Progress Software Corp. announced the new Progress(R) OpenEdge(R) 11.2 cloud application development platform, featuring the cloud-based OpenEdge Mobile App Builder product. Officially launched at the Progress Software Global Partner Conference taking place this week in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Progress OpenEdge Mobile App Builder product will help organizations bridge the app gap by allowing independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers to write once, run anywhere, providing a quick and easy way to get applications up and running on all mobile operating systems, including iOS and Android.

It also allows developers to continuously and efficiently update applications as the mobile market evolves and new devices are introduced. The OpenEdge Mobile App Builder product provides a highly productive, simplified development experience from start to finish enabling end-user access to critical business applications using multiple mobile devices. More than 1,400 ISVs actively build their business applications based on the Progress OpenEdge platform and there are hundreds of applications based on the OpenEdge platform running in the Cloud.

The OpenEdge Mobile App Builder product is fully integrated with the Progress OpenEdge backend, eliminating the need for developers to recreate existing services. This also provides an optimized development environment for transactional applications. New OpenEdge 11.2 platform features include: Mobility Capabilities: Visual Designer and UI toolkit for phone and tablet applications, REST support for the OpenEdge application server, JavaScript Data Binding support libraries, and write-once, run anywhere support for iOS and Android; Productivity and Performance Improvements: Session-level Structured Error Handling, improved performance for AppServer invocations, support for SQL offset/fetch statements, Progress Developer Studio: Scratch Editor, and sub-Second PAUSE support for Processes from ABL; and Added Platform Support: Windows 8, SQL Servers 2012 certification and Eclipse 3.7 support.