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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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The Mainframe Perfect for Servicing the Cloud
Commenting on a recent Economists article titled "The Return of the Mainframe," Gregg Willhoit explains the mainframe's greatest challenges for servicing the cloud, and how IBM's steps for servicing the cloud...
OpenEdge, the open Force?
Use the "Force" Luke...Ok, now that's out of the way, because admit it, that's the first thing that entered your head when you saw the title. That Force is not the Force I'm looking for....OK, enough!
No, The Force I'm referring to is force.com, the platform...
pNFS is coming to a computer near you
In fact, it may /already/ be on your computer.
We have an enormous variety of choices for stable storage devices for our databases and ways of configuring and accessing them. And lots of cryptic abbreviations and acronyms: JBOD, RAID 10, RAID 5, SSD, iSCSI, NFS, SCSI, ATA, NAS, SATA, SAS, AFS,...
Performance Tuning – ODBC to SQL Server
The final post in my series on performance tuning Progress DataDirect products will cover performance tuning options for Connect and Connect64 for ODBC SQL Server Native Wire Protocol driver.
Lower TCO Helps Justify SOA Modernization Strategy
Commenting on a recent Attachmate Survey, Gregg Willhoit explains how lowering the total cost of ownership on the mainframe has helped IT pros justify mainframe modernizations with a service oriented architecture (SOA) approach. This podcast runs for...
PRGS Announces the RPM Suite - A Convergence of BTA, BEP, and BPM
It’s been raining here in Massachusetts for 3 days straight, but today I got to add a NEW acronym to my arsenal...
EF4 and WCF
Check out Julie Lerman's excellent presentation on EF4 and WCF. Available on slideshare
Modernizing Mainframe Applications
Commenting on a recent Attachmate Survey, Gregg Willhoit explains why companies are opting to modernize their mainframe applications rather than replace them. This podcast runs for 4:54.
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Rumblings in the Cloud
Cloud computing... it's on everyone's mind these days. Personally I think it's a term that has attained such aggrandized acclaim that vendors, analysts, bloggers and anyone with marketing muscle has pulled and stretched its definition to such and extent that it could...
Cloud computing... it's on everyone's mind these days. Personally I think it's a term that has attained such aggrandized acclaim that vendors, analysts, bloggers and anyone with marketing muscle has pulled and stretched its definition to such and extent that it could...
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