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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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How Fast Is Fast Enough?
When thinking about technology and speed, the usual issue that springs to mind is how fast a transaction can take place. Gone already are the days when every millisecond mattered; now we count in microseconds. Or nanoseconds. And debates already rage about the possibility of...
Websphere 7.0 tutorial to configure DataDirect SQL Server JDBC Driver
Websphere users are accustomed to using embedded Websphere JDBC drivers from DataDirect, however they are no longer available in version 7.0.0.0. Not a problem! You can get the latest and greatest JDBC drivers directly from Progress DataDirect that IBM continues to recommend in their data source...
Announcing AutoEdge|TheFactory, a new OpenEdge Sample Application
To coincide with the release of OpenEdge 10.2b04 and Savvion 7.6.1 we are pleased to announce a new sample application, AutoEdge|TheFactory which can be found on Progress Communities : http://communities.progress.com/pcom/community/psdn/openedge/architecture/autoedgethefactory
Business Process Improvement vs People
Do you think we can actually improve business processes if people are involved? I think the answer is yes… at least I hope so. Back in May 2010 I completed the introduction of a single sign-on (SSO) project that I had been working on for over a year. I admit it, it was painful. During the planning...
Detection, Prevention, Deterrence (oh my! )
It is gratifying to see the serious attention that regulators, traders, brokers and the buyside are paying to market surveillance today. It was not always the case. The credit crisis began a domino-effect market crash that rang alarm bells and woke them up; then the flash crash jolted them like a cup...
An Endless Game of Hide and Seek
Market surveillance needs permeate financial services firms from pre-trade to settlement, from trading via instant messenger services to exchanges and ECNs like never before in history. Every message, every trade, every conversation, every Tweet must be recorded, taped and downloaded into a database...
SOA. It’s back… but it’s got more sparkle.
I’ve been working in high-tech marketing roles for over 20 years now and every time some new marketing collateral comes across my desk and “I get it”, I get excited. As a matter of fact, my first job in a high tech company was as a marketing assistant to an R&D group at BBN Systems and...
Join the revival! Data Access Design Previews 2011 Return in April
It’s here! We’ve just announced the 2011 dates of our annual customer event - the Design Previews. It’s been a few years since we’ve done this, so we’ve plenty of topics to cover, given how much the data access world has changed. The entire spectrum of ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET has broadened significantly...
Tips and Tricks Video—Salesforce.com
Connecting to a cloud data source with a standards-based driver is an exciting new development! Our new JDBC offering to Salesforce.com is the topic of this short, but informative video. Our development team talks about exposing the full breadth of Salesforce data to Java applications, optimizing...
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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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