Consultingwerk - Empowering developers, empowering modernization!

Consultingwerk is supporting application partners and end customers. We are offering consulting services throughout any phase of application development and modernization projects and for every period in the lifetime of a business application. We are a provider of development tools and focus on application modernization, application architecture, the OpenEdge GUI for .NET, Mobile and Web applications. Our consulting services range from coaching and mentoring, training, technology and architecture assessment, prototyping, framework design and actual software development. Consultingwerk is founding member of the Common Component Specification initiative and Progress Software Service Delivery and Technology Alliance Partner.

SmartComponent Library – the Application Modernization Framework

The SmartComponent Library is the unique framework and toolset for OpenEdge developers that combines ease of use and developer productivity with flexibility and future proofness. The Common Component Specification compliant framework provides user interface flexibility for desktop, mobile and web applications and provides out of the box integration with Telerik Kendo UI, Rollbase, Corticon, OpenEdge BPM and DataDirect OpenAccess. This year we will feature user interface flexibility and business logic modernization.

WinKit – the ABL GUI modernization toolkit

The WinKit was designed to jump start user interface modernization of OpenEdge GUI applications and has been successfully used as the foundation for over 40 modernization projects.

OF-1 - Multi-UI/UX Low-Code Development Platform for OpenEdge

OF-1 is a low-code development platform using pure ABL that is integrated into the OpenEdge Studio. It comes with a rich set of tools, including a visual designer, a graphical case tool (maintain ERD and Business Entities), a big selection of functional and visual components (including Telerik), and much more.

A drawn screen runs in .NET and HTML5, and it can use different 'Look & Feels' (Classic / Urban / Custom). User exits (client and server) allow deep customization, but for most screens little to nothing needs to be done. OF-1 speeds up the development of new applications dramatically and it has proven concepts to modernize legacy systems (ADM, DWP, Dynamics…) effectively.

OF-1 as a low-code platform accelerates the development and deployment of enterprise-grade business applications significantly. It makes it possible to integrate trainees and high professionals in a project. The reduced effort of manual coding empowers them to reach their goals quickly.

IAP is a premier OpenEdge service and consulting company in Europe with a staff of 40+ employees. For OF-1 web sessions, workshops and proof of concepts can be arranged. OF-1 projects usually include the OF-1 source to give the customer deep insights and let him remain independent.

OF-1 allows pure ABL application building the way you like it – low code, less repetitive work, and full control!

SWAT-Framework from AKIOMA Software  -  simplifying complexity!

The SWAT Framework allows to develop professional, Enterprise-Level Web-Applications with an OpenEdge Backend.
Unlike other Frameworks, the SWAT Web-UI enables a User-Experience like a native Windows Desktops Application, supporting e.g.:

- Multi-Windowing inside the Browser
- Drag&Drop
- Multi-Monitor configurations
- Messaging
- Office Integration
- …and much more

All this can be done by ABL Developers without HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge, using the Development Environment and graphical tools from the SWAT-Framework.
Developers can focus on writing Business-Logic and spend minimal time on the UI. The AKIOMA client-API allows writing client-side logic that runs in the browser, and utilizes ABL Business-Logic in the Backend, without deep knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.  

Applications can be deployed to marketplaces, private/public cloud or on-premise.

Integration is another main feature of SWAT, with built-in Adapters to Sonic ESB and ConnectPlaza. Adapters include e.g. Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365 and more.

SWAT also comes with integrated support for Corticon Rules-Engine and OpenEdge BPM, as well as Multitenancy.

Roundtable Software delivers the leading Software Configuration Management solution for Progress OpenEdge development.

Fortune 500 companies to SMBs worldwide trust Roundtable TSMS and its complementary solutions to manage the entire software development lifecycle of their proprietary and purchased applications.

Our solutions reduce time-to-market, improve product quality, and ensure IT compliance.

combit is a strong partner in the Progress community for many years already. combit's List & Label reporting tool ships with numerous optimizations especially for Progress developers, data access to Progress data is a breeze. The data provider offers the full speed of Progress OpenEdge while optimally bridging the gap between Progress and .NET.

With List & Label software developers extend their applications with powerful reporting functions and have access to every kind of data processing and data exchange, in classic applications as well as in web reporting or in the cloud.

The Designer can be redistributed free of charge. They can deploy it with any application to provide end users with intuitive output functionality – in the form of reports, subreports, lists, multi-tables, crosstabs, graphs, charts, Gantt charts, gauges, forms, labels, mail merges and barcodes.

For those who want to save time, the combit Report Server is included in the Enterprise Edition. It is an immediately installable and ready to use reporting solution, completely without any programming effort. The web application works in any modern browser on all devices.