05 Dec 2011

New customers in The Netherlands and Austria

First is a company in Austria which creates configuration systems. OF-1 will be used to create a web solution as add-on solution to the standard windows program package. Second is a customer in The Netherlands, which will use OF-1 for rewriting the internal used core application. Savvion will be integrated during this project.

30 Nov 2011

OF-1 1.6 released

This release is a maintenance release with focus on stability and usability. The internal structure changes results in much better overall stability, developer friendliness, better Designer handling (including Undo) and so on.

09 Nov 2011

EMEA Challenge – Successful Exhibition and Presentations

At the EMEA Challenge in Amsterdam IAP had a very successful participation in the conference. With the support from our great team could we advise a lot of interested visitors and had two great OF-1 presentations together with our new dutch partner Will van Beek. We had also very positive reactions to our second new partner in the Netherlande, Peter van Dam from Futureproof Software, who will especially take care of PCase.

06 Feb 2011

Viper for Unix released

With nearly 200 installations, Viper is a very successful, fast and reliable printing tool in the Progress world. Today we are pleased to reveal the successor: Viper for Unix!

01 Feb 2011

OF-1 Version 1.5 released

The new major release 1.5 of OF-1 is now available, with a lot of key features: Subscreens, Ribbon Controls, Calendar, much more - read more here

28 Nov 2010

OF-1 sold to customer in Finland

We are proud to have our first customer in Finland. Our partner Veli-Matti Korhonnen says: The customer was convinced from the fact that the demo programs, created in a short workshop, could be presented on the Internet to the managing director.

22 Nov 2010

Success at EMEA PUG Challenge

During the PUG Challenge conference held in Cologne, IAP got a high level of awareness for OF-1. At the booth we had many visitors and a lot of interesting discussions about possibilities with OF-1. IAP held 3 informational OF-1 sessions with over 50 attendees - demonstrating a increased level of interest in this innovative product.

14 Oct 2010

IAP grows to over 25 employees

IAP staff numbers have grown to over 25 employees with the hiring of some new programmers and trainees.

23 Aug 2010

World Cup betting game finished

The OF-1 Soccer World Cup in South Africa betting game was great fun and great success. The winner of the "OF-1 Soccer World Cup in South Africa betting game" will receive the iPad in a few weeks, when the iPad UI is availabe translated into his language. The winner is ...

21 Aug 2010

IAP Gold Sponsor at EMEA PUG Challenge

The European Progress User Groups are organising the premier technical and business oriented conference in the Progress EMEA PUG Challengeworld in 2010, to be held on November 18^th and 19^th in Cologne / Germany. IAP is Gold Sponsor of the conference!

27 Jul 2010

OpenEdge to OpenEdge Architect Integration Layer

Create new full functional Eclipse Plugins in Progress/ABL and integrate your existing ABL programs into the OpenEdge Architect. Read details here!

09-10 Jun 2010

Commercial workshop in Finland

IAP accomplished a commercial workshop in Finland with two prospects.

04 Jun 2010

OF-1 World Cup Game

IAP released the OF-1 Soccer World Cup in South Africa betting game where you can win the iPad WI-FI, 32 GB!
Please download the newsletter here.

28 May 2010

OF-1 Newsletter May newsletter released

Topics are:

• OF-1 Group in LinkedIn
• Upcoming workshops in Paris and Helsinki
• New worldwide Text Message (SMS) Online Demo
• Last Activities: Finnland PUG Conferenc and SaaS Solutions in the OpenEdge World in The Netherlands
• Feature outlook for OF-1 release 1.5

Please download the newsletter here.

25 May 2010

New Text Message (SMS) Demo

Our Online Demo contains a sample of the integration of an external text message service. You will find it in the section "Mash-Ups" labeled "Text Message (SMS)". To check it out you can send yourself a message with that service on behalf of the service provider Media Info Transfer.

25 May 2010

Feature Plan for Release 1.5

Here a short outlook to some of the key features of the next major version (1.5) of OF-1 which will be released in August:

• Configurable Desktop
• Ribbon Controls (.NET)
• Subscreens (These screens allow Eclipse like positioning of screens inside and out of the main window)
• Business Graphics Objects (Charts)
• Workflow Manager
• a lot of minor fixes and improvements

27-29 Apr 2010

Commercial workshop in the Netherlands

IAP accomplished a commercial workshop in the Netherlands with two prospects.

