Progress Actional Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance.

BEDFORD, Mass. -- Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced that the Progress([R]) Actional([R]) product family has been positioned in the leaders quadrant of the 'Gartner 2007 Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets'.

According to the report, "good governance of service-oriented architecture is becoming a core competency," underscoring the importance of robust management capabilities across SOA deployments. This recognition from Gartner follows a recent Forrester Wave[TM] report (www.actional.com/forresterwave) that named Actional the top current offering among standalone SOA and Web services management solutions.

The Actional SOA management product family provides best-in-class policy-based visibility, security, and control for services, middleware, and business processes.

"Our positioning in the leaders quadrant is a testament to the strong SOA management capabilities and broader SOA governance strategy of the Actional products," said Dan Foody, vice president, Actional products at Progress Software. "Our SOA management solution enables users to increase their visibility, security, and control of services and business processes in a runtime environment, which is why it continues to gain top accolades and ratings from a variety of independent analyst firms."

The Actional product family focus remains exclusively on SOA management, reflecting Progress Software's strategy to offer best-in-class products and technologies. Each Actional product can be deployed independently to address the needs of a specific SOA audience. They also complement existing governance tools such as registries/repositories and SOA quality/validation solutions.

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