Industry Analyst Reports
OVUM Technology Audit of Actional
This OVUM technology offers details the key strengths of Actional, including transaction tracking against SLAs, automatic generation of a detailed topology of your application environment, web services modeling and testing tools, and support for in-depth root cause analysis.
Swaps Liquidity Aggregation: Best Execution to Production Selection
Learn why fragmentation will occur, how it will impact the swaps market, and the potential ways in which swaps execution facility (SEF) aggregation technology will be used to alleviate the pain of fragmentation in this TABB Group Vision Note offered exclusively by Progress.
Forrester Wave for SOA Management 2011
Get a detailed review of SOA providers from the Forrester Research analyst report. The report evaluates the product strategy, current product offering and overall market presence of SOA Management providers. Forrester recognizes Progress Actional as an industry leader in the SOA marketplace.
Gartner MQ for SOA Governance 2011
With Actional, companies can assure business transaction success as they execute within a governed architecture that’s optimized for business outcomes while keeping their SOAs secure and compliant. Is it any wonder why Progress Software is positioned as an SOA Governance Technologies leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant? Read the report today!
IDC Ranks Progress Top BPM Platform
Which Business Process Management Platform is Best For Your Company? Find out why independent research firm IDC named Progress® Savvion® as one of the top business process management (BPM) suites on the market in 2011. Download key findings of this report today and learn how IDC's MarketScape evaluation sorts through each BPM vendor’s strengths and weaknesses.
Beyond SOA: How IT Infrastructure Can Become More Responsive to Business Needs
How do you insure that your IT infrastructure has the flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements? SOA provides a measure of agility, but for many it has failed. This white paper from Bloor Research includes strategies on how to address the limitations of SOA with data integration, governance to ensure IT performance and security, and the evolving role of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
The Impact of Regulation, Monitoring and Algorithms on the OTC Derivatives Market
This Vanson Bourne study examines how heads of compliance, risk and reconciliation feel about impending regulation, existing processes, monitoring transactions and algorithmic trading engagements in the wake of the global economic crisis.
Taking Insurance Underwriting to the Next Level
All insurers are facing choices about how and where to allocate precious IT investment dollars. For those looking for ways to differentiate themselves, an investment in taking underwriting automation to the next level could be just the right choice. Learn more.
Forrester Wave for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 2011
Get a detailed review of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) providers from the Forrester Research analyst report. The report evaluates the product strategy, current product offering and overall market presence of 11 ESB providers. Forrester recognizes Sonic ESB as an industry leader in the ESB marketplace.
Coping with Fast Business Change by Forrester Research
Discover how enterprises cope with business change and how that experience drives their IT systems and organizations in this new Forrester Research study. Based on interviews with business leaders from around the globe, this report reveals how fast-changing customer needs and desires contribute to the need for change and business transformation. It also addresses the part IT plays in building a. operationally responsive enterprise.
Competitive Analysis: Application Performance Management and Business Transaction Monitoring
In this application performance management (APM)-business transaction management (BTM) report, Forrester Research, Inc. details a reference model it has developed of what makes an ideal APM solution today – and that solution includes BTM technology. You'll also learn how the APM and BTM solutions from Progress Software stack up against the competition.
Data Consistency and SOA: Old Challenges Rear Their Ugly Heads
Get this Gartner Research report to gain insight into the data consistency challenges organizations that have adopted service-oriented architecture (SOA) are now facing. Find out how your SOA infrastructure can evolve without sacrificing the integrity of your data along the way.
Dynamic Surveillance: Detection, Prevention, and Deterrence
Get your hands on this new Tabb Group Vision Note, offered exclusively by Progress Software. Learn how regulatory changes across the marketplace are transforming market surveillance requirements and presenting new challenges for brokers. Get tips for meeting the challenges of this brave new surveillance world.
Responsive Process Management (RPM) Technology Audit by OVUM
In this new report, Ovum analyst Rob Hailstone shares the results of his recent technology audit of responsive process management (RPM). He reveals the strengths and weaknesses of RPM. Rob also provides a full solution overview and provides analysis and examples of RPM implementations in the real world.
Forrester Wave: Comprehensive Integration Solutions (CIS) 2010
Download a copy of the Forrester Wave that evaluates the strategy, current offering and market presence of 15 Comprehensive Integration Solutions (CIS) providers. Learn about the strengths of the Progress Integration suite which combines technologies from Progress products Sonic ESB, Actional, Apama, and Savvion. The report also recognizes Progress Software as providing "one of the leading ESB solutions (Sonic) for some time."
