Progress Software Awards

Progress Software customers, partners and products receive industry recognition for excellence. Here are some of our recent accolades.

MITX technology awards Analytics & Business Intelligence category finalists, Apama and DataXtend

MITX technology awards Analytics & Business Intelligence category finalists, Apama and DataXtend The 2008 What's Next Forum & Technology Awards will recognize and celebrate innovative technologies developed in New England.

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Five-Star Rating from VARBusiness Magazine for Channel Operations 2008

VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide and the Five-Star Partner Programs awards recognize those vendors with the most comprehensive channel offerings for their particular markets and technology sets.

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Five-Star Rating from VARBusiness Magazine for Marketing Support 2008

VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide and the Five-Star Partner Programs awards recognize those vendors with the most comprehensive channel offerings for their particular markets and technology sets.

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Five-Star Rating from VARBusiness Magazine for Partner Profitability 2008

VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide and the Five-Star Partner Programs awards recognize those vendors with the most comprehensive channel offerings for their particular markets and technology sets.

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Five-Star Rating from VARBusiness Magazine for Sales Support 2008

VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide and the Five-Star Partner Programs awards recognize those vendors with the most comprehensive channel offerings for their particular markets and technology sets.

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Boston Business Journal

Progress Software listed in the Boston Business Journal's annucal Massachusetts TOP TECH. EMPLOYERS

Software Magazine

Progress Software Named to Software Magazine's 25th Annual Software 500
Progress Software Corporation was ranked 83 on the Software Magazine's Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and service providers

InfoWorld

Progress Software Powers CERN to IDG InfoWorld 100 Recognition
The World's Largest Physics Laboratory And Particle Accelerator Recognized As One Of The 100 Most Innovative IT Solutions For 2007 For High-Throughput, Distributed Messaging System

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Progress Software Customer Recognized for Best-in-Class Technology Innovation and Implementation
Extended Retail Industry Awards Team Honors Book Retailing Pioneer BGN as Technology Innovators

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Channel Web NETWORK

Colleen Smith, vice president, Software as a Service Partner Program, Progress Software (NSDQ:PRGS) listed as a top Channel Chief for her development of a new SaaS channel program geared to drive new SaaS business initiatives into the market.

Computerworld Honors Laureate award

Progress Software customers BGN and Argentina's Government of La Pampa Province were both named Laureates by the program. BGN was honored for its RFID deployment, while the Government of La Pampa was recognized for leveraging Progress OpenEdge®, to manage a complete citizens' benefits database that tracks social program implementations, aimed at optimizing resource allocation for families that cannot cover basic needs.

CIO

Progress Software's customer Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN), a Dutch book retailer, leveraged Progress OpenEdge®, Progress Apama ESP®, Progress Sonic ESB®, and Progress EasyAsk® to achieve a significant breakthrough in remote store automation - the deployment of the world's first item-level RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) retail store, all deployed within an SOA environment.

World BSS Awards Winner

Progress DataXtend SI named winner of the "Innovation In Billing & Information Management" category of the World BSS Awards 2007. Progress Software was chosen as the winner based on a major CRM IT transformation project, which included the implementation of a common front-end to operations support systems/ business support systems (OSS/BSS). For this task, Progress Software provided a shared information/data (SID) based data integration solution based on its DataXtend Semantic Integrator.

MITX Winner

Progress Apama has been selected as winner in the category of "Performance Management and Analytics" for the 2007 MITX Technology Awards
The MITX Technology Awards, presented by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements.

MITX What's Next Forum and Technology Aware

Progress Sonic named finalist in the IT Operations category of the MITX 2007 Technology Awards.

DataXtend SI Voted as Finalist for Best New Product

Progress DataXtend SI won Best New Product in the 2007 Billing World & OSS Today Excellence Awards.

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DataXtend SI voted TM Forum 2007 Finalist

Progress DataXtend SI named winner for Best Practices in the 2007 TM Forum Excellence Awards. Winners were announced on May 21st at Telemanagement World, Nice.

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Financial Sector Technology

Jan 2007: Financial Sector Technology, a leading UK publication specializing on the financial sector, awarded Collins Stewart Tullet for the Best Straight through Processing Deployment for its DASH interdealer broker project, which uses a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) created with Sonic Software solutions, to integrate legacy systems and automate trade routing beyond the firewall.

