The enterprise workforce is increasingly mobile. From sales warriors to home office workers, the percentage of employees not working in central offices continues to grow. This development poses several challenges for IT organizations that must ensure connectivity and access to applications everywhere employees need them. Mobile application development has become a necessity and an increasing concern because it creates data replication and synchronization challenges. With users frequently offline for extended periods, enterprise applications and data must be available so that the mobile and remote workforce remain productive. There are cost-efficient and highly effective solutions for mobile application development and Progress Software is one of the world's leading providers.
Progress® DataXtend RE offers enterprise tools that simplify and speed mobile application development. Organizations can deploy and manage distributed applications as inexpensively as web-based programs, while also avoiding the network limitations usually found when accessing a centralized server and database. With DataXtend RE, employees no longer need to be connected to the network to access their information. Users in the field as well as in home or remote offices can nevertheless expect the same service quality as employees in the central office. DataXtend RE allows disconnected operations to support read and write activity on data as if they were connected, and mobile units can be centrally managed while distributed databases are transparently synchronized with central servers. For development of technology that serves a distributed workforce, DataXtend RE provides all the data replication and data synchronization tools the competitive enterprise requires.
Progress Software's solution for mobile application development includes a variety of features that offer significant benefits to the enterprise. The management of DataXtend RE is accomplished through an easy-to-use console through which administrators can control a wide range of distributed applications and databases. DataXtend RE includes a robust software development kit that allows developers to integrate the capabilities from leading databases into mobile applications. Administrators can eliminate the need to manage log files manually by deploying a transparent recovery model. And by allowing enterprises to deliver only site-specific data to each remote location and unit, DataXtend RE helps to minimize the impact on network traffic.
Progress also provides software solutions for algorithmic trading, database management systems, object database management, event driven programming, data synchronization, database replication and more.
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