Each year, the Annual Progress OpenEdge Product Survey provides valuable insights from users across industries, helping Progress shape the future of OpenEdge. In 2024, we received 410 responses from users worldwide, offering critical feedback on OpenEdge usage, trends and future needs.
Why Your Voice Matters
Your feedback is essential in driving improvements that align with evolving business demands. The Progress OpenEdge application development platform is a mission-critical platform for organizations around the world and understanding how you use it helps us prioritize enhancements that improve efficiency, security and innovation.
By sharing your experiences and needs, you help us evolve the OpenEdge platform, so it can continue to provide the modern, reliable foundation your business depends on.
What’s Inside the 2024 Survey?
This year’s survey dives into key questions that impact Progress OpenEdge users:
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What products are being used in production today? Which versions of the OpenEdge platform are most popular, and how are organizations
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How is the OpenEdge release lifecycle being utilized? With the retirement of OpenEdge 11.7 on April 1, 2025, how are businesses adapting to newer versions?
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What’s up with AI? How is it influencing OpenEdge development? AI is transforming how developers work, from automated testing to code
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How are organizations approaching security strategies with OpenEdge? Security remains a top priority. Are organizations
leveraging all the tools available to protect their applications?
A Sneak Peek at One Key Insight
One major trend from the 2024 survey: Adoption of AI-powered coding assistants has nearly doubled since last year. More OpenEdge developers are experimenting with tools like the OpenAI API and ChatGPT to enhance productivity. But how else is AI making an impact?
What Else Did We Learn?
The full report provides deeper insights into industry trends, development practices, security strategies and modernization efforts within the OpenEdge community . Whether you’re planning your next upgrade, evaluating security best practices or considering AI-driven development, these findings can help you make informed decisions.
Curious About the Rest of the Insights?
To get the full breakdown of how your peers are using Progress OpenEdge, read the full report.
Jessica (Malakian) Newton
Progress Software empowers organizations to achieve transformational success in the face of disruptive change. Our software enables our customers to develop, deploy and manage responsible AI-powered applications and digital experiences with agility and ease.
Bio Overview
With over five years of experience in product marketing, Jessica has developed a strong foundation in application development and database management software. Her entire career has been at Progress, where she began as an intern in 2020 and have since contributed to multiple products, including the Progress Corticon business rules management system and others.
Jessica specializes in Go-To-Market strategy, execution and management for the Progress OpenEdge platform—leading both campaigns and new product launches, as well as content development, market and persona research and other product marketing activities. She consistently delivers results that drive customer retention and foster innovation. Her public speaking skills have been recognized, notably when she placed first in the Pi Sigma Epsilon South/Atlantic Regional Speakers Competition.
Her goal is to empower customers and partners to fully realize the value of their OpenEdge technology—enabling them to modernize, innovate, and achieve greater business impact by maximizing existing investments and seamlessly embracing new capabilities. Whether it’s migrating to the latest version of the OpenEdge applications or leveraging the Progress Data Platform, she is dedicated to showing organizations how to transform their technology into a strategic advantage. Currently, she focuses on multiple initiatives for the OpenEdge platform, including modernization, expanding the developer base, AI integration, security and more, helping customers and partners succeed in a rapidly evolving landscape. Outside of work, Jessica enjoys writing and reading, which help her stay creative and balanced.
Areas of Expertise
- Product Marketing Strategy
- Go-To-Market Execution and Management
- Content Development
- Market and Persona Research
- Public Speaking
Credentials & Publications
- Pi Sigma Epsilon South/Atlantic Regional Speakers Competition – First Place
Connect with Me
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicamalakian/
- Contact Me / Request a Collaboration: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicamalakian/