Customer Experience is the New Business Battleground
As the digital revolution continues to transform how businesses interact with their audiences, consumers are increasingly demanding new forms of empowerment. Companies must address these demands to craft a better customer experience, especially as more brands begin to engage their audiences through mobile channels.
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Customer Experience is the New Business Battleground
As the digital revolution continues to transform how businesses interact with their audiences, consumers are increasingly demanding new forms of empowerment. Companies must address these demands to craft a better customer experience, especially as more brands begin to engage their audiences through mobile channels.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/default-document-library/progress/documents/papers/customer-experience-is-the-new-business-battleground--infographic.pdf?sfvrsn=8cea0429_0
Application Evolution
Capture the Business and Technology Trends of Today and Tomorrow. From modernizing legacy solutions to learning new technology, Progress Services can empower you to evolve your applications to meet the needs of your users.
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Application Evolution
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/default-document-library/app_evo_ebook_2017_nov.pdf?sfvrsn=ff202795_0
Progress OpenEdge Change Data Capture Datasheet
The vast accumulation and subsequent dependency on data continues to accelerate at a rapid pace. Effectively keeping the multiple data sources housed within an organization updated is a cumbersome and time intensive process. Progress® OpenEdge® Change Data Capture, added to the family of database components with the release of OpenEdge 11.7, helps organizations to quickly identify, track and save data that has changed.
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Progress OpenEdge Change Data Capture Datasheet
OpenEdge Change Data Capture is a flexible and scalable capture process facilitates the ETL —extraction, transformation and eventually the loading—of the data to an external data source such as a data warehouse or analytics application.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/openedge_change-data-capture_datasheet.pdf?sfvrsn=b2865f04_0
Progress SaaS FastTrack
The shift from providing products to offering SaaS requires a substantial change in the business model. The approach promises to create new, more profitable revenue streams for ISVs, but requires existing software vendors evaluate their current business and determine what a successful SaaS business model will entail. The Progress SaaS FastTrack is an online tool designed to help you plan a successful SaaS business.
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Progress SaaS FastTrack
Exclusively for Progress Partners, the SaaS FastTrack Program helps you define, create, execute and measure a SaaS strategy unique to your business. Delivered as an annual subscription, users can leverage these tools:
Solution Planning: Define your cloud or SaaS solution and compare it to the on-premise equivalent.
Solution Pricing: Quantify your offering through extensive
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modeling.
Market Opportunity Insight: Compare your current market to where your transition will take you over the next four years.
Revenue Planning: Automatically gather all your results to form your SaaS revenue plan and generate both analysis and recommendations on next steps.
Given the growth and resiliency of the SaaS market, Progress ISVs are seeking to seize the opportunity. Make the transition smooth with the SaaS FastTrack.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/openedge/progress-saas-fasttrack-datasheet-final.pdf?sfvrsn=d4a144d5_2
2017 Data Connectivity Outlook Survey
Research on the latest trends in database technologies
SaaS Adoption Increases from 62% to 79%
That’s just one of the findings in our 4th annual survey, based on responses from 1,200 participants around the world.
Data continues to spread across a variety of sources. And SaaS adoption is increasing significantly, resulting in an explosion of cloud-created data.
Read the report to learn:
- Use of RDBMS, big data, NoSQL and SaaS
- Biggest data integration challenges
- How standards can help solve data integration challenges
- Current state of application adoption
- Firewall concerns and solutions for connecting cloud and ground
- Open analytics trend among ISVs
- Data compliance requirements across industries
2017 Data Connectivity Outlook Survey
https://www.progress.com/campaigns/datadirect/whitepapers/2017-data-connectivity-outlook-survey
Kinvey Cloud Services Security Overview
Security and privacy are major concerns when it comes to enterprise mobile applications, which is why the Kinvey application development platform was built with this in mind. To learn more, download the complete whitepaper.
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Kinvey Cloud Services Security Overview
Security and privacy are major concerns when it comes to enterprise mobile applications. In fact, many enterprises are only moderately confident about the efficacy of their mobile security controls and policies.
The use of a secure, enterprise-grade mobile backend-as-a-service (mBaaS) solution alleviates these security and privacy risks by isolating and protecting enterprise data sources and networks from client applications running on untrusted devices and their networks. The Kinvey application development platform has been built to the highest security standard.
This document details Kinvey's security practices, including:
• Network security
• Monitoring
• Device communication security
To learn more, download the complete whitepaper.
https://d117h1jjiq768j.cloudfront.net/docs/default-source/default-document-library/kinvey-security-v3.pdf?sfvrsn=5ad40112_0
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.
Download the whitepaper to learn:
- 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
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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