Progress core product group strategy and roadmap - PUG Baltic Annual Conference 2017 - By Susan Houniet - Progress software

1. Progress Update
&
The Road Ahead
Susan Houniet
Senior Product Enablement Manager
May 2017

2. Progress OpenEdge 11.7
March 2017

3. OpenEdge 11.7 powers the
to deliver the world’s best
business applications.
abilityhigh availabilityscalabilitysecurability

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OpenEdge 11.7 Overview
 11.7 Themes: Security, Scalability, High Availability
 Released March 31st, 2017
 It is the Last Planned Feature Release in the 11.x Series
• Service Packs will be issued as appropriate
 The Next OpenEdge Release will be 12.0
• Target is 9-12 months after 11.7 shipped
 11.7 Features, by Functional Area:
• Security
• Database
• PAS for OpenEdge / WebSpeed
• Classic AppServer
• Developer’s Studio
• ABL
• SQL
• OE Explorer/Management
• BPM
• Platform & Install

5. “…through the use of the
Progress Application Server for OpenEdge
and the OpenEdge Authentication Gateway,
we’re able to eliminate a lot of code and let the
engine do it for us...”
Jeffrey Brown
Senior Principal, DBA and Architect
Infor

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OpenEdge
Authentication Gateway
Ensure trusted
identity management.
The right users get the
right access to the
right information.

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OpenSSL Upgrade
• Ensure applications have access to the most current, robust toolkit for Transport Layer
Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols and general-purpose
cryptography library
Enhanced SSL Certificate Support
• Allow users to manage multiple domains with a single certificate using the wildcard
character ‘*’
• Allow users to manage multiple alternative host names to be included within a single SSL
certificate
Server Name Indication (SNI)
• With virtualization, a server can support multiple hostnames, each with their own security
certificate. Clients indicate the target hostname it wants to connect to in order to access the
appropriate certificate.
Note: JavaClient is not currently supported

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OpenEdge Authentication Gateway- Your Border Control
OpenEdge
SQL Server
Application
Server
ABL
Clients
OpenEdge
Database
OpenEdge
Authentication
Gateway
Directory Information Service
(e.g. LDAP, Active Directory)

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OpenEdge Authentication Gateway
Your applications never felt so safe.
Redirects all initial access requests to an STS that confirms user legitimacy
and protects from malicious data manipulation
Impedes rogue clients from accessing the database or other application
components directly
Supports compliance regulation requirements to minimize overall
business risk
Leverages Progress Application Server for OpenEdge as the underlying
technology to ensure support of latest security industry-standards

10. “The thing I get excited about is
[OpenEdge Change Data Capture]. We can
more easily migrate the data over and
capture all of the changes that happen for
all of our customers.”
Dan Hornung
President
Roydan Enterprises, Ltd.

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Quickly identify, track and save all changes
within the OpenEdge RDBMS.
Easy to configure and go—
zero application changes required.
OpenEdge Change Data Capture

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Guaranteed accurate tracking of all data changes regardless of
where they occur
Increase efficiency and availability of changes for ETL to synch
with other data sources, repositories or warehouses
Single point of configuration regardless of ABL or SQL
Change Happens.
OpenEdge CDC helps you deal with it.

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Using OpenEdge Change Data Capture
Data Extraction
Data Warehouse
Operational Data
Store
Analytics
Financial Systems
OpenEdge
Change
Data
Capture

14. “We needed to have a highly available
solution…the techniques to do that were
cumbersome…OpenEdge Replication
simplified that greatly.”
Gary Kortz
President
Gaming Hospitality Solutions

15. OpenEdge Replication
Target Synchronization
Mitigates challenges delivering 24x7x365
Reduces the response time for unplanned
outages
Permits flexible, ongoing maintenance to your
production machine

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Replication Target Synchronization
Eliminates single point of failure.
Source Database
Three-pronged failover
Configure automatic or manual
transitions for unplanned and
planned downtime
Included in OpenEdge
Replication and Replication Plus
Target One Target Two

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OpenEdge RDBMS – Advanced Enterprise Edition
• Multi-tenancy at the Database level
• Data Replication and OLAP support
• BI / reporting / data warehousing support
– Change Data Capture
• Table Partitioning for improved
performance and maintenance
• Data is encrypted in transit and at rest
• Data Management and @Cloud
scalability
Open, scalable, highly
available and reliable
database solution to meet
the demands of SaaS

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19. Online Index Activation
Minimize downtime. Improve
productivity. Easy to implement.
Add new indexes to the schema of
OpenEdge database without shutting down
Add at your convenience—deploy changes
when ready, without disruption to the existing
application
Dynamic queries make immediate
use of new indexes

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Downloadable License Configuration File
 Serial Numbers and Control Codes from License Addendum are
Entered at Install Time
• A configuration file (.cfg) is generated by the install process
• Issue: there is no other way to create a .cfg file
 The Solution: Generate .cfg Files Using Self-service Portal
• Subset of products from single order, or products from multiple orders
(OpenEdge 10.2B and higher)
• Avoid doing full installs (time & effort) just to generate the needed .cfg file

