Category:Progress Software

Progress Software

Progress Software Corporation Overview

Headquartered on the outskirts of booming Boston in the town of Bedford, Massachusetts, the Progress Software Corporation began in 1981 as Data Language, a small software company founded by Joseph Alsop, Clyde Kessel, and Charles Ziering.

Progress is best known across the world for QAD MFG/Pro, OpenEdge and 4GL. More than 60,000 businesses in over 140 nations use Progress technology or products, over 89% of which are Fortune 500 companies. Your industry or business is probably associated with Progress; areas such as financial trading, telecommunication, financial services, government, medical, and manufacturing use Progress right now. Progress consultants and developers are able to develop programs which aid your business in its daily functional areas.

The Progress Software Business

Perhaps best known for application infrastructure software, Progress has earned its name for Progress 4GL, which arose in the 1980s as a Fourth Generation programming language. Technology evolution has seen Moore's Law shattered, with 4GL churning into OpenEdge Advanced Business Language, or OpenEdge ABL. Unique to this application development language is the English syntax used to abridge software development. Progress 4GL, now called OpenEdge ABL, is a class of SpeedScript.

OpenEdge ABL aids development of web or Internet based applications, birthing what is today known as Software as a Service, or SaaS. These applications are made using an incorporated relational database and programming tool, all of which are usable across various computer systems. This eases the end-user experience, which does not need to be aware of the application's architecture.

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