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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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Excel PowerPivot connection direct to Salesforce SaaS using ODBC for self service analytics
This tutorial shows how you can use the world's most widely used BI tool, Microsoft Excel, to get direct SQL access via ODBC to SaaS applications hosted in the cloud. More specifically, we'll look at how Excel power users can leverage PowerPivot to build enhanced analytic capabilities directly on...
Turning Big Data into Insight: More Thoughts from Cloud Expo
At Cloud Expo last week, Gordon Crenshaw, Senior Solutions Consultant for Progress Software, and Brad Wright, Data Strategy Product Manager for DataDirect, gave a presentation titled “Big Data Alchemy – Turning Big Iron into Gold!” During the session, the duo explained that while the...
The Cloud is Taking Over: Thoughts on Cloud Expo from Plex Systems
One of our favorites parts of Cloud Expo last week was getting to take part in a session with one of our customers, Plex Systems. David Shugars, Sr. Software Engineer, Research & Development, at Plex spoke about the importance of fast and easy remote data access...
Takeaways from Cloud Expo 2012: It’s All about Convergence When it Comes to Cloud
With Cloud Expo behind us, it’s time to look back at all that we’ve learned this week. The key theme we saw time and time again throughout the event was that the cloud does not work in a vacuum but needs to integrate with other platforms to be successful, in particular with big data.
During Dr....
Preparing for the Future of Application Development and OpenEdge
In the this short video, Karen Tegan Padir, Vice President of Application Development, discusses her role at Progress, and what’s in store for the OpenEdge platform. She highlights how OpenEdge maximizes customer productivity, optimizes applications, and how Progress works with its partners to...
Intranet Requirements and Fundamentals
The purpose of an Intranet is to enable an organization to share knowledge, communicate, collaborate, and enable it to do more than it did yesterday. Specific intranet requirements can vary significantly based on different factors, such as organization type, business processes, culture, goals, scope, etc. These requirements usually fall into ...
Manufacturing at the Speed of Light: How Schwering & Hasse Monitors in Real-Time
Manufacturing requires precision. Manufacturing 140,000 kilometers of wire per day is akin to the pursuit of perfection. Schwering & Hasse employs 400 production lines 24 hours a day to manufacture enough magnetized copper wire each year to stretch...
A Look at Day 3 of Cloud Expo and Thoughts of What’s to Come
It’s hard to believe that Cloud Expo is wrapping up today. It’s been a great four days of interesting presentations and discussions, and we’ve enjoyed being able to represent DataDirect among this great group of attending companies and delegates. Yesterday we heard the day three keynote from...
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