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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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A BEP On Our Radar...
Last year Progress Software started talking a lot about Business Event Processing (BEP)—more commonly known as complex event processing (CEP). It really kicked into gear when we commissioned an independent technology...
Our New Year’s Gift to You…
Now that the holiday rush is over (phew!), we wanted to remind you that the latest version of OpenEdge is now available! This release, version 10.2B, builds on previous OpenEdge 10 releases to further increase...
CMG Conference: Keep It Legal
In this podcast, Gregg reflects on his presentation ‘Keeping it Legal, Techniques for Maximizing TCO with the zIIP’ at the CMG Technical Conference in Dallas. Gregg shares that the CMG audience supported IBM’s position and approved zIIP offload. Gregg continues that the participating audience hoped...
2010 Predictions
Annual prognostications are typically overly optimistic, so for 2010’s soothsaying I’ve opted for a more pragmatic approach.
Austerity drives innovations in doing more with less – The 2009 budgetary hangovers while I expect to less restrictive this year, will drive nearly all purchasing...
Data Access and Virtualization
In this podcast Rob Steward explains why data access middleware makes a difference within a virtualization environment. The podcast lasts for 9:14.
Rob Steward:...
New video series on PSDN on Visual Designer and GUI for .NET
Coordinated with the release of OpenEdge 10.2B, I have posted a new series of short educational videos on PSDN on using Visual Designer in OpenEdge Architect, and the OpenEdge support for the GUI for .NET. These fifteen videos, some with accompanying PDF documents that let you review the content...
Words Matter: Stop Using "Ad-Hoc" When You Don't Mean To
My best friend and mentor Daryl Plummer used to say to me all the time, “Words matter.”. He used to say it because we’d get into these heated discussions that would dissolve into the phrase “It’s just semantics…” Well, it isn’t! Semantics do matter! Today I will address an...
Happy Holidays from Progress DataDirect
It has been a wonderful year for Progress DataDirect and the Data Connections blog. Since Data Connections’ launch in early June, our bloggers have added over 90 posts. As a solute to our team of bloggers, we’ve decided to share the top ten most viewed posts of ’09:
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A Reminder: The Original Intent of IBM Specialty Engines
In this podcast Gregg Willhoit helps listeners understand IBM’s intent with its IFL, zAAP and zIIP Specialty Engines....
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What’s New in MOVEit 2025.1: A Day When Files Keep Moving
In your day-to-day, file transfer requests can be disruptive. The MOVEit 2025.1 release is designed to alleviate some of that chaos.
Real-World Risks of AI: What We Should Be Watching
In this publication you will discover a series of real cases that have occurred due to overconfidence in AI, as well as recommendations and suggestions to avoid these situations.
This Innovative Developer’s Award-Winning Hackathon Journey Is Bringing AI and OpenEdge Together
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The 6 AI Trends That Will Actually Matter Next Year
If 2023–2024 were the years of pilots and prototypes, 2025–2026 will be about orchestration, governance and scale. The signal across serious researchers is consistent: adoption is widespread and business impact concentrates where companies redesign workflows, measure outcomes and hard-wire trust and controls into the stack. McKinsey reports that ~80% of companies use generative AI (GenAI), yet most still aren’t seeing material earnings contribution, because scaling practices and operating models lag the hype. This gap is a roadmap that can be leveraged by Frontier Firms and individuals looking for an advantage (or many) in today’s AI-powered world.
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