Chapter 1: A Remote Control for the World
By: Ted Shelton

Social networking, mobile phones and the cloud are changing the way we do business today. Think about how they impact your business. How have they already impacted your industry? Business Models for the Social Mobile Cloud will help you understand the full implications of the social mobile cloud. Learn how you can adapt to these changes and navigate your business through a successful transformation. 

This month’s complimentary chapter, A Remote Control for the World, discusses the technology and the trends of social networks, mobile, and cloud computing and explains how this digital revolution came to be. Now is the time to act, if you wait, your competitors may pass you buy. Take the first step….

Chapter 1: Introducing Agile Architecture
By: Jason Bloomberg

Deconstructing Agile, and rebuilding the concept in the context of organizations and their strategic goals, is what this first chapter, Introducing Agile Architecture, is all about. It’s about changing the Agile belief system and “making a case that the Agile Architecture Revolution is a true revolution.” Once you’ve deconstructed that belief system by holding it up to the light so you can see through the weak spots, you can learn from that experience and, ultimately, architect a better belief system—one that helps you achieve your business goals faster and more efficiently. 

In his book The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, Rest-based SOA and Mobile Computing are changing Enterprise IT," Mr. Bloomberg hopes to “open your eyes to new ways of thinking about technology, about business, and about change itself."

Chapter 1: The Big Data Business Opportunity
Bill Schmarzo

In his book, Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, Bill Schmarzo takes a business-centric approach toward the Big Data Movement and how it can impact your business. Explore the value drivers and key business initiatives for your business and how you can glean further insight to better understand your customers, market, and overall processes. Get the tools and guidance you need to start leveraging big data to drive business value in this complete how-to guide.

This month’s complimentary chapter, The Big Data Business Opportunity, introduces the business drivers behind this movement; learn about new data sources available to help inform your business and most importantly, how leading organizations are leveraging this data to transform their businesses.

Armando Fox and David Patterson 
Chapter 1: Introduction to SaaS and Agile Development

Our first featured book is for those of you interested in Software as a Service (SaaS.) "Engineering Software as a Service: An Agile Approach Using Cloud Computing" teaches essential Software Engineering skills via designing, building, testing, and deploying SaaS Web applications in the cloud. Jump on into cloud computing with this complimentary chapter: Introduction to SaaS and Agile Development.

See how Progress Pacific lets businesses rapidly build data-driven applications and deploy them on any cloud or device – without the cost and complexity of buying and managing underlying infrastructure.

Using standards-based SQL, DataDirect for MongoDB lets you easily access, manage and integrate data stored in MongoDB, one of the fastest growing NoSQL data sources. The normalization of data takes place transparently, ensuring a natural consumption of data, with no impact to the application. Download this flyer to learn more.

This series of three white papers on "Improving Access to Data for Successful Business Intelligence" looks at the challenges companies are facing in delivering successful business intelligence (BI) during an era where the data landscape is growing in complexity and there is increasing business demand for more data from more sources to deepen business insight. In addition, there is an expectation from business that BI can be delivered more quickly in an agile way, regardless of an increasingly distributed data environment.

This series of three white papers on "Improving Access to Data for Successful Business Intelligence" looks at the challenges companies are facing in delivering successful business intelligence (BI) during an era where the data landscape is growing in complexity and there is increasing business demand for more data from more sources to deepen business insight. In addition, there is an expectation from business that BI can be delivered more quickly in an agile way, regardless of an increasingly distributed data environment.

Data is everywhere and companies need to know how to easily access it, analyze it and leverage it to make better, data-driven business decisions. Big data technologies are maturing and forward-thinking organizations understand the need to to pilot and adopt big data as a core component of the information management and analytics infrastructure. Big data, as a compendium of emerging disruptive tools and technologies, is positioned as the next giant leap in enabling integrated analytics in many common business scenarios. Read this paper to understand the top challenges organizations must overcome to adopt a successful big data program.

This series of three white papers on "Improving Access to Data for Successful Business Intelligence" looks at the challenges companies are facing in delivering successful business intelligence (BI) during an era where the data landscape is growing in complexity and there is increasing business demand for more data from more sources to deepen business insight. In addition, there is an expectation from business that BI can be delivered more quickly in an agile way, regardless of an increasingly distributed data environment.

Table Partitioning can greatly enhance the availability, manageability, and performance of almost any enterprise database.  It allows customer data to be better organized in storage, increasing the speed of data access and reducing total operational costs. 

Easy to learn and easy to use, Progress® Corticon® Business Rules Modeling Studio makes modeling decisions and their business rules accessible to business professionals, business analysts and software developers alike. The model-driven Corticon approach eliminates the need for classic programming skills, with a spreadsheet metaphor that is easy to understand, yet still offers support for the most sophisticated decisions.

Overview of Progress Corticon's capabilities with Business Rules Management in helping organizations to automate and improve decision making.

Written by industry expert Neil Ward-Dutton, this revealing, information-packed report examines the top 5 trends we can expect to see in the BPM space in the coming months – including the emerging technology and supplier trends.

Applications built with OpenEdge are reliable, easy-to-maintain, cost effective and service-enabled. With the release of OpenEdge 11.4, we focused on data availability and manageability updates.

This product overview describes the technical specifications for Advanced Business Language (ABL), the programming language for Progress OpenEdge application development. OpenEdge developers can create one set of code to express business processes, and deploy it to multiple platforms, services and clients.

This paper examines the intersection of BPM and BRMS technology on the Progress® OpenEdge® platform: what they are, how they interact, and why this is of key importance to the agility, accuracy, cost and compliance of your business process.

Gary Calcott examines the challenges faced by a mid-sized European company to adapt to rapid changes in the competitive landscape within a traditional system of business rule logic embedded within software code. The company leveraged Progress OpenEdge BPM along with Progress Corticon BRMS.

This independent research examines the current landscape of application development for mid-sized organizations. The survey results provide insight into benefits and future of a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud-based application development approach.

Sparking Innovation: How Progress® OpenEdge® powers your business See for yourself how Progress OpenEdge delivers the continuous innovation your business needs in today’s ever-changing competitive landscape.