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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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Write Once, Run Anywhere: the Future of Mobile Development
It’s hard to get your head around a zeitgeist when your in the middle of it, but that’s exactly what developers need to do as mobile devices continue to dominate our working lives.
There's no denying that smartphones and tablets have changed the way we find and install the applications we use, and...
2013: A Look Forward at What the Year Will Bring
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....
5 Reasons Customers Want Mobility
It’s no surprise that mobility is top of mind for CIO’s and IT organizations.
In their 2013 predictions, IDC noted it expects a mini tablet surge whereby the tablet market will grow by at least 42 percent to more than 170 million units in 2013. Similarly,...
2012: A Look Back at Some of the Major Trends
2012 has certainly been an exciting year! London hosted the XXX Olympic games, the U.S. had an election, Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, ‘The Hobbit’ is coming out soon, and that’s just the beginning! It’s been an interesting year for the IT world as well, and as we close in on 2013, I wanted...
Watch Codeless Bulk Load into SQL Server Accelerate Workflow from 68 to Under 3 Minutes
The most recent remark shared by a prospect about codeless DataDirect Bulk Load is, "that's freakin cool". That reaction, in varying phrases, is becoming more common and here are some of the numbers being shared by prospects around load times:
How Mobility is Changing the Shape of App Development
How has the rise in mobility changed the face of application development? This is a question that Dion Picco, Manger, Product Management at Progress Software, answers in an in-depth post on the WIRED Innovations...
New ODBC Driver, New Big Data Benefits
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s our new DataDirect Connect for ODBC 7.1 and DataDirect Connect XE for ODBC 7.1 driver! We’re excited to announce that our latest release delivers fast, reliable, secure, and highly scalable connectivity for Apache Hive, a key big data source.
There’s a business need...
MarkLogic Labs PHP API
You can build powerful search applications in PHP using MarkLogic Server with an open source PHP API, called MLPHP. The API makes it easy for PHP developers to store documents, manage document metadata, and create sophisticated search queries on a web server running PHP 5.3 or later.
Devoxx Wrap-up
The DataDirect team broke out our passports last week and headed overseas to Antwerp, Belgium for the annual Devoxx conference, held November 12-16. Cloud data and big data were overarching themes throughout the show, which saw an amazing turnout...
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