OpenEdge Application Modernization
Progress Professional Services offers application modernization services to help you develop and evolve your mission-critical business applications to run on the latest Progress® OpenEdge® technology with the best functionality and user experience.
What Is Application Modernization?
Migrating a character, graphical user interface (GUI) or early web application to a modern web-based platform is the most common example of application modernization, but it can also include rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, rewriting or using modern development tools to transform existing applications.
When You Partner with Progress Professional Services to Modernize Your OpenEdge Application, We Help You:
Keep your application technology and architecture secure and state-of-the-art.
Enrich your application to meet changing user expectations.
Add application features that continue to support users in their effort to increase productivity and customer satisfaction.
Your digital transformation focuses on reducing technical debt while developing and deploying a roadmap for your mission-critical business applications’—and your business’—future.
AI-Powered Modernization
We deliver purpose-built AI solutions that accelerate your Progress OpenEdge modernization journey—boosting productivity, unlocking data value and enabling future-ready transformation.
Progress OpenEdge MCP Connector for ABL
Ship Advanced Business Language (ABL) more quickly, cleanly and confidently with a connector designed specifically for OpenEdge development. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) Connector for ABL integrates Generative AI (GenAI) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to automate repetitive coding tasks, help meet compliance guidelines and deliver real-time, context-aware guidance, all within your Integrated Development Environment (IDE). With the MCP Connector, you can:
- Reduce modernization risks by automating migration tasks and eliminating manual rewrites
- Enable accelerated transformation by standardizing modern practices across the development lifecycle
- Lower maintenance and modernization costs, creating a foundation that adapts with innovation
Improve Your Code Quality
Using Sigrid for Progress software, a platform by Software Improvement Group (SIG), we can measure the code and architecture quality of OpenEdge applications to create an Application Quality and Security Management assessment for your business. Progress Professional Services experts provide a comprehensive overview of the health of your applications, offering detailed insights and guidance on all aspects of quality, architecture and security. We then offer guidance to reduce technical debt, prioritize modernization efforts and support the execution of software development, providing justification and transparency around the need for application modernization.
Application Quality and Security Management Assessments Include:
An evaluation of goals around security, maintainability and architecture quality.
A maintainability score to identify risks and areas for improvement.
An analysis of security threats in your codebase.
A visualization of existing architecture implementation to find improvement opportunities.
Your Modernization Journey Starts Here
Every OpenEdge application modernization project begins with a modernization assessment from the Professional Services team. We work with you to identify a recommended architecture and then define a roadmap to achieve goals specific for the environment and organization. Modernizing an application can boost customer satisfaction, reduce operating costs and increase adaptability by delivering an exciting user experience while protecting current investments.
Modernization Assessments include:
- An evaluation of the existing roles and skills of the development team.
- An inventory of current and future technology requirements.
- A review of the business model and an assessment of business requirements.
- A charter document to determine the approach and iteration plan of the modernization project.
The Benefits of Application Modernization
Keeping pace with the needs of your users is an ongoing process that starts with thinking about where your business is today and where you want it to be tomorrow. Whatever your OpenEdge technology or architecture, we are here to help you quickly and smoothly make the changes you need to improve your business application’s agility and performance.
Extensibility and Integration
The ability to extend information and capabilities across many connections, devices and data sources.
Scalability
The ability to grow and scale as the number of users and connections increases without affecting performance.
Performance
The measurement of response time to act on a user’s input or finish an amount of work under normal and peak loads.
High Availability
The measurement against a goal of continuous uptime and avoidance of data loss due to a disaster or breach.
Security
The capability to help protect sensitive data and support compliance efforts with advanced security features.
Organizational Agility
The organization’s agile culture and ability to develop and deploy new application functionality quickly and productively.
Engaging Usability
The presentation layer’s ability to provide intuitive and exciting experiences for users.
Achieve Your Application Modernization Goals
By embarking on a journey of continuous application evolution, enterprises can position themselves to be more agile while continuing to drive value to the business. The Progress Professional Services modernization process enables businesses to establish improved time to market, increased productivity and lower overall costs. Find the modernization path that helps you achieve your business goals.
Engage our experts to migrate and optimize PAS for OpenEdge to meet your business needs.
Let us help you build a CI/CD strategy that empowers fast, reliable software delivery.
Craft the ideal user experience for your application.
By moving to Progress Application Server for OpenEdge, we didn’t have to build improved authorizations and security for cloud migration from scratch. It’s been a great journey finding more innovative ways to serve our customers.
Progress is uniquely positioned to provide OpenEdge customers with options and guidance for modernizing their applications. Progress has a deep understanding of how OpenEdge applications can be optimally modernized with minimal disruption.
