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, whether on-premise or in the cloud. The company offers a diverse range of products and services, including development tools, data connectivity solutions, application servers, and cloud-based offerings, catering to businesses of all sizes and industries. Progress is recognized for its commitment to innovation, consistently investing in research and development to meet the evolving needs of modern enterprises. With a presence in over 100 countries, the company has built a strong reputation for delivering exceptional customer service and support. Its product portfolio includes notable solutions such as OpenEdge, Chef, MOVEit, DataDirect, and Sitefinity. Progress generates revenue through both perpetual and subscription-based licensing models, with a significant portion of its revenue coming from the United States, as well as from markets in Canada, EMEA, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.

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Chef Software

Acquisition in 2020
Chef Software, based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in cloud-based infrastructure automation solutions that support digital transformation for organizations. The company offers a range of products, including Chef Automate, which integrates infrastructure and application management, allowing enterprises to build, deploy, and manage applications in various environments seamlessly. Chef's Habitat product facilitates application automation, catering to diverse release scenarios while enabling modernization initiatives. Additionally, Chef provides InSpec, a tool that enhances compliance and security throughout the development and operational processes, aligning with DevSecOps practices. Chef's open-source offerings allow users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring that configurations are flexible, version-controlled, and easily maintained. The company has established itself as a key player in the Continuous Automation software market and is recognized as one of the pioneers of the DevOps movement, collaborating with numerous innovative companies globally. Chef Software operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation.

Ipswitch

Acquisition in 2019
Ipswitch helps solve complex IT problems with simple solutions. The company’s software is trusted by millions of people worldwide to transfer files between systems, business partners and customers; and to monitor networks, applications, and servers. Ipswitch was founded in 1991 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.ipswitch.com.

Kinvey

Acquisition in 2017
Kinvey is the first Backend as a Service that makes it ridiculously easy for developers and enterprises to set up and operate a cloud backend for their mobile, tablet, and web apps. Its service lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their mobile applications. They don't have to worry about connecting to various cloud services or enterprise backend systems, setting up servers for their backend, or maintaining and scaling them. With Kinvey, developers just model their cloud backend needs and we auto-generate all the APIs they would need to access their data from any mobile, web, or computing platform. Developers then grab their APIs and connect to them directly or through native iOS, Android, JavaScript, etc., libraries that we provide. Kinvey is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

DataRPM

Acquisition in 2017
DataRPM provides a Cognitive Data Science platform on the cloud or on-premises for enterprises to build data products for Predictive Analytics and Recommender Systems. Enterprises across the globe are using DataRPM to digitally transform their businesses in the core areas of Predictive Maintenance, Product Recommendations, Content Recommendations, Churn Predictions, and Conversion Predictions. DataRPM prides itself on delivering the fastest and scalable automated data science platform with a natural language question-answering interface which guarantees a return on investment for their customers and turns everyone in the organization into citizen data scientists.

OneBit Software

Acquisition in 2016
OneBit Software is a software development and consulting company. Our core business is the heavy involvement with the Microsoft SharePoint platform. There we have a deep understanding of the technology, strong market recognition, and winning and delivering some of the best SharePoint projects in the world. OneBit Software has also delivered several big international projects based on ASP.NET & related .NET technologies in Microsoft Azure. With the move of customers to the Cloud we are already there to offer them end to end solutions based on Office 365, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Intune. This includes not only migration and deployment services, but also building from scratch the whole collaboration platform and integration with third party solutions. OneBit Software has developed deep expertise in the area of BI through the Microsoft offering PowerBI. The company is putting special focus on developing its own Products - OneBit Survey Master & OneBit Quick Poll. Both solutions offer an easy to use and feature rich platform for Enterprise Survey Management. We are also delivering lots of presentations and trainings on various regional and global conferences with more than 20 participations on a yearly base. The company is well known with its experience and knowledge in the areas of expertise and is a preferred partner on such events.

Telerik

Acquisition in 2014
Telerik empowers its customers to create compelling app experiences across any screen. Our end-to-end platform uniquely combines industry-leading UI tools with cloud services to simplify the entire app development lifecycle. Telerik tools and services can be adopted individually or as a platform and seamlessly integrated with other popular developer solutions. More than 130,000 customers from 40,000 organizations in 94 countries depend on Telerik products, including more than 450 of the Fortune 500®, academic institutions, governments and non-profits.

BravePoint

Acquisition in 2014
BravePoint was one of the first IT companies to recognize the demand for skilled technical consultants in Progress technologies. Founded in 1987 under the name Comsys, the company quickly saw rapid growth, compounding in value at an annual rate of 21% over the next 10 years. In 1991, Comsys was purchased by Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) and became United Systems, Inc. (USI). Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified utility company engaged in natural gas distribution, transmission and marketing; electric distribution; propane distribution and wholesale marketing; advanced information services and other related businesses As market needs expanded, so did the range of products and services USI offered. In 2001 USI changed its name to BravePoint to reflect a bold new approach to meeting tough business challenges and to describe the wide but focused suite of solutions the company offered at a single point of contact.

