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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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Agenda: The Server Side Symposium
The agenda for the ServerSide Symposium had *finally* been posted. My time slot is scheduled for 12h00 to 13h15 on Saturday, March 5th and to get an idea of what I'll be talking about, I copied my abstract here:
This presentation is an introduction to XQuery for...
Join me at The Server Side Symposium
Another speaking engagement! I will be talking about 'XQuery and the XQJ API', giving the Java developer community a primer on the XQuery technology at the ServerSide Symposium. I am speaking on Saturday just...
Two excellent XQuery resources worth a look
Over the weekend, I came across two excellent XQuery resources that are definitely worth a look:
- Jon Udell's blog
- eXist, Open Source Native XML Database. There some excellent...
Top 10 Predictions for XQuery
Although this was published a few months back, it is good to keep track our new year's predictions. Over the next few months we will keep track as to how we are progressing.
10. T-minus XQuery and counting! 9. XQuery ... for the SQL weary 8. Access relational data as XML! 7. Access...
Web Services East 2005 - Day 1
End of day one at WSE 2005. We've had some excellent questions and heard some compelling use-cases for the use of DataDirect XQuery in many different environments. Thanks to Ivan for...
Adventures in XQuery: Web Services East 2005
I will be attending for the first time the WebServices Edge 2005 East conference tomorrow through Thursday. I will be a giving a talk on the "XML Data Challenge" from 4 to 4.50pm, so stop by and attend our talk. Click on the previous links for more details on the talk, which I will...
PSC Annual Analyst Event
A quick post, as it's late...
Great to meet everyone at the PSC Annual Analyst Event! This was my first opportunity to both articulate our vision for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), detail the relationship of...
The XQuery Innovator Awards
At DataDirect Technologies we are always seeking to recognize technology innovations, and particularly want to acknowledge the people that make it happen.
To answer this need, and in the spirit of the season of red carpets, films stars and interminable...
A new face for XQuery
So, I've just been announced as the DataDirect XQuery Technology Evangelist. What does this mean ? Well, my job is to drive this technology for Progress® DataDirect® to a successful...
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