Shelley Chase

Shelley is a Software Fellow at Progress Software, bringing 30+ years of OpenEdge experience. As a solution architect, she is dedicated to the quality, security and usability of the OpenEdge product set. As a thought leader, Shelley takes a holistic approach to product development, ensuring that every aspect of the OpenEdge product is meticulously crafted while balancing technical precision with a customer-centric outlook. Lately, she has been using AI to simplify her own tasks and bring AI solutions to the OpenEdge product set at both development and runtime.

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AI Demystified for OpenEdge Developers: Real-World AI Workflows

This blog shows OpenEdge developers how they can begin applying AI today through practical workflows—order exception handling, customer-facing knowledge search, and automated code review—that augment existing ABL applications without replacing core business logic.

Application Development OpenEdge

Shelley Chase July 23, 2026

Chain AI Steps To Build Powerful Workflows

AI workflows help OpenEdge developers turn single AI prompts into reliable multi-step processes using structured inputs, validation, tools, and control logic to safely integrate generative AI into real-world applications.

OpenEdge

Shelley Chase May 15, 2026

Modern AI Concepts for OpenEdge Developers

This blog post explains modern GenAI concepts for OpenEdge developers—how models work (and differ by purpose), why prompting and token limits matter, how RAG grounds answers in your real documentation, and how assistants differ from agents that use tools to iterate toward a goal.

Application Development OpenEdge

Shelley Chase April 21, 2026

Introducing AI for OpenEdge Developers

This post introduces GenAI concepts for OpenEdge developers and proposes a safety-first approach where AI helps with language-heavy tasks (explain/summarize/draft/extract) while OpenEdge remains the system of record for validation, business rules, and transactions.

Application Development OpenEdge

Shelley Chase April 08, 2026

Evolve Your Application with OpenEdge 12.1

From database performance to high-availability to the development experience and security, the latest OpenEdge 12.1 release packs a lot of improvements.

Application Development OpenEdge

Shelley Chase November 25, 2019

GUI presentation models - more than just look and feel

While working on a new ABL sample using OpenEdge GUI for .NET, I started thinking about the different presentation models that are available to an ABL programmer in 10.2A. While much of Microsoft...

Application Development Company and Community Digital Experience OpenEdge

Shelley Chase March 02, 2009

Shelley Chase

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