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An Introduction to Progress Arcade™

June 12, 2013

Rob StraightSenior Manager, OpenEdge Product Management

© 2013 Progress Software Corporation. All rights reserved.2

Market Demand for Cloud

Results from a survey of our ISVs/Application Partners:

90% are investigating cloud computing

88% have given “a lot” or “some” thought on hosting in the cloud

60% will begin work on testing the cloud

50% will make some form of cloud purchase in 2011


Vision

Progress Arcade accelerates moving ISVs

and BSPs into the Cloud, an enticing

hosting alternative, as they adopt a SaaS business model.

Progress Arcade also makes use of the Cloud

to help OpenEdge developers learn about

the product features offered by Progress and

by Complimentary Solution Providers.

OpenEdge is the leading SaaS Platform for ISVs and Business Service Providers to simplify service development and delivery for the Cloud resulting in

greater Operational Responsiveness


OpenEdge Cloud Strategy: Progress Arcade

An Extensible Environment Supporting Customer-Oriented Cloud-Based Activities

Goals:

• Accelerate SaaS partner business: facilitate deployment in the Cloud

• App modernization: help customers utilize OpenEdge product features

• Demonstrate the synergy of OpenEdge and the Cloud

Available in Popular Cloud Environments

• Initially Amazon EC2


Progress Arcade

Community

FeaturesPremium

User

Features


Progress Arcade - Free Community Resources

Network and discuss all things SaaS and cloud with others just

like you

Take a test-drive of other Progress applications and

solutions with just a few clicks

TRYSHARE SHOP

Visit our marketplace of complementary

products & services


Progress Arcade - Premium Resources

Configure and prepare your

application for the cloud quickly

and easily

Provide your sales team with

the ability to demonstrate

your products in the cloud

DEMOSTAGE DEPLOY

Deploy your production

application in the cloud with just a few simple clicks


Progress Arcade Provides:

A Powerful Yet Easy-to-use Interface to the Cloud

A Structured Environment Tuned to Getting OpenEdge Applications Running in the Cloud

• Direct access to more technically advanced features is available for those who are interested

OpenEdge Products Pre-populated & Configured as a Starting Point, Covering a Range of Single- and Multi-system Deployments

• OpenEdge 10.2B through 11.2

Support for Product Demos in the Cloud

Sophisticated Management and Monitoring Capabilities


Progress Arcade Architecture Overview

Progress Arcade Web Access

Client1

Client2

Clientn


Progress Arcade Live Demo


Recent Feature Additions

General Usability

Keeping the Stage & Test Area Current

64-bit Images/Machines Only

Custom Tags

Ease of Use Setting Up and Modifying Security Groups


Usability: Easy navigation from one door to another

No need to go back to home page to switch doors- easy navigation from one door to another directly


Currency: Latest OE in Stage & Test


Currency: Select between 32- and 64-bit OE versions

Users can now choose to install between 32 bit OE version and 64 bit OE version while starting the deployment


Currency: New Amazon EC2 Regions Available

Four new Amazon EC2 regions: Oregon, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo are now available


Only 64 bit Machine Instances

Users can now enjoy more efficient, 64-bit machine instances. Only 64-bit machines are supported for new deployments- 32-bit instances are NO longer available. This allows vertical scaling of machines from Small to the largest Large.


Add “Custom Tags” while launching a machine instance

Users can add Tags in the form of “name=value” pairs by clicking “Add Tags” button while starting a machine. Default namespace “arcadetag” will be added to this and it will be stored as “arcadetag:name=value”. Details on using this feature can be found in white paper: Using New “Add Tags” Feature in Arcade.

http://communities.progress.com/pcom/docs/DOC-107896


Modify security group (add/ delete security ports)

Click “Ports” button to open dialog box. Click “Add port” to add new ports or click X to delete existing port in security group. Finally click “Update” to update security group.


Solve “Captcha” on Deploy door to stop a server

To prevent stopping a production server accidently.

To prevent stopping production server by malicious scripts/bots.


aPaaS Impact

On Premises Development Continues to be Supported

Deployment Option Via Arcade Remains Viable

Ability to Demo Applications is also Still Useful

Progress Arcade Remains Just as Important in the aPaaS Future as it is Today for the OpenEdge Development Community

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