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Why the Way You Power AI and What You Feed It Determine the Outcomes You Get
April 20, 2026
As organizations have begun to adopt AI across search, copilots, assistants and internal tools, expectations have run high. With access to years and shared drives full of documents, files, emails and knowledge repositories, it felt logical to assume that AI would instantly deliver smarter answers and better decisions right away.
Static Pages vs. Content Modules in Progress Sitefinity CMS: Scaling Content with Structure and GenAI
April 14, 2026
As content volume grows, the way it is structured begins to directly affect speed, cost and operational efficiency. This is where content modules move from being a technical option to becoming a strategic advantage.
Your Association Has Answers, So Why Can’t Members Find Them?
April 02, 2026
This is the first blog in a three-part series on how associations can unlock more value from their content, especially from conferences, using agentic RAG technology and by using Progress Agentic RAG, specifically.
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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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Marketing Chick and Agile Development
Getting ready for a panel I was moderating at MarkLogic’s Big Data Summit in New York last month, I was doing research on the history of Agile Development. My two guest speakers, Tim Dunnington of ICA and Richard Winslow of Zynx Health, were going to be talking “agile.” It turned out to be a great […]
The Twelve Days of Big Data
Here’s a song we heard at a customer’s office last week… The Twelve Days of Big Data On the first data of Big Data my VP gave to me A deadline and guidelines budgetary On the second data of Big Data my Manager gave to me The goals and objectivity On the third data of […]
Big Data Simplicity
A recent article in the NY Times profiled Peter Neumann (Noy-man), computer scientist, musician, veteran of Bell Labs, and computer security pioneer/tireless evangelist. He cites a breakfast meeting he had with Albert Einstein in 1952, when he heard the first-hand utterance of Einstein’s “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler,” as […]
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...
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Why the Way You Power AI and What You Feed It Determine the Outcomes You Get
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