Eclipse-Based IDE and Built-in Auditing Services Just Some of the New Features Delivering on Progress' Commitment to Simplify Creating the  Business Applications.

The Progress OpenEdge Division, an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (PSC), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, introduced its Progress OpenEdge 10.1 offering at its Progress Technology World event in Lisbon, Portugal to over 500 Progress end-user customers and Application Partners (APs).

Included in this latest release of OpenEdge is a new Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE), as well as auditing services designed to address the compliance needs of finance, healthcare, and other industries traditionally affected by audit and compliance requirements. Auditing is the first in a line of future OpenEdge application services that will make it easier for partners and customers to quickly construct business applications that comply with these mandates.

"Progress partners pride themselves on being industry experts, and we make it easier for them to build great applications that reflect that expertise," said Niel Powers, vice president of products for the OpenEdge Division. "OpenEdge 10.1 delivers on Progress' commitment to take the complexities out of developing sophisticated, data-driven, highly scalable business applications built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). By providing better component services, improved language capabilities, and new tools using a standard open-source environment, our application partners can focus on the application
functionality that is their core competency."

Highlights of OpenEdge 10.1:

New development environment built on the industry standard Eclipse framework. This new offering, OpenEdge Architect, is tailored to building applications using an architected, business-logic centric approach. This approach advances a developer's ability to assemble service-oriented applications from a catalog of components and services, enabling them to deliver on business requirements more rapidly.

Built-in connectivity to messaging and integration components from Sonic Software, another operating unit of Progress Software Corporation. The combination of the OpenEdge business platform and the Sonic SOA suite allows developers to easily integrate OpenEdge applications with heterogeneous environments, whether across the enterprise or inter-enterprise.

Auditing services at the application and database level are delivered as configurable services out of the box, saving developers a significant amount of effort. The auditing services extend the concept of security and audit integrity with mechanisms that ensure that the audit trails of transactions are themselves secure and tamper-proof.

New failover/failback capabilities, combined with more online administration capabilities and streamlining of routine maintenance tasks allow for more control of the data management environment and ensure higher availability of business systems and data.

New language constructs and mechanisms designed to make it easier to design and implement reusable service components for faster and easier construction of service-oriented applications.

Unlike other technologies that require resource-intensive migration paths, Progress maintains its commitment to simplifying the delivery of business applications by enabling APs and customers to easily move existing applications forward, giving them all the benefits of all the latest features with minimal effort.

"The incorporation of the Eclipse IDE into the OpenEdge environment extends our longstanding commitment to platform and user interface flexibility, as well as support for industry standards," said Powers. "As always, we're concentrating on getting the technology right, so that our partners and customers can focus on getting the applications right."