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Progress Named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Mobile App Development Platforms

Nov 12, 2018   

Distinction based on end-user ratings of their experience purchasing and using Progress technology

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2018-- Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today announced that it has been named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Mobile App Development Platforms. Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice selections are based on recognitions of vendors submitted by verified end-user professionals. Criteria also takes into account both the number of reviews and the overall user ratings.

Progress received 145 verified customer reviews in the Mobile App Development Platforms (MADP) market category for its mobility solution which includes Progress® Kinvey®, NativeScript® and Progress® Kendo UI®, totaling an average 4.6 out of 5 rating and representing the highest rating of any vendor with 25 or more reviews as of November 9, 2018.

Gartner maintains rigorous criteria for recognizing vendors with a high customer satisfaction rate. For this distinction, a vendor must have a minimum of 50 published reviews with an average overall rating of 4.2 stars or higher. To read the full list of reviews for MADP, click here.

Some of the reviews that contributed to Progress’ recognition include:

  • “[Progress] Kinvey has been great in providing us speed needed for getting our feet off the ground faster than we could if we had gone the traditional route of establishing an API gateway and writing low code to get our third party integrations in. Serverless paradigm with ease of SSO integrations with third party providers make this really compelling.” – Director Digital & Technology
  • “One of the great features about Kendo UI has been the flexibility that all the components provide. This allows us to find a solution to nearly all of the design challenges that we are faced with. Their support team provides knowledgeable and well thought out [solutions] to any problems we possibly have.” – Software Engineer, Manufacturing
  • “After trying out NativeScript and a few weeks into it, I can only say that it has fulfilled all my needs and much more.” – Lead Mobile Developer, Healthcare

“Organizations need to build more applications than ever before, for more users, across more channels, and the demand continues to increase. We are proud to offer the leading platform for enabling high-productivity application development,” said Yogesh Gupta, CEO, Progress. “We are thrilled to be named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice and to see our customers speaking out about the value they derive from working with Progress technology. We are committed to providing the best, most modern platform to enable customers to develop tomorrow’s applications faster. On behalf of everyone at Progress, I want to say ‘thank you’ to our customers for this recognition.”

About Peer Insights
Peer Insights is an online platform of ratings and reviews of IT software and services that are written and read by IT professionals and technology decision-makers. The goal is to help IT leaders make more insightful purchase decisions and help technology providers improve their products by receiving objective, unbiased feedback from their customers. Gartner Peer Insights includes more than 70,000 verified reviews in more than 200 markets. For more information, please visit www.gartner.com/reviews/home.

Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice constitute the subjective opinions of individual end-user reviews, ratings, and data applied against a documented methodology; they neither represent the views of, nor constitute an endorsement by, Gartner or its affiliates.

About Progress
Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and deploying strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners to deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily building adaptive user experiences across any type of device or touchpoint, award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive capabilities to be a part of any application, the flexibility of a serverless cloud to deploy modern apps, business rules, web content management, plus leading data connectivity technology. Over 1,700 independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers, and two million developers rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn about Progress at www.progress.com or +1-800-477-6473.

Progress, Kinvey, Kendo UI, and NativeScript are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation and/or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the US and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

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