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How 'low code' can drive innovation
Like it or not, organizations are already implementing solutions without the blessing from IT and the development team. We are seeing this taking place across a number of departments, from marketing, sales and operations to HR and finance, as a means to develop better customer engagement and streamline operations.
Why are most developers giving mobile the cold shoulder?
57 percent of developers have never built a mobile app and 47 percent create just one per year, according to the State of Mobility 2015 Global Developer Study by Progress.
Look up and outside to avoid development disasters
The pressure on enterprises to ensure their application development procedures are effective is growing by the day. An app starts its life as the answer to a business need. The old solution would be to approach IT with a request to meet this need. The developers would then churn into action: define, create, deploy - all with their own bundle of time lapses. By the time all of them were realized, months could have passed, leaving the original need outdated. You would be attempting to move a battleship to avoid a missile.
Don’t be afraid to hire your replacement at work
MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for: How do you build a strong team? is written by Melissa Puls, CMO of Progress Software.
Process Automation Leaves Insurers In Good Health
By using business rules engines insurance companies can process applications in a matter of days, or even hours, giving customers a smooth and easy experience. When used in conjunction with a highly personalized offering, insurers are left with a highly powerful and tempting service for customers that will help them eke out a competitive edge in a highly volatile and shifting market.
Developers: Getting the tools right for wearables
Wearables are the face of the Internet of Things. There’s a lot of excitement about how they can make our lives easier and better as apps that will make us more efficient at work. That excitement is fine, but are we setting expectations beyond what the developer community is capable of actually delivering? There’s a lot of pressure and the fact is that developers – if moves aren’t made to better support them – will end up disappointing us.
Progress Accelerates Innovation During First Half of 2015
Progress announced major product advancements and the closing of a number of significant new deals with Intuit and GT Nexus among others, fueling strong momentum as it enters the second half of 2015. With net-new customers, major releases across its portfolio and industry recognition from Gartner, the CODiEs and the Stevies, the Progress reputation for innovation and customer satisfaction is reaching new heights.
IoT and Developers: Is reality meeting expectation?
The Internet of Things has successfully made the transition from futurist buzzword to a tangible reality. In fact, for a relatively new market, the IoT is growing and maturing quickly: Intel has found that the amount of connected devices in the world has grown 6.5x since 2006.
The one word employees dread hearing in the workplace
MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for: How do you lead a team during a time of transition? is written by Karen Tegan Padir, president of application development at Progress Software.
How Intuit integrated their user experience with Progress
In 2014, Intuit’s Jerry Lekhter was facing a user experience roadblock: data needed in the Salesforce portal was stuck in legacy CRM systems. The impact extended to customers looking for results from service calls. Here’s what Lekhter’s team did about it.
Developer Survey on Internet of Things: Uncovers ‘Not-So-Great’ Expectations?
The current state of the IoT is a kind of Dickensian dichotomy. It’s not quite "best of times, worst of times," but it’s true there is both excitement and concern. IDN looks at the study by Progress Software and Harbor Research that surveyed 700 developers.
Digital transformation is here. It promises great efficiencies, yet offers little clarity. This advanced technology has already had an impact on how human and social service agencies operate. Driven partly by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other legislation and policy, but truly building long before, increasing amounts of data and technology have already been pushing us toward an inflexion point in how public service agencies interact with their clients— it’s all for the better.
VoltDB Uses Progress DataDirect to Improve Customer Access to Fast-Moving Data
VoltDB has selected the Progress DataDirect OpenAccess SDK to increase access to business intelligence tools that allow VoltDB customers to visualize and access fast-moving data.
Integration has traditionally been a step in a bigger project, but we’re past that time. Now is the time to be more sophisticated about data, data governance, data quality and integration. That means really talking about data in a strategic way. A data deluge is coming, and now is the time to decide how to handle it.
What I think about when I think about failing
MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for: Why is it important for women to take risks in business? is written by Colleen Smith, vice president of SaaS and Cloud at Progress.
Your Data Driven Marketing Fitness Regime
Have you ever thought: “I’m going on a diet after New Year's” or “I have to get in shape”? Meeting someone who is perfectly happy with their body is like meeting someone who is perfectly happy with their marketing: it never happens.
How the rise of the 'citizen developer' is driving an internal app revolution
Citizen developers have been changing the application development game for several years now with an ever growing community. This tune is being sung all across the globe and is not a new revelation. What is interesting here is the emphasis on the importance of application development within organizations and how these end-user developers are empowered for quick development to meet this demand for applications.