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  • Progress Expands Scope of Compliance-as-Code Capabilities

    Progress Expands Scope of Compliance-as-Code Capabilities

    Progress this week extended its DevSecOps portfolio—built atop the Chef automation framework it acquired in 2020—to now include the ability to programmatically address compliance mandates.

    At the same time, Progress has updated the Progress Chef InSpec framework for automating the discovery of compliance issues to add support for SAP ASE, IBM DB2, Mongo, Cassandra, Oracle, MS SQL platforms along with RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu and macOS Monterey.

    Progress has also updated the Progress Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) to add the ability to combine infrastructure configuration processing with compliance audits within a single consolidated policy definition along with a high availability capability that makes certain the platform is always accessible.

    Prashanth Nanjundappa, vice president of product management for Progress, said Progress Chef Cloud Security enables DevOps teams to take advantage of a single policy-as-code platform to consistently implement compliance policies alongside security controls across both multiple public clouds and on-premises IT environments.

    Progress Chef Cloud Security leverages certified industry benchmarks, such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmark, to continually scan and automatically detect security configuration issues at multiple stages within a DevOps pipeline. Progress has now expanded CIS benchmark profile coverage for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to include more than 100 customizable pre-built service and resource templates. DevOps teams can take advantage of automated creation of code, test and documentation artifacts for those resources. Finally, visibility into the status and expected completion time for compliance scans has been added along with advanced Shell command support for control and testing without file output.

    In general, the ability to address compliance requirements within a DevSecOps workflow has become crucial because the number of misconfigurations that occur in the cloud has exploded. Developers that often have little to no security or compliance expertise are programmatically provisioning cloud infrastructure in a way that, for example, leaves ports wide open. As IT organizations embrace more cloud computing platforms, that security issue only compounds, noted Nanjundappa.

    More challenging still, cloud computing environments are becoming more complex with the rise of cloud-native applications based on platforms such as Kubernetes. The odds a developer is going to make a mistake only increase with each microservice deployed.

    Progress is betting that, as cloud computing evolves, responsibility for security and compliance will increasingly shift left toward DevOps teams; they’ll be responsible for implementing polices defined by cybersecurity and compliance specialists. The goal is to provide a set of guardrails that make configuration mistakes less likely because policies are being tested within the context of a DevSecOps workflow, said Nanjundappa.

    It’s only a matter of time before software supply chain security reviews that are occurring in the wake of a series of high-profile breaches force the DevSecOps issue within more organizations. The goal, of course, should be to eliminate the need to identify DevSecOps as separate from a DevOps workflow. Regardless of the approach, however, the one good thing about all this attention is that application environments will inevitably become a lot more secure.

  • Progress Expands Chef Automation Portfolio

    Progress Expands Chef Automation Portfolio

    In advance of its ChefCon 2021 conference, Progress today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Progress Chef automation platform that includes managed services and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its offerings as well as tighter integration with cloud services and other third-party tools.

    Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for the Chef business at Progress, said the SaaS platform, now available in beta, combined with the managed services provided by Progress will make the automation platform much more accessible to a wider range of organizations.

    Progress is now also extending the reach of its Chef Compliance Automation for Cloud Resources offering across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to include Chef premium content that aligns with best practices for each cloud environment in addition to providing integration with Azure Policy, a suite of tools from Microsoft that compares resources to a set of business rules that define how cloud infrastructure should be employed.

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    Finally, Progress has enhanced Chef Enterprise Automation Stack to provide tighter integration between compliance and infrastructure automation along with adding infrastructure operations dashboard, support for Windows patch management, integration with third-party secrets management tools, and improvements to Chef Workstation and Chef Test Kitchen to simplify testing within application development processes.

    With the release of a SaaS platform and the availability of managed services, Chef is joining a long list of IT vendors that are removing responsibility for deploying and securing their platforms from internal IT operations teams. It’s clear more organizations now want to spend more time on building and deploying software than managing the platforms that automate those tasks on their behalf, said Reddy.

