenEdge 4GL Development System
The 4GL Development System provides all the tools required for writing applications using the full power of the ABL, a business-purposed programming language.
OpenEdge Application Server
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).
Progress OpenEdge Mobile
OpenEdge Mobile provides an integrated, “everything-in-the-box” mobile UI development platform to quickly and easily extend existing, or create new, OpenEdge applications to support mobile users.
Webspeed Workshop
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.
OpenEdge Platform Datasheet
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.
OpenEdge Architect
Built on the eclipse environment, Progress OpenEdge Architect is an integrated development environment (IDE) with an open and extensible toolset that enhances productivity.
OpenEdge RDBMS
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.
OpenEdge DataServers
OpenEdge DataServers provide application developers with a transparent interface to a wide range of non-Progress database management systems.
OpenEdge Application Integration
When coupled with OpenEdge, Aurea® Sonic® is an embeddable, always-available integration platform for ISVs, SPs and OEMs that enables the development of modular and open applications—ensuring that they can integrate seamlessly with other applications “out-of-the box. With this, partners are able to move beyond the delivery of a single layer of integration into a comprehensive integration solution that meets all of their customer’s application integration requirements.
Roundtable Products
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.
Roundtable Team
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.
Tugboat Software's Roundtable TSMS
Increase team productivity, improve software quality and decrease time-to-deployment with Roundtable Total Software Management System
 
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TechTip 1 - Tour of a mobile app built with OpenEdge MobileIn this short video, we take a brief tour of a mobile app designed to give you a heads up on the weather for a zip code. The app is built completely with the mobile app tooling available in OpenEdge 11.2. |
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OpenEdge TechTip 2 - Getting started creating your first OpenEdge Mobile Project in Progress Developer StudioCreate your first mobile project by using the Project wizard and look at both the generated artifacts and the layout of your Eclipse project. |
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OpenEdge TechTip 3 - Using the Mobile App Builder to craft your UIGetting started with the Mobile App Builder. Crafting a simple mobile UI using the JQuery Mobile controls available in Mobile App Builder. Also, learn how to test your first Mobile App ! We also take a look at deployment options for your Mobile app |
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OpenEdge TechTip 4 - Service-enabling the backendLearn how to develop a service interface from an existing data model in OpenEdge. Generate CRUD services for a mobile resource in a single click. |
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OpenEdge TechTip 5- Binding data to your mobile UIDeveloping a mobile UI to access your backend services in OpenEdge. Mapping UI elements to backend service calls and leveraging the power of JavaScript Data Objects (JSDO). Running your Mobile app as an HTML5 webapp and exploring options to run your app as a native app on iOS or Android. |
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OpenEdge TechTip 6 - A closer look at JavaScript Data ObjectsA review of the OpenEdge Mobile end2end Architecture together with a closer look at JSDO. Explore options to debug REST calls and better understand what’s happening in the browser. |
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EVVO Labs - Build and Extend Your Application In the CloudEVVO Labs helps ISVs in Singapore, Malaysia and India build and extend their offerings in the cloud and onto mobile platforms. Chinn Lin, VP of Technology, discusses why EVVO Labs offers the Progress OpenEdge Application Development platform as the foundation and considers the platform to be "rock solid". |
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Recovering from Disaster to Double in Size OvernightSearching for software that would enable rapid development of a highly transactional browser-based application, York Risk Services Group found that the OpenEdge application development platform was the most efficient and reliable option when compared with Oracle and Microsoft offerings. |
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Supercorp: Taking advantage of Progress OpenEdge to bring applications to market quicklyCEO Kurt Groeneveld discusses how the Progress platform helps manage the move to the cloud quickly and provides a first mover advantage. |
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01 What is multi-tenancyWhat is multi-tenancy? |
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02 Why is multi-tenancy importantWhy is multi-tenancy important? |
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03 Why is multi-tenancy valuable for ISVsWhy is multi-tenancy particularly valuable for ISVs? |
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04 Who should think about multi-tenancyWho should think about multi-tenancy? |
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05 Is multi-tenancy badSome database vendors believe that multi-tenancy is BAD – what’s your position? |
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06 Who are industry playersWho are some of the industry players and how do they address multi-tenancy? |
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07 What is state of the artWhat is currently considered “state-of-the-art” with respect to multi-tenancy? |
