PROGRESS SOFTWARE AT A GLANCE CORPORATE OVERVIEW Progress Software supplies application infrastructure software to simplify and accelerate the development, deployment, integration, and management of business applications. Users of information technology today demand software applications that are comprehensive, reliable, responsive, and cost-effective. Our goal is to maximize the benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and total cost of ownership. O U R M I S S I O N To deliver superior software, products and services that increase business effectiveness by empowering our partners and customers to dramatically improve application development, deployment, integration, and management. OUR MARKETS, SOLUTIONS, AND PARTNERS Progress is a solutions-oriented company, combining best-of-breed products, technologies, and services targeted to meet critical business and IT needs in a wide range of industries. Our business-focused solutions including business event monitoring, business transaction assurance, business process management, fraud detection, case management, regulatory compliance, and risk management help to automate, enhance, monitor, and manage business processes. These solutions help companies to achieve operational responsiveness, so they can improve revenues and customer satisfaction, increase productivity and efficiency, and reduce risk.
2 We also help to streamline IT environments to reduce costs and provide greater return on existing and future investments. IT solution areas include application modernization, and legacy modernization (including CORBA and Mainframe), complex event processing, data interoperability, SID usage in OSS/ BSS integration, OTC derivatives STP (straight-through processing), payments modernization, payments processing, service-level management, serviceoriented architecture (SOA), SWIFTNet services, and enterprise integration These solutions are targeted to solve problems and provide competitive advantage in a wide range of industries, including banking, capital markets, transportation, hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, retail, communications, and transportation and logistics. Progress also provides its industry-leading technology to the market through partnerships. We have over 2,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) worldwide who embed our technology in their products. Our ISVs include OEM partners and our unique network of Progress Application Partners, who build their applications using Progress OpenEdge including many who take advantage of flexible Progress deployment options to offer their products for software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing solutions. D I D YO U K N O W? > > Progress Software products have been purchased by nearly 140,000 organizations in more than 180 countries. > > Progress products are used by 70% of the Fortune 100. > > Applications built on Progress technology are used by over 6 million business users worldwide. > > Progress Application Partners have developed and deployed more than 5000 applications built with Progress technology. DELIVERING OPERATIONAL RESPONSIVENESS Operational responsiveness is the ability of business processes and systems to respond to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur, enabling business leaders to capitalize on more opportunities, drive greater efficiencies, and reduce risk. This is more than IT agility or business process optimization. It s about plugging decision makers at every level into business activities and empowering them to continuously respond to the unexpected and effect change directly. In order to achieve operational responsiveness, organizations must be able to: 1. Gain real-time visibility into the business 2. Immediately sense-and-respond to events as they occur 3. Continuously improve business processes These three objectives require technology designed to deliver better responsiveness across the business that s Progress Software.
3 Progress Actional Leads SOA & Web Services Management The Forrester Wave : Standalone SOA and Web Services Management Solutions, Q4 2007 Progress Actional in Gartner s Leaders Quadrant 3 Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets challengers leaders ability to execute Web Layers Layer 7 Technologies Microsoft Sun Microsystems SAP Nastel Fujitsu HP Software AG IBM Progress Software Oracle Tibco Software SOA Software Intel Amber Point Vordel Alcatel-Lucent Sensedia MuleSource Sonoa Systems niche players visionaries completess of vision As of March 2009 VISIBILITY AND RESPONSE Gain comprehensive, real-time visibility into your business, immediately sense-and-respond to relevant business events as they occur, and leverage that information to continuously improve your business processes with Progress. > > Progress Actional manages interconnected applications, from development through support, to provide business transaction assurance and optimize business outcomes in real time. It provides end-to-end visibility, fast root-cause analysis, and exception management of issues as IT professionals across an enterprise collaborate to detect, diagnose, and repair issues and policy-based security and control of services in heterogeneous environments. > > Progress Apama is the broadest, deepest, and most flexible business event processing platform for building event-driven applications that will increase your operational responsiveness. Within capital markets, Apama is the leading platform for algorithmic trading, market aggregation, smart order routing, real-time pricing, market 3 Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, by L. Frank Kenney, Daryl C. Plummer. 31 March 2009. ID Number G00166481.
4 surveillance and monitoring, commodities/energy trading, and real-time risk management. > > Progress Savvion offers a comprehensive business processing management (BPM) suite that enables business users and project teams to view, define and share current processes: collaborate on process improvements: and rapidly deploy solutions. With Progress Savvion they can enact process improvement initiatives in as few as 30 days and deliver a return on investment as high as 300%. DATA SERVICES The ability to continuously respond to events as they occur requires that decision makers have the information they need to effect change. This means making sure they have the right information, in the right form, at the right time. The ability to connect any data source to any application, on any platform, using any format using Progress Data Services solutions makes this possible. Rick Reidy, President & C.E.O. Progress Software Corporation > > Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator is the leader in semantic data integration. It simplifies the creation, maintenance, and governance of common model-based data services assuring the consistent meaning of data while eliminating the rigidity and fragility of point-to-point transformations. > > Progress Artix Data Services enables financial institutions to improve straight-through processing (STP) efficiencies for payments and securities processes. It includes modeldriven tools and over 40 pre-built financial standards messaging libraries including SWIFT, FpML, ISO 20022, FIX, and SEPA. > > Progress DataDirect Connect is a family of drivers that provide high-performance, standards-based data access to all major relational databases. DataDirect is the world leader in data connectivity, used by virtually every major business application worldwide for standardsbased data integration of heterogeneous data sources and data formats in traditional and SOA environments.
