2005 Press Coverage
Dec 2005
Well worth the investment: Integrated systems deliver benefits to telecom technology company
"In addition to Infor SyteLine, ATL has taken full advantage of the Progress 4G database language technology that underpins Infor SyteLine. 'This gives us a huge amount of flexibility in terms of manipulating data and writing often complex reports.'"
Dec 2005
Progress Software
Progress Software Corporation announced an increase in its quarterly benefit and will buy NEON Systems for $68 millions dollars.
Dec 2005
Progress Software Q4 revenue, profits up
For the 12 months ended November 30, 2005, revenue increased 12 percent (10 percent at constant currency) to $405 million from $363 million in fiscal 2004. On a GAAP basis, operating income increased 38 percent to $63.8 million from $46.4 million in fiscal 2004. Net income increased 52 percent to $48.9 million from $32.1 million in fiscal 2004 and diluted earnings per share increased 44 percent to $1.18 from 82 cents in fiscal 2004.
Dec 2005
In an effort to make the Enterprise Service Bus better understood, Sonic Software has created a formal model of its interpretation of the architecture in UML
The definition is an attempt to remove some of the ambiguity surrounding ESBs, even as giants such as IBM and BEA join the ESB bandwagon with their own interpretations. Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition is based on Sonic's own ESB, which the company says leads the ESB market with more than 250 live deployments.
Dec 2005
Get Real
"Progress – which since its acquisition of Excelon, and with it the ObjectStore database, has been in the market longer than most – expects its event stream processing business to contribute about $29 million this year – a 58% increase – about 12% of Progress' total revenues. Most of this, says Mark Palmer, the division's vice president, will come from the telecoms sector, where ObjectStore has an established market..."
Dec 2005
Progress takes SOA to mainframe with Neon buy
"...the acquisition of Neon means that Progress (not just DataDirect but also its Sonic and Real-Time divisions) can expand its SOA message to the mainframe whereas previously it was limited to open systems. Given that most of the companies that are in the forefront of the SOA movement tend to be large enterprises, and that most large enterprises have mainframes, then this acquisition makes excellent sense."
Dec 2005
Progress Ends 2005 with a Neon Glow
Rick Reidy, president of DataDirect, told ComputerWire it is "highly likely" that Progress's Sonic and Real Time divisions will also be able to draw on the Neon technology to gain real-time access to mainframe and other host data assets via SQL, web services, and other standards. Reidy said the addition of Neon to the Real Time and Sonic divisions would help to make the mainframe an "equal partner" in SOA deployments.
30 Nov 2005
SOA integration or disintegration
Article based on round table meeting with Paweł Dobrzyński and Parys Waicis form Progress Software, Hendrik Jan de Jong form Sonic Software, Aleksander Wyka form PKO BP (one of the biggest Polish bank), Andrzej Garlic form Thomson Multimedia and journalist from IDG - Andrzej Górlaczyk as the moderator. They were talking about SOA. They pointed out all statesmanship's of SOA, but as well they were talking about raising daubs connecting with SOA.
Nov 2005
Progress Software partners program had a face-lift
This article follows Didier Mamma's interview. It deals about AT Jumpstart program and OpenEdge 10.1 platform.
Nov 2005
Sonic Software provides first comprehensive definition of an Enterprise
"...Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), today introduces the first comprehensive technical definition for the enterprise service bus (ESB). 'Sonic ESB®: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition' is based on Sonic Software's market-leading Sonic ESB, and examines both the core capabilities and usage of an ESB from development to production."
Nov 2005
Progress Platform Helps Bonhams Create Best Fit Business Systems, Handle Expansion And Reduce IT Overheads Year On Year
"Most other scenarios wouldn't have been able to cope with the rate of change or scale-up, without a huge investment," says Whitehead. "Progress OpenEdge is a solid and dependable platform that has enabled us to implement our technological and management philosophies."
Nov 2005
Law Society of Scotland selects Visualfiles – soon all Scottish Solicitors will use Visualfiles' Pro
"Visualfiles technology, developed using the Progress OpenEdge platform, will integrate with the Society's existing finance system from CedaOpenAccounts, which is also Progress-based, and nflow's digital dictation system. It will also allow solicitors to update personal records, reserve places on legal education courses and CPD activity."
Nov 2005
SOA: Is everyone talking the same language?
"One grouping that has added to the debate of late is headed by Sonic Software. A subsidiary of Progress Software, Sonic is among those touting SOA enabling technology. This is in the form of a message oriented Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) which is positioned as the communications backbone for building and delivering SOA components."
"David Chappell, who has the grand title at Sonic of VP and chief technology evangelist, describes the SOA Maturity Model as a 'framework for discussion, to help an organization understand where it is with regards the adoption of SOA'."
Nov 2005
ESB minnows swim ahead
"Rather than giving each application a set of separate links to all the others, they just need a single link to the backbone. The key difference with ESB is that rather than using proprietary technologies, which require rare and expensive consultancy skills to deploy, they are based on standardized data formats..."
29 Nov 2005
Dedicated IT systems
Article was about special IT solutions for manufacture companies based on Progress Software conference about dedicated systems. Progress Software' Partners solutions for enterprises and medium companies was described. Article was written by Paweł Dobrzyński - director of Progress Software Poland.
Nov 2005
In collaboration with Progress Software, CIBF developed a new financial exchange platform called NEXUS for inter-banking
Progress Software and CIBF have collaborated on a new platform dedicated to financial exchanges for the EURO based on SONIC ESB.
Nov 2005
Web services restructure IT
This 2 page feature focuses on ESB. Sonic is quoted as the "designer of this concept".
Nov 2005
Progress OpenEdge is now on SOA
News dedicated to OpenEdge, which integrates new IDE environment.
