Progress Software Selected by Expedia to Help Deliver Exceptional Customer Service
Superior Performance Cited in Selection of Progress(R) Sonic as the Infrastructure for Expedia's Service-Oriented Architecture
BEDFORD, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE)
04-Dec-2006
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a provider of leading application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced that Expedia, Inc., the world's leading online travel company, has selected Progress(R) Sonic as the messaging infrastructure for its reservation system.
Expedia's trip planning tools allow business and leisure travelers to book airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, destination activities, vacation packages and cruises online. The Company's architecture provides the flexibility and agility needed to add and update services as quickly and often as necessary.
"Expedia is the world's largest global travel marketplace and technology plays a vital role in supporting our business vision," said Paul Onnen, CTO of Expedia. "Superior performance made Sonic very attractive to us. Sonic will be the messaging backbone for Expedia's new architecture. Having the flexibility to change services as needed and the ability to do it quickly will ensure that Expedia customers always receive the highest level of service that the market has to offer."
Progress Sonic simplifies the integration and reuse of business components using a standards-based SOA. Sonic delivers unmatched service availability, high performance, exceptional management capabilities and unsurpassed scalability for sophisticated enterprise deployments such as Expedia's. Additionally, Sonic's exclusive Continuous Availability Architecture(TM) (CAA) provides high availability and transactional fault tolerance, eliminating the risk of lost data.
"Expedia is the premier online service in the travel industry. Progress Sonic delivers the flexibility necessary to keep pace with constantly changing market requirements," said Gordon Van Huizen, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Infrastructure Division, Progress Software. "No other company has as much real-world experience with SOA deployments as Progress. The unrivaled agility and performance delivered by Sonic will help Expedia continue to provide its customers with service that is second to none."
About Progress Sonic
Sonic products from Progress Software help IT organizations achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to rapidly changing business needs. The Sonic products include SonicMQ(R), the industry's only continuously available JMS enterprise messaging system, and Sonic ESB(R), the world's first and market-share leading ESB. Sonic products simplify the integration and flexible reuse of diverse and often proprietary business systems by manipulating them as modular, standards-based services which can be rapidly combined to serve the business in new ways. For information on Sonic products, see www.progress.com/sonic.
About Progress Software Corporation
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. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.
Progress and Sonic are registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the US and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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