Industry Analyst Reports
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.
Worldwide Embedded Database Management Systems 2007 Vendor Shares
Progress Software is the leading pure-play embedded DBMS vendor, deriving most of its revenue in this market from its distributed systems RDBMS, OpenEdge RDBMS, and a little from its object-oriented DBMS, ObjectStore. The OpenEdge RDBMS is a network-based, multiuser RDBMS that supports applications that are typically deployed mostly on Unix, but also on Windows, Linux, and some legacy platforms. Progress has been a leading player in this space for over a quarter of a century, offering a range of products for ISVs to use in building and deploying their applications. Those products are to be found in the OpenEdge family.
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 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 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 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.
Current Analysis Takes Positive Stance on Progress Software Corporation
Tech Industry-watcher Current Analysis took a positive stance on Progress Software, reflecting its “unstack” approach and full SOA Portfolio of products. The report notes, “Progress refers to these solutions as the “unstack” because although the products are closely integrated, they are not interdependent. In all, Progress has positioned itself as a strong integration vendor with numerous SOA-scale capabilities that will appeal to enterprises focusing on both data and process integration. The company is a solid competitor on price and scalability compared with even larger vendors such as IBM and BEA.”
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."
SOA Adoption: Technology Diversity Accelerators
Although it is no surprise to say that technology diversity drives adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA), Forrester's survey data shows patterns in the use of development platforms, development languages, and application platform vendors that affect how rapidly certain IT segments adopt SOA. For example, enterprises with four or more application platform vendors have significantly higher SOA adoption than enterprises that use three or fewer. Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) that use three development platforms have significantly higher SOA penetration than those using only one. By finding the patterns that match their organization's technology environment, architects can bolster their case for SOA with industry adoption numbers that correspond closely with their peer organizations' adoption rates.
The 2008 Service-Oriented Architecture Software Market Landscape
This Market Services Report from AMR Research makes the point that "While most of the attention in the SOA market has been on the suites offered by major vendors, none of these are truly complete, and customers have more alternatives than what lies on the surface." The authors note that tools for SOA enabling such existing IT assets as legacy applications, messaging systems, and databases are now available and will play a crucial role for companies that can't afford to rewrite their systems from scratch. Regarding the Progress Software SOA Portfolio, they report, "Progress remains committed to being the independent choice for infrastructure. The company has assembled a portfolio of SOA products to address the most common integration challenges customers and software vendors face." Progress meets its customers' needs with independence, interoperability, and best-of-breed functionality. "Whatever the success of the big SOA suite vendors, there will always be a market for best-of-breed products like Progress."
Data Services Platforms: Searching for their Place in the Markets
This Burton Group report analyzes how data services promise easy access to enterprise data strewn across redundant databases, trapped inside commercial software applications, and scattered in semi-structured and unstructured formats. Explaining how Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator helps answer the increasing demands for data services tooling, the authors note that, "Although the synergies between DSP and semantic integration are obvious, only one DSP vendor, Progress Software, provides semantic integration capabilities as part of its product."
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.
Progress Software's Depth And Extensibility Lead In Stand alone SOA Management Solutions
In our Forrester Wave™ analysis of standalone service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web service management solutions, Progress Software's solution rated within our Leader category, with broad and deep visibility into SOA implementations, strong active management of services, and a strong architecture for extensibility.
The Forrester Wave: Standalone SOA And Web Services Management Solutions, Q4 2007
To assess the state of the standalone SOA management solutions market and see how the vendors stack up against each other, Forrester evaluated the top standalone SOA management solutions vendors. Progress Actional was #1 in Current Offering and Strategy. Register to download The Forrester Wave.
The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 2009
In its annual Wave report, Forrester recognizes Apama for its strong market presence, strategy and complex event processing features.
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.
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."
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.
