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.

For Pharma: Innovation in Patient Reported Outcomes

Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) are vital for assessing how a patient is doing over time and can be used to evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQOL), treatment evaluation and symptom reduction. In this webinar, Marc Porter (Managing Director of Healthcare at IOMEDIA), Joe Corkery (Senior Product Manager at Google Cloud Platform) and Jikku Venkat (VP of Product for Kinvey at Progress) discuss how patient-centric apps can be used to dramatically improve PRO.

For Providers: Innovation and Digital Health Acceleration

The bar for user experiences is constantly being raised, and healthcare providers must keep up with growing expectations. In this webinar, Carla Small (Boston Children’s Hospital Digital Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator), Joe Corkery (Healthcare Product Management at Google Cloud Platform) and Jikku Venkat (VP of Product for Kinvey at Progress) discuss how to harness—and scale—digital innovation across your provider community to drive better results.

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.

Digital Transformation and the Modernization Imperative

In this webinar, IDC Analyst Al Hilwa and Progress VP John Harlow examine the importance of modernizing apps as part of a digital transformation strategy, as well as how to get started.

SQL or SOQL for Salesforce Analytics

Salesforce analytics and BI continues to be a trending, hot topic as organizations implement new platforms to improve their customer intelligence. But what’s the best way to access the data? SOQL is the popular query language for Salesforce. However, SQL may be better suited for accessing data for analytics. Watch this on-demand webinar and join us in the great SOQL vs. SQL query debate to see which one is best for your analytics project.  

Leveraging a Four-Tier Architecture: Real World Use Cases

In this webinar, we will take a deeper look at specifically how enterprises are integrating mBaaS into their four-tier architecture. Join us as we go over several mobile application use cases, dissecting how enterprises create their apps and how they leverage the new mobile architecture paradigm to produce great apps in the shortest time and while generating the most ROI. 

How Big Data ISVs Get Marketing Data into Lakes

Watch this on-demand webinar to see how ISVs are accelerating big data technology adoption with a single interface to numerous marketing cloud data sources such as Salesforce, Marketo, Eloqua, Oracle Service Cloud, Google Analytics and Adobe Omniture.

Making Complex Rules Simple

One of the most complex parts of a realtor’s job is determining what forms to use, when to use them and for what transaction. For the California Association of REALTORS® (C.A.R.), providing forms advice to members was an ongoing challenge. Today, C.A.R. helps its members filter a mind-boggling number of form combinations through the use of a technology—a Business Rules Management System (BRMS).  

By using a BRMS, service calls went down 30% and member form compliance achieved 100%.

Watch this on demand webcast, as Josh Sharfman, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer at C.A.R. discusses:

• The challenges C.A.R. was facing and why it chose BRMS technology
• How a BRMS can help subject matter experts, whether they’re developers or business analysts
• The steps C.A.R. took from initial development to BRMS deployment
• Business benefits attained—productivity and business ability improvements
• C.A.R.’s future technology plans

   

An Untapped Market: Seize Your SaaS Opportunity

Progress webinar replay, includes Rob Mahowald, Group VP at IDC and Colleen Smith, General Manager of Progress OpenEdge discusses the worldwide economic impact of this surging business model, and share best practices for SaaS success.