Progress Software is a leader in developing software products and services that empower customers to improve application development, deployment, management and integration worldwide. Progress has over 1,500 application partners that have built over 3,750 mission critical applications using Progress technologies, which are used by over 6 million business users globally. Progress invests heavily in research and development with 500 staff across 12 development centers.

1. THE PROGRESS ADVANTAGE
Leader in developing superior software products and services that
empower our customers and partners to dramatically improve their
development, deployment, management and integration of quality
applications worldwide.
>> Progress Software Products are deployed at over 60.000 organizations
in over 140 countries.
>> More than 1,500 Application Partners have built mission critical
applications with products and OpenEdge technology from
Progress Software Corporation.
>> Progress Application Partners have developed and deployed over 3,750
applications built with products and technology from
Progress Software Corporation.
>> Applications built on Progress OpenEdge are used by over
6 million Business Users worldwide.
>> Each year Progress Software Corporation and its Application Partners
add 600,000 new users.
>> More than $5 billion in software and services revenues are generated each
year by the Progress Partner ecosystem.
>> Progress has achieved 27 consecutive quarters of year-over-year revenue
growth, 23 consecutive years of operating income.
>> Progress Software invests heavily in R&D with 500 development staff
across 12 development centers.

2. MOST EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE IN DEPLOYING marketplace. With this approach, already the company has
SOA IMPLEMENTATIONS enabled more than 160 partners, covering 400 applications.
>> The Progress Partner Program has won the VARBusiness
>> First commercial enterprise service bus (ESB) with 400+
5-Star Award for the fifth consecutive year. Progress was
customer deployments
awarded the 5-Star status in 4 of the 6 elements measured
>> “With deep Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) functionality including Partner Profitability, Sales Support, Marketing
and enterprise-class management and event processing Support, and Channel Operations elements of our program
tools, Progress challenges established Enterprise
Application Integration (EAI) and middlewareplatform TRUSTED BY LEADING COMPANIES ALL
players with standards-based technology, aggressive OVER THE WORLD
pricing, and features geared toward the next generation of
>> Buy a Peugeot anywhere in the world and remember that
SOA solutions.” CurrentAnalysis
Progress Software powers the field services application
BEST-IN-CLASS PRODUCTS that built and assembled the car.
>> Reserve one of the 140,000 rooms at any of the Starwood
>> Progress products can be sold and run independently, Hotels and Resorts worldwide almost instantly with a
which allows the company to sell into existing SOA Progress®-based application.
deployments, providing point solutions as needed, such
as CEP, BAM or various data integration requirements >> The flowers you order for your mom on Mother’s Day will
arrive on-time and fresh, because Progress powers both
>> Progress OpenEdge is approximately 40% less expensive 1-800-flowers and Proflowers.com.
than alternative platforms (Forrester)
• 42% lower cost of development on the >> Book an airline reservation anywhere in the world and
Progress platform there’s a 95% probability that it will be processed with
• 37% lower cost of deployment on the Progress-based Amadeus system.
Progress platform >> Carlsberg Beer pays all its employees using a labor
• 48% lower cost of ongoing management on the tracking system supplied by a Progress partner.
Progress platform >> Schedule a holiday in the Netherlands with OAD or
>> Progress is a leader in the fault-tolerant JMS messaging Kras Reizen, and the entire process is powered by an
market with SonicMQ, which is an established, mature application built on Progress technology.
JMS messaging product, with numerous features for >> Over 80% of shipping activity in the Antwerp, Belgium
scalability, distributed processing, availability, and error harbor is managed using an application from Progress
handling, all under the moniker “Continuous Availability partner Intris.
Architecture” (CAA)
>> Each year 70% of the population in the UK will visit a WH
>> Sonic Software Recognized for ‘’Best ESB’’ in IDG’s Smith store whose in-store inventory system depends
InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year Awards. on Progress Software.
>> Bloor Research: “If you need real-time then you need event >> Visit Robin Island in South Africa and buy a ticket issued
processing; if you need event processing then Progress® from a Progress application—Sys-Net.
Apama® must be on your short-list.” Moreover, the report
states Progress is a market leader in this space and “we
do not expect that to change in the foreseeable future.”
COMMITTED TO ITS PARTNER NETWORK
>> Leveraging its strong partner ecosystem and portfolio of
complementary best-in-class solutions, Progress
has started to take advantage of the emerging Software
as Service (SaaS) space, targeting vertical-specific
solutions with key partners such as Proclaim in the legal