OpenEdge 12 is the most secure, available, and performant version to date. All businesses can benefit from the significant advances in this release. OpenEdge continuously evolves with new features and enhancements to help you meet the demand for application performance, availability, security, and data management. To assist in modernizing your OpenEdge application, this release provides features that:

  • Achieve continuous planned and unplanned uptime.
  • Deliver on performance even as the number of users and connections increases.
  • Extend capabilities and data across various connections and devices.
  • Protect from breaches and address compliance mandates.
  • Create intuitive experiences users demand.
  • Deliver on business demand—quickly and productively.

For details about the features in OpenEdge 12, see:

If you want details about the features in OpenEdge 13, see Learn about OpenEdge 13.

Customer Validation Program

The OpenEdge Customer Validation Program (CVP) is a collaboration platform for Progress Developers and users of OpenEdge to drive overall product improvement. By becoming an OpenEdge CVP member, you gain access to:

  • Roadmap surveys—Respond to the short roadmap surveys to influence product direction and help prioritize deliverables.
  • Virtual open houses—Attend interactive webinars to learn about new development and architectural runways.
  • Usability surveys—Tell us how you use OpenEdge so that we can improve your experience with it.
  • Sprint reviews—See how product development is moving forward to make sure your needs are being addressed.
  • Pre-release software—Try our software before it's released.

The CVP is hosted on Progress Community, where you can share your ideas and network with thousands of OpenEdge Developers.

Progress Content Portal

Release 12 of OpenEdge introduces the Progress content portal: a self-service portal to the rich set of technical content that is available for OpenEdge, including educational videos, user and reference information, and more. This modern services platform delivers content that is much more easily searched and is designed to get you the information you need more quickly. It includes a mechanism for delivering feedback and “liking” helpful content as part of the on-going effort to provide an optimum user experience with Progress technical documentation.

Visit the Progress Content Portal at https://docs.progress.com.

OpenEdge Ideas Portal

OpenEdge Ideas is a self-service portal to submit new ideas or enhancement requests for Progress OpenEdge. You can submit ideas and vote on them. They are then reviewed and prioritized by the Product Management team in accordance with the published Ideation Policy. If you submitted or subscribe to an idea, you get automatic email notifications of comments and significant status changes.

Visit the OpenEdge Ideas Portal at https://openedge.ideas.aha.io/.