The economy is evolving in ever-shortening cycles. New and innovative technical capabilities in information technology accelerates these changes. They initiate disruptive business changes and are both an opportunity and a challenge.
Organizations and their business applications need to keep up to leverage the changes at an ever-increasing pace. Software companies and IT organizations know this effort as continuous Application Evolution.
While enriching and maintaining the application is well understood for the daily business routine, responding to more fundamental changes of business and technology requires a comprehensive modernization approach.
In this whitepaper we readdress the urgency to continuously evolve your OpenEdge applications using the Progress Professional Service approach and we discuss frameworks and tools from valued Progress partners, that have helped other customers to accelerate these modernization projects, drastically reducing costs and improving overall quality.