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PROGRESS SOFTWARE BOASTS more than 35 years in business , driven by a simple mission : to provide the best platform and tools for building and deploying mission critical business applications . With a focus on B2B and B2C , its mission hasn ’ t changed , but Progress retains the agility of a startup combined with the foresight of a global leader to react to the shifting sands of the business world across industry sectors .
“ We have more than 1,700 partners who build applications or solutions using our technology ,” reveals Mark Armstrong , VP & MD EMEA . “ The key thing is we don ’ t build applications or take them to market . We ’ re probably the largest software company that provides software to software companies . There are over 100,000 enterprises that use mission critical business systems built on our tech . We ’ ve got in the region of 2mn-plus developers ( and that doesn ’ t include those using its open source tech for building mobile apps in a native environment ), with over 6mn users logging on and over 100mn consumers who are utilising different software applications , built by vendors , using our tech . And that ’ s growing rapidly . People don ’ t build monolithic applications anymore . We ’ re seeing applications built with multiple languages and platforms to deliver flexibility to deploy on premise , in the cloud or mobile with a range of different interfaces , so we need to provide the tools to enable them .”
Progress can facilitate enterprise integration , data interoperability and application development , including Software as a Service ( SaaS ) enablement and delivery across cloud , predictive maintenance and mobility solutions . Armstrong says the Progress product roadmap has been influenced in recent years by the changing definition of mission critical . “ We ’ ve seen a switch from ‘ scalable and available ’ – going back to the nineties and noughties it was all about ensuring these business applications could run on any piece of hardware or operating system . Today it ’ s about being able to run on any cloud vendor ’ s infrastructure so compatibility is key . We ’ re finding that people need applications that work at scale – today they might have 1,000 users , tomorrow it could be 100,000 .”
Progress works with customers like Farmers Insurance ( with a reported
22 March 2018