The Forrester Wave: BPM Suites 2010
Independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc., named Progress® Savvion® BPM as a leader in the business process management (BPM) suites market in The Forrester Wave™: Business Process Management Suites, Q3 2010. Download the report that evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 11 leading BPM suite vendors against 148 criteria that reflect the requirements of organizations running large-scale BPM programs.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring, 2010
Progress Software was positioned in the Visionaries' Quadrant of Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant report. Register for the paper and see how all the vendors stack up. We'll also give you access to an Infographic (created by Progress) that shows what makes our performance monitoring approach unique and effective.
Decision Matrix: Selecting a Business Process Management Vendor
Before you make your decision on which BPM suite is right for you, read about Savvion’s reputation for innovation and ability to embrace all process patterns. An Ovum research project measured BPM vendors across three criteria: market impact, end-user sentiment and technology offering. They placed each of the vendors into one of three categories: explore, consider or shortlist, and Savvion made their shortlist.
IDC Executive Brief: Event Processing in Transportation and Logistics
Learn how important business event processing (BEP) technology is becoming to transport and logistics providers, and how this technology can be used to achieve success and solve a host of long-term problems. Read how your peers are using innovative technology to reduce operational costs, minimize process inefficiencies, and improve responsiveness to customers and partners.
A Technology Audit of the Progress SOA Platform
Butler Group profiled the expanded Progress Portfolio for SOA, writing that “the recent additions to Progress’s SOA platform capability will allow it to offer appropriate solutions to organizations across a wide spectrum of requirements, from simple integration projects to full-blown strategic SOA, supporting a range of organization sizes with varying degrees of SOA maturity. Commercial and open source elements can be combined to create the desired solution at an appropriate entry price.
Butler Group also noted the “strong interoperability across the range (of Progress offerings) and with competitive products, the economic stability and strong international presence of Progress Software, great scalability and high availability choices, and the availability of companion products that provide SOA governance, CEP and Data Interoperability.”
The TEI of Actional for Interconnected Applications - Financial
Forrester used in-depth interviews and Forrester's powerful "Total Economic Impact" (TEI) methodology to model and analyze the costs, risks, resource usage, and payback period of a U.S. financial services company using Actional in production. Follow their calculations and find out the results.
Progress Apama Highly Rated in IDC Assessment of CEP Products
In this analysis and assessment of key Complex Event Processing (CEP) products on today's market, IDC authors characterize industry pioneering Apama as, "a highly sophisticated CEP offering, with high scores in all categories. Apama was early to recognize the importance of a non-IT professional development environment. As a result, the product is both technologically strong as well as useable by trained business users." The assessment further spotlights Progress Apama's innovative Risk Firewall built into the Apama Capital Markets Framework as a critical CEP element, given the strong demand in multiple markets for improved governance around risk.
Progress Actional 8.0 Brings Continuous Quality to SOA Management
In reviewing Progress Software’s Actional 8.0 Enterprise, Current Analysis noted that Actional 8 is the first enterprise software product on the market that merges a mature Web services management solution with competitive standalone SOA quality tooling. "No other WSM competitor has been able to infuse continuous quality functionality into its solution to this extent to date."
With Actional 8, Progress has upped the ante in terms of the depth of visibility available in the market via its Business Transaction Assurance capabilities. With a single click, users can get a full graphical view of a transaction path, complete with a timeline of topology changes.
The TEI of Actional for Interconnected Applications - Media Services
Imagine reducing problem repair efforts by 85% and production incidents by 20% over a year. One company did using Actional. Based on the Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) methodology, frameworks and interviews, Forrester Consulting, in this commissioned study for Progress, measured the total economic impact and potential ROI that using Actional delivered in monitoring and managing the CRM system of a leading media and entertainment services provider. Read this case study and learn how you can manage the operations of your distributed, interconnected applications, and benefit from improved ROI and customer satisfaction.
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Buses, Q1 2009
Independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc., named Sonic ESB as a leader in the enterprise service bus (ESB) market with top scores in the current offering and strategy dimensions of "The Forrester WaveTM: Enterprise Service Buses, Q1 2009" Report. The Forrester Research report evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of 10 top commercial and open source ESB vendors based on a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria. The report also identified IONA FUSE (now owned by Progress) as an "established and successful" ESB.
