Webinars

The Experience You’ve Been Waiting For: Kendo UI Builder 2.0

Kendo UI Builder 2.0 is the trusted industry-leading technology you need to rapidly deliver elegant Progress OpenEdge web experiences.

Watch this webinar to view an in-depth technical demo and to hear from Senior Principal Product Manager Michael Marriage and Software Fellow Shelly Chase as they take you through the new features and functionality you’ve asked for in Kendo UI Builder 2.0, which will help you to:

• Quickly transform your OpenEdge apps and deliver elegant web experiences
• Kick-start development with an extended library of built-in templates
• Customize screens with Blank View to fit your business needs
• Gain data connectivity capabilities through JSDO, OData and REST, and more

Learn how responsive web experiences made with Kendo UI Builder 2.0 will help meet user expectations and stay competitive.

Frictionless Hybrid Data Access for Clouds

Learn how Paxata delivers firewall-friendly connectivity to on-premises data for customers.

Enterprises today are rapidly adopting the cloud, while continuing to retain sensitive business data inside the firewall. Cloud ISVs often get requests to connect these database silos (big or relational) using technologies such as VPN or SSH tunneling. However, these approaches are difficult to manage and not engineered for accessing business data from the cloud.

Cloud ISVs are looking to deliver a secure and frictionless data access experience for their customers. Hear directly from Paxata about how the company leverages Progress Hybrid Data Connectivity to securely connect hybrid environments for customers¾without requiring network changes.

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn:

• Common hybrid data access scenarios for cloud applications
• Common approaches to accessing business data behind the firewall
• How our vendor agnostic gateway allows cloud ISVs to securely connect to data behind the firewall
• How customers can access on-premises data and a wider range of data sources for data integration, quality, cleansing, shaping and enrichment with the Cloud version of Paxata's self-service data preparation platform.

Replicate Data Even Faster with OpenEdge Pro2 5.0

Faster replication, easier change management, streamlined configuration—get it all with OpenEdge Pro 2 5.0 Data has never been more vital to the success of the enterprise. With data replication, companies can ensure the data they rely on so heavily is accurate and updated whenever they need it. Now, you can supercharge your data replication performance with the latest release of Progress OpenEdge Pro2—especially if you’ve upgraded to OpenEdge 11.7. Using OpenEdge Change Data Capture (CDC) over replication triggers, OpenEdge Pro2 5.0 replicates data even faster to your target database--for reporting or analytics purposes.

During this on-demand session, Senior Principal Product Manager Mike Marriage and Senior Manager of Software Engineering Terry Mays discuss how OpenEdge Pro2 5.0 enables companies to:

- Simplify change management
- Streamline database maintenance and configuration
- Improve replication speed

Harness the Power of IoT with Progress Rollbase

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers exciting opportunities for companies that can channel its power into their business solutions. During this webinar, Dr. S. Dharmavasan, Director at Progress Partner Kingslake, will share his experience using Progress Rollbase to build an innovative transport management system with IoT capabilities. In this webinar, you'll learn:

•    What the Kingslake TranSmart solution does
•    How Rollbase enables Kingslake to quickly customize its solution for new applications, such as cargo transport and tour operations
•    How to leverage IoT technology to deliver business value
•    How fast and easy it is to build applications with IoT capabilities

OpenEdge 11.7—The Power Behind Your Business

Agility, security, scalability, robust SQL capabilities and more are what you need in your mission-critical business applications that can deploy across any platform and mobile device. The latest release of OpenEdge delivers all that and much more to help you gain and keep a competitive edge.

Learn from the Progress® OpenEdge® team about OpenEdge 11.7 capabilities such as high availability to keep downtime at bay, the new OpenEdge Authentication Gateway to fortify your security strategy, how you can tackle data management challenges and operate at scale through the new OpenEdge Change Data Capture (CDC) and all our new user-requested enhancements.

Journey to SAS Analytics Grid with SAS, R, Python

Can Your Current Infrastructure Support High-Performance Analytics and Data Science?

Big data, compliance and a highly skilled workforce are driving organizations to transform their current analytical infrastructure to deliver enterprise computing environments that can support the latest in data science and analytics practices. SAS remains a popular choice for statistical programming languages, but there is growing demand for R and Python. Data engineers are now being tasked to deliver scalable and highly available computing resources to support analytics for a growing number of users and increasing data volumes while maintaining security for their customers.

Watch this webinar to learn:

• Differences between traditional and Grid deployments for SAS
• Best practices and lessons learned in deploying an Analytics Grid
• How to deliver an open analytics strategy for SAS, R, Python and others
• Popular data sources for advanced analytics

Drive More Revenue with OpenEdge: Embedded Pro2

In this webinar, we will show how you can deliver near real-time data replication as an integrated ‘check box’ option in your application which offers:

• Significantly higher margins across a broader range of customer sizes than a referral or third-party reseller agreement
• Proven, reliable and secure OpenEdge data replication to MS-SQL Server, Oracle and/or OpenEdge targets
• A dramatic reduction in the risk, R&D costs and resources required to build and maintain a solution internally

Open versus Embedded Analytics for Cloud Apps

What is the right strategy for your product – ”embedded analytics,”or “open analytics,” that allow friction-less integration with external tools? Or could it be both?

This webinar explores popular open and embedded analytics strategies. It’s intended for cloud application vendors and ISVs with on-premises apps moving to the cloud. In this webinar, Progress and the Eckerson Group will share their deep expertise in business analytics.

