Industry Analyst Reports
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.”
Progress Software to Acquire IONA Technologies: "Doubling Down" on the SOA Marketplace
In this INSIGHT report, IDC comments, “By acquiring IONA, Progress adds to its portfolio a host of complementary offerings which in some cases add various dimensions that help extend the company’s reach to address an even more complex and varied landscape. This move should thus allow its customer and prospects additional choices regarding deployment, integration, and messaging mediation patterns for SOA. It also arms the company with more options to cross sell its solutions to gain a deeper footprint within the combined customer base.”
Progress Acquires IONA in Play for SOA Leadership
In this report, Current Analysis deems the market impact of Progress’ pending acquisition of Iona Technologies as “Very High” and takes a positive perspective on the news. Current Analysis’ rationale includes, “the deal will create a number of immediate market opportunities and long-term technology advantages for Progress, stemming from strong technology and vertical industry synergies, existing cross-company interoperability, global market expansion, and mid-market options. As a result, this quickly moving acquisition will strengthen Progress’ position as a leading, independent standards-based heterogeneous SOA provider.
Breaking up the Stack - The SOA Strategy of Progress Software
This Butler Group White Paper shows the breadth of Progress Software's SOA portfolio and the unique manner by which it delivers these technologies to the marketplace. "Progress takes a refreshingly pragmatic view of the SOA market, recognizing that for most organizations (and certainly for most large and very large enterprises) the SOA infrastructure will itself be heterogeneous, either by design or by evolution and necessity. It provide its solutions in a form that can be readily implemented to enhance an existing SOA implementation, providing missing elements, or potentially replacing elements that are a less than optimal fit with the requirements of the organization."
Progress Software Named Largest Pure-Play Embedded Database Management System (DBMS) Vendor in IDC Report
The Progress OpenEdge business application development platform was recognized for worldwide leadership in the pure-play embedded database management systems market by IDC in the firm's Worldwide Embedded DBMS 2007-2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares Report. The report also cited Progress Software's strong ISV channel relationships and continuous product development as key contributing factors for its leading market share.
QAD: A Software Vendor That Has Survived (if Not Thrived) in the ERP Market
"Progress's recent focus on its well-defined SOA framework indicates that the vendor has listened to its some 2,000 ISVs (or Progress application partners, as it calls them) requesting the platform provider to broaden the technology stack so that applications like QAD's will be complemented by cuttingedge SOA technologies."
Benefits of Adopting SOA and BPM Technologies Across the Business
In this analyst briefing, Janelle B. Hill, Research VP, Gartner, and former Savvion President, CEO and Founder, Dr. M.A. Ketabchi, go head to head to discuss the benefits of adopting SOA and BPM technologies across the business.
Bloor BPMS Market Update
Business process management (BPM) is a holistic management practice that models an enterprises' human and machine tasks, and the interactions between them, as processes with the goal of improving agility and performance. It is a structured approach that employs methods, policies, metrics, management practices and software tools to manage and continuously optimize an organization's activities and processes.
Savvion BPMS Technology Audit by Butler Group
Savvion Business Process Management suite provides a comprehensive solution for mid-sized or large-sized organizations that need to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their key processes.
Adapting to Change In The Financial Industry Using Complex Event Processing
Read this Forrester case study and learn how implementing Apama fostered one proprietary trading firm's developer responsiveness and versatility.
Combining Technologies Opens Up New Business Opportunities at Royal Dirkzwager
Learn about the explosion of opportunities presented to Royal Dirkzwager since it began using Sonic Enterprise Service Bus and Apama Complex Event Processing solutions to manage logistics. C3B Consulting explains how Progress technology has enabled this Dutch-based maritime operations provider to extend its focus from the small port of Rotterdam to a global level. This paper also includes an analysis and background of the Progress Responsive Process Management suite conducted by C3B.
Beyond SOA
How do you move beyond the limitations of first generation SOA to enable truly responsive business integration? This report by Bloor Research explains how you can add plug-and play architectural enhancements to SOA and dramatically improve business performance and make your job a whole lot easier.
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