In recognition of World Developer Day 2026, we celebrate the OpenEdge developer community and explore how developers are evolving their skills with AI, modern technologies and innovative approaches to building and extending business-critical applications.
The OpenEdge AI Assistant now includes the complete OpenEdge Knowledge Base, giving developers and administrators AI-powered access to decades of trusted OpenEdge expertise for faster troubleshooting, development and operational support.
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.
Carlos Vega, an OpenEdge ERP developer, earned second place in the OpenEdge × AI Innovation Challenge by creating a solution that integrates AI into proven OpenEdge desktop applications, enabling natural language interactions, application navigation and AI-assisted workflows.