Whitepapers

Research on the latest trends in database technologies

SaaS Adoption Increases from 62% to 79%

That’s just one of the findings in our 4th annual survey, based on responses from 1,200 participants around the world. 

Data continues to spread across a variety of sources. And SaaS adoption is increasing significantly, resulting in an explosion of cloud-created data.

Read the report to learn:

• Use of RDBMS, big data, NoSQL and SaaS
• Biggest data integration challenges
• How standards can help solve data integration challenges
• Current state of application adoption
• Firewall concerns and solutions for connecting cloud and ground
• Open analytics trend among ISVs
• Data compliance requirements across industries

Which Strategy is Best for You and Your Customers?

Eckerson Group gives you the insight you need to make the best choice for supporting advanced analytics.

Cloud application vendors are under pressure to provide multi-faceted support for analytics. Today’s customers expect more than just static reports or dashboards—they want interactive visual experiences that illuminate key data and trends.

In this paper, leading data and analytics research firm Eckerson Group dives into the pros and cons of open and embedded analytics. Cloud application vendors can discover where each approach fits into their strategy and use this knowledge to deliver support for advanced analytics.

Download the whitepaper to learn:

• Advantages and disadvantages of each strategy from the customer’s perspective
• Whether to build or buy data connectivity to support analytics
• Recommendations for an analytics strategy that supports different types of users and companies.

In today’s digital business landscape, data exists everywhere. Managing this wealth of data and integrating it into a workable intelligent solution is what business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing is all about. However, many companies don’t even know how to begin taking advantage of this critical business opportunity.

Enter Progress® OpenEdge® Analytics360TM and the OpenEdge BI Blueprint. 

Each new Progress OpenEdge release makes significant strides to proactively secure your applications against emerging threats. The next release, OpenEdge 11.7 due in 2017, will help customers and partners to strengthen security of business applications. With new security issues evolving all the time, staying current is one of the most effective ways to avoid putting yourself at risk for hidden vulnerabilities. This whitepaper focuses on how to enhance your application to secure running business OpenEdge applications.  

Data that extends beyond its SQL width definition can cause query failures and limit the ability to obtain complete result sets. As a continuation of our efforts to deliver extensive SQL enhancements to Progress® OpenEdge® 11, customers will now find two new features to help better manage issues that may arise due to SQL width.  This technical whitepaper shares how to deal with SQL Width in the Progress OpenEdge RDBMS through Authentication Data Truncation (ADT).

In this whitepaper, David Loshin, recognized thought leader in all things data, explains how to balance new technology acquisition with bridging technologies for data connectivity to extend the life of legacy systems as replacement applications are adopted.

Data is at the crux of all your major business decisions, which means data integration matters now more than ever before. Wherever your data exists—in the cloud, on-premises behind a firewall or some combination of both—you need to deliver real-time integration with enterprise applications. But do you buy connectivity or build a custom solution?

Download this whitepaper and learn about the obstacles and advantages of each approach.

Progress® OpenEdge® 11.6 advances your technology and business. When you can build and protect beautiful, modern, high-performing business apps that users need—and want—productivity and satisfaction improve and opportunities multiply. With the latest version of OpenEdge you can boost WebSpeed with Progress Application Server for OpenEdge, strengthen security to minimize risk, create custom installs and increase efficiencies, and mobilize OpenEdge applications.  

Visionary CIOs and CTOs today are actively thinking about digitally transforming their businesses. Mobility is a key cornerstone of digital strategy execution. Several organizations have used enterprise mobility to turn around business success metrics such as customer engagement, supply chain negotiation, sales, cost and revenue. This white paper demonstrates how mobility can be used for solving real business problems.