# Progress OpenEdge Reviews **Vendor:** Progress Software **Category:** [Application Server Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-server) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 49 ## About Progress OpenEdge 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. ## Progress OpenEdge Reviews ### 1. Best Enterprise-Grade Development Platform For Everyone **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marko B. | Software developer, Media Production, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** Progress OpenEdge is easy-to-use program for my everyday programming tasks. Once you get into the language and tools available, tasks are easy to do and implement. What is most important is the fact that progress offers good integration with various databases. There are enough additional features & addons available, which every Progress developer will appreciate. **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** There are some gaps in available Progress documentation, which makes it harder for some developers harder to use daily and understand how to implement tasks. This can lead to frustruation when you need to find specific information and resolve problems quickly. Customer support could be better, but I got my query resolved in a very short time. **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Progress OpenEdge program just make it easy to solve production problems that needs to be solved in our enterpise in short time. As we need to produce high-performance business applications, i find progress a good choice. ### 2. Great experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad K. | Product Manager, Banking, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** The best thing is that it is very user-friendly also it has a secured payment method which is reliable for any type of user. **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** Right now my experience is very good. So there is not any thing regarding openedge which I say dislike. **Recommendations to others considering Progress OpenEdge:** There should be monthly updates along with security precautions. **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes there was a time-out issue and sometimes it takes delay. ### 3. Excellent language for Enterprise applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** JuanCarlos P. | Business Analyst Sr., Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** Great performance, easy to use, very good DB manager **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** need to be more intuitive in order to build new applications. **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** now has a better handle on transactions and better performance ### 4. Progress OpenEdge - a tried and true business application development environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scott B. | VP Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** I have utilized the Progress OpenEdge platform within many large and medium size corporations over the past three decades and it has been, by far, the most robust, cost effective and enduring environments I have experienced. While other platforms require frequent (costly) migrations to stay abreast of their technologies, Progress Software has continued to deliver a consistent progressive software platform that retains backward compatibility while being able to take advantage of new innovations. **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** While the Progress OpenEdge environment is used worldwide, the size of the company compared to the Microsofts of the world sometimes makes it difficult for companies to "justify" its adoption. **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** When our consultancy delivers a Progress OpenEdge solution to our clients, we have the confidence in knowing that it will endure for years without any major rewrites required by the deprecation experienced in many other platforms. The robustness and productivity of the OpenEdge Advanced Business Logic (ABL) enables our developers to really focus on the the encapsulation of the required business rules as opposed to being caught up in coding lower level syntax. Additionally, the OpenEdge applications run under Windows, Unix and Linux environments with minimal development concerns. ### 5. Best productivity for business software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** OpenEdge has the good tools to be productive for developing business software. Its ascendant compatibility makes it good for durable software. It has also all the tools to develop modern software, a performant application server (Pacific) and integration with the latest technologies. The RDBMS has nothing to envy to more known ones; furthermore it does not need a DBA constantly monitoring it. You can often forget the database for years without the need of one. Also the ABL language (like stored procedures in SQL or the old SQL*Forms, but updated to more modern standards) is quite easy to learn for newcomers in the team, provided they are a bit curious. On the other side it allows for complex things, has (almost) all the modern object oriented support you need. **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** Being quite a little "niche", there is not the same amount of documentation, tutorials or feedback to be found on internet as some concurrent technologies have. Nor are there many libraries you can choose from (apart some open source, and a few commercial solutions like pdfInclude - equivalent to iText for Java - to generate pdf files), not many pure ALB solutions are available, making the integration of 3rd party libraries sometimes cumbersome. This makes the discovery of new functionality a bit difficult sometimes. But this is covered by a good technical support. Also the OpenEdge ABL virtual machine lacks the performance of some competitors, which only shows in algorithm intensive processes (the database having a very good performance). Finally I find it a pity they have moved their GUI stuff to maintenance mode, which pushes us to the web or .Net frontends, thus making necessary to have more skills in the same team. **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are maintaining some applications deployed worldwide, having a long history, and still on the edge to this day. We are also developing new ones, with the latest technologies. ### 6. Progress Openedge - A powerful tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sk Sohel E. | Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** Progress openedge uses 4th generation language. It's a powerful app builder. Progress is popular for its performance and efficiency. Progress openedge is used to create different types of applications and it's too easy to learn and understand. **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** Lack of popularity and presence. Developers and testers get less opportunities in market as compared to it's compititors. **Recommendations to others considering Progress OpenEdge:** Nice low code Platform.... Go for it. **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have created a web application using Progress 4 gl. Apart from that I have worked on a Progress Version Migration project. ### 7. Working with Progress Openedge software products since 2006. