Progress Software Corporation, headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, is a leading supplier of application development and database software to professional IS organizations in business, government, and industry worldwide. The company employs over 1,100 employees working in 59 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. These offices together with 19 subsidiaries and 34 distributors, give Progress Software an established presence in 65 countries. To date, the company has shipped more than 325,000 licenses worldwide.

PROGRESS products include the Application Development Environment (ADE): an integrated environment for developing and deploying mission-critical applications. The ADE comprises of the development tools, the PROGRESS DataServer Architecture and the PROGRESS Relational Database Management System, as well as Application Server and SmartObjects (tm) and User Interface Builder.