Progress Software

Progress is a global software company that specializes in simplifying the development, deployment, and management of business applications across various platforms and devices, both on-premise and in the cloud. The company offers a comprehensive range of products and services, including development tools, data connectivity solutions, application servers, and cloud-based offerings, catering to organizations of all sizes and industries. Progress's solutions are designed to enhance performance while minimizing IT complexity and total cost of ownership. With a strong commitment to innovation, the company invests significantly in research and development to ensure its offerings remain cutting-edge and relevant to modern business needs. Progress operates globally, serving customers in over 100 countries, and is known for its exceptional customer service and support. The company's revenue is primarily generated from product licenses, with a notable presence in the United States as well as in regions such as Canada, EMEA, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.

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ShareFile

Acquisition in 2024
ShareFile is a company that provides a cloud-based platform for secure document sharing, e-signatures, and workflow automation, aimed at enhancing productivity across various industries. Its solution centralizes client interactions and facilitates collaboration while adhering to strict security standards. ShareFile enables organizations to securely store, sync, and share business documents and files across multiple devices, creating a customized, password-protected environment for exchanging sensitive information with clients. By simplifying routine tasks and ensuring compliance, ShareFile allows businesses to focus on their core activities in an increasingly hybrid work environment.

MarkLogic

Acquisition in 2023
MarkLogic Corporation is a global enterprise software company specializing in data integration and management. It offers a unified NoSQL database platform that ingests, harmonizes, and analyzes complex data from diverse sources, enabling organizations to gain insights faster. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Data Hub, simplifies data integration, reduces costs, and enhances agility. MarkLogic serves a wide range of industries, including finance, healthcare, government, and media, with clients such as major banks, pharmaceutical companies, and U.S. government agencies. Headquartered in San Carlos, California, MarkLogic has offices worldwide.

Kemp

Acquisition in 2021
Kemp Technologies, Inc. specializes in application-centric load-balancer solutions aimed at enhancing the performance and security of IT, e-commerce, and business applications for a diverse range of clients, including small-to-medium sized businesses, Fortune 1000 companies, managed service providers, and public sector entities. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products such as hardware and virtual load balancers, geo multi-site DNS load balancers, and solutions for cloud environments, SSL acceleration, and application delivery optimization. With over 25,000 deployments globally, Kemp Technologies serves various sectors, including government, healthcare, and education, while maintaining a commitment to 24/7 infrastructure availability and streamlined IT costs. The company has a significant international presence, with offices in locations such as New Delhi, Limerick, São Paulo, Hannover, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Chef Software

Acquisition in 2020
Chef Software is a leading provider of Continuous Automation software based in Seattle, Washington. Renowned for its role in the DevOps movement, Chef collaborates with over a thousand innovative companies globally to facilitate digital transformation. Its flagship product, Chef Automate, integrates infrastructure and application management, enabling enterprises to swiftly and securely build, deploy, and manage applications across various environments. Additionally, Chef's Habitat product enhances application automation, supporting diverse release scenarios and modernization initiatives. The InSpec tool aids organizations in maintaining compliance and security during cloud migration through a 'Detect, Correct, Automate' strategy. Chef's open-source solutions allow users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring configurations are flexible, version-controlled, and easily readable. By continuously evaluating and correcting configuration states, Chef ensures consistent application management, thus empowering development, operations, and security teams to enhance their software delivery processes effectively.

Ipswitch

Acquisition in 2019
Ipswitch, Inc. is a software company that specializes in secure file transfer and network monitoring solutions for various environments, including cloud, virtual, and on-premises settings. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with additional offices globally, the company offers a range of products, including WhatsUp Gold for unified infrastructure and application monitoring, and MOVEit Central, which automates secure file transfers based on scheduled tasks or events. Ipswitch's solutions cater to multiple sectors, such as banking and finance, healthcare, government, insurance, education, retail, manufacturing, and transportation. The company is recognized for providing simple yet effective solutions to complex IT challenges, enabling secure data sharing and ensuring high-performance infrastructure availability for both small and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises. As of 2019, Ipswitch operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation.

