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Part 1: Getting Started with Progress’ RAG-as-a-Service Platform, Progress Agentic RAG
October 13, 2025
Enterprise knowledge management is broken. Critical insights get buried in email threads, brilliant analysis disappears into network drives and teams unknowingly duplicate work that was completed months earlier. The promise of AI-powered search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) offers a solution—but how does it work in practice? Read our blog to find out.
Built for Business, Loved by Developers: Progress OpenEdge ABL
October 16, 2025
Progress OpenEdge ABL is a business-focused, fourth-generation language that enables rapid, reliable and scalable development of mission-critical applications, making it a trusted and future-ready choice for organizations and developers.
Introducing Automate MFT: Modern File Transfer Built for Hybrid and Distributed IT Ecosystems
October 08, 2025
We're thrilled to introduce Progress Automate MFT—a first-of-its-kind cloud-native orchestration engine explicitly built for automated, secure file transfer. Is a cloud-native file transfer solution at the top of your wish list? Let’s dive into the details that make Automate MFT the right solution for your enterprise.
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Freeing Cloud Data and Reaping the Benefits of SaaS
The explosion in Software as a Service has changed the world of data access dramatically. Business critical information that was once within the four walls of an organization is now locked in a variety of SaaS applications deployed on the internet. So, how can we regain control of our data and get a...
The Power of the Patent
I have had the pleasure of working with a market leading management technology for the past 5 years. Wait! Let me rephrase that, it’s actually the market leader.
Forrester Research positioned Progress® Actional® as the only vendor in the leader category for SOA Management in 2011,...
4G Networks for Business: Does the Emperor have new clothes?
It’s been a busy time for proponents of 4G networks in the UK, but will 4G be revealed as a proverbial “naked Emperor” that creates nothing at all for great expense? Or could it have a significant impact on the way organizations and their...
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and BI Publisher JDBC connections to Salesforce
With the conclusion of the Dreamforce and Oracle OpenWorld conferences in SFO last month, I am now seeing several new POCs using technology learned from both worlds. While DataDirect attended both events, all I am willing to share is that one had better music and the other had better breakfast...
Updates to DataXtend Browser for ACORD
I’m excited to report that DataXtend Semantic Integrator (DXSI) has been integral to data interoperability solutions for the insurance industry for quite a while. We introduced the first DataXtend Browser for ACORD in 2009 to give interested parties a...
ACORD Translator Uses DataXtend® SI to Enable Data Interoperability for Insurance Industry
We’ve been working with the insurance industry’s standards body, ACORD, for a few years now. We created the DataXtend Browser for ACORD so their members would have a way to visualize the importance of data to their overall...
Fall Preview: Performance Tools
The Fall is an exciting time here at DataDirect. As we pick apples, carve pumpkins, and navigate corn mazes, we also look forward to releasing a number of new and improved product suites to better serve our great customers. To help give you an idea of what’s in store, we’ve put together a Fall...
The Challenges of Big Data Analytics in the Enterprise
With the prevalence of Facebook, Twitter, instant messages and other user-generated content, today’s databases are growing at an exponential pace. In fact, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, every two days we create the same amount of...
Congratulations to API Maintenance Systems on Computerworld Award
Everyone at Progress Software would like to extend our congratulations to the team at API Maintenance Systems, after it was ranked as the best business software company in Denmark in 2012, and amongst the top 10 IT companies in the country...
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