Web Application Development Best Practices with Progress OpenEdge
June 15, 2024
Discover nine web app development best practices to help you build successful applications and explore expert tips and strategies for coding, security and UX.
This blog argues that OpenEdge can serve as the trusted operational backbone for production AI by securely integrating an AI “coffee‑buying” agent with live ERP data (via PAS for OpenEdge) and captured human expertise to deliver fast, controlled, actionable decisions without replacing core systems.
The blog recaps a webinar showing how Progress’s OpenEdge Managed Database Administration team uses proactive monitoring and deep OpenEdge expertise to quickly resolve hidden performance issues, guide PAS for OpenEdge transitions, and execute low‑downtime database/platform migrations.
This blog post explains modern GenAI concepts for OpenEdge developers—how models work (and differ by purpose), why prompting and token limits matter, how RAG grounds answers in your real documentation, and how assistants differ from agents that use tools to iterate toward a goal.
This post introduces GenAI concepts for OpenEdge developers and proposes a safety-first approach where AI helps with language-heavy tasks (explain/summarize/draft/extract) while OpenEdge remains the system of record for validation, business rules, and transactions.