What is Progress 4GL?

With 30 years of experience in application development and deployment, Progress Software is building the next generation of Cloud computing. We’re putting world-class, real-time analytics, decision-making, and data visualization at the fingertips of business users.

In short, progress software corporation making the development, deployment, and management of business applications even simpler — on any platform, any device, and any Cloud.
For businesses like yours, that means less IT complexity and lower cost of ownership. With offerings that are fast to deploy and simple to use.
Application development, deployment, and management, made simple. It’s who we are and what we do.

 

Why Progress?

  • “Progress Software products are purchased by more than 140,000 enterprises in 175+ countries.
  • 88% of the Fortune 100 use Progress products
  • “Progress has a network of more than 2000 partners supporting more than 4000 applications.
    • More than 4 million people are using applications built on award-winning Progress technology—both on-premise and in the Cloud.
  • ISVs have developed more than 5,000 applications built on Progress technology.
  • More than 200 Application Partners have built hundreds of Progress applications in the Cloud, serving over 400,000 subscribers.
  • Progress was founded in 1981 and first publicly traded on NASDAQ in 1991.

NEXT -GENERATION APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT

ANY PLATFORM. ANY DEVICE. ANY CLOUD More than 4 million people are using applications built on award-winning Progress technology—both on-premise and in the Cloud. It’s easy to see why.
Progress® Arcade™Makes it simple and highly affordable for businesses of any size to test and deploy next-generation applications in the Cloud. How simple? With Arcade, businesses can deploy an application in fewer than 12 clicks. Together, OpenEdge® and Arcade mean faster time-to-market, lower total cost of ownership and a powerful competitive advantage

Progress® OpenEdge® It is the complete, modern, future-proof development platform for building dynamic, multi-tenant, multi-language applications across any platform, any mobile device, any Cloud. And any business. OpenEdge® is up to 40% more productive and delivers as much as 30% in cost savings when compared to other technology—whether you deploy on-premise or in the Cloud. With OpenEdge®, you can develop applications for the Cloud quickly and easily. It scales up or down to meet the demands of an ever-changing business environment. And it helps your business react in an instant to evolving market conditions, customer demands, regulatory changes, and the competitive landscape.

AUTOMATED BUSINESS DECISION-MAKING IN REAL-TIMEThe challenge? Providing Big Data analytics, decision-making, and data visualization in the Cloud. The answer? Next-generation Progress Software decision analytics solutions, packaged in a single platform.
The award-winning Progress® Apama® complex event processing platform helps organizations analyze Big Data in real-time to track whether a business is on the right course and to discover opportunities and threats before it is too late. In the capital markets industry, where more than 200 financial institutions use Apama solutions, this insight can result in a trading opportunity that’s discovered, or a fraud that’s prevented.
The best-in-class Progress® Corticon® business rules management system lets companies define policies and logic, so that they can be confident that the right decisions are being made at the right time.
And with the Progress Control Tower®, you get a real-time view of what’s happening across your business—and the ability to drill down deeply into it from any computer or Apple® iPad®.

DATA CONNECTIVITY.
ANY APPLICATION ON ANY PLATFORM TO ANY DATA SOURCE.When performance, reliability, interoperability and speed to market are critical priorities, forward-looking enterprises turn to Progress® and its DataDirect® Connect; portfolio of data connectivity solutions. This portfolio connects their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standard-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. In fact, more than 350 leading independent software vendors embed Progress® DataDirect® components in over 500 commercial products. And 96 of the Fortune 100 turn to the Progress® DataDirect® portfolio to simplify and streamline data connectivity for their enterprises.
With Progress®, as an independent software vendor, your on-premise or SaaS-based application will have the best performance and reliability; support the largest breadth of data sources; and enable standards-based access to your SaaS application data. Your enterprise will see greater performance, scalability, and reliability—all with increased enterprise security.