Press Coverage

Q&A: The Role Microapps Can Play in the NHS

Ian Bolland caught with Alison Haughton, senior product marketing manager, Cognitive Group, Progress, about the role that microapps can play within the NHS. They discuss how much they have been explored, and the difference it can make to both healthcare professionals and patients.

The Top 5 Most In-Demand Developer Skills

Dominating Indeed's list of the most in-demand jobs of 2019, developers are some of the most sought after job positions. As the demand for digital transformation projects in the enterprise increases, the need for individuals who can bring these digital applications into fruition follows. 

Fast Track Your Digital Transformation in Five Steps

There are compelling incentives for an organization to innovate and transform, including revenue growth, new markets, operational efficiencies, cost savings and gaining the ability to derive value from IoT data, just to name a few. While most organizations know they need to transform digitally to reap those benefits, it can be difficult to know where to start.

Crystal Cruise Line Transforms Digital Presence

Crystal has implemented Progress Sitefinity web content management to transform its website into a dynamic, interactive and intuitive experience for travelers.

Progress is a provider of application development and digital experience technologies.

Progress Announces NativeScript 6 Release

The NativeScript 6 release adds support for Vue.js and Angular 8 for creating native mobile applications with web technologies. NativeScript now also supports Progressive Web Apps (PWA), increasing the level of code reuse between web and mobile apps created with NativeScript.

The 32 Best Network Monitoring Tools to Use in 2019

Choosing the best network monitoring tool for your enterprise is not easy. IT professionals and decision-makers need to consider several factors when choosing solutions for their business, such as security, compatibility, ease of use, and budget. With so many network monitoring tools on the market, it’s hard to determine the best ones for your company’s needs.

Progress Updates the Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Platform

Progress, a provider of application development and digital experience technologies, is enhancing the Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold platform, introducing network mapping and discovery, improved vCenter support, and enabling a new public REST API.

What the Uber of Tractors Means for the Future of Agtech in Africa

“Capitalism in agriculture, within sub-Saharan Africa, is alive and well,” says Jehiel Oliver. Oliver is the CEO of the agtech company Hello Tractor, whose smartphone app connects smallholder farmers with tractor owners looking to rent. Dubbed the "Uber for tractors," Hello Tractor first launched in Nigeria in 2014, and then quickly expanded into Kenya. The company is now poised for even further expansion, with testing underway in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Healthcare Data: A Puzzling Game in Need of a Change

There is no arguing that healthcare involves a prodigious amount of data. According to an IDC report, 4.4zb of data was produced in 2013, and it estimated that 44zb of healthcare data will be produced yearly by 2020—a tenfold increase in seven years. In a New England Journal of Medicine  article, the authors estimated that a single patient typically generates close to 80 megabytes in imaging and electronic medical record (EMR) data each year. With all the data that is being collected, healthcare organizations have the opportunity to leverage it to drive patient outcomes and lower overall healthcare spend.

Focused on Personalization, Innovation, and... Downsizing?

In 1995, Americaneagle.com designed its first website and ever since, has worked on 12,000 web design projects of every size, from almost every industry. This comprehensive digital history, spawning back to nearly the dawn of corporate web pages, makes americaneagle.com a sage in the sector— an example to learn from, insightful, and experienced.

Progress Revs Up BRM with Corticon 6.0

BRM is now a ‘thing’… and it’s not in fact meant to relate to the noise that children make when they pretend to rev up the imaginary engines on their toy cars, instead, it stands for Business Rules Management. 

Progress Releases Web Accessibility Guidebook for Developers

There are a number of things developers have to consider when developing for the web, but one thing that may not get enough attention is the accessibility of their application. The notion of web accessibility is not new, with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) publishing the first Web Content Accessibility Guidelines in 1999, but it is still something not enough developers are putting effort into. As a result, Progress has released new guidelines to help developers better understand web accessibility and how they can develop their apps to adhere to it. 

NativeScript 6.0 Release Focuses on Developer Productivity

NativeScript 6.0 is now available. The open-source framework for building cross-platform native Web and mobile applications specifically focused on developer productivity with the 6.0 release. Examples of increased developer productivity include faster patch delivery, additional out of the box functionality, additional pre-built scenarios that avoid custom development, and specific tools driving the development experience.

NativeScript 6.0 Speeds Up Builds, App Updates

NativeScript 6.0, the latest version of Progress’ open source framework for building native mobile apps with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Angular, is now generally available. The update provides for quicker app updates and smaller app binaries.

Open Source NativeScript 6.0 Released for JavaScript-Based iOS, Android Development

Development tooling specialist Progress released NativeScript 6.0, a major update to its open source framework for creating native iOS and Android apps with JavaScript with 100 percent code reuse.

NativeScript 6.0 Released with Full Support for Vue.js

The latest version of the open-source framework for building native apps is now available. NativeScript 6.0 comes with support for Angular 8 and Vue.js as well as the ability to shorten development and testing time. 

Low-Code Specialists Dominate 'Multiexperience Development Platform' Ranking

With the infiltration of new technologies in the mobile app development space, Gartner Inc. has renamed its former mobile-centric series of research reports to "multiexperience," and the first such offering shows familiar low-code vendors leading the pack.

Progress Updates its Business Rules Management Solution with REST

Progress, a provider of application development and digital experience technologies, is releasing the latest version of the Progress Corticon business rules management solution.

SD Times News Digest: Progress Corticon 6.0, Android Q beta 5, and MLPerf Training v0.6

Progress has announced the latest release of its business rules management solution with REST API data access and a new .NET server architecture. Corticon 6.0 features faster support for REST data connectivity and the ability to execute decisions three times faster with more reliability, the company explained. 

Web Development: So Many Choices to Get the Right Fit

It is an interesting time to be a web developer. On one hand, the web today provides a wealth of information, giving developers easy access to a number of resources useful when running into a problem or wanting to update their skills. Additionally, there are so many advancements being made to programming languages and technologies that web development provides a rich ecosystem for developers to build powerful solutions.