Why Vertex chose Progress
Progress provides a wide range of application development tools, database management toolsets, and an application-integrated messaging system critical for business communication.
- Progress web applications development can handle .NET or JAVA base and in either case, tools are available for screen painting and prototyping, with presentation layer independent of the business logic and database input/output
- For developers who want to move their existing applications to the next generation architecture, migration paths with different flavours, Progress tools, and resources are available to help perform the migration and transition phase quickly
- The 4GL procedural language for character based applications (used in background processing) is easy to read and maintain. Features such as reusable templates and libraries (system or user-defined) usage enable consistency of program structure, facilitate learning, and increase productivity
- With a single set of applications, customers have a choice of hardware platform and database engine. Hardware platform can be a standalone MS Windows desktop/laptop, MS Windows NT server, Linux, or Unix. Backend database can be Progress , Oracle, or MS Sequel Server relational database
- Progress database management tools simplify the DBA job when creating or modifying tables. Easy-to-use utilities are available to monitor and fine tune database performance. Progress toolsets also simplify the software upgrade process with their capability to analyse database differences and generate SQL scripts to synchronize production database schema with that in a test or development environment
- Progress also provides an enterprise messaging system, to effectively handle business-critical communication within the corporate network, as well as extending to external business partners. This process ensures that messages are never lost due to software or hardware failure
- In addition, Progress has been very successful and plays a leading role adopting new technology and providing the migration tools to areas such as cloud computing and integrating business process management with applications
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