    It’s not clear how many IT teams that have already deployed a platform might shift over to a SaaS platform or rely on an IT vendor to manage that platform on their behalf. However, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many IT teams continue to work from home to help combat the spread of the virus. Many of those organizations have either shifted platforms to the cloud themselves, adopted SaaS platforms or outsourced the management of IT platforms altogether. There are also many small organizations that simply don’t have the internal expertise and resources required to stand up an IT automation platform on their own.

    That approach also makes it simpler to converge security, compliance and IT operations management within the context of a larger DevSecOps workflow, noted Reddy.

    The great paradox of IT automation has always been the level of expertise required to achieve it. Organizations that lack the expertise required to create automated playbooks, for example, don’t derive much value from an IT automation platform. It’s only been larger companies that have mostly derived the most benefit from investments in IT automation. However, as IT automation becomes more accessible via SaaS platforms and managed services, the level of expertise required to benefit from it naturally drops. In fact, with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) for IT operations (AIOps), many manual IT tasks are increasingly being automated.

    It’s too early to say whether the IT industry as a whole is on the cusp of the next wave of automation, but the raw ingredients that make up the primordial soup needed to achieve that goal is, at this point, only awaiting a catalyst.

  • Progress Unveils First Update to Chef Automation Portfolio

    Progress Unveils First Update to Chef Automation Portfolio

    Progress today announced it has enhanced its Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) and released a new version of Chef Infra Client that promises to make the programming language on which EAS relies more accessible.

    Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for Progress, said the latest versions of both offerings are the first updates to the Chef portfolio since Progress acquired the company last fall.

    Chef EAS combines elements of the Chef portfolio in a way that makes it easier to develop and integrate DevOps workflows that span everything from provisioning infrastructure to deploying applications. The latest update to EAS adds the ability to automatically execute compliance audits as part of any Chef Infra Client run using Chef InSpec tools. At the same time, the latest update also simplifies the implementation of the patch management processes.

    DevOps teams can also view and manage Chef Infra Server details via the Chef Automate framework. Those views, when combined with Chef Infra Client Run Reports, provide insights into the various policies and Chef objects in use on a system.


    Finally, the Chef Workstation module includes the Chef Habitat command line interface (CLI) to further simplify workflows.

    Ultimately, Progress is moving toward creating a common user experience across all elements of the Chef EAS suite of tools, Reddy said. In effect, EAS is emerging as the control plane through which the entire Chef portfolio will be managed, Reddy added.

    Meanwhile, Infra Client 17 promises to make the Chef Language underpinning that suite more accessible. It provides a streamlined developer experience as well as pre-built integrations with various cloud services. In addition, Progress is adding support for various ARM processors used in cloud services, macOS Big Sur, the Apple M1 architecture, Windows 8 and PowerShell Core.

    Progress also enhanced its ability to securely capture metadata from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud as well as capturing data from Microsoft Azure clouds.

    An early pioneer of a framework for automating IT infrastructure-as-code management, Chef is still widely employed. However, rival open source frameworks have since emerged, which Chef eventually responded to by making its core platform also available as open source software as it changed its business model. Progress today also announced it will recognize external contributors to the platform with recognition awards. Progress reports that, in 2020, there were more than 6,000 contributions from over 350 contributors in the Chef community in support of Chef Infra, Chef InSpec and Chef Habitat.

    It’s still unclear how the battle for infrastructure-as-code framework management supremacy will ultimately play out. While many developers have clearly shown a preference for rival open source tools, Progress is positioning the Chef portfolio as a framework for IT organizations that need to automate processes at scale, including how application are deployed on infrastructure that is provisioned as code.

    Of course, many rival framework providers have similar ambitions. The challenge, of course, will eventually be convincing organizations that tend to employ a wide range of tools across different departments to finally standardize on one framework versus another.

  • App Testing Must Evolve Within the DevOps Pipeline

    App Testing Must Evolve Within the DevOps Pipeline

    As the practice of DevOps evolves, so do the supporting tasks; hopefully in such a way that they introduce increased efficiency and automation to accelerate development and deployment pipelines. However, one specific process still remains a speed bump on the road to DevOps acceleration: the process—or, more specifically, the chore—of testing.

