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The Progress Booth

Stop by the Radio City Ballroom and see the latest product enhancements come to life in demos and test drives. Get the answers you need from those most knowledgeable.

What’s New in OpenEdge 10?

Attendees not only learned how the latest release of OpenEdge 10 continues to deliver the products, technology and services they depend upon, in one-on-one discussions they learned how OpenEdge 10 can help them with their unique situations. Users on an older release of Progress or OpenEdge found out what resources were available to help them move to OpenEdge 10 as well as why upgrade and take advantage of the latest advances delivered as part of OpenEdge 10.1C?

Developing with OpenEdge

Attendees got up close with the latest OpenEdge enhancements.  OpenEdge Architect includes tools that allow developers to implement new interfaces, access new data sources, integrate with any other application and deploy to new hardware (devices and platforms) with far less effort, time and cost than other development environments. Recent advances include enhanced object-oriented programming capabilities to facilitate object reuse and improve developer productivity as well as database resiliency validations that minimize planned downtime for maintenance and upgrades and reduce unplanned downtime by identifying and correcting problems.

Competitive Graphical User Interface (GUI) from OpenEdge

At this pedestal attendees got a sneak peek of our new development tools for building modern user interfaces with the latest Windows look and feel. From within OpenEdge Architect, you can drag and drop controls on the drawing canvas and code the interface logic entirely in ABL. Everything needed is accessed from within our toolset—no need to learn other interface technologies to build the most modern clients for your applications.

Develop and Deliver a Competitive GUI from OpenEdge

Here’s where attendees learned about OpenEdge Architect and how the Advanced GUI enables the development and delivery of a competitive user interface. Exciting new capabilities include developing a .NET based GUI from within OpenEdge, the ability to retain your existing business logic and much more. Be one of the first to take advantage of new features by signing up for the 10.2A Beta—stop by and ask how.

Running and Managing Your Applications on OpenEdge

OpenEdge provides a reliable, scalable and cost-effective platform to run and manage key business applications. The platform has everything you need: our RDBMS and DataServers (if you want to access another vendor’s DB); an application server; and replication and management to make sure your business functions are always available. Attendees learned about our most recent business logic enhancements, including structured error handling which provides a simpler and more consistent method for handling errors.

OpenEdge Integration

Achieve the benefits of SOA.Our integration specialists were available to show how your OpenEdge environment can implement service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles—helping you to kick-start building the next generation of integration-ready business applications.

Sonic – Enterprise Service Bus

Here’s where attendees learned the latest on Sonic ESB—a messaging-based enterprise service bus that simplifies the integration and flexible re-use of business applications within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic ESB eliminates the rigidity and fragility of point-to-point integration with a robust, event-driven architecture that can evolve, scale and extend throughout the enterprise.

Sonic – Enterprise Messaging

Attendees got the chance to see how SonicMQ, a standards-based enterprise messaging system, provides a unique combination of scalability and reliable message delivery to provide superior return on investment. Based on a distributed architecture, SonicMQ eliminates the bottlenecks and single point of failure that prevent other technologies from providing the combination of high scalability with high reliability.

Progress Apama

If you wanted to find out how the Apama platform puts “the Brains in BAM” you were not disappointed. Apama is a comprehensive platform for building complex event processing applications that enable organizations to monitor event streams from diverse sources, detect complex patterns and take action. Apama provides complex event processing (CEP) and business activity monitoring (BAM) support for applications in a wide range of markets.

Progress Actional – SOA Management

Whether you just started creating Web services or have a full-blown SOA you learned how the Actional SOA Management Product Family equips you with functionality that ensures success. Actional keeps an SOA up and running smoothly and effectively, by providing operational and business visibility, root cause analysis, policy-based security and control of services, as well as end-to-end business processes in a heterogeneous environment. Without these capabilities, SOA-based initiatives face considerable risk in deployment.

Progress DataXtend – Data Interoperability

Progress DataXtend SI uses a common model to create, maintain and govern a data interoperability layer for your service-oriented architecture. Attendees saw how DataXtend SI helps assure consistent meaning of data across diverse services and data sources in your SOA.

Progress EasyAsk

Everyone got the chance to explore Progress EasyAsk and ask questions of the experts. EasyAsk leverages its natural language query technology through two distinct offerings—EasyAsk for Operational Business Intelligence (BI) which delivers BI to the masses by enabling users to easily access and analyze business intelligence information on demand and EasyAsk for ecommerce the search, navigation and merchandising software that helps merchandisers enhance conversion rates, sales revenue and customer satisfaction.

DataDirect Shadow – Mainframe Integration

The Shadow product line helps you address the challenges associated with integrating mainframe assets with modern Java and .NET applications or into service-oriented architectures. With Shadow, you can transparently integrate mainframe artifacts into new business applications. Visitors found out how the Shadow architecture has been extended to exploit IBM's latest mainframe architectural facilities, specifically, the zIIP and zAAP specialty engines.

Progress Software Worldwide Professional Services

Our worldwide services team is focused on making you successful. Consulting and education experts were on hand to help solve complex business problems.

Education Services
Progress Knowledge Services experts were on hand and attendees explored a demo of the Progress eLearning Community (PEC), libraries and catalogues. They learned about our low-cost annual subscriptions giving unlimited access to the PEC and upcoming curriculum plans as well as checked out the new course interface.

PSDN
Many stopped by to tour features of PSDN Online.

Technical Support
Attendees got the chance to visit with and learn more about the support team working, since Exchange 2007, on stream lining services and reinforcing our Sonic, Actional, DataExtend and Apama support teams for your benefit. For all Progress Products, you now have access to the same centralized resources.