Open vs. Embedded Analytics: Decision Criteria for Cloud ISVs
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.
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- 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.
Open vs. Embedded Analytics: Decision Criteria for Cloud ISVs
https://www.progress.com/campaigns/datadirect/whitepapers/open-vs-embedded-analytics
Enterprise Backend-as-a-Service Checklist
While building a great mobile app is hard, selecting the right mobile application development platform can make it easier. This checklist goes over all the important feature and platform considerations that organizations should explore as they look for the ideal platform to power their future mobility initiatives.
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Enterprise Backend-as-a-Service Checklist
Building a great mobile app is hard. A mobile application development platform can make it easier, but that brings its own questions: How do I know what features to look for? How do I evaluate different platform types, or multiple vendors of a similar platform, against each other?
This checklist goes over all the important feature and platform considerations that organizations should explore as they look for the ideal platform to power their future mobility initiatives. From data and identity to security and SLAs, we hit all key areas you need to keep in mind as you evaluate your mobile platform options.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/default-document-library/mbaaschecklist_update-ready.pdf?sfvrsn=c5b9a2d_0
OpenEdge: Building Business Applications of the Future
Whether you are a corporate titan or application provider to SMBs with niche markets, you need to continuously evolve your business applications to address current business demands and technology trends. Constantly innovating and staying ahead of trends, with OpenEdge, you can select the capabilities and technologies you need to keep you competitive while keeping costs in check.
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OpenEdge: Building Business Applications of the Future
Agility, security, scalability, easy installation, robust SQL capabilities and more are what you need in your mission-critical business applications today—applications that you can deploy across any platform and mobile device. OpenEdge 11.7, our latest release, delivers that and more to help you gain and keep a competitive edge.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/default-document-library/oe_11_7_ebook_2018_web.pdf?sfvrsn=b3406487_0
Overview: Remote Instructor-Led Training
Progress remote instructor-led training courses are offered through a convenient, browser-based virtual classroom for an optimal hands-on learning experience.
Overview: Remote Instructor-Led Training
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/default-document-library/br_remote_instructor_led_training.pdf?sfvrsn=2d8d1fc_0
Progress Global Connected CRM Leaders
There’s wide criteria for selecting a customer relationship management (CRM) system. When looking at characteristics of “Connected CRMs,” organizations must consider how well it can access external data and integrate into existing operational and data analytics systems. As a vendor-neutral software vendor for standard connectors across popular CRMs, Progress offers a unique, under-the-hood view of CRMs.
In this paper, Progress provides a comprehensive ranking and analysis of popular CRM solutions including support for open data standards and external data strategy. Insights into CRM value to seamlessly streamline work and increase user effectiveness, recommended vendors to support integration and analytics for CRM investments are included.
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Progress Global Connected CRM Leaders
https://www.progress.com/campaigns/datadirect/whitepapers/crm-rankings
How to Make Good Content: 6 Ways Forward
You know it when you see it, don’t you? Good content. It grabs your attention, and keeps it. It educates with a minimal time investment, then sends you on your way feeling better for having engaged. It may even motivate you to engage again. So how do you create it? Harder yet, how do you set yourself on a path to successfully become a content producer worth consuming? Here are six ways to get your content program on sound footing.
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How to Make Good Content: 6 Ways Forward
You know it when you see it, don’t you? Good content. It grabs your attention, and keeps it. It educates with a minimal time investment, then sends you on your way feeling better for having engaged. It may even motivate you to engage again. So how do you create it? Harder yet, how do you set yourself on a path to successfully become a content producer worth consuming? Here are six ways to get your content program on sound footing.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/default-document-library/progress/documents/papers/6-ways-forward-infographic.pdf?sfvrsn=bc680a0a_0
OpenEdge: Protecting Applications in a Challenging Environment
Each new Progress OpenEdge release makes significant strides to proactively secure your applications against emerging threats. The latest release, OpenEdge 11.7, 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.
OpenEdge: Protecting Applications in a Challenging Environment
Securing running business applications includes safe-guarding the data generated and maintained, as well as the application's connectivity to the network. Effective security requires a well-thought out, holistic strategy. This whitepaper provides insight into the services and tools available to you in order to ensure the security of your OpenEdge application is a fundamental factor of your overall plan.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/protecting_applications_in_a_challenging_environment.pdf?sfvrsn=85d6872f_0
Authorized Data Truncation
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).