Kinvey

Acquisition in 2017
Kinvey, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides a mobile backend as a service (mBaaS) platform designed to simplify the development of cloud backends for mobile, tablet, and web applications. Established in 2008, Kinvey enables developers and enterprises to focus on building their applications without the complexities of managing backend infrastructure. The platform automates the generation of APIs for accessing data, allowing developers to connect seamlessly to various cloud services and enterprise systems. Kinvey's solutions cater to diverse sectors, including healthcare, financial services, energy, and retail, by offering capabilities such as data storage, identity management, push notifications, and analytics. As of 2017, Kinvey operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation.

DataRPM

Acquisition in 2017
DataRPM Corporation is a provider of a cognitive data science platform that automates machine learning for enterprises, available both on-cloud and on-premises. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with additional offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Bengaluru, India, DataRPM specializes in predictive analytics, particularly in the areas of predictive maintenance for the industrial Internet of Things. Its platform connects to data lakes and conducts various machine learning experiments, identifying patterns, anomalies, and influencing factors to create predictive models. This enables organizations to enhance operational efficiency, reduce maintenance costs, and optimize resources. Catering primarily to Fortune 500 companies, DataRPM aims to empower users as citizen data scientists through an intuitive natural language interface, facilitating digital transformation across diverse sectors. As of 2017, DataRPM operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation.

OneBit Software

Acquisition in 2016
OneBit Software specializes in software development and consulting services, with a core focus on Microsoft technologies. The company is renowned for its deep expertise in SharePoint platform projects and has successfully delivered numerous international projects using ASP.NET and Azure. As clients migrate to the cloud, OneBit offers end-to-end solutions based on Office 365, Azure, and Intune, including migration services, collaboration platform building, and third-party solution integration. Additionally, OneBit Software develops enterprise survey management platforms, OneBit Survey Master and OneBit Quick Poll, and actively participates in regional and global conferences to share its expertise.

Telerik

Acquisition in 2014
Telerik is a provider of development tools and services that enhance the app development lifecycle. The company offers an end-to-end platform that combines industry-leading user interface (UI) components, automated testing, and team productivity solutions. Telerik's products can be utilized individually or as part of a comprehensive system, allowing for seamless integration with other popular developer solutions. With a customer base exceeding 130,000, including over 450 Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, government entities, and non-profits across 94 countries, Telerik is recognized for its ability to empower organizations to create engaging app experiences across various devices. Additionally, the company provides enterprise services, training, and consulting to support its clients' needs.

BravePoint

Acquisition in 2014
BravePoint is an information technology services company that specializes in providing business intelligence consulting, application development, training, and QAD services. Originally founded in 1987 as Comsys, the company experienced significant growth and was acquired by Chesapeake Utilities Corporation in 1991, becoming United Systems, Inc. In 2001, it rebranded as BravePoint to better reflect its commitment to addressing complex business challenges with a comprehensive suite of focused solutions. Over the years, BravePoint has established itself as a prominent provider of skilled technical consultants in Progress technologies, adapting its offerings to meet evolving market demands.

Modulus

Acquisition in 2014
Modulus is a hosting, scaling, and data solution for Node.js developers. As a platform as a service (PAAS), Modulus eliminates the server and database administration challenges typically associated with deploying and growing an internet-based application. Applications can be deployed instantly, scale quickly, with zero downtime. With a focus on ease-of-use, reliability, security, and performance, Modulus supports a wide range of customers: hobbyists, independent developers, small businesses, and enterprise. The founding team is comprised entirely of software developers with years of industry experience. Modulus is built out of a personal need, by developers, for developers, and will always focus on increasing the productivity and efficiency of application development.

Rollbase

Acquisition in 2013
Rollbase, Inc. is a cloud platform company founded in 2007 and based in Saratoga, California. The company specializes in enabling the rapid creation of software as a service (SaaS) business applications through an intuitive interface that employs point-and-click and drag-and-drop tools within a standard web browser, requiring minimal coding. Rollbase's platform is designed to be multitenant and metadata-driven, offering a unique framework for application creation, customization, serialization, and execution. It can be deployed across various cloud environments or on-premises infrastructure. Initially acquired by Progress Software in 2013, Rollbase was later divested to BC in the Cloud, Inc. and is now known as Infinite Blue.

