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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.

Understand the best practices for achieving success with PaaS.

Heard the buzz around SaaS (software-as-a-service)? Ready to make the switch to this new, more profitable approach? You'll find information about market strategy and planning, how SaaS can help your company, how it differs from traditional software delivery, pricing, requirements and much more. Check out this must-have guide to get the answers to all your questions and more.

Key findings show how PaaS is improving business software application delivery. Get real insight into organizational readiness for PaaS and exactly how it’s easing the pressure of faster development.

Discover how Progress DataDirect provides standards-based relational connectivity to MongoDB data through ODBC or JDBC.

A list of applications, databases and platforms supported by Progress DataDirect.

Download a quick technical summation of the benefits and specifications of the Progress Pacific Platform-as-a-Service offering.

The Progress DataDirect On-Premise Connector allows secure and real-time access to in-network data sources from anywhere, using real-time and direct ODBC/JDBC data connectivity through the DataDirect Cloud service.

Progress® Rollbase® can provide the flexibility your stable, trusted but brittle systems of record (SORs) require to create a more responsive and agile application development environment. Rollbase, part of Progress Pacific Platform as a Service (PaaS), provides a cloud-based automation layer that allows you to obtain information from customers from their mobile devices, laptops and transaction databases so you can analyze and anticipate their needs while enhancing their experience through an interconnected infrastructure. Doing so enables you to fully leverage your current systems of transactions and lets you cost-effectively set the stage for continuous innovation and competitive differentiation.

Progress DataDirect OpenAccess SDK is the industry’s leading custom driver development kit that enables custom drivers for any data source to be developed within weeks. Whether your data source is a proprietary file format or a proprietary API, OpenAccess SDK can be used to make it SQL-accessible from ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, or ADO.NET-compliant applications. This overview explores how opening up your application’s data through open standards dramatically improves accessibility to it from widely used reporting, analysis, and development tools.

When used alone, Corticon Business Rules Server ("Corticon Server") provides scalable, high performance transaction processing via a stateless, request/response architecture. This is ideally suited for online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, using either XML Web Services, or in-process Java or .NET. Using this architecture, a calling application sends a payload to a target decision service. The Corticon Server processes the payload by executing the rules within the target decision service, and then returns a response, including both resulting data and an audit trail indicating the rules that fired.

Many of the applications enterprises rely on for data reside in the cloud, but there is no standard way to access that data. Progress DataDirect Cloud is a data connectivity service delivered from the cloud.

Whether you’re on-boarding new customers, processing claims, determining product configurations, or assessing program eligibility, your decisions are governed by a set of business rules. Organizations want to make better, faster decisions, and be agile enough to change on a dime. Learn how Progress Corticon's BRMS can help you achieve your goals even faster by allowing you to manage and quickly modify the business rules that affect your decisions.

Whether you use Windows, Linux, or any major UNIX system, one key answer is: by deploying your services and applications on Progress® OpenEdge® RDBMS. This is a high-performance, relational database that scales from single-user laptop systems to massive multiprocessing environments that support thousands of concurrent users and terabytes of data.

Providers of business intelligence software and services need to deliver leading-edge solutions to customers that offer a comprehensive view of the business and the ability to discover trends, visualize their impact, and display findings with real-time business dashboards. This solution brief describes how Progress DataDirect provides easy, unified access to a wide variety of data sources, with seamless connectivity to both cloud and on-premise data helping to reduce maintenance headaches and costs while providing an optimal BI solution to your customers.

A new report released by Progress Software provides a comprehensive view of the key trends and emerging technologies in the database ecosystem. The report, titled DataDirect Data Index, details the results a global survey of 300 data scientists, business analysts, developers and knowledge workers focused on how they are using data and where they have had success in their business.

Nucleus Research found Progress OpenEdge customers and partners deliver application innovation at a faster pace and lower overall cost than competing development environments.

Progress® Corticon® Business Rules Foundation is an open, flexible platform to embed Corticon's Business Rules Management (BRMS) capabilities into any enterprise application. The Corticon Foundation consists of a rich library of model-driven BRMS functions that can be exposed in any form. Read this data sheet to learn how to integrate business rules creation and management directly into an application.

What benefits does a high productivity Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offer organizations? Michael Benedict of Progress Software describes five ways businesses can improve productivity with PaaS.