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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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SOA What I'm Saying Is, Data Access Matters
You may be wondering what the picture at right has to do with the subject of this blog entry. The answer: nothing. It's just a humorous photo that made me smile this morning. I mean, how often do you see kids these days ...
.NET Framework and Mainframe Collide
Collisions generally have negative connotations, however in this case it is actually a good thing.
The mainframe world, all too often associated with legacy systems that exist in some dark corner of buildings continues to this day to provide the essential back bone for many corporations...
The mainframe world, all too often associated with legacy systems that exist in some dark corner of buildings continues to this day to provide the essential back bone for many corporations...
Implementing SOA during a Recession
By now we all know that service-oriented architecture (SOA) isn’t something you buy out of the box. It’s also a long term initiative that involves planning, implementation and fine-tuning. But when budgets are tight, many companies may slow down or even stop their SOA initiatives. Listen to the...
Oyez, Oyez! New Entities Supported by DataDirect
The image of the herald is one that pervades Western culture. The Biblical image of the archangel Gabriel announcing the forthcoming births of both John the Baptist and Jesus is one that Christians are very familiar...
Query office documents, a more detailed look
A question about querying office spreadsheets, on the Mulberry XSL list.[cc lang="xquery"]...
All I need to do is retrieve the string value of every cell of
column "A" whose string length is...
Three Shouts: Virtualization, Data Services, and Beer
With apologies to Tears for Fears, it's time for me to shout (not a RickRoll) about a few items that I think deserve some attention.
First and foremost, my esteemed colleague Mike Johnson has written an excellent article entitled...
First and foremost, my esteemed colleague Mike Johnson has written an excellent article entitled...
Afterglow on tonight's BoF
A quick word of thanks for everyone's excellent participation on our BoF tonight. While I was nervous that 60 minutes would be a long time to fill, especially considering I was not allowed any slides, given how the conversation flowed across all sides of the room, it was a very useful and enjoyable...
See you tonight @ N320 C
Looking forward to see everyone at tonight's BOF session at 7.45. We'll have some very unique giveaways for the best...
Business-orientation and object-orientation
With enhancements in the OpenEdge 10.1x release family, ABL (Advanced Business Language) is being extended with standard formal object-oriented (OO) functionality: objects, classes, methods, polymorphism, inheritance, delegation, statics, properties, strong typing, and more.
A big...
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