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About Us

Progress Software Corporation (PSC) supplies software to simplify and accelerate the development, deployment, integration, and management of business applications.

Users of information technology today demand software applications that are responsive, comprehensive, reliable and cost-effective. PSC products address their needs by:

  • boosting application developer productivity, reducing time to application deployment, and accelerating the realization of business benefits,
  • enabling highly distributed deployment of responsive applications across internal networks, the Internet, disconnected users, and
  • simplifying the connectivity and integration of applications and data across the enterprise and between enterprises.

Our goal is to maximize the benefits of information automation while minimizing its total cost of ownership.


Our Products and Services

Progress Software Corporation delivers products and services through its operating units:

Our Companies

Progress OpenEdge Division

The Progress OpenEdge Division offers a complete platform for developing and deploying business applications. Through its standards-based, service-oriented architecture OpenEdge allows the development of business applications that can be deployed and managed over a wide range of computing platforms and across the Internet. OpenEdge offers a unified environment including development tools, application servers, flexible integration options, its market leading embedded Progress database, and systems management tools.
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DataDirect Technologies

DataDirect Technologies is the leading provider of components for connecting software to data. Products from DataDirect use industry standard interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC and, ADO.NET to ensure consistent behavior and performance across diverse environments such as J2EE, .NET, Web and client/server. DataDirect also offers an XML development tool, Stylus Studio, and has been instrumental in the development of the XQuery standard for querying and processing XML data.
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Sonic Software

Our Sonic Software subsidiary is the inventor and leading provider of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the standards-based foundation for building a Service Oriented Architecture, or SOA. Sonic products provide reliable, manageable and cost-effective distributed infrastructure to integrate applications and orchestrate business processes across the extended enterprise.
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Progress Real Time Division

Our Progress Real Time Division provides event stream processing, data management, data access, and synchronization products to enable the real-time enterprise. Our products monitor and analyze real-time event stream data for applications such as algorithmic trading and RFID; accelerate the performance of existing databases through sophisticated caching; manage and process complex data in the industry's leading object database; and support occasionally connected or mobile users requiring real-time access to enterprise applications.
Read more about Progress Real Time Division


Our Mission

To deliver superior software products and services that empower our partners and customers to dramatically improve their development, deployment, integration and management of quality applications worldwide.


Our Markets and Partners

Our companies deliver products and services directly to user organizations, through OEMs and distributors, and through our Application Partners (APs).

2,000 Application Partners worldwide utilize our technology to deliver over 5,000 business solutions configured to the needs of organizations in manufacturing, distribution, financial, retail, health care and many other markets. Over 60,000 organizations, including 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies, utilize annually over five billion dollars of our technology and partner applications and services at over 100,000 sites in over 120 countries.


Stock Symbol


PRGS (Nasdaq)

Year Founded


1981


Corporate Officers

Joseph W. Alsop
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Progress Software Corporation

David Ireland
President
Progress OpenEdge Division

Joseph A. Andrews
Vice President, Human Resources
Progress Software Corporation

Greg O'Connor
President
Sonic Software Corporation

David H. Benton
Vice President and Corporate Controller
Progress Software Corporation

Richard D. Reidy
President
DataDirect Technologies

Norman R. Robertson
Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Progress Software Corporation

Peter Sliwkowski
President
Progress Real Time Division

James D. Freedman
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Progress Software Corporation

Pete Moloney
Vice President, Corporate Development
Progress Software Corporation

Denis Goulet
Vice President, Information Technology
Progress Software Corporation

Jeffrey Stamen
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy
Progress Software Corporation


Headquarters

Worldwide & North American Headquarters
Progress Software Corporation
14 Oak Park
Bedford, MA 01730
USA
Tel: +1 781 280-4000
Fax: +1 781 280-4095
* Directions to Corporate Headquarters

Asia/Pacific Headquarters
Progress Software Pty. Ltd
1911 Malvern Road
Malvern East VIC 3145
Australia
Tel: +61 3 9805-8500
Fax: +61 3 9885-0810

EMEA Headquarters
Progress Software Europe B.V
Schorpioenstraat 67
3067 GG Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 10 286-5700
Fax: +31 10 286-5777

Latin American Headquarters
Progress Software Corporation
8323 Northwest 12 Street, Suite 216
Miami, FL 33126
USA
Tel: +1 305-716-1007
Fax: +1 305-716-0133


Office Locations

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenija, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States


Number of Offices


90

Number of Employees


1500+


Annual Revenues

2004 - $362.7 million, for FY ended

11/30/04

2003 - $309.1 million, for FY ended

11/30/03

2002 - $273.1 million, for FY ended

11/30/02

2001 - $263.6 million, for FY ended

11/30/01

2000 - $273.1 million, for FY ended

11/30/00

1999 - $286.1 million, for FY ended

11/30/99

1998 - $239.9 million, for FY ended

11/30/98

1997 - $188.3 million, for FY ended

11/30/97