Progress BusinessEdge for Retail


Aberdeen Group* finds Progress® OpenEdge™ platform 40% less expensive to own than Microsoft, 50% less than IBM and 90% less than Oracle.

82% of Europe’s top 50 and 46% of the top 250 retailers use Progress-based applications.

Succeeding in retail

BusinessEdge for Retail brings together a portfolio of retail-proven solutions from application partners who share Progress OpenEdge as their common technology platform for developing, deploying, integrating and managing applications.

BusinessEdge for Retail is a business and technology roadmap allowing retailers to:

• Simplify the use of technology to opimise operations
• Deliver near real-time business critical knowledge
• Capitalise on all the channels to market
• Squeeze extra value out of all resources
• Visualise the supply chain

BusinessEdge for Retail partners succeed because they offer expert solutions, built with superb technology, which can be quickly adapted to provide the best fit for individual needs.

BusinessEdge for Retail easily adapts to fit your business needs without incurring long implementation times or delays in achieving a return on investment. All application modules share Progress OpenEdge as the underlying technology platform and integrate together or with existing systems via the world’s leading enterprise service bus, Sonic ESB®, in order to minimise integration time and cost.