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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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NoSQL Demystified, Deconstructed & Debunked
For a good primer on NoSQL, check out Adam Fowler’s post. Rich with details on the benefits of NoSQL — and the common misconceptions (yes, indeed a NoSQL database can be ACID compliant — if it is MarkLogic!!) Course, if you are on this blog, you already know a good deal, so consider it a […]
Technologies to help government agencies with Big Data
MarkLogic Public Sector CTO Chris Biow was interviewed last week by GCN about technology trends that will help government agencies derive more value from their Big Data projects. His picks were cloud computing, Hadoop, NoSQL databases, and semantic technology.
How Long Does it Take to Build a Mobile App?
“How long does it take to build a mobile app?” It's a question very dear to our community of mobile app developers. And now we’ve got an answer.
From Assassin to Ambassador
A little-known fact about the New York Summit last month: The keynote was actually given by a would-be assassin of MarkLogic. Mike Bowers, lead engineer at The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (LDS), had been tasked with an initiative that would “kill” MarkLogic. With precise methodology, he installed MarkLogic’s enterprise NoSQL server in […]
The Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud
A constant thread throughout all of my discussions with our Application Partners in the past year has been a combination of amazement and awareness that the Cloud is, in effect, still in its infancy. And yet it is already changing...
Scaling to Olympic Proportions
The Olympics are a dream and a destination – a culmination of years’ worth of planning, hard work, and dedication that plays on a world stage. As London hosted the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, the British Broadcasting Corporation was the host of coverage – and it wanted its online experience to be as dramatic as […]
Hurdles for Hadoop
What’s preventing the enterprise from adapting Hadoop for all of their Big Data needs? This is a question that I answered in a recent contributed piece in NetworkWorld:
“In short, companies don't have...
ODBC drivers for Microsoft Access and Excel on Unix/Linux for SAS, SAP, Oracle, IBM
From recent consulting projects, I have learned that analyzing data in Microsoft Office enables unique and valuable business insights across an organization. In particular, these projects were based on ODBC connectivity to Excel/Access from applications such as SAS (SAS/Access interface to ODBC),...
Progress Partner Plus Series: A Chat with MIP’s Richard Firth
As we leap into 2013, we've decided to start a new series where we chat with some of our partners about their longstanding relationship with Progress and the ways that our solutions have helped them to bring innovative cloud, web and mobile applications to their customers across industries.
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Progress is Now Accepting STEM Scholarship Applications
Apply now for the 2026 Progress STEM Scholarships, supporting students in the sciences across Bulgaria, India and the United States.
What Makes an AI System ‘Agentic’?
What does the term “agentic” or “agent” mean in AI? How is it different from “predictive AI”? How does any of this apply to your business? This post breaks it down.
How to Use Flow Theory When Designing Your Digital Interfaces
We see flow states in creative pursuits, sports, hobbies and mindfulness activities like yoga. It can also be extended to the digital product experience. Let’s explore the four principles of flow and ways you can use them to design more enjoyable and engaging user experiences.
Hackathon Success Story: How Two Students Used AI and OpenEdge to Tackle Real-World Business Challenges
Two students, David and Alireza, used their first experience with Progress OpenEdge to build an AI-powered demand forecasting solution during a hackathon, showcasing how OpenEdge, Agentic RAG and modern AI workflows can solve real-world business challenges and spark future innovation.
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