Watch this on-demand webinar to:

• Get a market overview for popular analytics and data management tools
• Learn about embedded analytics and where it fits in an analytics strategy for cloud apps
• Learn about open analytics for cloud apps and how to deliver a BYOA ("bring your own analytics”) strategy
• Receive an overview of DataDirect Hybrid Services
• Enable open analytics via standard SQL (ODBC/JDBC) and REST (OData)

Turning a Failure Into Success

How a Business Rules Engine Transformed a Rocky Start Into a Triumph

The Maryland Health Benefits Exchange administers Maryland Health Connection, the State Based health insurance marketplace (SBM) for implementation of the Affordable Care Act. After the marketplace launch failed for a variety of reasons, a remarkable rescue operation transformed the initial failure into a high-profile success by adapting and reusing business rules from another state’s health insurance exchange.

Watch this on-demand recording to hear this incredible story from the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange.

Configuring Salesforce External Object Reports

Salesforce shops, including ourselves, have been eagerly anticipating external object support with reports. Starting in Winter ’17, you can build native reports with on-demand access to external data sources such as Oracle, SQL Server, Greenplum, Amazon Redshift, IBM DB2 or Hadoop Big Data Platforms.

External objects are powered by Salesforce Connect and provide clicks-not-code data access for admins, devs and general users. But is all of this too good to be true?

During this on-demand webinar, you’ll get:

• An introduction to external objects and their new capabilities for reporting and Wave trending
• Steps to setup Salesforce reports with external data sources
• Steps to produce OData from warehouses, marts, lakes and other reporting systems
• Report considerations and limitations with Salesforce Connect

Introducing Corticon 5.6

Announcing Corticon 5.6: New Extension Architecture and Cloud Deployment Support

Corticon 5.6 makes it easier than ever to manage ongoing changes to sophisticated rules projects. Watch this on demand recording as Mike Parish, Solution Engineer at Progress, presents an overview highlighting some of the new features in Corticon 5.6 and a Q&A session.

New Data Pipeline Transforms How Clouds Access Data

Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline Just Launched! Data connectivity has been completely disrupted by the proliferation of cloud applications, and this launch will disrupt that disruption by providing direct SQL (ODBC or JDBC) and REST (OData) standards based data access for hybrid cloud and on-premises architectures.

During this on-demand webinar you will:
Get a preview of the main product features, including real-time access to data sources, behind a firewall or in the cloud; single API to any data source across SQL or REST; flexible deployment to popular cloud platforms; and firewall friendly data access without any network configuration.

Accelerate Your OpenEdge Application Modernization with Kendo UI Builder

Transform your Progress OpenEdge web experiences with the newly launched, Kendo UI Builder by Progress.  Watch this on demand webinar to see firsthand how this responsive web UI productivity tool can help you to modernize your applications and future-proof UI as technologies evolve.  

Integrate Oracle Data Sources with Salesforce Connect

Greg Stasko, Progress DataDirect and Mitul Patel, Appirio, share their views on how Salesforce-to-Oracle integration was accomplished before the Salesforce Connect release and how Salesforce Connect changes the integration game.

During this on-demand webinar, you’ll learn:

• How Salesforce Connect delivers fast Salesforce-Oracle Integration
• About common Oracle sources that require integration
• How popular Salesforce-Oracle integration patterns differ.

Podcast: Scorching Hot Opportunities for Your Business with SaaS

It is easier and more secure than ever to deliver the robust SaaS solutions the market is clamoring for.

We invite you to our SaaS Fireside Chat, where Progress OpenEdge General Manager and VP Colleen Smith, and Richard Stone, Senior, Partner Development Manager, discuss how the SaaS market has evolved and why the time to develop this lucrative business model is now. 

Firewall Friendly Pipeline for Secure Data Access

Progress DataDirect will completely change the way public and private clouds access data.

Learn how to securely access data behind the firewall, without requiring SSH tunnels, reverse proxies or any changes to the firewall. This allows public or private cloud applications to access data stored within your organization. Data is accessed using industry standard interfaces for SQL (ODBC or JDBC) and REST (OData).

Finally, get an opportunity to sign up for a preview of “Project Mustang” which is creating a storm of disruption in the hybrid integration space.

Webinar: The Inside Scoop on Apache Sqoop

Apache Sqoop is the standard tool for loading and exporting data between Hadoop and traditional data stores, such as relational databases or SaaS applications, through a standard JDBC interface. Sqoop serves as the data access layer for the Hadoop ecosystem to connect external structured data. What could go wrong connecting a massively distributed data processing system with your core business data?

Watch this on-demand webinar to:

• Get an introduction to Apache Sqoop
• Learn which data sources are accessible via JDBC for Sqoop
• Receive the latest best practices and lessons from the field

Binding Kendo UI to Any Data with OData

Kendo UI® is an impressive HTML5 user interface framework for your apps. It has an equally impressive story for accessing data for its data management components. Kendo UI enables developers to create modern websites and apps using OData, an industry standard REST API to access any type of data source. Accessing OData data sources with Progress DataDirect Cloud® solves connectivity and integration challenges. Now, developers can spend more time building amazing apps and less time learning new web services APIs. In short, Kendo UI is your web developer’s new best friend. Watch this on-demand webinar to discover how accessing OData data sources with Progress DataDirect Cloud simplifies connectivity and integration so you can build amazing apps faster.

SQL Access to Cassandra NoSQL Databases

The growing popularity of NoSQL is wreaking havoc on core business system integrations in organizations of all sizes. NoSQL databases have query languages and frameworks to better support SQL-like operations, but they are still incompatible with existing SQL-based infrastructures. Join Progress and Software AG in this on-demand webinar to learn more about the industry's leading suite of production-ready JDBC connectors for SQL on NoSQL databases.  

Crafting Strategy and Technology for Digital Transformation

In this webinar, Carl Lehmann, Hybrid IT analyst at 451 Research and Mark Troester, vice president at Progress, discuss how to define and structure digital transformation initiatives unique to your firm, and how best to craft the digital journeys needed for both new business and new business models.