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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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Assimilated: All Your Mac Are Belong To Us
The picture to the right is what I anticipate I will look like in a couple of weeks (minus the hair, the braces, and the youth). I'm pretty sure I will shed similar tears of joy once a box like that arrives after 6 years of hemming and hawing. That's right, the...
SOA a Little Bit of Everything
I have been reading a few articles on the internet and in various documents that tend to come to the conclusion that web-services and BPEL are the answer to all problems, in much the way that CORBA, RMI, J2EE (insert technology of choice) were touted in previous years. I would suggest to the contrary...
XQJ Part I - Introduction
This is the first post in a series about XQJ (JSR 225). The XQJ initiative aims to provide the standard Java API to access XQuery implementations. Eventually XQJ will be for XQuery what JDBC means for SQL.
XQJ is currently in public review, the...
Beyond the SOA Tipping Point: Heat? Light?
In the technology markets I have been working in for the past 20 years, July and August are typically slow. The promotion calendar drops back a few notches, Europe takes a holiday, and in general life is restored however briefly to a more manageable pace and rate of change. Not so this...
New Book - Getting Started with the SID: A Data Modeler’s Guide - is now available
John Reilly's (co-chair of the TM Forum SID Project) latest book is now on sale at the TM Forum Website. It was great working with...
Wait-and-see won't protect you
Moving your IT organization to service oriented architecture is hard, no doubt about it. But, at the same time, avoiding SOA isn't going to protect you. Whether you like it or not, you'll end up with many of the same problems in your IT environment whether or not you choose to wholeheartedly adopt...
Converting your Applications to Connect for ADO.NET
Join us for another in our series of webinars for ADO.NET. Next up, we are discuss how to go about 'Converting your applications to Connect for ADO.NET'. Our abstract:
Did you start developing your application using the ADO.NET providers supplied by your database vendor? Are you...
JDBC "How to" series part 1: How to use WLM with the DataDirect Connect for JDBC DB2 driver
Welcome to the new DataDirect JDBC Blog! This is my first post; however, rather than spending the first post exchanging pleasantries I would instead like to dive right into something with some real substance: a “How to” series highlighting answers to some of the questions I encounter on a regular...
9-Reasons to Use Sonic for Your Next IBM Websphere MQ Project
You have to simply stand back and admire a crisp and clear expression of a product's differentiators in a complex and competitive market. Working with some of our recently-delighted customers, erstwhile subscribers to IBM blah-blah-blah, our Sonic...
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Progress is Now Accepting STEM Scholarship Applications
Apply now for the 2026 Progress STEM Scholarships, supporting students in the sciences across Bulgaria, India and the United States.
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Hackathon Success Story: How Two Students Used AI and OpenEdge to Tackle Real-World Business Challenges
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