22 Apr 2010

Roadshow - SaaS Solutions in the OpenEdge World

Groove-IT and IAP invites you to the "SaaS Solutions in the OpenEdge World" roadshow, which will take place at Progress Software EMEA headquarters in Rotterdam, together with Progress.
Block the 22 April 2010, 10 o'clock, to catch this opportunity to expand your business with great Progress technology. The event will end after a small lunch at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Download the invitation here. If you have questions, send a mail to

01 Apr 2010

OF-1 release 1.4

Release 1.4 is a maintenance release with few extensions, but a lot of 'invisible' minor improvements. Changes (abstract)

• Column chooser for standard browse (customization)
• Connection browse extended - Implemented scheduler class
• In-Frame toolbar
• Asynchronous generic AppServer call
• Various issues and bugfixes

For details see the release history here.

25 - 26 Mar 2010

Presentation at PUG Finnland Conference

The next FinPUG meeting will be held in Tallinn, capital of Estonia. IAP is invited to present the actual version of OF-1 and how to create SaaS solutions with the ABL.

24 Mar 2010

IAP at PUG Germany Conference

IAP will be present at the next German PUG in Fulda and will be open to discuss OF-1 topics.

16 Feb 2010

New OF-1 sales partner in the Netherlands

IAP is proud to present "Groove-it Application Development" as new sales partner in the Netherlands. Together with CEO George van Veen IAP will start over in the Netherlands with a roadshow "SaaS solutions for the Progress World" in March. For complete details to our new partner see the partner page.

19 Jan 2010

Announced Viper for Unix - Open Beta

Our Printing solution 'Viper for Windows' will soon be available on Linux/Unix. We are searching up to 5 participiants for this beta test. Together with OF-1 (AJAX or Java Skin-Client) Viper for Unix will help you to build a perfect SaaS application out of the box, whether you runs Windows or Linux/Unix. For complete details see the newsletter.

13 - 14 Nov 2009

Successful attending at PUG Challenge in Rotterdam

IAP attended the PUG Challenge in Rotterdam as a Gold Sponsor with great success. Besides holding 3 commercial presentations and 1 technical presentation about AJAX, a lot of prospects come to the booth and got information in discussions. A lot of news to OF-1 are presented, e.g. ADM converter, OF-1 on mobile devices, OF-1 on cloud, mash-ups. IAP feels a growing interest to OF-1 in the Netherlands, especially after doing first successfull migrations of DWP to OF-1.

09 Nov 2009

OF-1 release 1.3 Changes (abstract)

• Many improvements for AJAX UI
• Deployment station
• .NET handling revised
• Worked on performance on every level (programs, UI, AppServer, network)
• Added a few hooks
• Worked on documentation and samples
• Better interoperability (Excel, others)
• Designer revised
• SVN integration improved
• Check Unix compability
• Various issues and bugfixes

For details see the release history here.

04 Nov 2009

Customer seminar at Progress Software in Lyon

IAP and Propath Consulting Services present OF-1 at a customer seminar at Progress Software in Lyon, France.

24 Aug 2009

OF-1 seminar for Progress consultants

IAP runs a seminar for Progress consultants from Holland and Germany at Progress Software in Cologne, Germany. The abilities of OF-1 are presented and discussed, together with possibilities to use OF-1 in joint projects.

07 Jul 2009

SaaS with Object Framework - One / Demo Now!

The successful framework OF-1 makes it extremly easy to create and use applications with multiple user interfaces. Utilizing AJAX or Java for the UI, we provide a direct road to SaaS. You can start to sell your application online immediately. See here for online demo.

25 Apr 2009

Progress User Conference in Chicago, USA

Klaus de Vries, Director of IAP speaks about OF-1 at Progress User Conference in Chicago, USA.

20 - 21 Apr 2009

Progress Software Technical Forums in Frankfurt & Vienna

OF-1 attracts great interest at the Progress Software Technical Forums in Frankfurt & Vienna, where it was presented by Klaus de Vries and Klaus Erichsen. In particular the new AJAX interface got great attention.

16 April 2009

OF-1 release 1.2 Changes (abstract)

• Better toolbar usability
• Splitter between areas on desktop
• Much smaller enthancements
• Add event object
• Designer property sheet
• Sonic adapter
• Added some UI themes, better color handling
• Improved updatable browser handling and classes
• Business Entities handling (PCase + Desinger)
• Translation tool updates
• Various AJAX and Java UI enhancements
• Various issues and bugfixes

For details see the release history here.