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Progress OpenEdge 11 Makes Enterprises Operationally Responsive to Changing Conditions

By Shamila Janakiraman
TMCnet Contributor

Progress Software (News - Alert) Corporation, a software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, announced Progress OpenEdge 11, a comprehensive development platform.

The company enables businesses to respond to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur to capitalize on new opportunities and reduce risk. Progress solutions provide event-driven visibility and real-time response, open integration, data access and integration, and application development and deployment which support on-premises and SaaS (News - Alert)/Cloud deployments.

Colleen Smith, vice president of Platforms and Integration, Progress Software, said in a release, “Using the latest OpenEdge platform, our ISV partners can develop dynamic solutions that incorporate business process and integration capabilities across multiple platforms and devices in a secure manner.”

“Whether deployed on-premise or in the Cloud using the ProgressArcade portal, we offer our customers and ISV partners a single, integrated, development platform that provides significant cost savings and increased productivity,” Smith added.

This platform helps in building dynamic, business-process enabled software applications that can be securely deployed across any platform, any mobile device and any Cloud. This new version of the Progress OpenEdge platform offers a patent-pending multi-tenant database; multi-Cloud deployment options; business process-enabled development and provides extended platform support for mobile devices.

Officials said that these features reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) besides cutting down on the time taken to develop and deploy Cloud-based applications. The OpenEdge 11 release is expected to be available generally by the end of 2011.

The OpenEdge 11 release has multi-tenancy features built into the database and it physically separates data storage thereby enabling greater security and control for Cloud deployments. Also this release simplifies SaaS (software-as-a-service) enablement and ensures complete platform diversity.

The Progress Savvion Business Process Management or BPM platform increases productivity and ensures continuous process improvement. Also it has been fully integrated into OpenEdge 11 which helps IT developers and ISV partners to seamlessly develop dynamic business process-enabled applications.

Progress Software also announced the availability of the Progress Arcade portal, a new Cloud deployment environment, in which software companies and solution providers can create, stage and test SaaS applications as well as deploy and manage them in the Cloud.