Progress Software Launches the Apama Parallel Correlator

New Capability Dramatically Increases Throughput and Lowers Costs of Apama
BEDFORD, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global provider of event-driven
and open application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate
and manage business applications, today announced the latest release of the
Progress Apama Complex Event Processing (CEP) platform with an enhanced Parallel
Correlator that leverages multi-core, multi-processor functionality. The Apama
Parallel Correlator delivers significantly superior complex event processing
performance by providing developers and business users with unprecedented speed
and greater event throughput, resulting in improved real-time visibility and
operational responsiveness.

The Apama Parallel Correlator enables significant performance enhancements.
Internal benchmark testing, which used real-world customer scenarios, revealed a
seven-fold increase in event processing performance on an eight core machine.

Maureen Fleming, Program Director for IDC's Business Process Management and
Middleware service notes: "Software that supports the full capacity of
multi-core servers offers enterprises the opportunity to significantly improve
performance and reduce cost. Given the importance of cost-effective, high-speed
throughput for CEP, software products that make full use of modern server
technology are at a strong competitive advantage that extends not just to the
vendor but to customers adopting this technology."

In an analysis by IDC (within a report titled "Complex Event Processing -
Opportunity Analysis and Assessment of Key Products"), the Apama platform
achieved the highest cumulative scores in a comparison that included CEP
products from several other vendors. Apama was the only product to receive IDC`s
highest ranking in three of the five categories.

Dr. John Bates, founder and general manager, Apama division of Progress
Software, said: "This new Apama product release demonstrates a fundamental shift
in the design, development and deployment of CEP applications in a way that
makes it even easier for business users to benefit from CEP on multi-core
architectures in real time. The pace at which organizations accumulate and
analyze data is increasing exponentially, and CEP products must keep pace. The
Apama platform is designed to meet and surpass the changing needs of businesses,
and is the foundation for a CEP solution that delivers unprecedented performance
with limitless scalability."

Other key Apama Parallel Correlator capabilities include:

* Full support for latest Intel and SPARC hardware that provide multiple threads
per core (and, multiple cores per CPU).
* Reduces the complexity of designing and implementing concurrent CEP
applications.
* Implementation is a natural extension of CEP development and deployment using
event processing language and visual design tools.
* High-level thread management process enabling parallel contexts to be created.

* Apama Smart Scheduler ensures optimal scheduling of contexts on operating
system threads.
* A fine-tuned latency framework works tightly coupled with the Apama
architecture ensures real-time designs create predictable real-time results.

The Apama platform supports dynamic business operations that are constantly
changing and which require immediate, forward-looking responsiveness to business
events with sub-millisecond latency. The Apama platform is recognized as the
leading CEP product with the largest client base in capital markets comprising
top sell-side firms, buy-side firms, hedge funds and regulators, including
companies such as JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and FSA (Financial Services
Authority) of the U.K. Outside capital markets, the Apama platform is used in
industries such as retail (e.g. Boekhandels Groep Nederland - BGN - who
introduced the world`s first item-level RFID implementation) and manufacturing
(e.g. Manuvis with their application that delivers real-time visibility into
manufacturing ERP systems).

About Progress Software Corporation

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application infrastructure
software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business
applications. Our goal is to maximize the benefits of information technology
while minimizing its complexity and total cost of ownership. Progress can be
reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.

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

Progress Software Corporation
Lisa Coulouris, 781-280-4995
lcoulour@progress.com
or
LEWIS PR
Dan Gaffney, 617-226-8844
progresssoftware@lewispr.com

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