Application Development

The SaaS approach to deploying software solutions is emerging and evolving. As customers continue to expand their acceptance of SaaS, as existing software vendors seek to take advantage of this model and as more new SaaS vendors emerge, it...

   Disaster Recovery (DR) has been a hot topic in many different verticals for a long time.  Progress Software deals with all of these verticals.  Loss means destruction of data as well...

Most of the time, when we think of Software as a Service (SaaS), we focus on the first “S”, or the one that addresses the Software side of things.  But I think that the second “S” or the one that is about Service is the one that needs to be thought of a little more, as I believe it...

Let's talk about Disaster Recovery (DR) for a moment. I was talking with a customer about how he's managing his business in these tight times. He said that down-time cost the business about $100,000 US per...

The economic downturn is tough on all of us, and the natural inclination is to slash budgets, and in particular IT budgets in order to adjust to the turmoil. However, much like economic experts and financial planners say that you need to view your individual investment portfolio as a long term...

When I speak with customers, I often hear "if we could only get our application to do"... (well, just fill in the blank for yourself and you get the idea).

The more we talk about their problem, we seem to find out that they really are just unsure of how to get started - of how to...

I recently read Daryl Plummer’s (Gartner Group) blog and I have to agree, but also disagree with what he said.  I agree that it is not an easy thing to transition from being a...

OpenEdge 10.2A is scheduled to be available soon.  OpenEdge is the only platform that is optimized for the building of Service-Oriented Business Applications.  It differentiates from other offerings in the market because:

• Its purpose to simplify building your data- and...

In the recent research note “Hype Cycle for Web and User Interaction Technologies, 2008”¹, published 7 July 2008 (Gartner document ID Number: G00159447),  Gartner provides a comprehensive analysis of user interface technologies for the Web throughout the Hype Cycle² stages: from Technology...