Software Development Tool

A Superior Software Development Tool Delivers Agility, Profitability

Developing software for today's distributed enterprises is not a simple task. Developers must work with multiple complex technologies, highly distributed environments, and computing networks often built on a hybrid infrastructure combing legacy systems with newer ones. Added to this is the pressure to develop very sophisticated applications quickly, in order to be more operationally responsive to the needs of the enterprise, its customers and markets. In a global marketplace where technology drives productivity, it's not an overstatement to say that software development is a key contributor to competitiveness. Consequently, working with the right software development tool is critical to the success of developers as well as the enterprise. The right tools will provide maximum productivity for creating applications efficiently, but great flexibility as well in order to meet the specific needs of the enterprise for custom applications. For a software development tool that enables developers to accelerate their work and enterprises to improve competitiveness, consider Progress Software.

Progress Software Provides Leading Software Development Tool

Our legacy product, Progress OpenEdge is a business application platform that makes it simpler to develop, deploy, integrate and manage world-class applications. Built on the proprietary Progress 4GL programming language, OpenEdge offers a powerful software development tool that enables enterprises to streamline the process of developing custom applications. OpenEdge allows developers to easily create interfaces for the key industry standards such as Java, .NET, XML and Web services. Using a sophisticated software development tool for automation, developers can quickly assemble complex code within a fully configurable workspace. A rich code editor and an integrated debugger are complemented by project-oriented navigation, template-driven code generation, an impact analysis tool, and innovative navigation tools that provide views into structure of the code, schema of a database as well as all application resources. Developers also have the option of working with 4GL's powerful and adaptive syntax, when writing code to meet specific challenges is required.

Superior Tools for Software Development

Among the tools included in our portfolio are SOA solutions designed to make application integration seamless and effortless:

• Progress® Sonic® ESB, an enterprise service bus, lets the enterprise dynamically configure the reliable connection, mediation and control of services and their interactions with the SOA environment.
• Progress® Actional®, web services management that provides end-to-end visibility and control across a distributed, multi-vendor SOA environment.
• Progress® Savvion®, rapidly create and optimize process-driven solutions and efficiently manage daily work with real-time visibility into business processes support almost every user or client interface.
  
  

Introducing the Next-Generation SOA... the Responsive Business Integration Suite

The Progress® Responsive Business Integration (RBI) suite is a comprehensive integration suite that extends the agility of service orientation to include flexible data and policy change. Organizations can design new business capabilities for continuous change, with increased information transparency and integration integrity across distributed IT and federated SOA deployments. For ISVs, indirect partners and systems integrators, Progress RBI transforms into a suite of modular, best-of-breed integration products that can extend the market opportunity functionality, and data interoperability of the software and services. 

Progress RBI helps close the gap between business needs and IT delivery by providing:

• Enhanced Agility – Extending the agility of service orientation to address changes in data and policy.
• Information Transparency – Increasing the transparency of information access via self-governance.
• Integration Integrity – Ensuring integration integrity with an intelligent infrastructure that expands visibility into the impact of change.

In addition to providing software development tools, Progress Software provides the 4GL languages for writing Progress applications, plus solutions for improving business transaction management including root cause analysis, service level management, application performance management, and business activity monitoring.