Whitepapers
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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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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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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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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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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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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Seven Tips to Help You with Your Personalization Strategy
Without the right CMS, personalization can be hard to implement, hard to scale and hard to analyze. Because of this, many organizations struggle to implement it correctly and some do not even implement it all because they think they might fail.
To help you learn more about personalization, check out this infographic that provides 7 tips for better personalization.
Leverage Your SharePoint Investment in a Digital World
After properly integrating a content management system with SharePoint, you should keep document management capabilities without sacrificing efficient content delivery to web and mobile. Learn what you may be doing wrong.
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Three Steps to Digital Marketing Enlightenment
Eighty-five percent of business leaders believe big data will change the way they do business. Are you ready? Follow three easy steps to grow your business by better harnessing your data.
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Five Points on the Path to Personalization
Businesses agree: personalization is critical to future success. Take a fairy tale journey to see how personalization can drive your bottom line.
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OpenEdge RDBMS | Advanced Enterprise Edition
Rapid changes in today’s business environment mean your tools need to both keep pace and be powerful enough to manage your intensive database needs. Progress delivers an innovative on-premise, cloud or hybrid computing and application production solution in one package—without breaking your budget or sacrificing security.
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Pro2 Data Replication Whitepaper
Pro2 takes advantage of built-in replication support for OpenEdge databases and provides the most reliable platform for consistent performance and data integrity with a minimal footprint.
Multi-Tenancy Overview
To understand multi-tenancy as a database concept it is easiest to start with the original derivation of the term, which, of course, comes from the familiar world of real estate. An apartment building provides multi-tenant housing, serving any number of tenants—from individuals who live alone, to couples, groups, and families of various sizes. Within the apartment building, each of these tenants has its own set of requirements for accommodations, storage space, and utilities.
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Connectivity Solutions for All Your Data Sources
You can't fully leverage your data if you can't quickly and easily access it. Take a look at our standards-based data connectivity solutions that include the full range of relational, cloud, NoSQL and Big Data including ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and OData. Maximize your data, wherever it resides.
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Powering Better Social Services
Why a Business Rules Engine is Essential for Child Welfare Programs
Over the last 20 years, child welfare department leaders hoped that a statewide automated child welfare information system (SACWIS) would streamline case management, give caseworkers access to more data to make child welfare decisions and improve the agency’s overall operations. Instead, they were left with severe technical issues, among a host of other issues.
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Over the last 20 years, child welfare department leaders hoped that a statewide automated child welfare information system (SACWIS) would streamline case management, give caseworkers access to more data to make child welfare decisions and improve the agency’s overall operations. Instead, they were left with severe technical issues, among a host of other issues.
Progress OpenEdge Table Partitioning Whitepaper: Improve Performance for Increased Concurrency
As one of the key features released in Progress® OpenEdge® 11.4,
Table Partitioning enables customer data and indexes to be
horizontally split into smaller storage units (partitions), while
maintaining logical integrity of the data.
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Table Partitioning enables customer data and indexes to be
horizontally split into smaller storage units (partitions), while
maintaining logical integrity of the data.
Enable a Pace-Layered Approach to Business Technology
While aware of the complexity of digital business, business users cannot understand why their business applications don’t work the way their mobile apps do. They have run out of patience. And IT has run out of time. Adopting a pace-layered strategy in order to serve as an enabler of business innovation can bridge the gap.
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The Fastest, Easiest Way to Integrate Oracle Systems with Salesforce
Are you struggling with integrating data in Oracle systems like Siebel and JD Edwards with Salesforce? Are you feeling pressure to deliver data-driven features to your Salesforce users? The best way to do that is with Salesforce Connect, which uses OData to integrate external data. But Salesforce Connect doesn’t provide OData connectivity to Oracle. Nor does Oracle play well with OData. What’s needed is a connectivity solution that combines OData services with built-in access to Oracle. In this whitepaper, we’ll take a look at Salesforce Connect, OData and what to look for in a real-time connectivity solution.
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Progress Consulting Services Modernization Blueprint
This whitepaper documents the primary components of the Progress Modernization Engagement, which we call the Progress Modernization Blueprint.
Digital Dialog: Agile and Efficient Citizen Services
Many government agencies are revamping their information technology infrastructures to simplify the process of making changes required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The State of Indiana chose Corticon as its business rules engine for driving the Medicaid provider enrollment process—a process historically fraught with paperwork and multiple handoffs—and for determining eligibility across all State-funded programs.
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