Nov 2005
Handicap International Information systems director chose Progress and wants to develop access possibilities from outside
Handicap International chose this environment because it allows managing an important and reliable database with an easy management.
Nov 2005
Progress Software launches AT Jumpstart program
News dedicated to AT Jumpstart Program is presented and explained.
Nov 2005
Progress presents its new website gate
Progress Software France presents its new website gate. Because of acquisitions during 2005 (Apama, Datadirect, RealTime, Easy Ask), Progress decided to upgrade its website to integrate new subsidiaries and offer a "one-stop" area for information.
Nov 2005
Bonhams lowers IT costs with open source
"Auction house Bonhams is looking to use its IT infrastructure to win market share from rivals Sotheby's and Christie's."
"The organization is running a Progress database on a Linux environment, and has seen its IT costs fall year on year, despite presiding over a 300 per cent growth in business since 2001"
Nov 2005
Bonhams loads auction with IBM and Linux
"'We knew that current off-the-shelf auction management software and enterprise resource planning [ERP] systems would need a lot of customization and significant monetary investment to handle our operational size and global distribution,'"; explains Roland Whitehead, Global Director of Technology for Bonhams.
"'So we chose the in-house development route based around best-of-breed financial and human resource packages, and the Progress [Software Corporation] OpenEdge environment.'"
Nov 2005
Real Time Progress
"Certainly, Progress's 2004 $25 million capture of the little known, but highly regarded supplier of event stream processing (ESP) technology, Apama, was not a bet on maintaining the status quo. The ink had hardly dried on the deal before Apama was bundled with Progress's ObjectStore Division, and the whole unit had become Progress Real Time Division."
"For a company that has largely dedicated itself to developing mainstream technologies for a broad constituency of third-party application developers and end users, acquisition of a business as exotic as a real-time technology group is a radical move."
Nov 2005
Talking Points: Language is the tie that binds merchant to customer
"Precise recall is our goal, and that means getting all of the results you would expect to get, but getting only the results you expect to get," explained EasyAsk senior director of marketing Lisle Holgate. "To achieve precise recall, you must first understand the question."
"If a customer searches one word such as 'lamps', he's going to come up with 2,000 lamps on our site," continued Swanson. "Then he'll get all of the attribute fields to drill down price, vendor, height, style. Even with that, he may narrow his search to 1,000 lamps. What we now have to do is confront the customer with all of the other attributes in the decision-making process that he should think about," said Swanson. "That's what good search combined with good attribute fields does. It makes it easy for the customer to drill down and find a product."
Nov 2005
SOA Maturity Model unveiled
"The new model is intended to allow managers to assess their teams, projects and organisational capabilities with respect to five levels of SOA maturity. The model sets a vision for business benefits realised at each of these levels. IT decision makers can use this model to educate business managers and set expectations within executive teams."
Nov 2005
Cutting edge SOA
"OpenEdge is a platform for developing service-oriented business applications. The latest version, OpenEdge 10.1, has a new Eclipse-based IDE and auditing services intended to meet the needs of finance, healthcare and other industries affected by audit and compliance requirements."
31 Oct 2005
Progress release DataXtend
"EdgeXtend was already the leading product in its space but the replication market is extremely active, as is the integration space. To grow its business in the RE space on its own, or to enter the IE space with a new concept would be extremely difficult taken in isolation. This is where Progress has been clever. It has recognized the synergies between these different areas and has developed products that leverage each other's strengths. Each can sell off the back of the other and Progress can offer a more comprehensive solution. It is well-known that "united we stand, divided we fall" and Progress has used this maxim to good advantage in DataXtend."
31 Oct 2005
Cyber Cabs Take To The Streets As Interactive Taxi And Progress Software Team Up
"Boring taxicab rides are a thing of the past, thanks to Interactive Taxi and Progress Software (Nasdaq: PRGS). These two companies have teamed up to create a new kind of Internet portal designed for use in the backseat of taxicabs. Initial deployments of hundreds of these new "cybercabs" have begun in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco."
Oct 2005
Progress Software gefällt es gut in ihren lukrativen Nischen
This article talks about how Progress’ stock reached an all time high in September.
28 Oct 2005
Progress Real Time's DataXtend Provides Data Integrity Capability
"The DataXtend CE module incorporates Progress's so-called Continuous Cache Coordination (CCC) feature, that could help financial institutions ensure that their existing databases of reference data are kept in sync when changes are made to them."
"According to Ken Rugg, vice president of real time data services at Progress, the company's intention is not to define reference data models for financial institutions, but rather to provide the database management infrastructure that ensures data integrity where these databases are already in place."
20 Oct 2005
Bonhams and Linux Servers
"We knew that current off-the-shelf auction management software and enterprise resource planning [ERP] systems would need a lot of customization and significant monetary investment to handle our operational size and global distribution," explains Roland Whitehead, Global Director of Technology for Bonhams. "So we chose the in-house development route based around best-of-breed financial and human resource packages, and the Progress [Software Corporation] OpenEdge environment."
18 Oct 2005
Service oriented architectures could simplify exception handling
"The SOA maturity model has been jointly developed by middleware developer Sonic Software, management tools supplier AmberPoint, and consulting firm BearingPoint. It has been designed to give IT directors a way to develop their own roadmaps for rolling out SOA's."
"Analysts believe service oriented architectures (SOAs) could provide a simple way of achieving tasks that require vast amounts of programming, such as exception handling in banking."
11 Oct 2005
SOA maturity means business
"…or as Dave Chappell says: 'This whole maturity model is about providing a framework for discussion that allows IT to communicate with the business and to be able to articulate to others in the organization where they are with their SOA strategy and help create a vision of where they want to get to.'"
