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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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Thinking about insurance? XQuery can help!
ACORD is a well-known organization focused on standards in the insurance industry. In the last several years ACORD has developed an impressive number of XML-based standards, and more and more organizations encounter these standards every year. It should be no...
DataDirect Design Previews & Architect Tutorials 2007
It is that time of year when we put in some serious airmiles to bring you all our vision on Data Connectivity and Mainframe integration futures. We are presenting both Boston, MA and Palo Alto CA over the next few weeks so don't miss your chance to hear our plans and of give your...
Upcoming Design Previews...aka Shameless Self Promotion
Ok, we have some upcoming Design Previews and Architect Tutorials where we sit down with our customers and talk about the latest and greatest technologies in the data access arena. Think ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, SOA, Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, the entire gambit of data access (it's really fun). If you're...
Join us for some SOA, XQuery, data services and other discussions!
Interested in hearing about SOA, data services and data access layers? Want to hear about how SOA, XQuery, SDO and Data services all fit together?
Why not joining us for some interactive sessions at our Architect Tutorial or...
Interested in hearing about SOA, data services and data access layers? Want to hear about how SOA, XQuery, SDO and Data services all fit together?
Why not joining us for some interactive sessions at our Architect Tutorial or...
Is Quaere truly LINQ for Java?
The LINQ for Java question hit another milestone last week with the arrival of Quaere, although it remains to be seen whether this milestone is significant or not. We've certainly registered some...
Understand your organization before you architect your SOA
John Radko of GXS had an interesting blog entry about SOA versus ESB - Conflict or Collaboration where he talks about whether ESB and SOA should always be put together. Since SOA is an...
Webinar: Converting your Applications to DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET
Another event in our series of ADO.NET online webinars:
Did you start developing your application using the ADO.NET providers supplied by your database vendor? Are you experiencing reliability or performance and scalability issues in your production environment? Are you frustrated by...
Did you start developing your application using the ADO.NET providers supplied by your database vendor? Are you experiencing reliability or performance and scalability issues in your production environment? Are you frustrated by...
XQJ Part VIII - Binding external variables
Last month in, XQJ Part III - Executing queries, we showed through some simple examples how to bind a value to an external variable declared in your query. In this post of the...
XQuery your office documents
With the introduction of the Although the format is different, the OpenDocument Format is conceptually similar, a bunch of XML files packaged in a ZIP.How can you query the XML files inside the .docx file? After all it’s fairly simple with with...
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