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Progress OpenEdge Reviews & Product Details

OpenEdge 12 provides the performance, availability, agility and security you need to facilitate your application evolution effort. Read about the exceptional enhancements and new features in OpenEdge 12 that will help you easily pivot to meet market demands, scale the application as your business requires, and dramatically improve performance, allowing the organization to accelerate time to market, increase efficiencies, save expenses, increase availability and continue to compete effectively.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/14/2021

"Very easy to use"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

Fast, easy to use and light. Very low crash experience and online support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

Smaller online community is available. Need to add some more features to make it more modern. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/9/2021

"Frustratingly Robust; When the Sunk Cost Fallacy meets Customer Service"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

The OpenEdge team tries it's damned hardest to stay relevant despite the product being both proprietary and relative nobodies. You have to love that kind of Moxie.

That said, they are very good at keeping up to date with the needs of the modern business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

There's nothing I dislike, per se. In fact, Progress OpenEdge has made it easy to use a very modern tech-stack, but the price definitely makes it a hard product to argue for with the management. Since ABL is proprietary, regardless of it's own strengths, you're naturally going to have programmers with zero experience, let alone awareness of the language. That's a LOT of barrier to entry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Progress had previously been chosen partly because it was the tech-stack that built the accounting software our company chose. Aside from staying in the eco-system, the best benefit of ABL is simply having a language so close to the DB. And, though we're shifting our tech-stack now, we can't deny that it was also easier to share with Project Managers and have them understand it in it's "business logic turned programming language" way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naveen K.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/18/2020

"Working on OpenEdge as developer. Quick and easy to learn and code the solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

It's architecture - very simple to understand and implement. English like query language for database.

Continuous improvements in technology by introducing new features with upgrades to support stand alone, web and cloud applications.

OpenEdge Explore - Powerful tool to manage all the application, data and web servers from UI.

Supports online schema changes to database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

Limited documentation and community to find the solutions like other languages. One can get support and knowledge about features but has to write solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am working on Progress applications of Healthcare and Insurance domain to manage their complex database and business transaction. We solve the client's business problems related to enhancements to their application for integration, development and deployment. Tools available for development i.e. Development Studio, OpenEdge explorer makes it easy to develop and deploy the applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mallikarjuna P.

Associate Consultant Technology

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/11/2021

"OpenEdge has own platforms to build Business Applications"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

Progress OpenEdge is easy to understand and build applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

Job oppurtunities are very less.

As this is to build business applications.

This technology also should have customers with front end technologies like reactjs,angularjs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/14/2021

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"effortless application development"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

I liked the concept of smart objects and appserver the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

Should we provide the exact error message in a 3-tier application architecture? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel F.

Back End Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/14/2021

"It is a nice programming language, but it has some little flaws"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

I liked a lot that the Database and the language coexist on the same IDE, you don't need to open third party IDE for Database and programming, also, as how it has evolved, it doesn't have anything to envy to the most used languages as java since it has been adding new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

The graphic interface for the Database features, if I need to choose, I prefer using code than the graphic interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Progress OpenEdge:

Give it a try, is something you need to try before you can make your mind to use it or not Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?

When I was working with it, it was like any other language, I consumes web services, and created enterprise software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Browndon B.

Junior Analyst/ Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/25/2020

"Quick and easy to learn, can easily implement programs and user friendly"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

Progress is very user friendly and easy to use alot of code is automatic and there’s multiple key words to help accomplish what you’re trying to achieve in a more efficient manner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

Although most cases it’s easy to spot a mistake sometimes when coming across a syntax errror progress will tell you the mistake is somewhere in the program instead of telling you the specific line Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dushan B.

Senior Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/9/2021

"I am working on Progress 4GL for the past 9 years. It’s a very good platform to work on"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

Security, less complecated and redundant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

I feel it is a bit more costlier than other DB technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Binod G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/1/2021

"Quick and easy to use"

1.5/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

4GL query is the best part and other simple functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

It is different from other programming languages so it's less likely helpful when you write a query in other languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/25/2020

"Working with Progress OpenEdge since last 13 years"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?

Programming language in itself is easy to learn and is actually quite nice. It is backward compatible and pretty stable most of the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?

There are a couple of things that can be better:

1. Web based Db management console instead of old GUI data dictionary tool

2. Progress tools are not easily available to developers. So there are hardly any new people learning progress.

3. License costs for development should be free (or atleast reasonable). We (developers) can promote the progress product to our clients if we can use them easily. We recently had a situation where we needed corticon license for development and it is way too costly for us as a developer.

4. Very limited documents and tutorials. This makes it harder to try out new tools available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.