Progress OpenEdge for Developers
The Progress® OpenEdge® platform provides developers with a set of tools and technologies to build robust, scalable and secure applications for various industries.
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Why Developers Trust the Progress OpenEdge Platform
Developer Productivity
Be more productive by streamlining your workflow and reducing the time it takes to build and maintain applications.
Scalability
The OpenEdge database is designed to handle large volumes of data and transactions, allowing developers to build applications that scale as the organization grows.
Security, Compliance & Risk Management
The OpenEdge platform offers built-in security features such as encryption and compliance tools to help mitigate risks, protect data integrity and strengthen regulatory compliance.
Progress OpenEdge Features: Everything a Developer Needs
The OpenEdge platform is the leading platform for developing enterprise applications requiring high performance, high availability and flexible deployment options for extensibility, scalability, security, reliability and risk management. Users around the world rely on OpenEdge applications to build innovative business solutions that serve as the backbone of healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and other industries—while supporting data integrity, compliance and operational resilience.
OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (ABL)
Create APIs for .NET, JavaScript, Java clients, Java messaging and even map database schema to XML formats, while still leveraging the efficiency of ABL.
Progress Application Server for OpenEdge
Modernize your application to enhance experiences, strengthen security, reduce risks and stay compliant with evolving industry standards.
Progress OpenEdge Database
Support thousands of concurrent users and terabytes of data with efficiency, high availability and risk mitigation features for data security, integrity and disaster recovery.
ABL in Action
Try OpenEdge ABL for yourself from your browser without installing any software.
ABL Dojo is an interactive website and developer utility that lets you write, run and share Progress OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (ABL) code from your web browser.
Free Learning Opportunities
Start Your Free OpenEdge Developer Learning Path and Certification
Skill Level
Beginner8 Courses
5 Assessment Exams
~73 Hours to Complete
- Create a FREE account in the Progress Education Community
- Select the Basic OpenEdge Developer Learning Path and Certification Exam (12) from the Content Library
- Learn how to develop an app in Progress OpenEdge from the eight available self-paced courses and five assessment exams
- Certify as an OpenEdge Developer by passing the Basic OpenEdge Developer Certification Exam (12)
Hear from Developers
ABL is easy to learn, with a basic syntax and a great IDE that brings productivity to the software engineering team.
Lucas Santos Bicalho Developer for Equiplex of the H.Egidio Group
If you just want to fiddle around with code, choose Java or Python. For a business application, you build it in Progress OpenEdge!
Michiel Herpers MES engineer at CGI
OpenEdge is easy to learn and very efficient to code.
Michaël Vallière OpenEdge Developer at Proginov
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