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08 What are key capabilitiesWhat key capabilities are required for a great multi-tenancy solution? |
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09 Why should ISVs provideWhy should ISVs provide multi-tenancy as a key part of their application? |
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10 How multi-tenancy provides competitive advantageHow can multi-tenancy provide a competitive advantage? |
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11 How multi-tenancy supports SaaS CloudIn what ways does multi-tenancy support/accelerate SaaS and Cloud initiatives? |
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App Technologies keep clients current with the latest SaaS and Cloud technologiesApp Technologies develops business application technology for a wide range of clients using Progress® OpenEdge®. Scott Blaubach, Vice President describes how the firm benefits from consistent technology releases from Progress that keep clients current on the latest Web services technologies powering SaaS and Cloud computing. |
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B&L Delivers Critical Reliability with Progress OpenEdgeOpenEdge delivers critical rock solid reliability for B&L Information Systems and its customers, never crashing or causing unplanned downtime. |
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BGN Delivers RFID-Tagging SolutionBook retailer BGN enriches their customers' experience on the web and in their stores with the industry's first item-level RFID tagging system built on a Progress® OpenEdge® platform and leveraging Progress® Apama® complex event processing (CEP) technology. |
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Bravepoint on Application Modernization with Progress OpenEdgeOpenEdge allows Bravepoint tthe ability to extend legacy applications in a low risk, high reward environment. |
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Broadridge Financial Solutions reduces technology complexity in mobile with Progress® OpenEdge®Progress® OpenEdge® helps Broadridge Financial Solutions reduce technology complexity as they migrate thousands of clients to mobile devices by reducing the client burden of direct technology management. |
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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. |
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Dr. John Bates, CTO of Progress, on ArcadeJohn Bates, CTO of Progress Software, discusses how easily Progress Arcade enables companies to deploy applications in the cloud. |
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FDM4 extends their ERP solution to mobile devices with Progress® OpenEdge® and WebSpeedFDM4's ERP, CRM, eCommerce and Warehouse Management Software solutions are designed for use on multiple devices. "Mobility is our world," says CEO, John Cutsey. By developing with Progress® OpenEdge® WebSpeed and integrating with the OpenEdge database, FDM4 can easily port its applications to numerous mobile platforms. |
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FDM4's OpenEdge®-based solution scales easily to support a $1 billion dollar companyFDM4 is a leading provider of ERP, CRM, eCommerce and Warehouse Management Software. Thanks to the underlying Progress® OpenEdge® platform, FDM4 has produced a scalable solution which can support the growth of their customer base, including one customer which grew from $300 million to over $1 billion in revenue. |
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Franchise Technologies Recommends Progress SoftwareDiscover why 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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How X-Power Makes Progress with OpenEdgeFind out why X-Power, N.V. believes Progress OpenEdge is the best business application development environment on the market today. |
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IMS on the reliability of the Progress® OpenEdge® platformIntegrated Management Solutions (IMS), which provides software for managing food service companies, considers the reliability of Progress® OpenEdge® to be a key to business success. President Paul Hernandez-Ceubas likens the database to a "mule that takes us up the mountain: It's sure-footed, carries a lot of baggage, but it doesn't show stress." |
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Karen Padir, senior vice president and business line lead, Application DevelopmentProgress Software's Karen Padir talks about the power of Open Edge and application development's critical role facilitating mobile and cloud technologies. |
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Premier Manufacturing Gained Real-Time Shop Floor VisibilityPremier Manufacturing gained real-time shop floor visibility with Factory MRI from Manuvis and saved $1 Million. |
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Progress Application Partners On MobilitySee how Progress Partners are maximizing their businesses and improving their customers experience with the delivery of mobilized solutions and applications. |
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Progress® OpenEdge®: The database that "just keeps running"Integrated Management Solutions (IMS), which provides cost-cutting business management software for the food industry, builds its cloud-based solutions on the Progress® OpenEdge® platform. Reliability is an absolute must for these 24/7 clients, but IMS counts on Progress® OpenEdge® to keep on running. |
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Progress® OpenEdge®: The foundation for the digital publishing from DTIDigital Technology International (DTI) delivers digital audience engagement, digital revenue expansion and digital cost performance for the global news media industry, serving more than 2,000 customer sites around the world -- everyday. The company's innovative technology help media organizations engage audiences by delivering targeted news and advertising with Web, print, mobile and social media. Progress® OpenEdge® is the foundation of DTI's low-cost, high-performance offerings. |
