Solutions Architecture

Advanced Software Solutions Architecture Provides Greater Agility

For enterprises competing in the global marketplace, sophisticated technology solutions are a must. Technology serves to accelerate the speed of business at almost every level of the organization – from speeding time to market, improving customer response times, refining the supply chain and shortening the sales cycle. When enterprises can deploy technology that allows them to move faster than competitors, they have the ability to gain greater market share. The right technological architecture can facilitate this competitive advantage by providing the tools to develop, deploy, integrate and manage superior applications with speed and ease. Robust solutions architecture should provide both the productivity tools to automate as much of the process as possible, as well as the flexibility to customize when necessary in order to meet specific technological challenges. For many enterprises around the globe, Progress OpenEdge provides the solutions architecture of choice.

Progress® OpenEdge® -- An Architecture Built for World-Class Solutions

Progress OpenEdge helps organizations achieve and sustain competitive advantage by providing a business solutions architecture that ensures faster development, easier deployment, simpler integration and more efficient management of business applications. Employing a service oriented architecture, OpenEdge allows organizations to respond quickly to changing market conditions, customer trends, competitive threats and new business opportunities. OpenEdge gives enterprises the ability to move quickly in any direction by creating and evolving technology that supports business-critical operations. Organizations can easily leverage existing investments, combine them with new technology, extend it to users at every level, and connect it quickly to customers, partners and suppliers. With OpenEdge, enterprises have the solutions architecture they need to move at the speed of business.

Deployment is Simpler with the Right Solutions Architecture

The OpenEdge solutions architecture enables enterprises to deploy applications quickly and easily. The OpenEdge® Application Server is a dynamic, standards-based transaction engine that serves as a reliable foundation for secure high-volume transactions. By supporting an open, component-based model for partitioning applications, OpenEdge Application Server allows them to be transformed into modular elements within an integrated environment. The result is a significant savings in time and resources, as business logic can be easily distributed and reused. OpenEdge® RDBMS offers a flexible, open and highly available database solution with industry-leading performance, reliability and scalability. It supports virtually unlimited numbers of users and transactions with a minimum of maintenance or administrative burden, lowering the total cost of ownership for greater ROI.

Progress also provides tools for software integration, SOA infrastructure, a application development , business integration software, application infrastructure software, and a software development tool using a Progress business programming language.

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