Progress® Software: Webspeed®, OpenEdge®

Progress Software Corporation Overview

Headquartered on the outskirts of booming Boston in the town of Bedford, Massachusetts, the Progress Software Corporation began in 1981 as Data Language Corporation, a small software company founded by Joseph Alsop, Clyde Kessel, and Charles Ziering.

Progress provides agile software solutions that give enterprises real-time visibility across the entire business, and the power to respond to changing conditions as they occur. Progress technology also helps build modern applications and delivers SOA to bring it all together. Your industry or business is probably associated with Progress; areas such as financial trading, telecommunication, financial services, government, medical, and manufacturing use Progress right now. Xensys has Progress clients in similar industries.

The Progress Software Business

Perhaps best known for application infrastructure software, Progress has earned its name for Progress 4GL, which arose in the 1980s as a Fourth Generation programming language. Technology evolution has seen Moore's Law shattered, with 4GL churning into OpenEdge Advanced Business Language, or OpenEdge ABL. Unique to this application development language is the English syntax used to abridge software development. Progress 4GL, now called OpenEdge ABL.

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Application Development Platform Products

4GL

The world is getting smaller and competition heavier. In a marketplace where information is king, the programming language you choose or the developer you hire ultimately dictates your success. Fourth Generation Languages have the advantages of increasing productivity while driving down the cost of application development. The right choice then lies within the right 4GL tool for your business. Progress 4GL allows novel tools that allow the developer to:

Implement many alterations to a variety of programs rapidly with file drag and drop, cut and paste, and search and replace within the Procedure Editor

Make executable code on all applications using the Application Compiler

Find and fix bugs in an application using the Debugger

Manage database definitions and business rules

Make elements to launch within a client-server, n-tier, or Internet application using the Open Client Toolkit

Transfer description data from applications that are not OpenEdge into OpenEdge servers for Microsoft SQL, ODBC, and Oracle

OpenEdge

Fourth Generation Languages power the new OpenEdge. Progress recently launched its OpenEdge 10.1B, a revolutionary dependable and adaptable business application platform allowing you to set your business apart from the crowd. Application platforms such as OpenEdge provide developers and end-users quick launching of a standards-based, service-oriented product with a lower total cost of ownership.

WebSpeed

The glory of WebSpeed is in its name. WebSpeed takes a Progress application and allows it to be used quickly and easily across a web environment or company intranet and extranet. This significantly decreases costs and is accessible to employees in any location. Many Progress applications can be enabled to run on WebSpeed, from orders and data-entry to customer support, RFID and inventory management. For information on WebSpeed Consulting contact a Xensys consultant.

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