Progress Software launches PaaS app management tool
June 10, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: James Stirling.
A new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering from Progress Software will make it easier for organisations to build and manage ‘connected apps’ on any cloud, mobile or social platform, the company has claimed. Dubbed Progress Pacific, the offering is built on technology the company gained through its recent acquisition of independent software vendor Rollbase.
It is, Progress claims, the foundation of a major PaaS transformation for the software vendor and will address customer and partner demand in the fast growing cloud market. Progress Pacific is designed to give users the freedom to choose the data sources, deployment environments and business logic tools that best fit their needs and allows them to avoid vendor lock-in…
The product can tap into what Progress describes as a comprehensive range of SaaS, relational and non-relational databases, big data, social, CRM and ERP sources to deploy automated, context-aware applications. Progress Pacific also uses the organisation’s Progress DataDirect data connectivity offering which, the company claims, allows faster integration, analysis and decision making…
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