Authorized Data Truncation
The 11.5.1 release of Progress® OpenEdge® contains a new SQL feature called Authorized Data Truncation. This feature helps overcome the SQL width problem that is encountered when database column values are larger than the column’s size as defined in SQL. Learn how Authorized Data Truncation helps address this issue.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/authorized_data_truncation_whitepaper1.pdf?sfvrsn=9ae96d7f_0
Autonomous Schema Update
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. Read this technical whitepaper, Dealing with SQL Width in the Progress OpenEdge RDBMS: Autonomous Schema Update (ASU).
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Autonomous Schema Update
Progress OpenEdge 11.6 contains a new SQL feature called Autonomous Schema Update (ASU). This feature helps overcome the SQL width problem that is encountered when database column values are larger than the column’s size as defined in SQL. It solves this problem by automatically updating the SQL column width in schema wherever there is a data truncation event for the column. Learn more >
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/autonomous_schema_update_whitepaper2.pdf?sfvrsn=58e47109_0
Progress OpenEdge Dynamics: Application Modernization
Progress® OpenEdge® Dynamics, launched in the beginning of the new millennium, is an application productivity framework that enabled OpenEdge partners and customers to rapidly build applications by storing UI definitions in a repository. Over the past decade, OpenEdge customers have built many Dynamics-based enterprise applications that continue to be productive. What follows is guidance for these partners and customers on how to best utilize the current set of Progress technologies to keep their application fully operational, while evolving it to meet new market expectations.
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Progress OpenEdge Dynamics: Application Modernization
Progress® OpenEdge® Dynamics, launched in the beginning of the new millennium, is an application productivity framework that enabled OpenEdge partners and customers to rapidly build applications by storing UI definitions in a repository. Over the past decade, OpenEdge customers have built many Dynamics-based enterprise applications that continue to be productive. What follows is guidance for these partners and customers on how to best utilize the current set of Progress technologies to keep their application fully operational, while evolving it to meet new market expectations.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/dynamics.pdf?sfvrsn=3e8761e1_0
Whitepaper: Data Modernization
Many legacy systems simply can’t support the new information-powered economy. They need to be modernized. How do you make the data available until the future environment is ready?
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.
Whitepaper: Data Modernization
https://www.progress.com/campaigns/datadirect/whitepapers/data-modernization
Master Regulatory Compliance With Business Rules Management
Regulatory compliance is currently one of the most costly challenges faced by financial institutions. Specifically, they must satisfy a proliferation of quickly evolving regulatory specifications or face large fines, loss of reputation or even a liquidity crisis. Fortunately, Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) enable better business engagement with compliance rules, greater agility in change management, faster execution, better scalability and the ability to tackle performance-critical problems.
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Master Regulatory Compliance With Business Rules Management
In this paper, we’ll examine how a modern BRMS can help financial institutions address regulatory compliance and keep up with ever-changing regulations, while reducing operational costs and risk associated with non-compliance.
Enterprise Data Connectivity: Build vs Buy?
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.
Enterprise Data Connectivity: Build vs Buy?
https://www.progress.com/campaigns/datadirect/whitepapers/build-vs-buy
Progress Application Server for OpenEdge: Tuning Guide
In this technical whitepaper you'll find best practice guidance for tuning the Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge. It provides relevant architectural information, description of the configuration controls to be used, and recommendations of how to achieve optimal performance for your OpenEdge ABL application.
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Progress Application Server for OpenEdge: Tuning Guide
The Progress Application Server for OpenEdge (PAS for OpenEdge) is a modern, sophisticated, highly-scalable application server requiring fewer system resources and easing installation, configuration and management. This innovative technology helps you bring your application into the future by modernizing experiences and limiting security vulnerabilities. However, as a web server it will not be configured, monitored or tuned like the classic Progress OpenEdge Application Server. In this technical white paper, you will receive basic guidance for tuning PAS for OpenEdge to achieve optimal performance for your ABL application.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/progress-applicaiton-server-for-openedge-tuning-guide.pdf?sfvrsn=a96ce4c4_0
The Future of Application Development
The OpenEdge Developers Kit: Classroom Edition is a new application development toolkit, designed for aspiring developers eager to make an impact through business-critical applications. The Classroom Edition expands students’ knowledge of those applications, while introducing them to our easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, rapid and robust development platform.