    Naturally, testing is an undeniably important component of quality assurance. However, introducing efficiency into a process that dictates quality assurance can accelerate development and improve outcomes, especially when it comes to application testing. 

    “Application testing should never be done in a vacuum, or, worse, a silo,” said Sara Faatz director, developer relations at Progress Software. “The DevOps process can benefit from accelerating the testing process, introducing automation and embracing teamwork.” 

    Faatz makes some valid points; historically, application testing was treated as either a standalone or separate process, and often was performed by non-programmers following some type of script. “We discovered early on that creating synergy between testers and developers was an important concept for accelerating development, while fostering teamwork,” said Ramiro Millan, director, product development, Test Studio. “Addressing the trifecta of acceleration, automation and teamwork challenges actually requires adopting a different mindset when it comes to testing, especially when it comes to automation and communication.”

    However, solving those problems requires adopting different procedures, as well as deploying tools to streamline processes and introduce automation. That said, there are ancillary challenges that also have to be addressed. For example, there is often a disconnect between the cultures of QA teams and development teams. Here, QA teams need to overhaul their processes and introduce more agile practices. In other words, the time is now to identify new practices and methods that allow QA teams to be creative and innovative while helping to test the software created by DevOps.

    “Automation is becoming hyper-critical for testing. However, it is not just automation alone, but also the ability to run tests in the background and not hijack control of the console or the machine,” Millan said. “Automation should also bring with it the ability to concurrently run multiple tests in the background, which, in turn, accelerates the testing processes.”  

    That makes a great deal of sense. In many DevOps shops, QA has become a speed bump in the CI/CD pipeline, meaning that developers often have to wait for testing processes to complete before they can deploy anything. What’s more, developers are often disconnected from the status of testing.

    “Communication between developers and testers is taking on renewed importance. Using tools that can hand off statuses between teams, while also enabling different members to participate in the processes, proves to accelerate execution times,” Faatz said. “The ultimate goal here is to bring forth faster delivery, less maintenance and more stability. I think stability is a big part of the equation. If we can automate those day-to-day, repetitive tasks, we garner that additional stability.”

    Although testing is a broad subject, many of the lessons offered can have a beneficial impact on the overall process. Currently, many vendors are focused on subsets of the testing process, such as headless browser testing, PDF validation, UI/UX testing, backend integration and so on. This can be an indicator of just how complex the QA process can become if unified tools and automation are not introduced into the process.

    “The trick, here, is to pick a tool that does not replace peoples’ processes, but transforms manual QA processes into something that can leverage automation,” Millan said. “Automation brings about consistency, and consistency brings forth improved results.”

    The lessons learned indicate that testing must evolve to keep up with the DevOps model, and also suggest that DevOps is pushing QA teams to adopt new methods of testing and interaction. The only remaining question is how quickly QA can better integrate into DevOps, and eliminate the deployment speed bumps.  

  • Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef

    Acquisition aligns with strategy for accretive acquisition and extends product offerings in DevOps and DevSecOps with market-leading infrastructure automation

    BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Chef, a global leader in DevOps and DevSecOps, providing complete infrastructure automation to build, deploy, manage and secure applications in modern multi-cloud and hybrid environments, as well as on-premises.

    “Chef is a market leader with best-in-class products, a vibrant developer community, an impressive blue-chip customer base and highly skilled and engaged employees,” said Yogesh Gupta, CEO, Progress. “Chef has built a successful business, product portfolio and go-to-market strategy and we will expand and accelerate that by bringing our resources to bear, building on the momentum Chef has established to date.”

    Founded in 2008, and with over $70 million in annual recurring revenue, Chef is a leader in continuous automation, an innovator in application automation and a pioneer of the DevSecOps movement. Its mission is to help the most enduring and transformative companies use technology to become fast, efficient and innovative software-driven organizations. Chef products include: Chef Enterprise Automation Stack, Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, Chef Habitat, Chef Compliance and Chef Desktop.

