From Data to Decisions: Unlock the Full Power of Your OpenEdge Applications

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by Jessica Malakian Posted on June 26, 2025

Today’s business leaders need systems that offer real-time intelligence and adaptability. By integrating data across your business and breaking down silos, you empower your teams with timely, accurate information.

You already trust the Progress OpenEdge platform for critical applications. Now, imagine the possibilities when it seamlessly integrates with your data.

More connected and accessible data helps you innovate, operate efficiently and lead with confidence.

Get More Value from Your OpenEdge Data with Progress Data Platform

Building on the strength of the OpenEdge platform, the Progress Data Platform offers a unified approach to data integration, intelligence and governance—empowering you with the tools to turn your data into a true competitive asset.

The Progress Data Platform enables you to:

  • Connect OpenEdge data with third-party sources

  • Standardize, define and reveal the meaning of data

  • Enable analytics, AI and automation

  • Strengthen compliance and visibility

Evolve What Works

The Progress Data Platform empowers OpenEdge customers to uncover insights, drive smarter decisions and get more value out of their data. By unifying access to the OpenEdge platform and other enterprise systems, it provides real-time operational visibility and enables data-driven outcomes across the organization.

Key Use Cases for the Progress Data Platform

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Progress Data Platform provides the data foundation to implement multi-model RAG use cases. It unifies data from the OpenEdge platform and other data into a structured format ready for GenAI, equipping the retrieval layer with high-quality, contextual, governed data.

Data Connectivity: Progress Data Platform expands access to OpenEdge data and builds a strong AI/analytics foundation. It simplifies integration with external data sources (cloud, APIs, streaming, etc.) and connects the OpenEdge platform to AI platforms, data science tools and more—without custom code.

Metadata Hub: Progress Data Platform offers a centralized, secure metadata hub for OpenEdge customers. It tracks data location, usage and meaning—enriching metadata with semantics and governance to improve discovery and reuse.

Data Lineage: Progress Data Platform delivers end-to-end visibility into OpenEdge data pipelines, showing how data flows and transforms. This supports compliance, audit readiness and GenAI explainability.

Industry Applications

Financial Services

The Progress Data Platform enables financial institutions to unify siloed systems, enhance fraud detection and improve compliance and AI accuracy, providing a comprehensive 360-degree view of customers and transactions.

Manufacturing

The Progress Data Platform helps manufacturers integrate various systems, manage metadata, track compliance, support quality control and boost efficiency with predictive analytics, facilitating unified product and process data.

Let’s Talk About What’s Possible

Data is a driver of transformation, innovation and growth. The organizations that lead are those that don’t just manage their data—they mobilize it. With the Progress Data Platform, you’re not adding another toolset; you’re investing in a smarter, faster, more resilient business that evolves what already works.

Your OpenEdge applications can make more intelligent, timely decisions by tapping into the full value of the data you already have. The Progress Data Platform empowers organizations to streamline operations, enhance compliance and security and unlock new opportunities through analytics and AI.

By unifying trusted technologies into a single, future-ready platform, Progress delivers the foundation that today’s most demanding enterprises need to move forward with confidence.

To learn more about the Progress Data Platform and how it can benefit your OpenEdge applications, read our whitepaper.


Jessica Malakian
Jessica Malakian

Jessica Malakian is a Senior Product Marketing Specialist at Progress, focused on the Progress OpenEdge product. 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 OpenEdge solutions. Outside of work, Jessica enjoys reading and writing.

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