Corticon Technologies

Acquisition in 2011
Corticon Technologies specializes in business rules management solutions that facilitate the automation of decision-making processes within organizations. Its patented no-coding rules engine enables clients to model, analyze, and execute business rules without the need for extensive programming, significantly reducing development and change cycles by up to 90%. Serving over 450 customers, Corticon's platform supports a comprehensive suite of tools designed for decision automation, including a desktop environment for rule management and a performance execution engine that deploys these rules as decision services. By streamlining the management of rules that drive enterprise decisions, Corticon enhances productivity and customer service, allowing organizations to swiftly adapt to evolving market demands.

Savvion

Acquisition in 2010
Savvion is a global provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software solutions, serving over 300 companies worldwide, including 24 Fortune 100 enterprises. Its platform facilitates cross-functional collaboration for process improvement, enabling businesses to enhance productivity and profitability.

Mindreef

Acquisition in 2008
Mindreef is a software company specializing in web services testing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) quality management solutions. Founded in 2001 and based in Bedford, Massachusetts, the company provides a suite of products designed to ensure the quality and reliability of service-oriented architectures. Its offerings include SOAPscope Server, a collaborative solution for testing SOA quality; SOAPscope Architect, which focuses on design-time governance; SOAPscope Tester, a platform for load testing and automation; and SOAPscope Developer, a desktop tool for diagnosing and resolving web service issues. Mindreef's client base spans various industries, including financial services, technology, insurance, telecommunications, and healthcare, catering to the needs of business analysts, architects, developers, testers, and operations personnel. As of 2008, Mindreef operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corp.

IONA Technologies

Acquisition in 2008
IONA Technologies develops enterprise integration software, specializing in service-oriented architecture infrastructure. Its products enable systems and applications to connect and communicate effectively.

Xcalia

Acquisition in 2008
Xcalia is a provider of intermediation software that specializes in creating dynamic transactional composite applications. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Paris, France, the company offers the Xcalia Intermediation Platform, which integrates legacy, mainframe, and database resources with web services to streamline and orchestrate business processes. By utilizing metadata to describe services, the platform facilitates automatic transaction execution at runtime, enabling enterprises to respond swiftly to evolving business needs. Xcalia's technology supports high-volume transactional environments, serving over 50 companies globally, with additional offices in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. The company focuses on enhancing efficiency in service-oriented architectures while minimizing the costs associated with manual integration.

OpenAccess Software

Acquisition in 2006
OpenAccess Software provides information middleware and data management technology.

Pantero

Acquisition in 2006
Pantero Corporation, founded in 2003 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, specializes in semantic integration technology designed for business integration projects. The company provides solutions that ensure the format integrity and business validity of data exchanged between applications. Its offerings include a design environment called Designer, which facilitates the creation and management of validation, aggregation, and transformation rules to generate data services, as well as an Engine that converts and validates data for target destinations and audits data exchanges to track document progress. Pantero primarily serves the telecommunications and financial services industries, enabling organizations to effectively manage their data integration needs.

Actional

Acquisition in 2006
Actional's enterprise-class solutions address the critical challenges of securing, monitoring and managing SOA environments. Leveraging leading technology and services, customers achieve the end-to-end transaction visibility required for performance, Web services management and SLA adherence. Actional's proven solutions are designed for each stage of migration from Web services pilots to production SOA. Actional is based in Mountain View, Calif.

Neon Systems

Acquisition in 2005
NEON Systems develops, markets, and supports Enterprise Access and Integration software. Their primary product family, Shadow, offers rapid and cost-effective access to enterprise data, transactions, and applications, enabling the deployment of new applications and extending legacy applications across various computing environments. Shadow Direct allows client/server applications to access and integrate with mainframe data, while Shadow Web Server enables web browsers to access and integrate with mainframe data. Additionally, Shadow Enterprise Direct provides access and integration between client/server systems. These products enable organizations to deliver applications that combine the reliability, scalability, security, and control of mainframe systems with the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of the Internet and client/server environments.

