Progress(R) OpenEdge(R) Ranked Number One in Worldwide 'Pure-Play' Embedded Database Management Systems Market by Leading Industry Analyst Firm
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a provider of leading
application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and
manage business applications today announced that IDC has ranked the
award-winning Progress
® OpenEdge
®business
application development platform as the number one pure-play
embedded
database management system (DBMS) in the world. IDC presented their
findings in the report, ‘Worldwide Embedded Database Management Systems
2007 Vendor Shares’.
The report defines embedded DBMS as database management systems sold to
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) for inclusion in their software
products and identifies pure-play vendors as vendors that create
products designed to specifically support DBMS software embedded in
products offered by ISV partners.
Carl Olofson, research vice president for Information Management and
Data Integration Software at IDC, commented: “Excellence in the embedded
space depends on self-managing database server software and excellent
support for ISV partners. Because budgets are expected to be severely
squeezed for the next 18 months, it seems likely that applications and
tools with embedded databases that require no DBA support will find
increasing favor.”
The report names Progress Software as “the leading pure-play embedded
DBMS vendor”, defining the OpenEdge RDBMS as “a networked-based,
multi-user RDBMS that supports applications deployed on Unix, Windows
and Linux as well as legacy platforms.”
Olofson continued: “Progress has been the leading player in the embedded
DBMS space for over a quarter century, offering a range of products for
ISVs to use in building and deploying their applications. Their success
comes mostly from the coupling of technical innovation with strong
intimate support for their ISV customers.”
Progress Software has over 1,500 ISVs (called Progress
Application Partners) who use the Progress OpenEdge platform to
develop their own business applications. OpenEdge is the first fully
integrated development, deployment and management platform for the rapid
creation of business
applications that are standards-based and service-oriented. Over
5,000 distinct applications in over 60,000 organizations worldwide are
developed with OpenEdge. Additionally, Progress Application Partners
deploy their software at more than 10,000 new sites for 600,000 new
users every year.
Progress recently released OpenEdge 10.2A, which included new graphical
user interface (GUI) capabilities that enable developers to build
Microsoft .NET-based Windows Graphics User Interfaces (GUI) natively
within the OpenEdge development platform - without requiring any
training or prior knowledge of .NET itself.
Paul Knopf, vice president, Technology for QAD's Americas territory,
said: "QAD Enterprise Applications 2008 provides the next generation of
users with a broad integrated product, focused on collaborative
Manufacturing and Supply Chain with full deployment independence using a
single code base for SaaS or on premise deployment, thus allowing easy
migration between the deployment options. QAD has maintained a long
standing partnership with Progress Software and our many joint customers
benefit from Progress' open, Service Oriented Architecture, which
enables easier application integration and excellent scalability,
underlined with the industry leading lowest cost of ownership our joint
customers enjoy."
David Ireland, executive vice president of OpenEdge, Progress Software,
noted: “Support and continuous development of OpenEdge for our
Application Partners is a critical component to the success of our
partner community as well as for our customers. As our partners and
customers adopt Software-as-a-Service and Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) strategies, the need for high availability and scalability becomes
crucial along with the latest development tools. With the OpenEdge
platform, Progress continues to deliver the same low maintenance and
ease of administration our customers have come to expect, but with the
level of scalability and data management that these new architectural
models require.”
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application
infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and
management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the
benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and
total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com
or +1-781-280-4000.
Progress and OpenEdge, are 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.
