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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.
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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
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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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New MySQL JDBC Driver
Ok, due to popular demand we have a new MySQL JDBC driver offering in our new service pack for 3.7 we released yesterday.
I'm not in marketing (and I don't want to sound like I am), but from a technical perspective it is really cool. Go download it and play with...
Data Access in Eclipse: QuantumDB
I've been playing around with JLINQ some more (post on that next week I hope) and in the midst I was referred to a really nice open source Eclipse plugin, QuantumDB.
I installed it and have to say that those guys really know what they're doing. I plugged in our JDBC drivers and was off and...
I installed it and have to say that those guys really know what they're doing. I plugged in our JDBC drivers and was off and...
Just Say No to Proprietary APIs!!
If you're thinking of implementing a proprietary API to expose the data in your application, think twice before you start! It can be a costly and cumbersome, and an API SDK can help save time and leave you with standards based connectivity to boot. It just so happens that our senior director of...
Stop picking on Microsoft!
Or rather, pick on them, but save some energy for others committing the same SOA infrastructure crimes.
A lot of commotion around Microsoft "missing the SOA boat" in the blogosphere over the last couple of days. I find it interesting on a number of levels.
Why only pick on...
XQJ Part VII - Typing
In today's post of the XQJ series, we'll have a closer look at how XQJ interacts with the XQuery type system.
XQuery is a strongly typed...
Business agility the old fashioned way
I was reading Max Pucher's interesting rant about SOA and it reminded me of one of my own personal experiences with business agility. I was flying back to San Francisco from Germany and had to go...
How to bullet-proof the Data Access Application Block (DAAB)
Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices group have produced a plethora coding patterns in the form of software blocks that has garnered a huge following in the .NET developer space. Of note is the...
What makes SOA hard
I've been following a series of posts, most recently one by Todd Biske from Momentum SI, discussing what the phrase, "It's not about the technology," means in the context of SOA, since so many people use it.
The...
Article about SOA and XQuery
I recently wrote an article, "SOA and the importance of XQuery", published on "The SOA Magazine".
You can read the details in the article, but the point I make is that I believe XQuery will...
You can read the details in the article, but the point I make is that I believe XQuery will...
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