07 Oct 2005
Progress aims to keep cash 'locked and loaded'
"…If there's any truth to the old adage that "cash is king," then Progress Software Corp, is quickly – and quietly – nearing royalty status in the technology sector"
"Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) has spent around $50 million in cash to acquire three businesses -- EasyAsk Inc. in Marlborough, Apama Ltd. in London, and Persistence Software Inc. in California -- in the last 12 months. The company has also spent over $200 million in stock buybacks since 1996. Robertson envisions similar spending over the next few years, and did not rule out a cash dividend to shareholders down the road."
07 Oct 2005
Maturity Model
"Sonic, most famous for its Enterprise Service Bus product, which is said to act as the foundation of SOA, also talked about the value of integrating its ESB with the complex event processing tool that Sonic parent Progress Software acquired when it bought privately-held Apama in April this year. That integration helps companies as they get to levels 4 and 5 in the Maturity Model, as it can enable them to analyze vast streams of data in real-time, looking for specific events and triggering business rules when those events are discovered."
06 Oct 2005
All aboard the Enterprise Service Bus
"So, what can you use this new technology for? Well, clever financial trading and compliance checking are the current hot applications. A trader may split up very large stock purchases or sales so as to avoid moving the market price; but an ESP engine might notice a series of fixed size purchases a fixed distance apart, infer the placing of a large deal in total and react accordingly."
06 Oct 2005
New Partner Program
"Based on its highly successful Application Transformation Approach (ATA), the new Accelerator Program combines products, services and best practices to bring new partners and their non-Progress-based applications through the SOA-enablement process. The Accelerator offerings provide prospective Application Partners (APs) who want to take advantage of the latest technologies available with an opportunity to learn more about Progress, its products, services and best practices."
03 Oct 2005
Visual Systems Journal
"…Sonic Software is hoping to give SOA a boost by contributing to the Apache Synapse Incubator Project. Based on Apache AXIS 2, the framework will provide a core building block for web service infrastructure software, including Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs)…"
03 Oct 2005
Partner programme set to make Progress
Mike Thompson, principal research analyst at Butler Group, said. "Progress' partner history has always been strong. It is very conservative and unlikely to upset its partners, who know what to expect because Progress has come out with a consistent message, and recruited partners who fit in with its strategy."
Oct 2005
Höher, schneller, weiter…
This technical article gives 5 tips how to improve ADO.NET performance.
Oct 2005
Progress partner Open Logistix expands with Enigma acquisition
"Progress Software® application partner Open Logistix Systems of Newcastle-under-Lyme has acquired the assets of Leicester-based Enigma Information Systems. As a result, fast-growing Open Logistix has increased its customer base by about 30 per cent, including some significant retailing household names and added complementary products to its portfolio, which share Progress OpenEdge® as the underlying technology platform."
"The additional products enable us to enhance our OpenLogistix supply chain application into an enterprise-strength ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution which widens our potential market place," says Stewart Murray, managing director of Open Logistics Systems."
30 Sep 2005
Fast growing market with perspectives
Article about enterprise application integration in the industrial sector. This sector is nowadays growing fast. Growth of integration market in Central-East Europe is evaluated at 26% in the year 2005.
27 Sep 2005
Progress Releases Eclipse-based Development Tool
"…Progress is planning to issue a series of vertical industry templates to the OpenEdge Eclipse tool to accelerate software development. With the initial release, Progress is making auditing services, which can be configured out of the box, which ensures that audit trails of OpenEdge applications are secure and tamper-proof…"
26 Sep 2005
What you don't know about SOA's could hurt your business
"As the TVH SOA has grown, so has its reliance on Progress technology. A Progress OpenEdge database and application server, along with a SonicMQ messaging system and enterprise services bus, form the core components of the TVH SOA."
26 Sep 2005
Progress Programs Guide Partners on OpenEdge
"…The Accelerator Program makes available to partners a package of teaching resources, development tools and marketing aids. The idea is to help bring new and updated applications to market using OpenEdge technology, a standards-based platform for business applications, according to the Bedford, Mass., company…"
26 Sep 2005
Progress Software Rolls Out SOA Program
"…The Accelerator Program allows new application partners to subscribe to a customized program that helps them rearchitect their applications and go-to-market with Open-Edge-based applications. The new program is based on the company's Application Transformation Approach (ATA)…"
26 Sep 2005
Progress enjoys results boost
"…Progress Software reported an 11 per cent increase in revenues to $99.5m in the third quarter to 31 August…"
23 Sep 2005
Progress adds Eclipse, ESB link to apps platform
"I think it's great to see them modernizing the product like this," said analyst Carl Zetie, of Forrester Research. "They're taking into account things like SOA and moving toward more modern UIs."
19 Sep 2005
Vendors Introduce SOA Maturity Model for Businesses, IT
ADT covers the introduction of the New SOA Maturity Model by Sonic and partners AmberPoint, BearingPoint and Systinet.
The SOA Maturity Model allows IT managers and decision makers to assess their teams, projects and overall organizational capabilities. The model defines five levels of maturity: initial services, architected services, business and collaborating services, measured business services, and optimized business services. Its framework is based on Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model and Capability Maturity Model Integration.
12 Sep 2005
Progress delivers general purpose ESP platform
"…The fully integrated, general purpose event stream processing (ESP) platform delivers tools that allow business users to create applications that can monitor real-time event streams, detect and analyze event patterns, and take action in milliseconds…"
01 Sep 2005
Fingerhut Acts on Customer Behavior
"…the search technology Fingerhut.com uses allows the company to identify and react to customer interests. Using EasyAsk's semantic Web technology, consumers can search for products using natural-language queries. For example, instead of searching for "red sweaters" and getting a slew of results that might not be applicable, the EasyAsk technology allows Fingerhut customers to search for "red cotton sweaters under $30" and get only those items. That level of specificity also allows Fingerhut to identify and interact with specific customer groups."