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ravish j. | Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** Its an all in one package where you can use Openedge database with 4gl programming to create/build your application. The Openedge RDBMS provides excellent performance and is easier to manage. The RDBMS is as comparable to Oracle database as I worked on both. The Progerss 4gl programming language is easier to learn and can be used to develop real world financial and manufacturing application. **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** The Openedge RDBMS although comparable to Oracle didn't get its desired market share and still is a niche technology. In terms of technology Progress took time to make OpenEdge database product to be at par with Oracle RDBMS. **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for financial applications and manufacturing ERP to provide customer a robust ERP solution. We used Openedge replication tool to create a real time Disaster recovery and found this product very useful setting up stand-by server for disaster recovery. Progress Webspeed is used to enable 4gl and Openedge database for web based applications. ### 8. I like Progress OpenEdge and I have been working on this technology for 6 years. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anjali J. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** Progress OpenEdge can be used to build applications. It is 4th generation business language. Progress provides a tool named App Builder, which is used to design the screens. **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** I like everything about progress. It's just you have to buy the license for it. **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** App builder tool can be used to create the GUI. I have designed the screens using it, and I have added the validations as per the client's request. ### 9. Progress Openedge for Truckers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikash V. | Technology Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** Openedge in itself is a complete package. You can build a fully functional application with JUST the openedge. It works well with the other technologies, In one of the scenarios, we wanted to imtegrate the google calender in out application itself, So that the drivers are able to view/update/delete their appointments easily from the application itself. They do not have to log in to there google account to do so. Initially we thought this is going to be a complicated task, but after some research it came out to be a farily simple task. And the drivers appriciated this solution as it turned out to be a time saver and effecient solution for them. **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** The integration with other technologies should be a bit smooth. That beging said, it does not mean that you can not integrate it with other technologies. Its just that it requires more efforts as compared to its counterparts, e.g Oracle SQL etc.. **Recommendations to others considering Progress OpenEdge:** I fully recommend openedge, It is fully scalable, robust and interoperable. It can help business acheive heights. With the help of openedge, My client generated greater revenue. Since the nature of business is trucking, It helped country in the pandemic as well. The support received from Openedge in these difficult time is exceptional. They helped their client in every possible way. **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently we are working on a trucking solution, which involves right from order entry to order dispatch, transit and delivery modules. As a benefit, The openedge is able to query the huge amount of data in less time. It is pretty much robust. ### 10. One of the best Business app development platforms **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Senura F. | Academic Project Supervisor , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Progress OpenEdge?** 4GL and aeasy to code and can develop products easily. It was the very first languag that I enterned the carrier as a software engineer and it has helped me to master the basics and to learn more advanced coding techniques with Openedge. OpenEdge is a powerful framework for building CRUD application. The core ABL (OpenEdge language) is different enough a language from the mainstream to be interesting for an inquisitive programmer and for your bosses arguments for everyone to understand where the others are coming from to make sense. It is never a bad idea to learn new (and different!) languages. It keeps the mind working and teaches you concepts that might not be available in your language. **What do you dislike about Progress OpenEdge?** Licensing is a bit pricy for small business to make useful especially for the asian countries so if we can get it for a reduced price it has a very higher chnge of getting more famous **What problems is Progress OpenEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Banking and Finance(Loan,Savings,Higher purchase ) CRM ## Progress OpenEdge Discussions - [What are options to integrate it with JavaScript web projects](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-options-to-integrate-it-with-javascript-web-projects) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [View Progress OpenEdge pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-progress-openedge/reviews/progress-openedge-review-4549640?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-01+17%3A50%3A31+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d36ec1cf-2f0a-4190-b977-0ba08b8d88f9&secure%5Btoken%5D=5721e7515cdd4edce842f63cdf2ebfe1f337111b747abf1cf52cb0fd4610bb69&format=llm_user) ## Progress OpenEdge Features **Functionality** - Monitoring - Alerting - Logging - Response Time - Reporting - Data Visualization **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Management ** - Data Schema - Query Language - ACID - Complaint - Data Replication **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Functionality** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates **Data Management** - Data Redundancy - Server Management - Version and Profile Support - Web-based frameworks - Data exchange **Agentic AI - Enterprise Architecture Tools** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Application Design** - UI Code Extending - Programming Code Extending - Customized Branding - Application Templates - Workflows **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Administration** - Requirements Listing - Centralized Information - Traceability **Support ** - Text Search - Data Types - Languages - Operating Systems **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **User Features** - Centralized offering - Security updates - Real-time visibility **Agentic AI - Database Monitoring** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Data Control** - Data Migration - Data Synchronization - Data Security **Communication** - Stakeholder Communication - Internal Communication Enablement **Security** - Database Locking - Access Control - Encryption - Authentication **Modernization** - Cloud deployment - Microservices development - On-premises support - Modular architecture **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Publishing** - Application Deployment - Platform Compatability - Lifecycle Management **Procedural** - Automated Creation & Testing **Performance ** - Disaster Recovery - Data Concurrency - Workload Management - Advanced Indexing - Query Optimizer **AI Performance Improvement - Application Server** - AI Application Scaling - AI Error Prediction - Intelligent Resource Forecasting - AI Anomaly Detection - AI Intrusion Detection **Agentic AI - Low-Code Development Platforms** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Application Server** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Progress OpenEdge Alternatives - [MySQL](https://www.g2.com/products/mysql/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,574 reviews) - [PostgreSQL](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (642 reviews) - [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,110 reviews)