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Planned Developer Studio Features
 Kendo UI Builder deliverables
 Upgrade to Eclipse 4.5
 New Web UI project
 Expanded Annotation Tooling support
 Add support for COMPILER options
 Performance Improvements for Large Projects
 PAS for OpenEdge Debugger
 Evaluation of Eclipse CHE

22. 1. OOABL performance improvements
2. Optional “Strict Compile” mode to help enforce coding
standards
3. VST enhancements to provide additional debugging
information
4. Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge debugger
5. OpenEdge Management alerts and threshold monitoring
for Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge
6. Treat STOP conditions like any other error that can be
handled (technical preview)
7. Support for EMPTY-TEMP-TABLE on a Temp-table handle
8. Publish OpenEdge SQL compliance to Core SQL:2011
9. Developer Studio performance improvements
10.WebClient can continue to operate if auto-update fails
Enhancement requests come through
Progress Community, conversations
with customers and partners, roadmap
discussions, competitive analysis, user
groups, and more.
We make it our mission to listen
and deliver!

23. Education Courses:
Updated for OpenEdge 11.7
• Introduction to Progress OpenEdge
• Introduction to Progress OpenEdge Integration
• Introduction to Developer Studio for OpenEdge
• Introduction to PAS for OpenEdge for Developers
• Introduction to OpenEdge Reference Architecture
• Developing a Progress OpenEdge ABL Application
• Implementing OpenEdge Replication for Disaster Recovery
• Introduction to OpenEdge Administration
• Progress Application Server for OpenEdge Administration
• Implementing Change Data Capture
www.progress.com/services/education/openedge

24. Power Your Business
with OpenEdge 11.7
www.progress.com/trial-openedge

25. All roadmaps are for informational purposes only, and the
reader is hereby cautioned that actual product
development may vary significantly from roadmaps
These roadmaps may not be interpreted as any
commitment on behalf of Progress, and future
development, timing and release of any features or
functionality described in the roadmaps remains at our
sole discretion
Disclaimer

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Continuous Operations Building for the Future Open Integration
 The “application” never sees
an outage
 Maintenance is all online
while in production
 Anywhere you need to run
your application
 Complete end-to-end cloud
development
 Build once, deploy anywhere
 Services based applications
 API First Strategy
 REST, JSDO
 Seamlessly plug into 3rd
party <insert solution>
 Mini-service and micro-
service architecture
The Vision for the Future of OpenEdge

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High Availability
 Online Index Reorganization
 BI File Space Management
 Seamless Failover and Failback
 Runtime ABL Index Determination
Continuous Operations

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OpenEdge Management
 Complete GUI database lifecycle administration
 OpenEdge Authentication Gateway administration
 Performance and Resource Management improvements
Continuous Operations

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Database
 Log File Management
 Database Extent Management
 Increased Memory Options
 Columnar Capabilities
 Explore Horizontal Scalability
Continuous Operations

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Tools
 Web UI Automation Improvements (Kendo UI Builder)
 Refactoring Tools to Ease Modernization
 Code Coverage Measurement for QA and Testing
 Database Referential Inference/Integrity
 API-first Development
 Cloud-based Development Environment
Building for the Future

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Security
 Staying Current (SSL/TSL, Spring, etc.)
 Best Practices and Ease-of-use Tooling
 Ability to Sign ABL Code
 Command Line Security Improvements
 Read-only Database Setting
Building for the Future

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Language Priorities
 Server-side Query Resolution: Joins
 Word Indexes for CLOBS
 OOABL Performance (e.g. load classes on demand)
Building for the Future

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SQL
 SQL Standards Compliance
 Online Administration
 Performance
• Bulk processing
 Tighter ABL/SQL Integration
 Autonomous statistics updates
Open Integration

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Other Initiatives
 Platforms
• New/updated OS & Platforms
• Docker
 Installation
• MSI Client Installation
• Deployment Client Alternative
Open Integration

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Highest Priorities
 Server-side Query Resolution: Joins
 High Availability – Maintenance and Disaster Recovery
 Security

36. The Way Forward…
Release 11.7
March 2017
Includes:
Replication target sync
Config Export/Import
OpenSSL update
PASOE Debugger
Online Index Activation
Strict Compile option
Download-able .cfg file
Next Release (12)
Planned: 2018
Themes:
Continuous
Operations
Building for the
Future
Open Integration
Kendo UI Builder
Planned: Q2/Q4
Additional features
including Angular 2.0.
Electron shell for cross
platform installation
Generic connectivity
through REST & OData
Analytics360 - Q2
ActiveSQL support
Additional KPI’s
and packaged
Pro2 – Q2
CDC support
Performance and
Logging
improvements

37. Q&A