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Progress announced the latest release of Progress OpenEdge, a platform for simplifying the development, deployment and management of global business applications for faster time-to-market.

With the new release, the Progress OpenEdge platform addresses business challenges around user experience, security and developer productivity.

As part of its acquisition of Telerik in 2014, Progress sought to drive customer success by transforming them into modern digital businesses. With the latest release of the Progress OpenEdge platform, the company is leveraging those technology advancements.

As such, Progress now offers the Telerik Platform for OpenEdge application. Customers and partners can now extend OpenEdge applications with advanced mobile app development capabilities, test and deployment features, as well as easy-to-use JavaScript Data Objects (JSDO) for easy integration of mobile apps with existing Progress OpenEdge business logic.

The combination of the Telerik Platform and Progress OpenEdge applications re-iterates the company's focus on delivering mission-critical production systems that meet the demands of SaaS/Cloud, web and mobile environments. It offers broad platform support, based on open industry-standard interfaces and extensive cloud scalability with virtually unlimited data storage capabilities.

The Progress OpenEdge platform can enable secure applications with comprehensive support by the latest Transport Layered Security (TLS), ensuring privacy between communicating applications and application users. The Progress OpenEdge platform also offers secure data management via multi-tenant table implementations and helps minimize the risk of malicious attacks.

Progress is devoted to providing technology that helps advance business, lower costs and increase operational efficiencies for their customers and partners. A huge area of focus for this latest release of the OpenEdge platform was based on input from the Progress developer community.

"Our customers and partners are the driving force behind the Progress OpenEdge platform. That is why it is important for us to provide the latest and greatest capabilities to help them move toward the next generation of application development—staying competitive in an ultra-intense market," said Colleen Smith, VP and GM, Progress OpenEdge. "Today's release focuses on the pain points every business faces today—security, mobile development and user experience. It brings together best-in-class technology with the reliability that we've always been known for."

The latest release of Progress OpenEdge is available today.