Progress Software Awards

Progress Software customers, partners and products receive industry recognition for excellence. Here are some of our recent accolades.


	Boston Globe "Globe 100: Top Places to Work" Progress Software has been recognized as a best place to work by the “Globe 100: Top Places to Work” list. The Boston Globe’s “Globe 100: Top Places to Work” lists the 100 most dynamic, supportive and inclusive companies in Massachusetts. The “Globe 100: Top Places to Work” rankings are based on survey information collected by Workplace Dynamics, an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention. Read Press Release > More information >

	Progress Software Recognized in the Vendor Channel Program category at the Channel Network Awards 2008. This award is for the vendor who has developed a channel program that has enabled its resellers to increase their business profitability by using the vendor's products. More information >

	Computerworld's annual "Best Practices in Business Intelligence" Computerworld's annual "Best Practices in Business Intelligence" Awards Program, identifies and acknowledges excellence among users of business intelligence in the following categories: Creating an Agile BI Infrastructure, Driving Process Management with BI, Expediting Information Delivery, Retrieval, Reporting and Analysis, Innovation and Promise in Business Intelligence. More information >

	Progress Customers Recognized as Laureates Progress Software customers AutoTrader.com, the Brazilian Army, Cerner Corporation, ProBlood Foundation, Oppenheimer Funds, New York Mercantile Exchange and TRW Automotive were recognized as Laureates by IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program. AutoTrader.com and ProBlood (Fundação Pro-Sangue of Brazil), were also recognized as Finalists in the 21st Century Achievement Awards by the Computerworld Honors Program. For two decades, Computerworld Honors has acknowledged those individuals and organizations that have used information technology to benefit society. More information >

	Banker Award Technology Awards Technology Awards recognize innovative solutions for business. Progress Apama was recognized in the Wholesale and Capital Markets category. Read press release >

	Progress Apama Recognized as the Best Algorithmic Trading Platform in Profit & Loss' Inaugural Digital Markets Awards The Profit and Loss Digital Market Awards complement the publication's Digital FX banking awards, held annually in London since 2002, and reflect the efforts of the wider Foreign Exchange industry to provide the tools and functionality that make trading FX more efficient, thereby ensuring the continued evolution of the industry. The Progress® Apama® Algorithmic Trading Platform was selected by Profit and Loss as the Best Algorithmic Trading Platform for its ability to enable sell-side and buy-side firms to create unique FX strategies.

	DataDirect is Selected for the 2008 SD Times 100, those companies that demonstrate leadership in their market: "Its connectivity and integration tools continue to set the mark for others in the industry. In 2006, the company's new XQuery technology joined the fray and made its mark." More information >

	Boston Globe 100 - Based on a composite score derived from financial data for the four quarters ending December 31, 2007, Progress Software was ranked 46 among Massachusetts-based companies whose stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange or American Stock Exchange. Read the Globe 100 > Read press release >

	DataDirect Technologies Wins Sixth Consecutive Omega NorthFace ScoreBoard Award NorthFace ScoreBoard AwardSM from Omega Management Group Corp. The award is presented annually to companies who, as rated by their own customers, achieved excellence in customer satisfaction during the prior calendar year. DataDirect Technologies’ SupportLinkSM Technical Services Program is a seven-time winner of this prestigious award, fondly referred to as the “Oscar” of the customer service industry. Read press release >

	MITX technology awards Analytics & Business Intelligence category finalists, Apama and DataXtend The 2008 What's Next Forum & Technology Awards will recognize and celebrate innovative technologies developed in New England. Read MITX award >

	Progress Software's Channel Operations Receives Five Stars VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide and the Five-Star Partner Programs awards recognize those vendors with the most comprehensive channel offerings for their particular markets and technology sets. Read the Progress 5-Star Partner program overview > Read press release >

	Progress Software's Parnter Marketing Support Receives Five Stars VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide and the Five-Star Partner Programs awards recognize those vendors with the most comprehensive channel offerings for their particular markets and technology sets. Read the Progress 5-Star Partner program overview > Read press release >

	Progress Software's Partner Profitablility Receives Five Stars VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide and the Five-Star Partner Programs awards recognize those vendors with the most comprehensive channel offerings for their particular markets and technology sets. Read the Progress 5-Star Partner program overview > Read press release >

