When I’m on the road either talking with customers or fellow Progress employees the question often arises, “What does contemporary application development look like, and how are enterprises managing change?” Today I’d like to address both of these topics. Modern enterprises have IT systems and...

Great business software applications start with ideas The concept is put to the test, as developers assemble the code and test the software to ensure that it is stable and usable in a production environment. The faster this can happen, the faster you'll see results. After all, if ideas can be tried...

Could the right applications help to bring your global enterprise together? Many of today's corporations span across time zone and even continents, creating remarkable business opportunities - but also challenges in terms of maintaining a unified company culture, communicating effectively and...

The mobile app marketplace is taking off, creating abundant opportunities for developers. Whether you're an independent programmer or an employee for a company tasked with creating digital resources, discerning the best approaches for enterprise...

Developing and delivering tools that empower employees is an important part of business leadership today. There are some critical details that must be taken into account, however. For instance, these professionals won't be using the applications in a vacuum. They will be cooperating with one another,...

Ensuring that an entire application development team is capable of pulling together and staying on the same page is a challenge. Or, rather, it was before Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) deployments emerged as a leading technology framework for these efforts. Logging into these easy-to-use solutions...

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There may be a sense of pressure in IT to ensure that every step in the creation of apps is planned out in exact detail, with each project moving down an assembly line from creation to testing and on to deployment. However, loosening these constraints and working with new departmental structures and...

The age of software offerings that rely on a certain type of hardware and an on-site deployment is drawing to a close. The replacement, at least as far as everyday business tasks are concerned, has come in the form of Web applications. Employees are both creating and accessing their apps through...