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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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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...
EU Data Protection Regulation – a square peg in a round hole?
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...
Integrating Your Cloud Data with Existing Reporting Applications
After the Dreamforce show a couple weeks ago, everyone’s talking about cloud applications like Salesforce.com. Systems like these have drastically altered how we think about and work with our customer data, but they’ve also...
The Big Data Goldmine
Did you know that this year the amount of global digital data generated is expected to reach about 2.7 zettabytes? That number represents a 48 percent increase from 2011. Most people have trouble comprehending the size of a terabyte, let alone a zettabyte. But those of us in the biz are finding...
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