Pension administrators are at the center of a storm. Learn how technology – like a business rules engine – can help IT and business users implement new reporting standards for operational efficiently – while separating business processes from rules to ensure compliance.

When it comes to reporting, business intelligence (BI), and SaaS integration, you need to ensure you have the right plan and tools to deliver an optimal solution to your market. For your Progress OpenEdge applications, read this solution brief to find out why Progress DataDirect OpenAccess is the best solution to securely integrate your applications with virtually all your reporting tools and BI analytics.

As innovation in application development continues, Business Rules Engines have become the “go-to” solution in industries where applications rely on complex rules, policy or regulations: case management, complicated pricing structures, insurance and claims processing, pensions, loans and banking, and governmental benefits eligibility. Discover how Progress Corticon can impact industries where applications rely on complex rules, policy or regulations. Download this Tech Spotlight to learn more.

Data matters now more than ever. In a matter of decades, we've evolved from the mainframe to today's hyper-connected world with its continuous avalanche of data; transforming the way we work and live. Read how DataDirect can help you stay at the forefront of this transformation by simply and efficiently connecting you to all of your data on-premise and in the cloud.

In this second annual Data Connectivity Outlook from Progress DataDirect, you'll get vendor-neutral information based on input from hundreds of DataDirect customers from around the globe, including C-level managers, data scientists, business analysts and developers. Survey results include trends around currently installed database technology as well as emerging database technologies. Read this paper to discover which vendors have staying power, which ones are closing the gap, and which ones will likely be consolidated.

Chapter 1: History of Cloud Computing
By: Michael Gendron
Innovation, faster time to market, increased market share, and greater customer loyalty are just a few potential benefits of a successful cloud computing strategy. If you haven’t already, now is the time to examine Cloud Computing as a strategic initiative for your organization. In Business Intelligence and the Cloud, Gendron, an intelligence leader, takes cloud computing beyond “mere hype to produce real-world value”. Through the use of real-world examples, Gendron emphasizes “how these technologies can be used to create business value and how they can be integrated into an organizations business intelligence system.”

Gain access to our complimentary chapter: A History of How We Got to Cloud Computing, Gendron and learn how “cloud computing creates business strategy.”

Chapter 1: The Importance of Data Integration
By: April Reeve
Managing Data in Motion is a growing concern in all IT organizations. 25 year veteran solution architect and program manager, April Reeve, shares her approach to developing and managing solutions for moving data between applications in her book, Managing Data in Motion. Learn how you too can reduce the complexity of managing system interfaces and enable a scalable architecture.

In our complimentary chapter: The Importance of Data Integration and the Natural Complexity of Data Interfaces, learn why data integration is an important topic for managing data in an organization and the importance of a data layer to manage the disparate interfaces.

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.

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

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.