Progress Software
Progress powers AI experiences and infrastructure for businesses through software that provides trusted context from data, content, knowledge and workflows, together with control through governance, security and oversight. Its portfolio helps organizations develop, deploy and manage applications, digital experiences, data and IT infrastructure.
At a Glance
- SMBs and Fortune 500 enterprises
- Independent software vendors, OEMs, distributors and channel partners
- Software development and IT operations teams
- Marketing, digital-experience and customer-service teams
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Enterprise AI Infrastructure Software
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Latest News
Completed acquisition of Domo's AI and data platform business for $400 million, adding more than 2,400 businesses and expanding Progress's governed AI-data capabilities.
Reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 financial results.
Announced agreement to acquire substantially all of Domo's AI and data platform assets.
Acquired Nuclia, adding agentic RAG-as-a-Service technology for enterprise information retrieval and verifiable generative answers.
Products & Services
Application development and deployment platform for modern, strategic and large-scale business applications.
Developer tooling and UI component suites for .NET, JavaScript, web, desktop and mobile business applications, with reporting and design tools.
Digital content and experience management suite for marketers and developers, including Sitefinity Cloud and Sitefinity Insight.
SaaS-native, AI-powered, document-centric collaboration, secure file sharing, workflow automation, client portals and eSignature.
Market Position
Progress positions itself as an AI-infrastructure software leader combining context (enterprise data, content, knowledge, workflows and business rules) with control (security, governance and cost discipline). It competes across several overlapping categories—including enterprise application platforms and developer tools, digital experience, data integration and semantic data, secure file transfer and collaboration, infrastructure management, load balancing, and DevOps automation—rather than as a single-category vendor. Its differentiation is a broad, acquisition-built portfolio, large installed base, recurring-revenue model and support for cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
Leadership
Founders
Joseph Alsop
Software visionary and co-founder; later served as Progress Software's CEO and remains identified by Progress as a co-founder and former CEO.
Clyde Kessel
Software visionary who co-founded the company and helped create its initial UNIX-based application-development system.
Mary Székely
Software visionary and co-founder; Progress's history says much of the initial product development was done at her dining-room table on a PC-AT.
Charles (Chip) Ziering
Software visionary and co-founder of the company originally formed as Data Language Corporation (DLC).
Executive Team
Yogesh Gupta
Chief Executive Officer
Joined Progress in October 2016; previously President and CEO of Kaseya. Under his leadership Progress launched its AI strategy and completed multiple acquisitions.
Anthony Folger
Chief Financial Officer
Leads finance, accounting, budgeting, treasury, tax and investor relations; has operational and corporate-development experience in high-growth global technology companies.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Four software visionaries saw microcomputers as the future and came together in 1981 to build a better way to create business applications. They aimed to bring a UNIX-based application-development system to market in 18 months; the effort began with development on a PC-AT at Mary Székely's dining-room table, became Data Language Corporation, and was later renamed Progress Software.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Mix of perpetual software licenses, term-based licenses, maintenance and support, SaaS subscriptions, public-cloud/on-premises subscriptions, managed services and professional services. Products are sold through direct sales and indirect channel partners, including ISVs, OEMs and distributors.
Pricing Tiers
Task management, apps and workspaces; up to five users.
Unlimited items, client users and workspaces, user management, simple workflows and read-only access.
Advanced workflow automation, AI Assistant beta, visual reports, email integrations, PDF generation and date/time triggers.
Target Markets
- SMBs and Fortune 500 enterprises
- Independent software vendors, OEMs, distributors and channel partners
- Software development and IT operations teams
- Marketing, digital-experience and customer-service teams
- Business and professional services
- Financial services
- Building and modernizing enterprise business applications
- Preparing enterprise data and knowledge for reliable AI and agentic workflows
- Creating personalized web and digital customer experiences
- Secure file transfer, document collaboration and regulated workflows
- Monitoring and securing hybrid-cloud IT infrastructure
- Automating infrastructure delivery, configuration and compliance
- BellSouth
- More than 200,000 organizations worldwide use Progress products, according to Progress's current company profile
- More than 86,000 customers were added through the ShareFile acquisition
- More than 2,400 businesses were added through the Domo AI and data platform acquisition