Progress Software
global software company
Progress Software Corporation is an American public company that produces software for creating and deploying business applications. It is founded in Burlington, Massachusetts, and has offices in 16 countries as of 2024.
History
Progress Software was co-founded by several MIT graduates, including Joseph W. Alsop, Clyde Kessel, and Chip Ziering in 1981. It was originally called Data Language Corporation.
In 1984, Data Language released its first commercial version of the PROGRESS ADE for Unix and the following year unveiled a version for MS-DOS. In 1987, the company had released PROGRESS software for computer networks and the VAX/VMS (a Digital Equipment platform) and CTOS/BTOS operating systems. At the same year, the company changed its name to Progress Software Corporation to reflect the name of its software.
Products
Some of the company's products include:
Kemp LoadMaster - Load Balancer
Flowmon - Network monitoring system
Opsmith - Devops automation
Chef - Devops automation
Telerik
Kendo UI - UI tools for .NET development.
Test Studio - software test automation tool – test automation.
SiteFinity - Content Management System
Fiddler - Web debugging proxy tool
OpenEdge - Application Development – platform for building business applications and database management system.
ShareFile
Automate MFT
MOVEit
WS_FTP
MarkLogic
Data Platform
Agentic RAG
Semaphore
DataDirect
Corticon
Podio
Data breaches
In 2023, a security vulnerability in Progress-owned file transfer software MOVEit was exploited in a data breach affecting various companies and government organizations.
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