Sep 2005
RFID funkt im Wald
This article describes the Cambium RFID project.
29 Aug 2005
Sonic's Open secret
"...Sonic Software has revealed that it is a key contributor to Synapse, an Open Source project to develop an interoperable framework for web service mediation..."
25 Aug 2005
Why tagging's not just for cows
"...Progress Software is also working on an unusual RFID implementation, putting arphids on trees in Germany. Nail-shaped arphids are hammered into trees and used to track the trunks as they move from chainsaw to truck to sawmill. Better tracking doesn't only reduce what Progress calls 'inventory shrinkage'. The data collected will make it easier for the right payments to be sent to the right people, including foresters and hauliers..."
24 Aug 2005
Progress Software eyes service bus link to event-stream processing
"…Progress is expanding ESP beyond its initial reach into financial-services trading applications via SmartBlocks technology, which provides a framework for building reusable event processing stream modules. The expansion is focused on applications in monitoring and surveillance, in which assets are tracked; RFID; manufacturing command and control; and oil and gas exploration…"
24 Aug 2005
Sonic Software contributes to Synapse Web services project
"As one of the first open source initiatives to develop an architectural model for Web services infrastructure, the Synapse project will be influential in driving the adoption of SOA principles among enterprise architects and developers," said Dave Chappell, vice president and chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software, and author of the O'Reilly book Enterprise Service Bus.
23 Aug 2005
It all revolves around mediation
"…Backed by Blue Titan, Infravio, Iona Technologies and Sonic Software, Synapse is an attempt to define an open-source intermediary that can be used across a broad swathe of SOA infrastructure products, potentially creating a common mediation framework that will be used across all web services deployments…"
22 Aug 2005
Apache on the ESB warpath
"…The idea behind Synapse is to provide an open-source web services transformation, management and routing system, otherwise known as an enterprise service bus (ESB), giving organizations an alternative to commercially licensed integration software. Apache Synapse is being submitted by WS02, a Sri Lankan start-up funded by Covalent and angel investors. However, Synapse also has some highly credible industry support with Sonic Software, Blue Titan, Iona and Infravio all pitching in…"
22 Aug 2005
Synapse to spark web services connections
"…Four vendors have already declared their support as part of today's announcement of the project, along with WSO2, a recently formed startup led by ex-IBM web services strategist Sanjiva Weerawarana and Apache Web Services chair Davanum (Dims) Srinivas. The four are ESB vendors Sonic Software and Iona Technologies, web services fabric vendor Blue Titan Software and management and registry vendor Infravio, which has donated code from its X-Broker product to kickstart the project…"
22 Aug 2005
Apache Synapse sparks Web services connections
"…By cofounding the open source project, Sonic Software hopes to create an industry standard and promote Web services as a way to "intermediate", or handle data transfers, between different programs, said Dave Chappell, vice-president and chief technology evangelist at Sonic Software…"
15 Aug 2005
The Advantages of Working Dangerously
Early Sonic adopter Mysia Benford, IS and Logistics Director for ABNA, is a "Profile in Courage" in this month's CIO. Benford revamped ABNA's logistics systems using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) built with Sonic ESB, save five to 10 percent on the company's logistics costs annually.
12 Aug 2005
ESB: Time to grow up
"...While some of its rivals have descended into a puerile debate about who was first, Sonic Software is showing admirable maturity in its handling of ESB evolution..."
"...Sonic's own Hub Vandervoort was surprisingly welcoming of the notion that the likes of Cisco might put core ESB functionality on a chip and embed it in a network router. A whole load of other functions would still have to be provided by the ESB software, he explained, such as orchestration, monitoring and metadata. So Sonic would still have a ready market for its products, even if some of the basic messaging work was delegated down to network devices..."
09 Aug 2005
The Advantages of Working Dangerously
"All the [ERP] configuration issues mean you need a load of consultants before you can see how this software works," Benford says. And if that happens, "you've lost as an organization the ability to understand how your business works". Her alternative was something brand-new at the time (early 2002), a service-oriented architecture (SOA) built on an enterprise service bus (ESB) from Sonic Software. The integration flexibility it provides ABNA means that a $US2.8 million software-plus-implementation investment in Sonic ESB and a separate enterprise logistics product "have the potential to generate a 5 percent to 10 percent reduction in ABNA's $US100 million yearly costs for logistics", Benford says.
08 Aug 2005
CRN Test Center Review: Sonic SOA Offering Balances Flexibility, Maturity
The ESB-based Sonic SOA Suite earned high scores in CRN's recent review for providing the right mix of flexibility and maturity in an SOA infrastructure software.
From a technical perspective, we were impressed with the product's nearly limitless scalability, rock-solid messaging, the ease with which changes could be introduced, and the ability to manage federated services centrally.
03 Aug 2005
EasyAsk enhances its e-commerce search capabilities
"…EasyAsk, a division of Progress Software has released the latest version of EasyAsk for Commerce, which adds more than two dozen new features. EasyAsk for Commerce's synchronized natural-language search and navigation capabilities are used by customers to drive advanced merchandising. The enhancements allow companies to better promote relevant products through the use of metrics such as shopping history, product inventory, or special business-sponsored promotions. EasyAsk was acquired by Progress Software last month…"
02 Aug 2005
Bill DeLong Joins Progress Software as Vice President of Worldwide Customer Services and Operations
"Progress has brought Bill on board as part of an ongoing effort to support our 2,000 worldwide application partners and over 100,000 end user organizations with the necessary services and support they need to be successful," said David Ireland, president of the Progress OpenEdge Division. "With over 25 years of experience in successfully managing services and operations in the high tech industry, Bill is the perfect person to lead our customer services efforts. We look forward to his contributions."