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 was acquired by Progress Software (Nasdaq: PRGS) in June 2013. In 2019 Progress divested Rollbase to BC in the Cloud, Inc. where Rollbase is now known as Infinite Blue. Founded in 2007, Rollbase is a cloud platform that allows rapid creation of software as a service (SaaS) business applications using point & click, drag & drop tools in a standard Web browser with a minimal amount of code. Designed from the ground up as a multitenant metadata-driven cloud application platform with an easy to use declarative programming interface and a unique application creation, customization, serialization and execution framework. Can be deployed to any cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

Corticon Technologies

Acquisition in 2011
Corticon enables organizations to make better, faster decisions by automating business rules. Corticon's patented "no-coding" rules engine is used by over 450 customers to automate their most sophisticated decision processes, reducing development and change cycles by 90%. Automated decision management with Corticon empowers organizations to improve productivity and customer service, and adapt quickly to changing market conditions.

Savvion

Acquisition in 2010
Savvion offers BPM business software solutions and services. More than 300 of the world's companies, including 24 of the Fortune 100, choose Savvion to operate more productively and profitably.

Mindreef

Acquisition in 2008
Mindreef, provides Web services testing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) quality management software solutions. It offers Mindreef SOAPscope Server, a team-based solution for testing and verifying the quality of service-oriented architectures; SOAPscope Architect, a design-time governance and SOA quality platform; SOAPscope Tester, a load testing and SOA quality platform for test automation and load testing; and SOAPscope Developer, a desktop platform for Web service problem diagnosis and resolution. The company's products enable business analysts, architects, application developers, testers, operations, and support staff to build, deploy, and maintain software for an SOA. Its clients include financial services, computer software/services, computer hardware, technology/information services, insurance, energy/utilities, telecommunications, government/defense, and health care/pharmaceuticals industries. Mindreef, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. As of June 13, 2008, Mindreef, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corp.

IONA Technologies

Acquisition in 2008
IONA Technologies creates enterprise integration software. IONA Technologies is a vendor of standards-based platform middleware.

Xcalia

Acquisition in 2008
Xcalia provides intermediation software to create dynamic transactional composite applications. The Xcalia Intermediation Platformâ„¢ combines legacy, mainframe and database resources with web services to dynamically integrate and orchestrate application business processes. As a critical requirement for implementing SOA, it uses metadata to describe services and automatically executes transactions at runtime. Xcalia allows enterprises to quickly respond to changing business requirements and eliminates the need for costly manual integration. Xcalia, founded in 2000, is powering high-volume transactional environments in over 50 companies. Headquartered in Paris, France, it has offices in the US, UK, and Germany.

OpenAccess Software

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

Pantero

Acquisition in 2006
As of July 19, 2006, Pantero Corporation was acquired by Progress Software Corp. Pantero Corporation provides semantic integration technology to deliver data in business integration projects. It offers an integration solution for managing the format integrity of data, as well as for managing the business validity of data shared between applications. The company’s product includes design-time and runtime components, which consist of Designer, a design environment for creating and managing validation, aggregation, and transformation rules to generate data services; and Engine, which converts and validates data based on the target destination, as well as audits exchange of data to track the progress of document. Pantero Corporation serves the telecommunications and financial services industries. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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 develops, markets and supports Enterprise Access and Integration software. NEON's primary product family, Shadow, provides rapid and cost-effective access to, and connectivity between, enterprise data, transactions and applications. Shadow products enable the deployment of new applications and the extension of legacy applications across a variety of computing environments, including the Internet and client/server and mainframe systems. Shadow Direct enables client/server applications to access and integrate with mainframe data and applications. Shadow Web Server enables Web browsers to access and integrate with mainframe data and applications. Shadow Enterprise Direct provides access and integration between client/server systems. These products allow organizations to provide applications that combine the reliability, scalability, security and control of the mainframe with the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of the Internet and client/server environments.

EasyAsk

Acquisition in 2005
EasyAsk's natural language software interface helps people find information on e-commerce sites and in enterprise applications quickly and intuitively. Users simply ask a question using plain English and EasyAsk delivers the accurate information on demand to accelerate e-commerce purchases or facilitate faster, smarter business decisions. EasyAsk products include EasyAsk eCommerce, EasyAsk Business Edition and EasyAsk Quiri. EasyAsk eCommerce Edition is innovative, easy-to-use, website search, navigation, and merchandising software that uses natural language search technology to help companies boost online commerce revenue and strengthen relationships with customers. EasyAsk Business Edition puts information and insight from corporate data such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and more into the hands of executives and everyday business users to perform their jobs faster and more efficiently. EasyAsk Quiri is the world’s first mobile application that takes the Siri paradigm to corporate applications. Quiri offers Siri-like speech recognition and natural language that answers timely business questions in real-time. Users just tap the microphone, ask their question, and Quiri finds the answer.

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, that specializes in assisting software developers in enabling their applications for hosting through application service provider (ASP) solutions. Founded in 2000, Allegrix focuses on providing services that facilitate the development and deployment of ASP-enabled applications. In June 2001, the company was acquired by Progress, further enhancing its capabilities in the software development industry.
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