Progress Software

Progress Powers Your Innovation 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.

Headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, the company is a worldwide leader in application infrastructure software with 1,600 employees and direct and indirect sales and services representation in 90 countries. Progress focuses on supporting service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments with products that easily create, connect, mediate and control interactions among new business services.

In addition, Progress continually provides new technologies that provide solutions for such emerging areas as real-time event processing, SOA governance, and federated data service management. All Progress products are standards-based, and interface with the wide variety of business applications in today's heterogeneous business environment.

Today, Progress powers your business innovation with technology for:

• Developing and deploying service-oriented business applications with our Progress® OpenEdge application development and Progress® Apama event stream processing (ESP) platforms

• Integrating Business Services With Our Service Infrastructure Products - Progress® Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Progress® Actional web services management and SOA governance platform, and DataDirect® Shadow mainframe integration platforms

• Managing Real-Time Access To All Your Data Assets With Our Data Infrastructure Products - DataDirect technologies, DataXtend data integration, Progress® EasyAsk search and query, and Progress® ObjectStore object data management platforms