Jessica (Malakian) Newton
Jessica (Malakian) Newton is a Senior Product Marketing Specialist at Progress, focused on the Progress OpenEdge, Progress DataDirect and Progress Corticon products. Jessica started her career at Progress as an intern in 2020 and has since developed into a full-time marketer, dedicated to guiding customers on how to maximize the value of their Progress solutions. Outside of work, Jessica enjoys reading and writing.
Articles by the Author
The Future of AI Is Built on What Enterprises Already Trust
AI is transforming the enterprise, but lasting value will come from integrating it into trusted systems like OpenEdge that already provide the data, governance and accountability needed to innovate with confidence.
Eligibility Decisions at Scale: How to Stay Fair, Consistent and Audit Ready
This blog explains how Progress Corticon helps organizations make complex eligibility decisions fair, consistent and audit-ready by externalizing business rules from application code and managing them through scalable decision automation.
When Decision Automation Belongs to the Business—Not the Codebase
The post explains that decision automation scales best when decision logic is separated from application code and managed as a transparent, governable business asset.
OpenEdge as the Foundation for Operational AI: Lessons from a Real‑World Coffee Buying Agent
This blog argues that OpenEdge can serve as the trusted operational backbone for production AI by securely integrating an AI “coffee‑buying” agent with live ERP data (via PAS for OpenEdge) and captured human expertise to deliver fast, controlled, actionable decisions without replacing core systems.
Real Life Stories from the OpenEdge Managed Database Administration Team
The blog recaps a webinar showing how Progress’s OpenEdge Managed Database Administration team uses proactive monitoring and deep OpenEdge expertise to quickly resolve hidden performance issues, guide PAS for OpenEdge transitions, and execute low‑downtime database/platform migrations.
This Hackathon Team Used AI and OpenEdge to Reduce Manual Data Anonymization Effort
A hackathon team enhanced Wayfare’s OpenEdge-based Deblur tool by using Progress Agentic RAG to suggest which database fields should be anonymized from GDPR guidance, cutting manual effort while keeping humans in control for compliance.
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