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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

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.
Read more about Progress OpenEdge Division

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.
Read more about DataDirect Technologies

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

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About Progress Software

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.

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Progress Software

Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) is an American software company which sells business application infrastructure software. Its best known product is the Progress 4GL language, which was developed in the early 1980s. Progress is the largest software company based in Massachusetts; their headquarters are in Bedford. Progress is comprised of four operating units: Progress OpenEdge Division, Sonic Software, DataDirect Technologies, and Progress Real Time Division.

In October 2002 Progress Software acquired Boston based eXcelon Corporation (Nasdaq: EXLN, formerly Object Design, Nasdaq: ODIS) for approximately US$24 Million. Their XML database technology is now part of Sonic Software and their high performance Object Database technology, ObjectStore, is now part of Progress Real Time Division.

eXcelon also created the industry's most innovative XML IDE, Stylus Studio, which is now sold by Progress Software.

eXcelon itself had merged with C-Bridge Internet Solutions (Nasdaq: CBIS) in May 2001.

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