Progress Adds Connectivity, App Development Features to aPaaS

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Progress Software is hoping to make it even easier for application developers and ISVs to develop business applications on demand using its application platform as a service (aPaaS). The company has added new features and capabilities around data connectivity and application development to its recently launched Progress Pacific aPaaS offering.

According to Progress, the new features make it possible for anyone to rapidly create, evolve and customize connected business applications on demand. By "anyone," let’s assume the company is referring to skilled and trained software developers, not just anybody off the street (but if cloud app development is becoming that easy, maybe a career change is in order). The new features include:…

• The addition of Progress DataDirect Cloud, a service that was designed to enable apps to easily integrate data from SaaS, relational database, Big Data, social, CRM and ERP systems. That’s a tall order, but if the new data connectivity features do what Progress says they do, then that’s pulling together a lot of data for access by cloud apps. According to Progress, this is all done with a single standards-based interface that executes SQL queries against a variety of cloud-based data sources…

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