    Progress is a trusted provider of some of the best products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact business applications and Chef will enhance that position by providing industry-leading compliance and application automation products for multi-cloud and on-prem infrastructure. The acquisition will bolster Progress’ core offerings, enabling customers to respond faster to business demands and improve efficiency. The acquisition also aligns with Progress’ growth strategy through accretive acquisitions and will add both scale and cash flow.

    Progress will acquire Chef for $220 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments. Progress will fund the transaction with existing cash on hand and funds secured under its existing credit facility. The transaction is expected to be accretive beginning in Q1 FY2021 to both non-GAAP earnings per share and cash flow.

    “This acquisition perfectly aligns with our growth strategy and meets the requirements that we’ve previously laid out: a strong recurring revenue model, technology that complements our business, a loyal customer base and the ability to leverage our operating model and infrastructure to run the business more efficiently,” continued Gupta. “We’re thrilled to add Chef to our product portfolio and are confident that this acquisition will provide benefit to both organizations, as well as our customers, partners, investors and the Chef community.”

    “Chef and Progress share a vision for the future of DevSecOps and Progress will provide the scale to further drive Chef’s platform forward and deliver additional value to our customers,” said Barry Crist, CEO, Chef. “At the same time, Chef fills a need in the Progress portfolio in DevSecOps, infrastructure, application, and compliance automation that is highly complementary to its existing products. For Chef, this acquisition is our next chapter, and Progress will help enhance our growth potential, support our Open Source vision, and provide broader opportunities for our customers, partners, employees and community.”

    The acquisition is expected to close in October 2020, subject to obtaining regulatory consents and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.

    More information can be found in our presentation at www.progress.com.

    Guggenheim Securities, LLC acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Chef in connection with the transaction. Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP served as Progress’ legal counsel and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati LLP served as Chef’s legal counsel with respect to the transaction.

    More information on Chef can be found at https://chef.io.

    Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
    This press release contains statements that are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Progress has identified some of these forward-looking statements with words like “believe,” “may,” “could,” “would,” “might,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “target,” “anticipate” and “continue,” the negative of these words, other terms of similar meaning or the use of future dates.

    Risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in the forward looking statements include: uncertainties as to the timing of the closing of Progress’ acquisition of Chef; the possibility that various closing conditions for the transaction may not be satisfied or waived, including that a governmental entity may prohibit, delay or refuse to grant approval for the consummation of the transaction; the effects of disruption from the transaction making it more difficult to maintain relationships with employees, licensees, other business partners or governmental entities; other business effects, including the effects of industry, economic or political conditions outside of Progress’ or Chef’s control; transaction costs; actual or contingent liabilities; uncertainties as to whether anticipated synergies will be realized; and uncertainties as to whether Chef’s business will be successfully integrated with Progress’ business. For further information regarding risks and uncertainties associated with Progress’ business, please refer to Progress’ filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2019. Progress undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release.

    About Progress
    Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and deploying strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners to deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily building adaptive user experiences across any type of device or touchpoint, the flexibility of a cloud-native app dev platform to deliver modern apps, leading data connectivity technology, web content management, business rules, secure file transfer, network monitoring, plus award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive capabilities to be a part of any application. Over 1,700 independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers and two million developers rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn about Progress at www.progress.com or +1-800-477-6473.

    About Chef
    Chef is the global leader in DevSecOps and the developer of Chef Enterprise Automation Stack™ automating infrastructure, compliance and application delivery for many of the Fortune 500. For more than 10 years, Chef has led the industry in DevOps innovation, uniting teams at organizations of all sizes and optimizing processes and outcomes to accelerate its customers’ business growth. Chef software is developed as 100 percent open source under the Apache 2.0 license. For more information, visit https://chef.io and follow @chef.

