Software Architecture

Innovative Software Architecture Improve Enterprise Agility

Enterprises today recognize that agility is a key component of success. Competitiveness depends on the ability to move quickly in new directions to meet customer demands, get products to market with greater speed, respond to business change and market opportunities, and continually work toward greater efficiency and profitability. An innovative software architecture can help achieve this, and much more. The best architecture will facilitate the delivery of software to everyone in the enterprise, and extend critical business processes throughout the organization. It will unite disparate elements of enterprise technology, allowing them to more easily communicate and combine to form innovative solutions to new business challenges. The net effect is a pervasive increase in efficiency and productivity with a reduction in expense. For a world-class software architecture chosen by leading enterprises throughout the world, consider Progress® OpenEdge®.

OpenEdge Delivers Software Architecture for Leading Enterprises

Progress OpenEdge offers an extremely reliable, highly flexible, and remarkably integrated software architecture for the enterprise competing in the global marketplace. OpenEdge allows enterprises to efficiently develop software applications, swiftly deploy them, integrate them easily with existing technology, and manage the entire process with ease. The result is a integrated infrastructure that allows the enterprise to achieve greater agility and flexibility while holding the line on expense. Based on a service oriented architecture (SOA), OpenEdge allows the enterprise to more easily interact with customers, communicate with partners and deal with suppliers, ensuring greater reliability and productivity throughout the organization.

Powerful Software Tools Simplify Management of Architecture

With OpenEdge's robust software architecture tools, the enterprise can:

• Develop applications – a key component of the OpenEdge product line is a development environment with powerful tools that can that streamline development and improve productivity. OpenEdge enables developers to easily reuse business logic and to automate the more routine aspects of developing software.
  
  
• Deploy solutions – with OpenEdge, enterprises can use one of the industry's leading embedded databases to achieve high availability and greater scalability, with reduced administrative overhead. By providing complete access to alternative data sources, OpenEdge simplifies deployment and integration.
  
  
• Integrate technology – Java-based integration applications enable developers and administrators to easily manage the integration of disparate technology.
  
  
• Manage environments – by simplifying management of development, deployment and integration, OpenEdge allows enterprises to gain greater continuity and operational productivity.
  
  

In addition to providing some of the industries best software architecture solutions, Progress Software also provides solutions for services oriented architecture (SOA), application performance management, business process improvement, complex event processing, and a 4GL development system for writing Progress applications.