The OpenEdge® Deployment Portfolio

Deploying the World's Best Business Applications

Technology is constantly changing; business requirements are continually evolving. More people need to access more information and more applications, from diverse interfaces and platforms, from disparate locations, 24x7. Successful business applications must be built and deployed on an application infrastructure with the flexibility to leverage existing IT investments while adapting quickly to changing business and technology needs. OpenEdge enables applications to reach any user, any data, any other application, anywhere, anytime. At the core of its deployment infrastructure are two powerful, highly-scalable engines: OpenEdge Application Server for superior business-processing capabilities and OpenEdge RDBMS for extremely reliable and efficient data access. Both of these engines support the range of platforms, client types, and data sources required by today's environments. The result is more effective and flexible business applications.

Reach Any User

OpenEdge extends the reach of business applications to virtually any user. With OpenEdge Application Server, applications can be accessed by Web browsers, Web services, .NET or Java interfaces, graphical or character user interfaces, or any wireless device. OpenEdge Application Server enables applications to quickly and easily support changing user interface requirements from the same set of business logic or services. Reuse of existing business logic means improved productivity, lower costs, and faster time-to-deploy.

Access Any Data

OpenEdge enables transparent access to a wide range of data sources. OpenEdge RDBMS delivers reliable, high-performance access to data whether through SQL or through the Progress 4GL interface. Featuring massive scalability, OpenEdge RDBMS can support virtually unlimited numbers of users and transactions, with radical fluctuations within those numbers. The enhanced performance and availability features of the RDBMS increase overall application performance and availability, improving application response time and quality of service. OpenEdge RDBMS requires minimal administration and maintenance, translating into lower operational costs. These factors make OpenEdge RDBMS one of the world's leading embedded databases.

Today, IT resources often include a variety of databases. For these heterogeneous environments, OpenEdge DataServers provide transparent access to a range of data sources, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and IBM Informix OnLine, Sybase Adaptive Server, and other ODBC-compliant data sources. Enabling the access and integration of existing data sources, OpenEdge DataServers maximize existing IT investments for improved ROI.

Connect to Any Application

Integrating applications within and beyond the enterprise is crucial for maximum efficiency, improved collaboration, and business agility. OpenEdge Application Server provides a foundation for building the modern, hybrid application-an application that combines a user interface built in .NET, Java, C++, etc. with OpenEdge's powerful business-processing engine. A critical part of that foundation is the enablement of integration at an application's core. It supports implementing standards-based integration and a services-oriented architecture (SOA), including support for Web services, SonicMQ® JMS-based messaging, and Sonic ESB™, the world's first enterprise service bus. With OpenEdge Application Server, the opportunity to connect and extend applications across a company and to customers, partners, and suppliers is unlimited.

Anywhere, Anytime

Business is becoming more and more global. Employees, customers, partners, and suppliers are often dispersed across a wide geographic area. As businesses become more distributed, the need for access to enterprise applications from virtually anywhere, anytime intensifies. This means that applications must be deployed on a resilient infrastructure that enables distributed environments and provides greater levels of availability.

OpenEdge Application Server enables business logic and processes to be available, on demand. Business processes can be rapidly extended across the building or around the world. OpenEdge Application Server also provides load balancing and failover capabilities to ensure application reliability and availability. Data availability is guaranteed with OpenEdge RDBMS data replication, advanced backup recovery, and cluster failover.

OpenEdge delivers the technology that ensures users have access to the applications and data they need from virtually anywhere, anytime.

Improve Productivity, Grow Without Interruption

OpenEdge is the platform of choice to meet ever-changing business and IT needs. OpenEdge makes it easy to incorporate new technology, interfaces, data sources, and applications, from a single base of business logic. It connects and extends applications through a services-oriented architecture and next-generation integration. It supports highly available, distributed, and occasionally connected environments, ensuring that information is available when and where it is needed.

Whatever the need, present or future, OpenEdge provides a deployment infrastructure that delivers long-term, strategic advantage.