Colleen Smith
Colleen Smith is Vice President, Customer Advocacy at Progress. In this role, she is responsible for ensuring customer focus and accountability for improving the company’s relationship with its customers and partners, as it relates to the use of Progress core products. Smith joined the company in 2005 with 20 years of enterprise software marketing, sales and product strategy experience, and has helped transform software companies into industry leaders, built strategic partnerships, designed acquisition strategies and moved companies through aggressive growth stages.
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A cloud evolution and a new way of doing business for ISVs
The rise of Software as a Service (SaaS), and the Cloud in recent years have brought significant changes in technology and business processes for service providers, developers and users – but also, significantly, for...
Colleen Smith
February 22, 2013
The Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud
A constant thread throughout all of my discussions with our Application Partners in the past year has been a combination of amazement and awareness that the Cloud is, in effect, still in its infancy. And yet it is already changing...
OpenEdge BPM: A Different Way to Look at Process-centric Applications
An interesting aspect of Business Process Management (BPM) is that it has the capability to change the way users look at an application. As developers and architects, we tend to look at BPM as a way to...
Is ERP ready for the CLOUD?
A business’ ERP application is something that is mission critical and usually is something that is only replaced every 15 years or so; typically it has large amounts of information, is used by many different areas of the business, by many different users, and is critical to the running of the...
OpenEdge 11 is HERE!
I just needed to update everyone with some exciting news.....OpenEdge 11.0 is now shipping!
This release planning/work has been going on for two years and after a successful Technical Preview Program and Beta Program, OpenEdge 11.0 has finally gone into production and is generally available for...
Scalability and Manageability in the Cloud
We recently explained the differences between public, private and hybrid clouds. Once you have decided on which type of cloud works best for you, the next step is to look into how you will manage your deployment.
As we’ve mentioned previously, there are many layers of cloud computing, including...
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