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Progress® OpenEdge® multi-tenancy helps DTI move smaller customers to the CloudDigital Technology International (DTI) uses the unique multi-tenancy offered by OpenEdge 11 to port its smaller customers to the Cloud. Mary Olson, VP of Operations describes how this is key to the future success of their business, which offers innovative digital software solutions to the global media industry. |
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Progress® OpenEdge® speeds time-to-market for DTIDigital Technology International (DTI) tells how they take advantage of the Progress® OpenEdge® developer toolset to accelerate the creation of innovative digital software solutions for the global news media industry. Mary Olson, VP of Operations describes how DTI combines its work with the OpenEdge database, the results are faster time to market and a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than the competition. |
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Prostar migrates to the Cloud with Progress® Arcade®Bruce Lebel, President of Prostar Software describes how they are migrating their on-premise software solution to the cloud using Progress® Arcade®. The company is now able to deliver complex solutions without requiring users to run them in their own data centers. |
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Prostar on Progress OpenEdge and MobilityProgress OpenEdge provides a platform that is very well enabled for communicating with mobile devices. |
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QAD Offers Best Enterprise Applications with Progress SoftwareFind out why the continued investment in new technologies and innovation by Progress is enabling QAD to meet changing customer requirements and deliver the best enterprise applications to the market. |
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Queen Mary 2 Cruises with Safety Using Progress OpenEdgeCunard's Queen Mary 2 cruises with unmatched convenience and security with Progress OpenEdge. |
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Shared success: Why partnering with Progress Software works for Integrated Management SolutionsAccording to Paul Hernandez-Cuebas, President of Integrated Management Solutions (IMS), Progress is highly focused on enabling its partners to be successful. The food service software company is confident that Progress understands that, only by making their customers and partners successful, can they be successful themselves. |
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Shuttleworth Business Systems Creates Demand with Cloud-based ApplicationShuttleworth Business Systems, a premier UK print and packaging solutions provider, stays ahead of the competition, expands into new markets and grows its business using the Progress Arcade Cloud deployment platform. Paul Deane, Managing Director, shares Shuttleworth’s strategy for going all in with BPM in the Cloud to deliver a world-class, cloud- and BPM-enabled application on the Progress OpenEdge and Arcade platform. |
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Supply Chain CSCMP Guy CourtinSupply Chain: Visibility |
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The Next Generation Application Development PlatformLearn why Progress OpenEdge is the application development platform for your next generation SaaS and cloud-based applications. OpenEdge simplifies application development and cloud deployment with features such as: object-oriented programming, multi-tenant tables - all easy to deploy in a cloud-based environment. |
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VanMeijel Expands Opportunities with Progress OpenEdge BPMFrans Van Meijel, CEO and owner, explains how VanMeijel's integrated ERP solution based on Progress OpenEdge BPM automates manual processes to remove human error. See how customers of this leading construction ERP provider get more control over processes, saving them money in the long run. |
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Vermont Systems Delivers Responsive Applications with OpenEdgeFind out how OpenEdge delivers the productivity and tools that Vermont Systems developers need to continuously manage and evolve responsive business applications to meet customer and market demand. |
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Why Franchise Technologies (FTI) recommends Progress® OpenEdge® to Any DeveloperDiscover why Franchise Technologies would recommend the Progress® OpenEdge® Development Platform from Progress Software to any developer or any solution provider looking to deliver a reliable, scalable and future-proof business application. The FTI POS is deployed in more than 35,000 stores in 15 countries. 300,000 people use the solution daily. $10 billion of their FTI's client sales tallied through Franchise Technologies systems every year. FTI's Sub shop /2000 product has been approved for use by Subway® and it is tailor made for the Subway® community. |
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Why MIP Uses the Progress OpenEdge Development PlatformMIP develops their Mobile and Cloud-enabled applications on the Progress OpenEdge Development Platform. Hear why they feel Progress is simpler, more reliable and faster to develop than Oracle and Java. |
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Why Sage Relies on the Progress® OpenEdge® Application Development PlatformThe Payroll and HR solution from Sage is used by medium sized businesses such as leading tax accounting firms. Their biggest customer has 67,000 users. Sage relies on Progress OpenEdge to develop and deploy their Cloud-enabled application. Hear why from Gerfried Aigner, Head of R&D. |
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