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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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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.
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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...
ProCloud Award 2012 — Top Honors for ALVARA AG
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...
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Why the Way You Power AI and What You Feed It Determine the Outcomes You Get
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.
Our 2025 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Our 2025 CSR Report reflects a year of action, learning and collective impact. From empowering our people and strengthening global communities to advancing sustainability, we’re continuing to move Progress forward, guided by our values of courage, teamwork and accountability.
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