A new Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study found that upgrading to Progress OpenEdge 12.8 helps organizations reduce operational complexity, improve software delivery and system availability, and achieve significant business value, including a 247% ROI, $1 million NPV, and payback in less than eight months.
This blog highlights how OpenEdge developer Michael Whelan used the OpenEdge MCP Server, PAS for OpenEdge and AI to securely connect existing enterprise systems to natural-language workflows, showing how organizations can modernize user experiences without replacing the trusted business logic they already rely on.
Kenneth Chamisa, a Lead Solution Architect at MIP Holdings, won the OpenEdge × AI Innovation Challenge by creating an AI-powered, agentic workflow solution that leverages OpenEdge as the trusted system of record to automate complex enterprise business processes.
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.
OpenEdge helps manufacturers modernize critical business systems without disruption by extending the stable, trusted applications that keep operations, inventory, production, and data-driven innovation running at scale.