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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Progress 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.

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.

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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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.

OpenEdge® Replication and Replication Plus

Many companies that experience a disaster do not recover from the financial impact; disaster recovery planning helps protect your business from catastrophes and disasters. OpenEdge Replication prevents your business from losing significant revenue and damaging your business's reputation by ensuring that your mission-critical systems are available 24/7/365. Protect your OpenEdge investment and your business with OpenEdge Replication as the cornerstone of your disaster recovery solution..

OpenEdge Replication offers complete data protection through automated, real-time, zero-latency failover and recovery, while OpenEdge Replication Plus helps improve performance with query access to the hot standby site. Benefits of using these products include:

  • Peace of mind knowing that your mission-critical data and applications are protected
  • Elimination of data loss
  • Uninterrupted service to internal and external customers
  • Instilling business continuity, high availability, and best practices