	Progress Software's Partner Sales Support Receives Five Stars VARBusiness Partner Programs Guide and the Five-Star Partner Programs awards recognize those vendors with the most comprehensive channel offerings for their particular markets and technology sets. Read the Progress 5-Star Partner program overview > Read press release >

	Progress Software listed in the Boston Business Journal's annucal Massachusetts TOP TECH. EMPLOYERS

	Progress Software Named to Software Magazine's 25th Annual Software 500 Progress Software Corporation was ranked 83 on the Software Magazine's Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and service providers

	Progress Software Powers CERN to IDG InfoWorld 100 Recognition The World's Largest Physics Laboratory And Particle Accelerator Recognized As One Of The 100 Most Innovative IT Solutions For 2007 For High-Throughput, Distributed Messaging System Read press release >

	Progress Software Customer Recognized for Best-in-Class Technology Innovation and Implementation Extended Retail Industry Awards Team Honors Book Retailing Pioneer BGN as Technology Innovators Read press release >

	Colleen Smith, vice president, Software as a Service Partner Program, Progress Software (NSDQ:PRGS) listed as a top Channel Chief for her development of a new SaaS channel program geared to drive new SaaS business initiatives into the market.

	Progress Software customers BGN and Argentina's Government of La Pampa Province were both named Laureates by the program. BGN was honored for its RFID deployment, while the Government of La Pampa was recognized for leveraging Progress OpenEdge®, to manage a complete citizens' benefits database that tracks social program implementations, aimed at optimizing resource allocation for families that cannot cover basic needs.

	Progress Software's customer Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN), a Dutch book retailer, leveraged Progress OpenEdge®, Progress Apama ESP®, Progress Sonic ESB®, and Progress EasyAsk® to achieve a significant breakthrough in remote store automation - the deployment of the world's first item-level RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) retail store, all deployed within an SOA environment.

	Progress DataXtend SI named winner of the "Innovation In Billing & Information Management" category of the World BSS Awards 2007. Progress Software was chosen as the winner based on a major CRM IT transformation project, which included the implementation of a common front-end to operations support systems/ business support systems (OSS/BSS). For this task, Progress Software provided a shared information/data (SID) based data integration solution based on its DataXtend Semantic Integrator.

	Progress Apama has been selected as winner in the category of "Performance Management and Analytics" for the 2007 MITX Technology Awards The MITX Technology Awards, presented by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements.

	Progress Sonic named finalist in the IT Operations category of the MITX 2007 Technology Awards.

	Progress DataXtend SI won Best New Product in the 2007 Billing World & OSS Today Excellence Awards. Read press release >

	Progress DataXtend SI named winner for Best Practices in the 2007 TM Forum Excellence Awards. Winners were announced on May 21st at Telemanagement World, Nice. Read press release >

	2007: DataDirect XQuery and DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET Named 2007 Codie Award Finalists The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry, annually recognizes products in the software and information industries to showcase the finest products and services. In 2007, two DataDirect products were named finalists: DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET, in the Best Software Development Solution category; and DataDirect XQuery, in the Best Web Services Solution category. More information >

	2007: DataDirect is Selected for the 2007 SD Times 100 those companies that demonstrate leadership in their market: "Its connectivity and integration tools continue to set the mark for others in the industry. In 2006, the company's new XQuery technology joined the fray and made its mark." More information >

	April 2007: DataDirect Technologies Wins Sixth Consecutive Omega NorthFace ScoreBoard Award DataDirect Technologies won its sixth consecutive Omega NorthFace Scoreboard Award for excellence in customer service. DataDirect Technologies' SupportLink Technical Service Program was recognized for its outstanding customer service record and strong commitment to customer satisfaction. The award is given annually by the Omega Management Group, a leader in customer satisfaction and retention programs. Read press release >

	June 2007: Best of Tech-Ed 2007 Award Finalist For the third consecutive year, Penton Media's Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com announced that DataDirect Technologies' DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET data providers were selected as a finalist for the Best of Tech-Ed 2007 Awards in the Database Developer and Administration category. Read press release >

	August 2007: DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET Data Providers Named 2007 Editor's Choice Award Winner by SQL Server Magazine Named Editor's Choice by SQL Server Magazine in the development tools category, DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET is the industry's only suite of ADO.NET data providers built on 100 percent managed code, enabling developers using the most recent version of Microsoft's .NET development platform to securely, quickly, and efficiently access application-critical data from any major database, including Oracle, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server. Read press release >

	January 2007: Financial Sector Technology, a leading UK publication specializing on the financial sector, awarded Collins Stewart Tullet for the Best Straight through Processing Deployment for its DASH interdealer broker project, which uses a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) created with Sonic Software solutions, to integrate legacy systems and automate trade routing beyond the firewall.