Forbes 200 Best Small Companies

November 2006: Progress Software was named to Forbes 200 Best Small Companies list for the second consecutive year. Progress is the only Massachusetts-based software company or application infrastructure provider on the list, and moved up 28 spots to #148. According to the October, 2006 issue of Forbes, the companies on this list are "…growing, businesses designed to survive the ups and downs of market volatility."

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InfoWorld

November 2006: InfoWorld Top 100 IT Projects: BGN and Volvo
Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN), the Netherlands' leading book retailer, used Progress OpenEdge, Sonic ESB, Apama and EasyAsk to power world's first item level RFID inventory tagging. Volvo Cars Belgium standardized 65 dealers on one OpenEdge-based system in 8 months, and then linked to Volvo corporate with Sonic ESB in 2 weeks.

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RFID Break Through Awards

November 2006: RFID Break Through Awards recognized Matthijs Van Der Lely, CEO of Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN), the Netherlands' largest book retailer, has been awarded the RFID Visionary Award for 2006.

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Bloor Research

Oct 2006: Bloor Research lauded Progress Apama in an independent report that noted, "If you need real-time then you need event processing; if you need event processing then Progress Apama must be on your short-list." Moreover, the report states Progress is a market leader in this space and "we do not expect that to change in the foreseeable future." (No press release found)

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e-Tail 2006

August 2006: e-Tail 2006 Lillian Vernon, Progress EasyAsk customer, won this prestigious retail award for outstanding search.

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Forrester

July 2006: Forrester Wave Q2 2006 names Progress Software leader in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Market for Sonic ESB Product Family

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SD Times 100

June 2006: Progress Software Recognized in SD Times 100 Awards for Fourth Consecutive Year

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CTO 25 Awards

June 2006: InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards recognized two Progress Software customers exemplifying "the Best in IT Management and Innovation," Roland Whitehead, Global IT Director of Bonhams, a leading UK auction house, and Suzanne Peck, CTO of the City of Washington DC.

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START-IT magazine

2006: START-IT magazine honored Progress Application Partner Epicor Software Corporation with a Technology Enabler Award at the 9th Annual Technology and Business (T&B) Awards ceremony. Exemplifying the power of software solutions, Epicor was recognized for providing ACE Clearwater Enterprises superior solutions in technology.

The Banker 'Buy-Side Innovation' winner for 2006

June 2006: Progress Software's Apama platform was named as the Banker 'Buy-Side Innovation' winner for 2006. Apama Research Studio was recognized for powerful backtesting and analysis capabilities.

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Gartner

June 2006: Progress Sonic ESB product ranked first in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) segment in Gartner Dataquest's report on the worldwide application integration and middleware (AIM) market.

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Intelligent Enterprise Award

May 2006: Intelligent Enterprise recognized Progress as one of the most innovative and influential technology companies, and one of the top 12 spotlighted in this year's Editors' Choice Awards. "With a diverse, yet complementary portfolio… Progress Software helps organizations create powerful business applications that respond to changing business and IT conditions…"

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Forrester

March 2006: In the Forrester Wave Q1 2006 report Progress Actional was identified as being "at the head of the pack…the cleanest packages of broad, overall feature-function completeness for SOA

Forrester

March 2006: Forrester Research found Progress OpenEdge superior to alternative platforms. Key findings included:

  • 42% lower cost of development on the Progress platform.
  • 37% lower cost of deployment on the Progress platform
  • 48% lower cost of ongoing management on the Progress platform

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Five-Star Rating from VARBusiness Magazine for Partner Program

March 2006: Progress Software earned its third consecutive Five-Star Rating from VARBusiness Magazine for the superior partnership programs it offers to its value added partners (VARS), who sell market-leading applications based on Progress technologies. "We applaud vendors like Progress for demonstrating best practices and for the leadership roles they have achieved within the IT distribution channel," says VARBusiness Editor Lawrence M. Walsh.

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InfoWorld

January 2006: Sonic Software was recognized for ''Best ESB'' in IDG's InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year Awards; Sonic SOA Suite(TM) 6.1 was lauded in annual awards recognizing the Technologies That Made the Greatest Impact in 2005

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