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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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Bravo, Aberdeen
I posted here a few months ago about, "Beyond the SOA Tipping Point," and at that time referred to Aberdeen Group as a "research for...
Gartner vs. Forrester: Let the battle begin
With Forrester's publication of their SOA Management Wave (which I believe you will be able to download from the Actional website if you're interested) it's clear that the two largest analyst firms covering the SOA space disagree on SOA Management.
Forrester's view is that SOA Management is a...
Participation in ESB CON IV
Progress Software participated in ESB CON IV: Enabling Business-Critical Integration and SOA. ESB CON IV is a great way learn from SOA infrastructure experts about how Fortune 1000 companies design, build, and deploy ESBs that reduce risk and increase ROI. During this virtual conference, Jonathan...
Folksonomies In The Enterprise
In one of my last posts, I talked about how the old world of UDDI taxonomies is being replaced with the new world of Web 2.0 folksonomies - this includes things like ratings and tagging vs. the rigidly structured categorization provided by "old school" technologies like UDDI.
The real question,...
XQJ Part X - XML Pipelines
Today's post in the XQJ series is about XML Pipelines. How can we create a pipeline of XQueries or how to integrate XQuery with JAXP based XML processors.An...
UDDI in a Web 2.0 world
As you may know, UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) was originally designed for publicly accessible registries. As part of making this possible, UDDI includes an "elegant" (engineer speak for "indescribably complex") mechanism for defining taxonomies (known as tModel's for those...
Yes! You can finally query your office documents!
When I was working on an XML database in the late nineties, I remember hearing a lot of noise about the fact that — finally! — XML would allow for real reuse and collaboration when working with applications like word processors and spreadsheet editors. Copy like "Data is finally disjoint from format;...
When I was working on an XML database in the late nineties, I remember hearing a lot of noise about the fact that — finally! — XML would allow for real reuse and collaboration when working with applications like word processors and spreadsheet editors. Copy like "Data is finally disjoint from format;...
Relax Mom, It's Not Your Fault (This Time)
I've noticed that, like Rudy Giuliani, I still purchase my clothes a few sizes too big. While I can't speak for Rudy, somewhere deep inside I've been conditioned to think that when I buy clothes, I have to buy them big and "grow into them." I rationalize this by enjoying the fact that I can go...
Selling Oriented Architecture
I participated in a SOA roundtable the other week. End-user organisations were present – in banking, automotive, logistics and other sectors. It was chaired by Butler Group, the analysts. The topic of the roundtable was how SOA technology and principles were being adopted in end-user organisations....
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