Technology, for all its forward motion, is built on a few stable components. In the past few years, mobile applications have become one of these critical building blocks. If you need to grant new capabilities to your employees, they present an elegant answer to the problem. Application development...

The channel community has it rough. Resellers need to find ways to stand out among their many competitors, while also devoting time to understanding a gauntlet of various vendor products and solutions. The bar for creating value is high, as well as costly and somewhat restrictive. One way that...

In many parts of business, the cloud has changed everything. Applications, for example, have evolved significantly in merely a few years. Traditional models of software deployment suddenly seem slow and costly for everyone involved. Using offerings like platform as a service, app development teams...

Humans are inherently social. When we witness something tragic, dramatic, or something amusing – whether it’s a traffic accident, an amazing touchdown in a football game, or an entertainer’s joke, we tend to look around to see how others react. More to the point, we gather strength and knowledge from...

In Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One, America’s scientist-sage, Benjamin Franklin, created the aphorism, time is money, which has now become a baseline element in almost all business thought. However, a corollary for today would be, “data is money.” That’s particularly true in...

How many of you have downloaded anything to a corporate system that wasn’t approved or distributed by your IT department? Probably most of you.  It wasn’t malice that drove you. You probably spotted a tool that could make you more productive and, quite rationally, decided having it was a good...

Chances are pretty good that you are reading this on a mobile device of some kind and, odds are even better that you selected it and paid for it yourself. Welcome to the age of BYOD. This “consumerization” of business IT is probably good news for users and, at least initially, bad news for...

In today’s application development world, many options like Platform as a Service (PaaS) and cloud technologies exist, but are not used to their potential. What should be at the forefront of application development is how cloud and PaaS technologies, even in conjunction with on-premise solutions, can...

In the summer of 2013 we shipped the Progress OpenEdge 11.3 release, which had business productivity at its core. The release brought the power of Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Rules Management (BRMS) to the Progress OpenEdge platform. As a backgrounder, we put together a...