Corporate Overview

Progress Powers Your Innovation

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and total cost of ownership. Today the company has over 1,600 employees in over 90 countries. Progress is headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, and is a worldwide leader in application infrastructure software.

Progress supports service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments with products that easily create, connect, mediate and control interactions among business services. In addition, Progress continually provides new technologies that provide solutions for such emerging areas as real-time event processing, SOA governance, and federated data service management. All Progress products are standards-based, and interface with a wide variety of business applications in today's heterogeneous business environment.

Services Oriented Architecture Products

Using an SOA approach, information systems are built from shared components called "services" which automate discrete business functions. A services infrastructure connects, mediates, controls and monitors these services and their communications to support and optimize business processes. Specialized integration capabilities of the services infrastructure enable legacy systems to take part in an SOA environment. Includes:

The Progress® Sonic™ product line leverages the market-leading Sonic ESB® messaging-based Enterprise Service Bus to provide integration of new and existing business applications across organizational boundaries and to remote sites with low latency, high reliability and continuous availability.
The Progress® Actional® product line offers Web services and SOA management including monitoring, analysis, security and policy control.
The DataDirect® Shadow® RTE enables mainframe and legacy applications to be full participants in SOA and Web services production and consumption.

Application Platform Products

Progress Application Platform products empower both end-user organizations and independent software vendors and developers to rapidly develop, deploy and manage the sophisticated applications Includes:

The Progress® OpenEdge® platform provides rapid development and deployment of business applications that are standards-based, service-oriented and have a lower total cost of ownership.
The Progress® Apama® Event Processing platform can monitor rapidly moving event streams, detect sophisticated patterns, and take action - all within milliseconds. The Apama® product provides the foundation for event-driven applications, including business activity monitoring, algorithmic trading, transaction monitoring, market abuse detection and RFID applications.
The Progress® EasyAsk® product line provides business users and consumers the ability to find the information they need using natural language search and navigation, supporting a wide variety of applications ranging from customer facing e-commerce Web sites to ad-hoc query.

Data Infrastructure Products

Progress data infrastructure capabilities provide data management, integration, replication, caching, access, and security spanning multiple data stores which can be multi-vendor and in multiple locations including disconnected and mobile data. Data infrastructure enables both database level integration as well as data services support for distributed application services. Includes:

The Progress® DataXtend™: product line provides data integration for distributed applications and delivers real-time views of shared data in the form that applications need. The DataXtend™ Semantic Integrator product employs a common semantic data model to create sophisticated data transformations, enabling organizations to share and integrate heterogeneous data without disruption to existing applications.
DataDirect Technologies is the industry's only comprehensive provider of software for connecting business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging industry standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect® products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC™, ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP.

Progress products and technology are used at over 60,000 organizations in 140 countries including 90% of the Fortune 500. Progress technology provides the infrastructure for applications as diverse as ERP and financial trading, across industries as diverse as retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, and government. Our extensive community of more than 2,500 global partners is critical to building and supporting our customers with more than $5 billion of Progress technology, partner applications and services are sold each year to thousands of companies in over 140 countries.

Corporate Philanthropy

Progress Software's approach to corporate donations comes from our roots in local communities, our global citizenship, and the values of our individual employees. In the cities and towns where we have located our principal operations, we regularly work with local schools and civic organizations to determine which educational and social programs would most benefit from our support. As a result, over the years our corporate donations have funded a wide variety of educational programs, student achievement, and school improvement, as well as programs for the homeless, children, and the elderly.

In addition, when significant natural disasters have occurred around the world, Progress Software has responded with focused matching-gifts programs along with substantial donations to relief organizations.

Finally, a primary component of Progress Software's corporate contributions program is the time and energy invested by our employees as they seek to better their own communities. By donating money that matches the volunteerism of employees, we not only promote a spirit of partnership but assure that corporate donations are dispensed in a manner that is prioritized based on the employees' own values. We also welcome our employees to submit charitable contribution grant requests for the causes that have touched their lives the most. Through this program Progress has contributed funds to diverse charities in the areas of education, health, and life assistance.

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Progress Software Corporation supplies business application platform, soa infrastructure and data infrastructure software that simplifies and accelerates the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Our superior business application platforms include Progress OpenEdge for high performance SOA integration and software as a service (SaaS), and Progress Apama for complex event processing. Our innovative event-driven SOA infrastructure solutions include Progress Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Progress DataXtend semantic data integration, Progress Actional SOA management and SOA governance, and DataDirect data connectivity for mainframe SOA and web services. Our data infrastructure products include DataDirect Connect for database driver and data provider connections to relational databases and XML data integration, EasyAsk for enterprise search and e-commerce, and ObjectStore object data management.