Customers Succeed with Technology Innovation

Technical Sessions

During technical sessions many customer case studies discussed using Progress technology to develop and deploy their business applications. Highlights included:

Kevin Ryer from Apprise showed how they are transforming from a Progress front end with mixed business language and User Interface to a .NET front end with Progress AppServer-based business logic.
Stephen Davies of Boehringer Ingelheim discussed the tall order of figuring out how to meet the challenges of global project management and changing management concepts in a federated SOA infrastructure.
Wanda Himler and Geoff Nichols discussed how and why US Airways migrated their USAirwaysVacations.com application to OpenEdge 10.1.
Brian Preece showed how new features in OpenEdge 10.1 helped him to develop a next generation PoS, using WebClient, ProDataSets, and SonicMQ to provide semi-disconnected reliable messaging between the store and head office.
Karen Kauffman, Chris Longo and Rick Terrell discussed a methodology developed by Precision Strip for generating shipping and invoicing PDF formatted documents in a real time environment using Crystal Reports, ABL and Acrobat Adobe.
Three partners, Progressive Solutions Incorporated, Orchard Information Systems and Precision Computer Systems, discussed how and why they transformed their applications based on business needs using different technical approaches.
Buck Stuart of Great American Insurance Company talked about their enterprise SOA implementation and the discoveries made along the way.
Manuvis discussed how implementing Apama with their OpenEdge application enhanced their business and their bottom line.

Progress Partners Recognized for Extraordinary Use of IT

Congratulations to two Progress Partners recognized as Laureates in the recent Computerworld 2007 Honors Program. This program recognizes the men, women, organizations and institutions around the world whose visionary application of information technology promote positive social, economic and education change.

Jan Vink, CIO, Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN) Learn more.
Edgar Omar Alonso, Major System Analyst, Government of La Pampa Province, Argentina.