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Progress Retains Embedded Database Leadership For Fourth Year
According To Gartner Report
Customers and Analysts Confirm
that Low Cost of Ownership, Scalability, and "Lights-Out"
Administration are Key Database Features for Leading E-Business
Platform Vendor
Bedford, Mass. — August 27, 2001 — The
Progress Company, a business unit of Progress Software
Corporation (NASDAQ:
PRGS) and a leading supplier of technology for building
e-business solutions, announced today that a study conducted by
Gartner Dataquest reports that Progress continues its leadership
in the embedded database market for the fourth consecutive year.
"Embedded databases must perform to high
standards, yet require minimal maintenance and low CPU demands,"
said Colleen Graham, industry analyst at Gartner Dataquest.
"Leaders in this market must provide a database that is almost
invisible to the end-user, while still providing the scalability
and robustness typical of larger, more resource-intensive,
enterprise databases."
The study "2000 Database Management Systems
Software Market Share," dated June 2001 identifies Progress
Software as the embedded database segment leader with 20.7
percent market share. More than 2 million users worldwide use
the Progress® database, an integral part of the OpenEdge™
E-Business Platform.
Progress customers praise the database for its
ease of implementation, high performance, and trouble-free
operation. "For a company of our size, we never thought we'd be
up and running this fast," said Joe Holland, vice president of
information technology, Snapple Beverage. "The resilience and
cost effectiveness of the Progress database are incomparable --
far exceeding the performance and value of other database
alternatives. Subsequently, Snapple has remained a Progress shop
for the last seven years."
Jeff Conklin, chief executive officer of
Washington State's School Information Processing Cooperative (WSIPC)
added, "At peak load (first day of school and last day of
school), we can have upwards of 10,000 concurrent sessions
running our software across the 44 systems. During normal
operation, we have users from 278 customer districts, accessing
about 4 databases per district--we have only one DBA running our
entire operation. I cannot imagine another product that would
allow us to run 1,000 databases and service our large customer
base so successfully and with such efficiency."
"Foxwoods Resort Casino depends on the
Progress database for mission-critical 24x7 operations. With
well over 1 million real-time transactions per day being handled
by our Progress databases, we can't afford to have any downtime
that might impact our customers or operation. Progress helps us
maintain a high availability environment. From version 6 back in
1992 to the current version 9.1, the features and performance of
this 4GL and database engine have kept pace with the tremendous
growth of this enterprise," added Todd Williams, manager of
database & decision support systems at Foxwoods Resort Casino
(owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation).
"Progress wouldn't have this market leading
position without the success of our Independent Software Vendor
partners and the satisfaction of our end-user customers," said
David Ireland, president of the Progress Company. "Our products
have proven they ideally meet the needs of professional
application developers and their users, which range from small
IT shops with limited resources to global giants. But we're not
resting on our laurels. With OpenEdge, we have extended our
quality products and world-class service and support to provide
a complete E-Business Platform for our customers who need to
create compelling solutions for today's business needs."
Other Analysts Cite the Demands of Embedded
Database Customers
"As an RDBMS, Progress RDBMS 9 has made great strides toward
greater scalability and performance, while maintaining the
features that make it embeddable within software products," said
Carl Olofson, program director, information and data management
software research at IDC in their most recent report on the
database market. "Progress is the undisputed leader in this
category and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future."
Other market research firms have noted the
special requirements for an embedded database and have cited
Progress for its ability to address these needs. "A key finding
of our reassessment is that embedded database users should focus
on administrative costs above all else," said Aberdeen Group in
an impact study published last year. "In fact, even if
Oracle8i's license and deployment costs approached zero,
Progress would still have a lower VCO (Visible Cost of
Ownership) because its 'near-lights-out' administrative tools
allow users to deploy and operate applications involving
Progress with almost no need for a database administrator."
About Snapple Beverage Group
The Snapple Beverage Group, a unit of Cadbury Schweppes, Inc. (NYSE:CSG),
has a beverage brand portfolio that includes Snapple, and
Stewart's. They have been producing quality beverages since 1972
and now boast 50 different products, with 300 distributors in 80
countries.
About Foxwoods Resort Casino (owned and
operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation)
Readers of Casino Player magazine awarded Foxwoods Resort Casino
41 First Place Wins in its July "Best of Gaming 2001 Awards"
issue. With over 6,400 slot machines and 350 table games,
Foxwoods offers gaming in a relaxing atmosphere, live
entertainment with headliners from around the world, and fine
dining at Mashantucket, the ancestral home of the Mashantucket
Pequot Tribal Nation in Connecticut. Foxwoods is easily reached
via Interstates 95 and 395 and is a short distance from T. F.
Green Airport serving Providence, R.I. and Bradley International
Airport serving Hartford, Conn. For more information call
1-800-PLAY-BIG.
About WSIPC
In 1967, ten Washington school districts began a cooperative to
share software development and hardware costs and provide
centralized technological support. An early adopter of what has
come to be called the ASP model, the cooperative began providing
comprehensive services in the delivery of school administration
applications in the 1970's. Today the result of this
collaboration is the Washington School Information Processing
Cooperative (WSIPC), a unique public agency that provides
quality information services at a reasonable cost to the state's
school districts. Today WSIPC has grown to serve 94% of
Washington's school districts with complete information
management systems for fiscal, human resources, and student
data. WSIPC supplies members with high-quality technological
solutions and customer service at a fraction of the cost of
commercial vendors. Perhaps most important, WSIPC is the only
information service provider that automatically modifies its
software to match Washington's unique, mandatory reporting
requirements, which change from year to year. Taxpayers are
thereby assured that their district's reporting obligations are
being met.
About the Progress Company
The Progress Company is a global supplier of
software technology and services for developing, deploying,
integrating and managing e-business solutions. The company
provides a comprehensive suite of products that includes
application development tools, application servers, messaging
servers, and the industry's most widely used,
lowest-cost-of-ownership embedded database.
The Progress Company's partners include more
than 2,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) and application
service providers (ASPs) who supply annually over $5 billion in
Progress®-based applications and related services. Over 40,000
organizations across more than 100 countries-including 70% of
the Fortune 100-rely on Progress-based applications. The
Progress Company, an operating unit of Progress Software
Corporation (NASDAQ: (PRGS),
is headquartered in Bedford, Mass., and can be reached at
1-781-280-4000 or on the Web at progress.com. |
