Kbase P25406: Fact on why to choose Progress Products.
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
5/19/2003 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
Fact on why to choose Progress Products.
CAUSE:
This information has been presented during the Exchange 2003 (April 2003) Conference by the Aberdeen Group.
FIX:
For the fifth consecutive year, the Aberdeen Group reports that the Progress Software database, when compared with Oracle and Microsoft, provides significantly lower cost of ownership.
The Aberdeen Group reports that the Progress Software OpenEdge platform, when compared with Microsoft's and Oracle's embedded infrastructure, provides dramatically lower cost of ownership.
Embedded infrastructure is typically database, application server, and management tools.
Progress Software shows its leadership position in the embedded database market as determined in latest available research by the two leading analyst firms Gartner and IDC.
More that 50% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of Fortune 100 companies use Progress Software-based solutions.
Progress Software applications are used by over three million people worldwide.
Worldwide, Progress Software Partners sell $2.0 billion annually in application licenses. These sales, combined with consulting, training and maintenance revenue, bringing the total annual application revenue to over $5 billion.
More than 2,000 Partners have built mission-critical applications with Progress Software products, a greater number than with any other technology vendor.
Progress Software Partners sell over 5,000 distinct applications built on Progress Software technology.
Progress products are deployed in the top companies in many industries including, but not limited to:
10 of the top 10 automotive & parts companies
10 of the top 10 food companies
8 of the top 10 commercial banks
8 of the top 10 aerospace and defense companies
8 of the top 10 chemical companies
8 of the top 10 consumer products companies
7 of the top 10 beverage companies
7 of the top 10 industrial equipment companies
7 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies
7 of the top 10 medical equipment companies
(This information has been provided by Fortune).
Progress Software sells to over 50,000 end user organizations.
Progress Software has shipped more than 500,000 licenses to date.
Progress Software products are deployed in more than 100,000 sites worldwide.
Progress Software and its Partners add over 12,000 new end user sites every year.
Each year, Progress Software and its Partners add over 600,000 new end users to the Progress community.
Progress Software has more than 1,400 employees worldwide.
Progress Software products are installed in over 120 countries worldwide.
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