01 Aug 2005
InfoWorld 2005 Innovators awards
Progress Software divisions captured three of the 12 "InfoWorld 2005 Innovators" awards. Mark Palmer and the Progress Real Time Division were hailed as "innovators working to define this emerging [event stream processing] discipline;" Bill Cullen and Sonic Software were honored for their enterprise service bus contributions; and DataDirect's Jonathan Robie was noted for his work with XQuery.
Aug 2005
Adapting to SOA
An emphasis on reuse is changing the way developers work.
Interview with PSC customer TVH Group.
Waregem, Belgium-based TVH Group, which manufactures and services forklifts, has been moving toward an SOA since the late 1990s. With messaging technology from Sonic Software Corp. and software from Progress Software Corp., TVH has used an SOA to integrate internal applications and link with external partners, says Kalman Tiboldi, TVH's information and communications technology manager.
As part of that effort, the company split its IT department in 2001. Support staffers for networking and hardware were kept in IT, while developers were dispatched to lines of business, including supply chain, warehouse and customer relationship groups, to begin working directly with business people.
"The IT point of view was needed to implement flexibility -- to dynamically change business rules," Tiboldi says. "We are getting the business flowchart from the business people -- step by step how the job has to be done. IT is involved daily to change the process if needed. You are able to dynamically and flexibly change your business model to the daily needs of the business."
Aug 2005
Progress Software joins Eclipse
Interview with PSC CTO Gordon Van Huizen
"I think software vendors across the board benefit from having a common, rich foundation for their toolset," he said. "What it allows us to do is focus on our own value-add instead of reinventing the wheel."
Aug 2005
Progress Software Corporation Captures Three InfoWorld Innovator Awards
'Groundbreaking Individuals' Bill Cullen, Mark Palmer and Jonathan Robie Honored for Bold, Innovative Breakthroughs and Named to Innovators Hall of Fame
Aug 2005
Handling RFID data accurately and at speed
Mark Palmer, vice president of event stream processing for the Progress Real Time Division, wrote this bylined article describing three core principles for building an operational data management architecture.
Aug 2005
Partner management in Progress
"We want to align more closely with partners applications through tighter channel integration," DiLoreto said.
Aug 2005
A snapshot of the database market and DB2
In the SMB space (which all the vendors are desperate to address) the requirement is typically for embedded systems. Historically, DB2 has not been strong in this space; on the other hand, Informix has, and IBM is strenuously attacking this market with both the DB2 and Informix databases. However, there is another joker to add into the pack as there are other significant players active in this space, most notably Progress Software.
Aug 2005
Web-based application gives real-time stock visibility at Boyes department store
Independent department store chain Boyes is speeding up the accessibility of business information with a new Progress-based application from Megabyte
The application improves real- time visibility of stocks and planned deliveries across its stores and warehouses at the point-of-sale. As a result Boyes has already achieved around a 5 per cent reduction in warehouse inventories and is receiving a rapid return on its half million pound investment in a new broadband connected EPoS roll-out which completes in the autumn.
Aug 2005
Now Sonic Rejects Tibco "ESB inventor" Claims
Sonic Software Corp responded with surprise to Tibco Software Inc chairman and CEO Vivek Ranadive's claim that it was he who invented the enterprise service bus, or ESB - insisting that the ESB was a Sonic Software invention.
"The older guys don't like the fact we're faster, more scalable, and have higher availability," said O'Connor.
Aug 2005
Progress Software Joins Eclipse Foundation And Introduces New Eclipse-Based Development Tools Across Multiple Product Lines
Availability of open source development tools increases developer productivity and flexibility when creating powerful business applications...
"In joining the Eclipse Foundation, Progress Software continues to deliver on its long tradition of providing superior software products and services that empower our developer community to dramatically improve their productivity, simplifying the process of building, deploying and integrating modern business applications," said Gordon Van Huizen, CTO of Progress Software Corporation. "The Eclipse framework provides a rich, extensible and interoperable foundation for our new generation of visual tools. As a result, our new tools not only set the bar for rapid development of data-driven, highly scalable business applications, but natively work with hundreds of specialised third-party tools, giving developers the freedom to work with the toolset that makes sense for them."
Aug 2005
Progress Features New Eclipse Tools In Latest Beta Version Of OpenEdge 10.1
Progress advances open source application development tools for building component-based applications in a SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)...
"...Reaction from the record number of Progress Application Partners using OpenEdge 10.1 has been remarkable," says Mark Gilliland, managing director of Progress Software in the UK. "In joining the Eclipse Foundation Progress is demonstrating, yet again, its commitment to helping partners and direct customers to dramatically improve productivity and simplify the progression to a service oriented architecture. These new tools enable rapid development of data-driven, highly scalable business applications, but natively work with hundreds of specialised third-party tools, giving developers the freedom to work with the toolset of their choice."
Aug 2005
Broadband EPoS And Progress Web-Based Application Provides Real-Time Stock Visibility And Fast Pay-Back At Boyes Department Stores
"...Boyes has been a customer of Megabyte's MIDAS retail management solution - developed and deployed using Progress OpenEdge® technology - for a number of years. Megabyte has used Progress OpenEdge to fine tune the application to meet Boyes' exact business needs..."
29 Jul 2005
Wireless World: Anti-theft RFID clothing
"It's fascinating; RFID is becoming so pervasive," said Mark Palmer, a vice president of Progress Software Corp. in Bedford, Mass., a developer of RFID-related technologies. Palmer was quoted in the new book, "Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence" (IBM Press, 2005).
CRN
25 Jul 2005
Exchange 2006
The largest annual worldwide gathering of Progress Software users will take place June 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
25 Jul 2005
Stock Options Remain Popular in Silicon Valley
Progress Software Corp., a Boston company that supplies business software, will continue issuing stock options but has reduced the amount of shares it grants to staff by at least 20% and as much as 40% in some cases. Progress's decision to scale back its co-called burn rate - the amount of shares a company issues for stock options as a proportion of its shares outstanding - was driven by what its industry peers were doing and the accounting impact of FAS 123, says Cindy Swech, director of compensation.