    Progress is a trademark or registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation and/or its subsidiaries or affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Any other names contained herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

  • Progress Breaks Down DevOps Barriers with DataDirect

    Leader in data connectivity enables unified view of DevOps, improving the software development lifecycle for enterprises

    BEDFORD, Mass., June 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today announced the availability of a set of new data connectors to improve the integration of analytics and reporting within the DevOps process. Complementing an expansive collection of pre-built, high-performing, standards-based data connectors, Progress has introduced connectors for TeamCity, GitHub, Aha! and Jira. With these new connectors, users can gain a more unified view of the DevOps process, enabling new levels of efficiency and performance, leading to improvement across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

    “A key tenant of DevOps is continuous improvement and critical to that success is information – analysis of productivity metrics, feature functionality, quality and adoption and more. But when this information is within discrete systems and teams, it is difficult to measure the overall impact and where improvements need to be made. This is where data connectivity tools, such as DataDirect, offer tremendous value – enabling a cross-process view of data that results in better decision making,” said Stewart Bond, research director, Data Integration and Intelligence software research at IDC.

    Progress® DataDirect® continues to be a leading, trusted solution for 350+ ISVs and 10,000+ enterprises by addressing a multitude of analytics, integration and data management needs. The new DevOps connectors deliver on the exceptional performance, reliability and security standards the DataDirect portfolio is known for, including:

    • Access to disparate data using SQL — No need to learn proprietary APIs or query languages. Every system is accessed the same way. The write-once, consume-anything model saves time and increases developer productivity.
    • The highest data throughput performance, including bulk data access — Ability to access data quickly resulting in decreased latency while data loads. No manual data workflows increase process and automation efficiencies. In the cloud, faster data processing means compute instances operate for a shorter period of time, decreasing the cost of AWS and Azure instances.
    • Security and support — Progress DataDirect is unmatched in attention to security, including update cadence, hotfix policies, support procedures and more.

    “The number of applications being used across the DevOps process is going to continue to increase and our customers and partners rely on us to always deliver the tools and connectors needed for businesses to stay competitive,” said John Ainsworth, SVP, Core Products, Progress. “This is why we are the leader in data connectivity. We understand the impact that data, or a lack thereof, has on a business’s success and we enable our customers and partners to gain the insight they need to make informed decisions.”

    Progress DataDirect connectors for DevOps are available today. For more information, go to https://www.progress.com/datadirect-connectors.

    About Progress
    Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and deploying strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners to deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily building adaptive user experiences across any type of device or touchpoint, the flexibility of a cloud-native app dev platform to deliver modern apps, leading data connectivity technology, web content management, business rules, secure file transfer, network monitoring, plus award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive capabilities to be a part of any application. Over 1,700 independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers, and two million developers rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn about Progress at www.progress.com or +1-800-477-6473.

    Progress and DataDirect are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation and/or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the US and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

                                                             

  • Progress Raises the Bar for Low-Code Development with First-of-Its-Kind Platform for Professional Developers

    Progress Kinvey platform delivers productivity gains businesses want and code control developers require to deliver consumer-grade, strategic business applications; Progress also named a ‘Strong Performer’ in low-code app development report by leading independent research firm

    BEDFORD, MA—March 14, 2019—Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today revealed its strategy and approach for enabling high productivity application development. As part of this strategy, Progress announced the latest release of the Progress® Kinvey™platform, delivering a combination of high productivity, full developer control over the app experience, and operational efficiency for modern workloads with dynamic scale. In addition, Progress has gained industry recognition for its low-code strategy, including being named a “Strong Performer” in The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms For AD&D Professionals, Q1 2019. Click to view.

    As businesses are tasked to deliver high-quality apps at an increasing pace, they are turning to low-code development options to improve speed and efficiency. While traditional low-code offerings are effective for simple apps, they often fall short for more complex apps and handcuff developers to a proprietary framework that may be ineffective or could stifle innovation.

