Tag: business applications

When a disaster strikes are you going to be ready?  If you can’t answer this question with 100% surety then you have a challenge in front of you.  There are many different plans to prepare yourself for a disaster.  One that I have seen used both in the public sector in the United...

One of the questions that I get asked a lot is “What are the mistakes that others have made when moving to Software as a Service (SaaS)?”  I think that software vendors are always looking to learn from others mistakes...

While working on a new ABL sample using OpenEdge GUI for .NET, I started thinking about the different presentation models that are available to an ABL programmer in 10.2A. While much of Microsoft...

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...

With enhancements in the OpenEdge 10.1x release family, ABL (Advanced Business Language) is being extended with standard formal object-oriented (OO) functionality: objects, classes, methods, polymorphism, inheritance, delegation, statics, properties, strong typing, and more.

A big...

Are toasters and vacuum cleaners ultimate examples of commodities? Of course!, right? Well, think again.

A few months back I read ‘The Myth of Commoditization’ by Michael Schrage, an article in the ‘MIT Sloan Management...