In 2017 Progress OpenEdge ISV partner community acquired 3,500 new
customers while Progress was named QAD Consulting Partner of the Year
and was recognized by IDC, SD Times, and DBTA as an industry leader
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 19, 2018--
Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and
deployment technologies, today announced accelerating market momentum
and new industry recognitions for Progress®
OpenEdge®, the leading platform for the development and deployment
of mission-critical business applications.
In 2017 Progress made significant investments to ensure the success of
the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner community that have built
their software products on Progress OpenEdge technology. Efforts
included noteworthy product updates and feature enhancements to the
award-winning OpenEdge platform. At the same time, the company embarked
on its cognitive-first strategy–-to help customers and partners build
business applications for the future. Included in these efforts were the
acquisitions of Kinvey and DataRPM, delivering important capabilities
for a modern serverless cloud application backend and machine learning
and predictive maintenance capabilities for building cognitive
applications.
“Our ISV community must continue to deliver new and innovative
application solutions to acquire and retain customers and grow their
businesses,” said John Ainsworth, Senior Vice President, Core Products,
Progress. “We must stay ahead of the key technology trends and drive new
high-impact innovations across our product portfolio to enable them to
succeed. Our strategy delivers on the needs of our current customers and
partners, while also providing the best solution for new customers and
partners who want to build modern, cognitive applications.”
New/Returning Customer Acquisition
In 2017, Progress
partners acquired over 3,500 net new customers looking to deploy their
mission-critical business applications with solutions powered by
Progress. Progress has also continued to expand alliances with several
of its key ISVs including proALPHA, QAD and MIPS Holdings.
“It is obvious that Progress is not only focused on building for the
future with its cognitive strategy, but the company has made strategic
decisions that are benefitting its current base of customers, partners
and ISVs,” said partner Richard Firth, Chairman and CEO, MIP Holdings.
Industry Recognitions
In addition to strong customer and
partner support, several third-party organizations have honored Progress
OpenEdge platform for technology innovation, customer satisfaction and
industry impact. Accolades include:
According to Arnal Dayaratna, research director, Software Development,
at IDC, “The Progress OpenEdge platform offers a versatile and powerful
development framework. Progress’ attention to machine learning, IoT,
mobile development, predictive analytics, and adaptive user experiences
strengthen its offering significantly for empowering developers to
address a broad set of use cases for modernizing existing applications
and developing new modern apps.”
Technology Innovation
Progress recently announced several
significant new capabilities in the OpenEdge platform, along with key
integrations between OpenEdge and the acquired Kinvey™ and DataRPM®
products. Product enhancements include:
- Progress
OpenEdge 11.7 allows partners and customers to enhance high
availability in the always-on era, mitigating risk through improved
identity management and gaining data accuracy and visibility across
the business.
- Kendo
UI Builder 2.1, makes it easy for OpenEdge partners and customers
to deliver modern web experiences, through an extended library of
built-in templates, the ability to customize screens and enhanced data
connectivity, with the next version expected to be delivered in Spring
2018.
- Progress
OpenEdge PdM Integration Kit, enables customers to integrate the
cognitive predictive maintenance capabilities of the Progress DataRPM
platform into their OpenEdge enterprise applications to predict and
remedy potential asset failures before they occur.
“We are continuing to invest heavily in enhancing our core OpenEdge
platform as well as in bringing new innovations to the market that will
benefit our customer and partner base moving forward,” continued
Ainsworth. “Based on some of the achievements of the last year, we’re
delighted to see the market responding, recognizing the value this
strategy will deliver to the market.”
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, OpenEdge, Kendo UI, Kinvey, and DataRPM 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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