    Expanding upon Progress’ history for delivering the tools and technology that enable professional developers to work how they want, Progress has brought to market a new form of low-code – one that’s focused on the professional developer – delivering new high productivity capabilities that speed the app development process, but still enable the delivery of differentiated multi-channel experiences that run natively across devices and platforms

    The Progress Kinvey High Productivity Platform

    Based on JavaScript, the Progress Kinvey platform enables businesses to deliver app experiences across a variety of channels – native iOS and Android, web, chat and more. It provides a modern serverless backend for operational efficiency, full control of the application code and the end-to-end data management capabilities required to build robust enterprise business applications.

    “Traditional low-code platforms are adequate for helping companies rapidly roll out many tactical apps. However, they lack the ability to deliver high scale, truly engaging, consumer-grade experiences that offer consistency across channels,” said Dmitri Tcherevik, CTO, Progress. “At the other end of the spectrum, DIY development projects deliver high-touch experiences, but are highly inefficient, slow to market and costly to maintain. IT teams need to focus on innovation, not infrastructure. Our focus on high productivity for professional developers changes all of that by bringing a solution to market that offers the best of both worlds, low-code development that results in flexible, scalable, omni channel apps.”

    The Progress Kinvey platform offers:

    • Kinvey Studio: A visual development tool that provides a low-code development environment for rapidly building mobile, web and chat-based apps, without sacrificing full developer control over the application and code. It is built on open standards and enables round-trip code generation, so developers can move in and out of the low-code environment seamlessly. It works with existing source control, testing and other dev processes, and offers access to all application source code for inspection and alteration.
    • Serverless Platform Architecture: The first and only serverless high productivity cloud platform, Kinvey manages and auto-scales secure business app infrastructures across data, authentication, microservices and functions, and supports both deploying and scaling modern apps – all of which are necessary to remain competitive.

    • Kinvey Chat: An innovative, artificial intelligence-driven technology for rapidly creating and deploying guided task chatbots that easily integrate with existing enterprise and legacy systems.

    • Kinvey Data Pipeline: Providing end-to-end data and authentication management from device to source enterprise systems; engineered to protect, virtualize and synchronize data and authentication layers from disparate enterprise systems, this capability includes cloud caching, offline data management with delta synchronization, identity integrations and no-code/low-code microservices to access external data.

    • Native Multi-channel: Building off the popularity of JavaScript, NativeScript and Angular, the Kinvey platform enables the development and delivery of native iOS, Android and web apps to create beautiful, consumer-grade UX while providing significant code reuse between the web and mobile tiers. It also provides direct access to all native platform APIs and third-party iOS and Android code, ensuring apps built on Kinvey offer a no-compromise native experience.

    Industry Recognition

    Progress’ strategy for high productivity application development has already gained significant momentum and has recently received positive positioning from leading independent analyst firms.

    “Digital disruption across industries is driving businesses to seek streamlined methods of building modern apps and digital experiences. While businesses need to rapidly transform themselves digitally to remain competitive, they cannot afford to sacrifice the quality, differentiation and security of the apps and experiences they build,” said Arnal Dayaratna, Research Director, IDC. “Progress’ strategy for high productivity app development empowers developers to accelerate the development of production-grade consumer and business apps while preserving the freedom and control that developers typically desire.”

    The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms For AD&D Professionals, Q1 2019, released on March 13, evaluated the top 13 vendors in the market and named Progress a “Strong Performer”. According to the report, “…areas of leadership for the [Progress Kinvey] platform include UX development tools, mobile application development tools, integration development tools and adapters, and AI development tools.”[1]

    The Kinvey platform is available currently. For more information about Progress’ high productivity strategy and/or the Kinvey platform, go to www.progress.com. To view The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms For AD&D Professionals, Q1 2019, click here.

    Additional Resources

    • Read the Progress blog

     

    About Progress

    Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and deploying strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners to deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily building adaptive user experiences across any type of device or touchpoint, award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive capabilities to be a part of any application, the flexibility of a serverless cloud to deploy modern apps, business rules, web content management, plus leading data connectivity technology. Over 1,700 independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers, and two million developers rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn about Progress at www.progress.com or +1-800-477-6473.