Industry Analyst Reports
Market Surveillance in Europe: Under Starter's Orders
This TABB Group Vision Note, offered only by Progress, examines how new regulations are triggering the next generation of market surveillance technology, and the challenges and opportunities in this new world.
Forrester Wave for Integrated SOA Governance
Forrester Research, Inc. recently evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top integrated service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance vendors, and Progress came out on top. Get this important analyst report.
Corticon: A Solution That Improves Performance and Business Rule Integrity
Read this IDC Vendor Spotlight to learn more about the emerging BRMS market, which has been gathering momentum over the past several years. In this report, IDC presents the benefits of BRMS and states that Corticon is "one of a small number of leading BRMS vendors that have developed a breakthrough technology in the BRMS market."
Customer-Focused Experience Management Must Be an End-to-End Process
The operations infrastructure of today’s communications service providers' (CSPs) is neither meeting the needs of customers, nor is it as cost-effective as the competitive market requires.This Yankee Group paper explores the new market reality for communications service providers, and ways to gain an end-to-end perspective on customer experience.
OVUM Technology Audit of Actional
This OVUM technology audit details the key strengths of Actional, including transaction tracking against SLAs, automatic generation of a detailed topology of your application environment, 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.
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.
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.
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 Software Company Assessment for Data Management
In this Company Assessment of Progress Software, Current Analysis described Progress' diverse data-integration offerings found within Progress OpenEdge, Sonic, DataXtend SI, DataDirect Technologies offerings and Progress Apama. The author wrote, "Existing progress users should take comfort in the fact that the vendor has chalked up two decades of continued profitability, growth and diversification. Their investments in Progress products are safe, and the vendor's worldwide sales, marketing, distribution and support organization – and extensive partner ecosystem – will continue to serve enterprise customers' evolving needs. Existing customers of Progress' DM offerings should continue to rely on the vendor primarily to serve point requirements in such diverse areas as DBMSs (embedded, relational, XML, in-memory), data integration (database drivers, data connectors, data replication, data synchronization, data access, data caching, ESP), and natural-language query. Organizations should recognize that the widespread deployment of business intelligence can benefit the entire organization. They should consider the natural language syntax and "google" like search capabilities of Progress EasyAsk as a vehicle for making BI more pervasive."
Progress to Add IONA to its SOA Portfolio
This AMR Alert Article notes that “With the IONA acquisition, Progress will enhance its offerings for .NET and Java integration as well as add CORBA to SOA integration and an SOA registry of its own. Thanks to the architectural approach shared by the two product sets, we expect IONA’s SOA customers to be protected.” The article continues, “For Progress, this is another step on its way to building a broad SOA portfolio and a critical mass of revenue in its SOA business. The acquisition creates new opportunities to cross-sell SOA portfolio products to IONA’s customers and strengthens Progress’ hand in competitive SOA evaluations.”
Progress' Pending Acquisition of IONA Improves Middleware Position
This IDC Link report states, “This was a good deal for Progress for the following reasons: 26% growth in (Iona) Artix SOA revenue helps accelerate Progress growth, $32 million maintenance business with high renewal rates, 75 field reps capable of selling a joint SOA portfolio, Complementary products, and increased market presence and share in SOA business, including the addition of a SOA registry and repository.” Noting that the Iona bus provides endpoint connectivity, the report concludes, “Therefore, it isn’t much of a stretch to market and sell this combined portfolio, particularly with the (Iona) Artix registry/repository product and Actional services management.”