25 Jul 2005
IT Backbones, Computerweekly.com and Agricultural Supply Industry
Glynn Harris, technical director of Cal Software said: "Progress provides a complete environment which enables us to develop feature-rich software packages which we can quickly fine-tune to meet individual requirements as we have previously done for Banks Cargill and now Frontier. It also provides a very stable environment incurring only low IT support costs as is demonstrated by the fact that there are only a handful of people in the IT department supporting Frontier's systems and 400 users."
23 Jul 2005
Progress Software Makes Manufacturing Business Technology Magazine's Global 100 Listing of Leading IT Providers
"We are pleased to have Manufacturing Business Technology recognize the value Progress technology brings to IT through its ease of use, low total cost-of-ownership, scalability and flexibility," said Gordon Van Huizen, chief technology officer at Progress Software. "At Progress we are committed to developing technology that makes it easier for IT organizations to support business goals from the factory floor to corporate headquarters."
21 Jul 2005
2005 Predictions: Mid Term Review - Part 3
Progress Software acquired Apama-a streaming development environment-to complement its ObjectStore database. This created a second product that was also targeted directly at the processing of streams. In my view these two developments created a new product category: ESP Development Products.
20 Jul 2005
Data, Data Everywhere
There's a "real time" data demand and traditional computing isn't really designed for real time processing on a massive scale. However, there are some emerging technologies. One is "database in memory" sources with SGI and Progress Software as examples.
18 Jul 2005
The CBR 250
Progress Software Corp. was named to The CBR 250, an exclusive list of the 250 biggest public revenue generators in the IT industry, based on their latest published annual results. Drawn from CBR's database of over 400 leading technology suppliers, the CBR 250 is the definitive list of leading software, hardware, services and equipment vendors in the industry.
09 Jul 2005
RFID Finding New Applications Everywhere
Germany's lumber industry is generating a lot of buzz using RFID technology from Progress Software in Bedford, Mass., to "track trees from independent forestries through the supply chain and to the saw mills," said Keith Giannini, a company spokesman. "A unique, nail-shaped RFID tag is inserted into each tree that will be tracked."
06 Jul 2005
Overview
Sonic Software is mentioned as a provider of business process orchestration platforms, MOM (message-oriented middleware) and ESB (Enterprise Service Bus).
06 Jul 2005
IBM claims it does have an ESB
Pure-play Sonic Software claims it invented the ESB concept and shipped the first commercially available ESB in March 2002. In a recent interview with ComputerWire, Sonic Software's Tim Dempsey, vice president of marketing, said: "IBM in an ESB context is a wolf in sheep's clothing. They have products that you can weave together given the right expertise and then tick some of the boxes of an ESB. Our approach is that an ESB is not a pattern that you cut out with the help of professional services, for us it is a product in its own right."
05 Jul 2005
Diane Albano Joins Progress Software as Vice President of North American Operations
"Diane brings over 20 years of diverse industry experience and expertise in leading high performance sales teams," said Justin Wright, vice president of worldwide field operations for the Progress OpenEdge Division. "With Diane's track record of demonstrable success with customers, she will be a valuable asset as we continue to grow our business with ever-increasing responsiveness to our Application Partners and customers."
04 Jul 2005
Progress Software acquires algorithmic technology vendor Apama
"Progress Software has acquired privately-held algorithmic trading technology vendor Apama in an all-cash transaction for $25.4 million."
"Once the transaction is completed, Apama will become part of Progress unit ObjectStore, which provides historical event data management software and reference data delivery systems."
01 Jul 2005
The Challenges of Embedded
Progress Software Vice President of Products Neil Powers said Progress' database provides secure auditing performed by the database itself. In a market targeting companies with 5,000 to 50,000 end users, Progress' latest release will provide self-healing and self-tuning, reacting and responding to database changes at the embedded application level and automatically tuning without being monitored or manually changed.
01 Jul 2005
Sun sheds open source on its infrastructure
Sonic Software is one of the main players of the working party for JBI.
Jul 2005
Integration
Sonic has maintained its position at the leading edge of integration technology, and given the more traditional integration broker vendors a lot to think about.
30 Jun 2005
Open source gets into Enterprise Service Bus
Sonic Software is considered to be the leader behind the Enterprise Service Bus concept.
27 Jun 2005
"We strongly agree with Computerworld's premise that a positive work environment attracts and retains great employees, and are pleased to be singled out as one of the best places to work in IT," said Joe Andrews, PSC's vice president of human resources. "We work hard to make sure that every employee understands that it is his or her individual contribution that makes Progress successful and a great place to work."
27 Jun 2005
Progress Partner Open Logistix Expands Supply Chain Solution With Enigma Acquisition
Mark Gilliland, managing director Progress Software said, "This is a great example of how the Progress community works together to build best-of-breed business solutions and enlarge the penetration of Progress applications within organisations. The OpenEdge platform simplifies integration and provides lower IT support costs than similar Microsoft or Oracle environments. End-users also benefit from the domain expertise of our partners, which is why we have such a strong take-up by mid-tier companies."
24 Jun 2005
The first industrial open source enterprise service bus
Sonic Software is mentioned as an ESB provider.
23 Jun 2005
Tech Vendors Pitch Wall Street
At the Securities Industry Association Technology Management Conference in New York, Progress Software featured its recent acquisition of Apama and its event-stream processing system for algorithmic trading
23 Jun 2005
Mixed system on the money
It was while Transcomm IT manager John O'Neill was working on these protocols that he investigated Progress Software specialists - Transcomm has a Progress-based environment - to help him create a messaging protocol to link the two systems. Following a demonstration of SonicMQ, its enterprise messaging system and a couple of days sitting around a table with NetTeller, O'Neill says, the parties had a messaging system up and running.
