Progress Receives Top Honors from the Society for Technical Communication.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2004 Progress Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Recognized for Online Communication and Technical Publication, Including Best of Show Award by the Boston Chapter of STC STC Supplemental Type Certificate (FAA) STC Society for Technical Communication STC Subject to Change STC Surf the Channel (website) STC Sound Transmission Class STC Singapore Turf Club The Progress Company, an operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS PRGS Phosphoribosylglycinamide Synthetase ), and a leading supplier of technology for building the world's best business applications, today announced that the Progress Professional Services (PPS (Packets Per Second) The measurement of activity in a local area network (LAN). In LANs such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI, as well as the Internet, data is broken up and transmitted in packets (frames), each with a source and destination address. ) group has received top honors from the Boston Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Progress got the award for its achievements in developing technical education materials, including Distinguished and Best of Show in Online Communication for the web-based course titled 'Diagnosing Application Performance Problems Using PROMON.' The course helps Progress programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists learn how to analyze application activity and tune application performance in a step-by-step process. Any entries achieving a Distinguished rating automatically go on to STC's international competition, results of which will be announced in the spring. Past winners of the competition include Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Microsoft and IBM Many people are too new to the computer industry to remember that IBM once occupied the lofty position that Microsoft currently enjoys. Today, it's a Microsoft versus The Rest of the World computer industry. Yesterday, it was IBM versus everybody else. . The STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication with 20,000 members including technical writers and editors, content developers, documentation specialists, technical illustrators, instructional designers, academics, information architects, usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. and human factors professionals, visual designers, web designers and developers and translators This is primarily a list of notable Western translators. Please feel free to add translators from other languages, cultures and areas of specialization. Large sublists have been split off to separate articles. . In the Boston Chapter's Online Communication category, Progress also received a Merit award for Computer Based Training (CBT (Computer-Based Training) Using the computer for training and instruction. CBT programs are called "courseware" and provide interactive training sessions for all disciplines. ) courses. In Technical Publishing PPS received Excellence and Merit recognition for Database Replication with PeerDirect(R) and Dynamic Database Object Essentials, respectively. "The first step in providing customers with the best possible information is aiming them with the best possible tools to access that information," said Ed Sugrue, vice president of PPS. "With Knowledge Center Support Systems, Electronic Download Centers, PSDN (communications) PSDN - Public Switched Data Network. and our award-winning educational programs, Progress continuously proves its dedication to making technology easy to access, use and understand. We are pleased to see those efforts recognized by our distinguished peers at STC." About the Society for Technical Communication The Society for Technical Communication is a professional organization for technical writers, editors, illustrators, managers and educators. It is the largest professional organization in this field, with more than 20,000 members in 150 chapters worldwide. Information about STC and its programs can be found on the STC Web site at www.stc.org. About the Progress Company The Progress Company simplifies the development, deployment, integration, and management of the world's best business applications. Progress and its 2,000 Application Partners offer more than 5,000 Progress-based business applications that precisely fit customer needs and deliver competitive advantage. Customers purchase more than $5 billion annually in cost-effective software and services from Progress and its partners. Progress(R) OpenEdge(TM) platform enables its partners to deliver lowest cost-of-ownership applications that are rapidly implemented and easily integrated within and across the extended enterprise. The Progress Company is an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) headquartered in Bedford, MA, and may be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000. Progress, OpenEdge, and Progress OpenEdge are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. PeerDirect is a trademark or registered trademark of PeerDirect Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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