EasyAsk

Acquisition in 2005
EasyAsk is a provider of innovative natural language software that enhances the search and navigation capabilities of e-commerce sites and enterprise applications. Its technology enables users to pose questions in plain English, facilitating quick and accurate retrieval of information, which accelerates e-commerce transactions and supports informed business decisions. The company's key offerings include EasyAsk eCommerce, which improves website search and merchandising to increase online sales, and EasyAsk Business Edition, designed to streamline access to corporate data from systems like ERP and CRM for enhanced operational efficiency. Additionally, EasyAsk Quiri is a mobile application that employs speech recognition and natural language processing to deliver real-time answers to business inquiries, further simplifying the decision-making process for users. Through these solutions, EasyAsk aims to boost revenue for e-commerce businesses and empower corporate users to perform their tasks more effectively.

Apama

Acquisition in 2005
Apama Limited provides trading strategy management technologies that allow trading groups to compose, deploy, and manage algorithmic trading strategies. The company’s platform for algorithmic trading and other event-driven applications in capital markets, Progress Apama algorithmic trading platform enables sell-side and buy-side firms to create strategies that leverage their own intellectual property. Its technology platform empowers complex event processing applications. Apama Limited was formerly known as Apama (UK), Ltd. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Cambridge, the United Kingdom with additional offices in London and New York.

Persistence Software

Acquisition in 2004
Persistence Software (NASDAQ: PRSW) is the Data Services platform for the Real-Time Enterprise. Since 1991, Persistence products have provided reliable, distributed caching infrastructure that is automatically generated by model-driven, object-relational mapping tools. The EdgeXtend product family is the only cross-platform data access and caching software that meets requirements for all stages of the application development lifecycle--from design through performance testing and deployment. Persistence's patented technology supports cross-platform deployment of high-performance, custom applications written in Java, C++ or C#, including those built for BEA WebLogic(R), IBM WebSphere(R) or using the Microsoft(R) .NET framework. Over 100 companies in the Forbes Global 2000 have successfully deployed Persistence's software to achieve performance and developer productivity--while dramatically cutting infrastructure and operational costs--including Adobe, Air France, Citigroup, EUROCONTROL, FedEx, Motorola, NetJets, and Reuters.

DataDirect Technologies

Acquisition in 2003
DataDirect Technologies is the leading provider of components for connecting software to data, providing standards-based technology that ensures consistent behavior and performance across diverse environments such as J2EE, .NET, Web, and client/server. With the most comprehensive support for ODBC, JDBC, ADO and XML, DataDirect Technologies helps developers bring software to market faster by speeding development, integration and deployment. No matter what the standard, platform, or data source, DataDirect Technologies ensures the easiest experience connecting software to data.

eXcelon Corporation

Acquisition in 2002
eXcelon Corporation is the provider of an XML-based platform for building self-service and collaborative applications. eXcelon enables its customers to access and leverage the data and content that resides within their existing systems regardless of original format, making it possible to share that information across an ``extended enterprise'' of customers, partners, suppliers and employees for a collective business advantage. By deploying information-rich collaborative and self-service applications, enterprises empower their partners and customers to leverage data and content previously unavailable without direct, and often complex, human interaction. Such applications help businesses improve customer service, reduce costs, bring new products to market faster, increase efficiency and strengthen external relationships. Based in Burlington, Massachusetts and founded in 1988, eXcelon Corporation sells and supports its products through branch offices across the U.S. and through international subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan and Australia, as well as a worldwide network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators and other indirect sales partners.

PeerDirect

Acquisition in 2001
PeerDirect has a highly flexible and distributed architecture that is based on propagating the net change of the database states between two synchronisation instances, said Carl Olofson, program director, IDC. This is different from other database synchronisation technologies that IDC is aware of. Most of them are based on propagating the contents of transaction logs. The efficiency and simplicity of the PeerDirect approach to database replication makes it especially suitable to the strategic direction of Progress Software. Progress Softwares acquisition of this technology is timely and synergistic with its existing product set.

Allegrix

Acquisition in 2001
Allegrix is a company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2000. It specializes in assisting software developers in enabling their applications for hosting through application service provider (ASP) solutions. The firm focuses on providing tools and support to facilitate the deployment and management of applications in a hosted environment. In June 2001, Allegrix was acquired by Progress, further expanding its capabilities and reach in the software development sector.
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