23 Jun 2005
Enterprise Service Bus becomes a convenience
Sonic Software is mentioned as an ESB provider.
23 Jun 2005
Progress Software
Progress Software announced second-quarter revenue of $100.2m, up 10 per cent year-on-year. Software license sales grew one per cent to $37.2m. GAAP net income increased 51 per cent to $12.2m.
22 Jun 2005
CTOs Go Shopping for Reg NMS
Progress Software is launching the Progress Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform to the U.S. market. Buy- and sell-side firms can use the Progess Apama platform to analyze multiple data streams and develop new algorithmic strategies that can be deployed in hours, rather than weeks. This "contrasts with the traditional model of offering black boxes that someone else has written," says John Bates, a vice president of event processing products in Progress Software's Real Time Division.
21 Jun 2005
DataDirect improves the productivity of 'SCREEN' developers
DataDirect Technologies announces the availability of three new suites of its market-defining data connectivity components: DataDirect Connect(R) for .NET, DataDirect Connect for JDBC(TM), and DataDirect Connect for ODBC. The standards-based releases offer new Performance Wizards for customized configuration, enabling software developers to build high-performance applications while speeding development, integration and deployment.
20 Jun 2005
"OrderPad provides field sales reps the same customer information available at headquarters without requiring a network connection in the field," said Adam Perlow, vice president of technology, Cole Systems. "The PeerDirect technology lets us achieve this by allowing OrderPad users to store all relevant information on their device and periodically synchronize it with a central server at headquarters - even over low bandwidth connections."
20 Jun 2005
Progress Users' Conference Previews OpenEdge 10.1 Release
"It is clear that Progress has consistently provided new tools and technologies to help its partners create software solutions that solve their clients' problems," said Judith S. Hurwitz, president and CEO of Hurwitz & Associates. "Progress has a track record of delivering on flexibility and ease of implementation for users."
20 Jun 2005
Driving Progress
Joe Alsop, co-founder and CEO of Progress, met with eWeek Executive Editor Stan Gibson at Progress' recent customer and partner conference in Orlando, Fla., explaining Progress' business model in the face of open source and the reasons behind the company's strategy of maintaining four main units: Progress OpenEdge, DataDirect, Sonic Software and Progress Real Time.
20 Jun 2005
Systems and Services; The Weekly Factoid Feed: Branching Out
Apama, a newly acquired component of Progress Software's Real Time Division, will introduce its Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform to potential U.S. customers at the SIA conference in New York this week.
20 Jun 2005
Progress-Based Forestry Application Wins Computerworld Honors Award for Innovation in Manufacturing
The DABAC system strengthens Cambium-Forstbetriebe's top and bottom lines by significantly increasing inventory accuracy to more than 90 percent, improving timber quality through optimization of the supply chain, and assuring that the forestry company will be compensated on the quality of the logs provided and not an average price per log. "With Progress technology, we've created the ultimate application for the forest industry," said Gerhard Friemel, owner of Cambium-Forstbetriebe.
17 Jun 2005
Progress vier-in-één
Tussen Mickey Mouse en de alligators door gaf Progress Software Corporation op zijn Exchange event in Orlando een voorsmaakje van de 10.1 versie van OpenEdge. Ook het geloof in de 'vier-in-één' bedrijfsstructuur werd in de verf gezet. ... Naast de oorspronkelijke 4GL/database omgeving (ondergebracht in de OpenEdge divisie), omvat Progress ook Sonic als pionier op het gebied van 'service oriented architecture' (SOA) en Data Direct voor dataintegratie. In het voorbije jaar werd de Objectstore divisie versterkt door de overname van Persistence en Apama en omgedoopt tot de Real Time division.
16 Jun 2005
"During the second quarter of 2005, we continued to see the benefits from our growth initiatives and significant increases in overall PSC profitability. Our Progress Real Time, DataDirect and Sonic Software businesses delivered solid revenue growth, and the OpenEdge Division also delivered growth, with substantial operating improvements," stated Joseph Alsop, co-founder and chief executive officer of PSC. "Our newer companies now account for over 30 percent of our software license revenue while revenue from OpenEdge continues to grow and is well positioned to deliver solid results for the balance of 2005."
07 Jun 2005
Progress sur de bons rails avec ses partenaires et ses produits
"Les résultats favorables sont entre autres la conséquence directe d'une suite de trimestres caractérisés par un pourcentage de croissance à deux chiffres, ce qui est loin d'être le cas pour toutes les entreprises IT", insiste Joe Alsop, co-fondateur et CEO de Progress. Il est clair aussi que Progress est à présent bien plus qu'un producteur de bases de données et 4GL, avec ses quatre piliers de croissance. OpenEdge (développement d'applications d'entreprise), Sonic (SOA), Data Direct (intégration de données) et produits Real Time (ex-ObjectStore) ont été tous les quatre renforcés par des nouveautés et la reprise de plusieurs entreprises. C'est ainsi que la division Real Time a acquis les technologies d'entreprises comme Persistence et Apama.
07 Jun 2005
Progress in goede doen met partners en producten
De goede bedrijfscijfers zijn onder meer het rechtstreekse gevolg van een hele rits kwartalen met een 'dubbelcijferig' groeipercentage, wat maar weinig it-bedrijven Progress nadoen, zo benadrukte medeoprichter en ceo Joe Alsop. Tegelijk wordt ook duidelijk gemaakt dat Progress nu meer is dan een 4GL-cum-database producent, met in totaal vier groeipijlers. OpenEdge (ontwikkeling van bedrijfstoepassingen), Sonic (SOA), Data Direct (data-integratie) en Real Time products (voordien ObjectStore) werden alle vier versterkt door nieuwe producten en de overnames van een aantal bedrijven. Zo verwierf de Real Time-divisie de technologieën uit bedrijven als Persistence en Apama.