	November 2006: Progress Software was named to Forbes 200 Best Small Companies list for the second consecutive year. Progress is the only Massachusetts-based software company or application infrastructure provider on the list, and moved up 28 spots to #148. According to the October, 2006 issue of Forbes, the companies on this list are "…growing, businesses designed to survive the ups and downs of market volatility." Read press release >

	November 2006: InfoWorld Top 100 IT Projects: BGN and Volvo Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN), the Netherlands' leading book retailer, used Progress OpenEdge, Sonic ESB, Apama and EasyAsk to power world's first item level RFID inventory tagging. Volvo Cars Belgium standardized 65 dealers on one OpenEdge-based system in 8 months, and then linked to Volvo corporate with Sonic ESB in 2 weeks. Read press release >

	November 2006: RFID Break Through Awards recognized Matthijs Van Der Lely, CEO of Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN), the Netherlands' largest book retailer, has been awarded the RFID Visionary Award for 2006. Read press release >

	October 2006: Bloor Research lauded Progress Apama in an independent report that noted, "If you need real-time then you need event processing; if you need event processing then Progress Apama must be on your short-list." Moreover, the report states Progress is a market leader in this space and "we do not expect that to change in the foreseeable future." (No press release found) Read press release >

	August 2006: e-Tail 2006 Lillian Vernon, Progress EasyAsk customer, won this prestigious retail award for outstanding search. Read press release >

	July 2006: Forrester Wave Q2 2006 names Progress Software leader in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Market for Sonic ESB Product Family Read press release >

	June 2006: Progress Software Recognized in SD Times 100 Awards for Fourth Consecutive Year Read press release >

	June 2006: InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards recognized two Progress Software customers exemplifying "the Best in IT Management and Innovation," Roland Whitehead, Global IT Director of Bonhams, a leading UK auction house, and Suzanne Peck, CTO of the City of Washington DC. Read press release >

	2006: START-IT magazine honored Progress Application Partner Epicor Software Corporation with a Technology Enabler Award at the 9th Annual Technology and Business (T&B) Awards ceremony. Exemplifying the power of software solutions, Epicor was recognized for providing ACE Clearwater Enterprises superior solutions in technology.

	June 2006: Progress Software's Apama platform was named as the Banker 'Buy-Side Innovation' winner for 2006. Apama Research Studio was recognized for powerful backtesting and analysis capabilities. Read press release >

	June 2006: Progress Sonic ESB product ranked first in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) segment in Gartner Dataquest's report on the worldwide application integration and middleware (AIM) market. Read press release >

	May 2006: Intelligent Enterprise recognized Progress as one of the most innovative and influential technology companies, and one of the top 12 spotlighted in this year's Editors' Choice Awards. "With a diverse, yet complementary portfolio… Progress Software helps organizations create powerful business applications that respond to changing business and IT conditions…" Read press release >

	March 2006: In the Forrester Wave Q1 2006 report Progress Actional was identified as being "at the head of the pack…the cleanest packages of broad, overall feature-function completeness for SOA

	March 2006: Forrester Research found Progress OpenEdge superior to alternative platforms. Key findings included: 42% lower cost of development on the Progress platform. 37% lower cost of deployment on the Progress platform 48% lower cost of ongoing management on the Progress platform Read press release >

	March 2006: Progress Software earned its third consecutive Five-Star Rating from VARBusiness Magazine for the superior partnership programs it offers to its value added partners (VARS), who sell market-leading applications based on Progress technologies. "We applaud vendors like Progress for demonstrating best practices and for the leadership roles they have achieved within the IT distribution channel," says VARBusiness Editor Lawrence M. Walsh. Read press release >

	January 2006: Sonic Software was recognized for ''Best ESB'' in IDG's InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year Awards; Sonic SOA Suite(TM) 6.1 was lauded in annual awards recognizing the Technologies That Made the Greatest Impact in 2005 Read press release >