Progress Software SA, an e-business solutions provider, has released its Dynamics framework for the rapid delivery of competitive business applications. Progress Dynamics is the result of collaboration with the Progress development community through the Progress Open Source Software Exchange (POSSE). An application framework for the OpenEdge e-business platform, Progress Dynamics is designed to accelerate the development, assembly and deployment of applications.
"The introduction of the Dynamics framework to the local market is in line with our value proposition, which is to simplify the task of developing the world`s best business platform," says Rick Parry, MD of Progress Software SA. "Dynamics is the latest product that Progress has released to enhance that value proposition."
The development of Progress Dynamics started in March 2001 as the Internet Component Framework (ICF) initiative. MIP Holdings, an open source software development company and Progress partner for over a decade, contributed its Astra technology as the basis for the ICF.
"Much of our success developing and deploying worldwide e-business applications has been due to the Astra framework we developed using the Progress Application Development Environment (ADE)," says Richard Firth, MIP Holdings CEO. "Progress has demonstrated the value it places on our framework by selecting it as the foundation for Dynamics. Around the world, Dynamics users will be able to reap the awards of extremely fast deployment of reliable and flexible Progress-based applications."
Dynamics embraces and represents a new development paradigm, with application objects and properties stored in a repository, rather than source programs. By storing these object attributes in a repository, developers have less code to write and debug. In addition, applications can be dynamically generated at runtime, leading to faster and more efficient application delivery.
"Progress Dynamics will provide independent software vendors (ISVs) and end-users with a competitive head-start in the business world," says Parry. "Because it has all the proper resources to provide for rapid development of applications, it will provide our partners with the business agility to adapt to market changes."
In addition to the repository, Progress Dynamics includes a set of managers to control the application environment. These environment managers coordinate and manage the execution of a distributed application and all of its components, including customisation and localisation. By leveraging existing application components through Progress Dynamics, customers will increase development productivity, and reduce the financial investment required to migrate applications to the Internet. This adds to Progress`s low total cost of ownership (TCO).
"Our goal is to make application development more productive and cost-effective for our local ISVs and end-users," says Parry. "Progress Dynamics accomplishes this by providing developers with standard, predefined solutions to the most common requirements of business applications, such as security, menus, toolbars, and interface components. This ultimately reduces the time and cost of developing applications, without limiting their scope."
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