5 Progress Sonic ESB a Leader in Enterprise Service Buses 1 The Forrester Wave : Enterprise Service Buses, Q1 09 2 Progress Apama a leader in CEP The Forrester Wave : Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 09 > > Progress DataDirect Shadow has a single, unified integration architecture that accelerates the participation of mainframe systems with SOAs, data access, or business intelligence (BI) initiatives, and/or composite application development. It dramatically lowers mainframe TCO through specialty engine exploitation. > > Progress ObjectStore, an object-oriented database management system (OODBMS), is a proven technology for developing solid, consistent, and high-performance applications. It is the ideal embedded database for applications that demand reliable, transactional object persistence. ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION An operationally responsive enterprise needs a comprehensive and dynamic integration infrastructure capable of keeping pace with changing market conditions, operational requirements, and business demands. That s what businesses can achieve by connecting their people, processes, and systems with Progress Enterprise Integration. 1 The Forrester Wave : Enterprise Service Buses, Q1 2009 by Larry Fulton. January 26, 2009. 2 The Forrester Wave : Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platforms, Q3 2009, by Mike Gualtieri and John R. Rymer. August 4, 2009
6 > > Progress Sonic ESB, the original and leading enterprise service bus, incorporates multiple sites or management domains within a distributed SOA and provides reliable zero-downtime integration through its patented Continuous Availability Architecture (CAA). > > Progress SonicMQ is the industry s most robust and resilient standards-based enterprise messaging system. > > Support for Apache ServiceMix and Apache ActiveMQ is certified, productized, and provided by the people who wrote the code for enterprise-ready, open source messaging and integration software based on Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel, and Apache CXF. > > Progress Orbix, the market-leading implementation of the CORBA standard, is a multi-protocol, multi-platform integration solution that bridges the gap between different operating systems and diverse languages often found in heterogeneous IT environments. Its Adaptive Runtime Technology (ART) allows developers to dynamically add new features and support for technology through standard CORBA services at runtime. > > Progress Orbacus is a source-available CORBA 2.6 implementation designed for rapid development, deployment, and support of an infrastructure that matches your application and environment. Its small footprint allows it to be easily embedded into memory-constrained applications. BUSINESS SERVICES AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT To drive business process change and efficiency, you need a platform for development that is agile, easy to maintain, and cost-effective and produces SaaS-enabled services and applications. > > Progress OpenEdge is an integrated platform for the rapid development, deployment, and management of business applications that are standards-based, service-oriented, and SaaS-enabled. Applications built on the OpenEdge platform are portable, reliable,
7 and scalable, yet require fewer administrative resources than other deployment platforms. OUR TECHNOLOGY COMMITMENT Progress invests in product development that exploits new advances in software technologies, anticipates market trends, and provides business advantage to our partners and customers. We endeavor always to enable our customers to take advantage of emerging technology trends such as software as a service (SaaS), cloud computing, SOA, event-driven architecture, data integration, open source, and business event processing while protecting their investments in existing business applications. Progress has been a leading player in this space for over a quarter of a century, offering a range of products for ISVs to use in building and deploying their applications. Those products are to be found in the OpenEdge family. The company attributes its success in this area to the coupling of technical innovation with strong, intimate support for its ISV customers. Carl Olofson The IDC Worldwide Embedded Database Management Systems 2007 Vendor Shares report December 2008
PROGRESS SOF T WARE Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur. Our goal is to enable our customers to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies, and reduce risk. Progress offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class infrastructure software spanning event-driven visibility and real-time response, open integration, data access and integration, and application development and management all supporting on-premises and SaaS/cloud deployments. Progress maximizes the benefits of operational responsiveness while minimizing IT complexity and total cost of ownership. WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS Progress Software Corporation, 14 Oak Park, Bedford, MA 01730 USA Tel: +1 781 280-4000 Fax: +1 781 280-4095 On the Web at: For regional international office locations and contact information, please refer to the Web page below: /worldwide Progress, Actional, Apama, Sonic, Artix, SonicMQ, Orbix, Orbacus, DataXtend, DataDirect Connect, DataDirect, Shadow, ObjectStore, Continuous Availability Architecture, OpenEdge, and Business Making Progress are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its affiliates or subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. Specifications subject to change without notice. 2008 2010 Progress Software Corporation and/or its subsidiaries or affiliates. All rights reserved. Rev. 02/10 6525-127911