06 Jun 2005
Progress Software seminar
Exchange 2005 is the largest annual, worldwide gathering of Progress users.
03 Jun 2005
Progress Pushes Partner Perks
Observers laud Progress for focusing on products and channels, rather than hype. "From a balance sheet perspective, Progress is stunning," said Gartner analyst Joanne Correia. It has also made smart buys to fill in its stack. Progress CEO Joe Alsop "knows his stuff," she said.
03 Jun 2005
Tutorials on XQuery
Jonathan Bruce announces the launch of an XQuery resource center on DataDirect's Web site.
03 Jun 2005
ERP for SMBs: Specialists resist leading lights
This special report on ERP follows an interview with François Mauny. He explains that editors who are specialized in a field get the upper hand over SAP in spite of its vertical offer in this same field. He says, "What SMBs especially want from their supplier is to understand their business."
Jun 2005
Vertical Views: Midsized Manufacturers Grow with Globalization
Watts uses a single database from Progress Software Corp. and a single ERP package for all North American operations - which, for Watts, includes China because it's the site of origin for the manufactured goods. "That way we have better vendor and supply-chain information," says Anton ter Meulen, Watts' vice president of information and strategic planning.
Jun 2005
Trendspotting: Fast-Acting Real-Time Data
Real-time or near-real-time data processing can deliver great ROI in industries where acting quickly is critical-for example, financial services. Progress Software's acquisition of Apama should provide institutions with a more complete solution for real-time data.
Jun 2005
Letter to the Editor
The CFO has to be counted as one of the senior managers of the company and needs to be heard at the appropriate time. Bud Robertson, CFO of the American software company Progress, is a colourful illustration of this evolution. He positions and profiles himself as one of the top men pulling his company forward and does not try to shrug off his responsibility. The IT sector has had some hard knocks, but Robertson is happy to go head-to-head with a critical marketplace. The way we see it, this should inspire a good number of our Belgian CFOs.
Jun 2005
Business ICT
Progress België heeft een specifieke dienst klaar, waarbij het samen met de partner gaat kijken of het opportuun is om helemaal over te stappen naar het SOA-model: "Vaak volstaat het om gewoon over te stappen naar een 3 tier model, en heeft het geen zin om de businesslogica nog eens te gaan onderbrengen in verschillende services", zegt country manager Kurt Van Eeckhout. Die granulariteit van services zal afhangen van de soorten businessprocessen die de software moet gaan ondersteunen en in hoeverre die services aan anderen ter beschikking moeten gesteld worden.
Jun 2005
The Coordinator: Enterprise Service Bus: Basis for a service-oriented architecture
This article, which mentions Sonic Software, says the model of an ESB goes hand in hand with the concept of an infrastructure that lets all applications as services interact with each other. It is a standard-based middleware that combines messaging, Web services and data transformation with intelligent routing to reliably coordinate interaction between different applications.
Jun 2005
RFID everywhere?
This four-page article written by Thomas Ehrke of Progress Software gives a short overview of the recent RFID history and discusses customer scenarios and IT infrastructure requirements.
Jun 2005
Overcoming the obstacles
This two-page article, written by Mark Palmer, discusses three challenges for companies introducing RFID technology.
Jun 2005
Radio transmissions in the Odenwald
This two-page article describes how Cambium Forstbetriebe implemented an RFID software application that allows sawmill operators and forestry companies to track and trace trees during the wood harvesting process.
Jun 2005
Retail Solutions 2005 Show Preview
The best of breed applications readied for SOA are offered by Progress partners operating under the BusinessEdge for retail umbrella, and span the entire retailing cycle from the point-of-sale, through head office, distribution and the supply chain.
Jun 2005
Proteus Software warehouse performance
Proteus has partnered with Progress Software, along with other major software providers, to form the Progress Business Edge for Retail Alliance, which provides retailers with a complete turnkey IT solution covering ERP, EPOS, Transport, HR and more, anticipating their future business systems requirements.
31 May 2005
Progress Software Corporation Named One of Best Places to Work in Massachusetts
"In the last year, PSC has acquired Persistence Software, Apama and EasyAsk," said Stamen. "All three align with our overall mission to deliver cutting-edge application infrastructure technology to support SOA and the real time enterprise. There is a lot of talent and a wealth of technology at Progress Software, and it's an exciting time to help the company grow and realize its tremendous potential."
31 May 2005
Sonic Software extends its SOA integration offering
Sonic Software has added two new products to its ESB-based SOA infrastructure range: Sonic Collaboration Server and Sonic Database Service.
31 May 2005
Application for a student and professor
Not far ago universities didn't recognize needs for implementing Front-Office solutions. Application used in administration was sufficient for them. Now it's changing. This year Progress Software released new software designed for universities, Progress University Program.
28 May 2005
Simple Systems
Focusing on the SME fashion sector is Megabyte, which counts William Smith Shoes and Elphicks among its customers. The company is a member of Progress Software's BusinessEdge for Retail group, an association of specialist retail application providers working with a common database that targets smaller and mid-tier markets.
27 May 2005
Progress Software Corporation Names Gordon Van Huizen Chief Technology Officer
"Our operating units, bolstered by strategic acquisitions such as Persistence, Apama and EasyAsk, possess immense talent, vision and advanced technology in the areas of transaction processing, service-oriented architectures (SOA), real-time data management and event processing," Van Huizen said. "This unique blend of capabilities firmly positions Progress to lead the charge as IT organizations build distributed, adaptable and responsive composite applications."
26 May 2005