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 Domo
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. A running total maintained by cybersecurity company Emsisoft showed that more than 2,500 organizations were known to have been impacted as of October 25, 2023 with more than 80 percent of those organizations being US-based. The cybercriminal organization Clop was alleged to have been partially responsible for the attacks, and claimed responsibility for breaches of 1st Source, the BBC, British Airways, the New York City Department of Education, Putnam Investments, and Shell among others.
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