A few weeks back a colleague and I were driving through Seattle, and we began to debate the reach of ODBC as a key data standard. His perspective was that ODBC was really a C/C++ technology, and that as people have largely moved to other programming languages, the importance of ODBC has declined as...
Based on some recent projects, I am seeing a trend that continues to blur the lines between business intelligence (BI) and application development. It’s only fitting to blog about this topic since Progress Software is the worldwide leader in data connectivity and...
It’s hard to believe that we’re about to wrap up 2013. The year really flew! In terms of technology trends, it was an eventful year in the world of application development and data connectivity. PaaS made a big splash, and we’ve seen a huge influx in Big Data platforms, which has forced providers to...
Following my third Dreamforce presentation on SQL data connectivity to Salesforce, I'm hearing more projects loading data into the Salesforce Platform. The sales ecosystem at...
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