Progress Software Corporation provides application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications.  The comprehensive Progress OpenEdge Business Applications Development platform provides rapid development and deployment of business applications that are standards-based and service-oriented. OpenEdge applications can be deployed and managed over virtually any computer platform and across the Internet. OpenEdge applications provide a unified environment comprising development tools, application servers, application management tools, an embedded database, and the capability to easily connect and integrate with other applications and data sources.

Manage More Effectively with a Powerful Platform

Whether you are having difficulty identifying specific areas of concern or need to pinpoint key operational factors, the Progress OpenEdge business management solution enables you to deliver insight when it is needed, where it is most valuable through a solution set that is implemented quickly and easily; helping you gain the competitive edge you need.

The growing information access pressures due to regulatory compliance and the demand for business continuity and transparent information make it critical to unlock the business intelligence that empowers your employees to deal with these challenges and allow you to sustain your competitive advantage.

Business Intelligence and Reporting

We are pleased to offer BusinessObjects reporting solutions, including Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise. These flexible, scalable reporting solutions work to eliminate redundancy and to help reduce overall operating costs. Crystal products also feature clustering and replication technology for high reliability and availability of mission-critical data. OpenEdge BI and reporting solutions fulfill your business continuity requirements and address increasing regulatory pressures.

In addition, Progress offers a low-cost reporting alternative called Query/Results which provides a user-friendly, interactive data access tool for users looking to quickly and easily create ad-hoc queries and generate custom reports.

Data Search and Query

Progress now offers a leading natural language data search and query technology, EasyAsk. Progress EasyAsk complements traditional reporting solutions by letting people ask those elusive follow-up questions that always emerge when a standard report is used. It delivers the most advanced search technology available today to allow non-technical business users, to simply asking a question in everyday language. EasyAsk connects people with answers.

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