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The Future of Application Development
The OpenEdge Developers Kit: Classroom Edition is a new application development toolkit, designed for aspiring developers eager to make an impact through business-critical applications. The Classroom Edition expands students’ knowledge of those applications, while introducing them to our easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, rapid and robust development platform.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/datasheet---the-future-of-application-development---pdsoe.pdf?sfvrsn=bf2a58cd_0
Creating the World's Leading Business Applications
Progress® OpenEdge® gives developers the ability to build and protect beautiful applications and deploy across any platform and mobile device—on-premise, cloud, or hybrid. With OpenEdge technology and services, organizations can readily extend transaction-oriented systems into ad hoc applications that capitalize on technology trends and deliver transformative business results, opening new markets and optimizing profits. As one of the leading and most cost-effective rapid application development platforms, it is architected to help businesses meet the demands of the digital age.
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Creating the World's Leading Business Applications
Progress® OpenEdge® gives developers the ability to build and protect beautiful applications and deploy across any platform and mobile device—on-premise, cloud, or hybrid. With OpenEdge technology and services, organizations can readily extend transaction-oriented systems into ad hoc applications that capitalize on technology trends and deliver transformative business results, opening new markets and optimizing profits. As one of the leading and most cost-effective rapid application development platforms, it is architected to help businesses meet the demands of the digital age.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/creating-the-worlds-best-business_apps_overviewa.pdf?sfvrsn=9c334a42_0
Seizing the SaaS Opportunity: Getting Started Guide
While IT budgets continue to decrease, the demand for innovation and complex systems is increasing, and, as such, the cloud has become a major component of delivering business transformation. This comprehensive guide provides an overview of the market drivers elevating the need for application providers to provide a Software-as-a-Service offering as well as business model considerations, pricing models and Progress partner enablement programs to help you get started.
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Seizing the SaaS Opportunity: Getting Started Guide
This surge in cloud adoption has lessened the need for on-premises customized offerings significantly; cloud vendors are growing business as much as 12x faster than traditional software vendors. Given the growth and resiliency of the SaaS market, all types of vendors are seeking to seize the opportunity, including Progress ISVs like you, who have the specialized and/or vertical domain expertise to transition smoothly to the SaaS model. Learn more
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/ebook_embracing_saas_opportunities_0717.pdf?sfvrsn=8ed9c265_0
Progress OpenEdge SQL Compliance to Core SQL:2011
The SQL standards provide value to application and tooling developers, as well as end users, by defining the common, agreed on form and meaning of SQL for interacting with relational databases. This detailed technical white paper provides an at-a-glance view of how OpenEdge SQL, since the release of OpenEdge 11.5, is largely compliant with Core SQL:2011.
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Progress OpenEdge SQL Compliance to Core SQL:2011
The table descriptions provided in this document demonstrate how OpenEdge SQL conforms to the features and sub-features of Core SQL:2011 standards. It is organized by major features that are familiar to all SQL and most Advanced Business Logic (ABL) users, and provides clarity for anyone wanting to cross-reference other descriptions of the SQL standard.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/progress-openedge-sql-compliance-to-core-sql-2011.pdf?sfvrsn=713a881e_0
Achieving Business Agility
Regardless of your industry, the business agility that’s key to survival is all about making the right decisions at the right time with the right data. Since data drives decisions, agility actually begins with corporate IT and extends throughout the enterprise. That’s where technology like Progress® Corticon® can help.
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Achieving Business Agility
Regardless of your industry, the business agility that’s key to survival is all about making the right decisions at the right time with the right data. Since data drives decisions, agility actually begins with corporate IT and extends throughout the enterprise. That’s where technology like Progress® Corticon® can help.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/corticon/businessagility.pdf?sfvrsn=de0fac1c_0
Busting through Personalization Myths
Despite 77% of consumers preferring personalized content, marketers still worry personalization will offend customers and hurt their bottom line. This infographic shows how to introduce personalization in ways that please customers and grow your business.
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Busting through Personalization Myths
Despite 77% of consumers preferring personalized content, marketers still worry personalization will offend customers and hurt their bottom line. This infographic shows how to introduce personalization in ways that please customers and grow your business.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/default-document-library/progress/documents/papers/busting_personalization_myths_infographic.pdf?sfvrsn=759f9ba5_0