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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 zIIP as a Fungible, Virtual Appliance
In this podcast, Gregg explains what it means to be a fungible virtual appliance, and how this relates to the zIIP specialty engine. The podcast runs for 4:25.
To listen to the podcast, please click on the following link:...
Waters Rankings - 2009
Waters Magazine annually surveys its readers (or those readers who work for investment firms, hedge funds, brokerages and exchanges) to choose the best financial service solutions and technology providers. There are 25 categories in 6 categories, so if you are a Waters...
The Implications of Excellent Coding: Part 2 – Real world examples
In this two-part podcast Rob Steward explains the difference between good and bad coding, and how good coding can benefit your ODBC, JDBC, or .NET applications.
Part 2, which runs 7:05, provides real-world examples of the impact that good coding can make.
Click on the following link to listen to...
See you at the JDBC BoF at JavaOne 2009!
Wondering what the next version of the JDBC specification will look like? What about that issue you logged; will it be fixed? What is JDBC 4.1 going to have in terms of new functionality? Join the JDBC Expert Group (of which I’m proud to be a member) as we cover these topics Tuesday (tomorrow) night...
Technical Concerns: Does SaaS Involve Reengineering Your Traditional Applications?
Integrating Office applications with Salesforce.com - Part II
This second post in the series Integrating Office applications with Salesforce.com talks about querying Microsoft Office Word forms.This is in no way a complete introduction on WordProcessingML, or the...
Much Ado About Something – XQuery and Microsoft Office 2007
Earlier this year DataDirect attended their second QCON Conference and exhibition in London. QCON is an eclectic mix of technologies, vendors and speakers. The conference runs over three day with speaking slots starting 9am and going on until 6:45pm. There are six...
Options for Fine Tuning Memory Usage in Hibernate using Oracle
Suppose you’ve been tasked with tracking down the memory usage of your application you’ve written with Hibernate. You’ve traced and tuned, and you think you should be able to squeeze more out of your database drivers. For this specific example...
Location Tracking, fit-for-purpose design patterns in CEP
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the CEP community is well aware the technology often gets compared and
contrasted to traditional data processing practices. It's a topic that
ebbs and flows like the ocean's tides. It's...
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