With 2013 fast approaching, everyone is speculating about what the New Year will bring, especially when it comes to the IT industry. Here at DataDirect, we didn’t want to miss out on the forecasting fun, so we took a moment to reflect on the events of 2012 and look at what can be expected in 2013....

There are few things more frustrating, metaphorically speaking, than seeing square pegs getting persistently hammered into round holes. It’s clear that the solution is wrong, but you nonetheless continue to see greater and greater force applied to the issue, until eventually, it’s realised that an...

Do any of these statements or questions sound familiar to you?

• Data encryption is too slow to allow any “real work” to get done.
• We are not under any regulatory constraints (e.g. HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, etc), so we don’t need to encrypt our data.
• We are a small business...

Recently, I came across an article in the Wall Street Journal about hackers stealing money and other information from small businesses and the lawsuits that typically...

Over the past 30 years of supporting our large, loyal customer and partner ecosystem, we have learned few things about building a modern, future-proof application development and deployment platform. We condensed what we learned into...

Today, we announced our latest release of the OpenEdge application development and deployment platform, version 11.1.  OpenEdge 11.1 delivers new enhancements and benefits across what Progress Software calls the “Seven Keys to Success” for enabling our customers and partners to build dynamic,...

I recently wrote a blog post about visiting with hundreds of OpenEdge customers and partners, presenting the latest OpenEdge enhancements and gathering...

I’ve been traveling quite a bit lately, visiting with hundreds of OpenEdge customers and partners, presenting the latest OpenEdge enhancements and gathering their feedback on the current “state of the application development” world. And along the way I’ve learned a few things that I think are worth...

With the New Year just around the corner, many are busy thinking up unattainable diet and fitness resolutions, but we here at Progress have instead spent our time collaborating on more realistic forecasts for the coming year. The team here at Progress put our heads together to produce our top...