Comments on: Progress Software – getting past "Who"?

By: On IT-business alignment and related things » Progress buys Savvion: a smart move

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:01:07 +0000

[...] For Progress, though, this is without doubt a smart move. Early in 2009, the new CEO (and former COO) Richard Reidy laid out his ambition that the company would double its revenues to around $1bn by “reorienting sales towards multi-product suites, as well as aiming marketing messages more at business executives than IT workers”. At the time, I wrote a post highlighting Progress’ marketing and positioning challenge. [...]

By: On IT-business alignment and related things » Progress and RPM – making the Next Big Thing big enough

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:00:45 +0000

[...] I blogged about previously, Progress has – by design – long been a bit like Unilever: a more-or-less invisible [...]

By: David Bressler

David Bressler — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:16:00 +0000

Neil,

(Original comment posted on EBizQ)

You've really said it quite well, and I have nothing to add, but to say that I really believe Rick is the guy for the job. I just wanted to put that out there, not to suck up, but to make sure that silence on this matter when I'm so vocal on so much would not be perceived as a lack of faith.

Rick has a great communications style, and I'm looking forward to his influence trickling down even more now that he's our fearless leader.

We've also brought on industry veteran Gary Conway to be our CMO (http://bit.ly/LZWQ), a new position to tie it all together under the Progress brand. So, we're putting our money where our mouth is and taking this very seriously!

Cheers,

David Bressler
Progress Software (Actional)

By: David Bressler

David Bressler — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:16:00 +0000

By: Miko Matsumura

Miko Matsumura — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:34:00 +0000

I think the reason why Software AG has been particularly vocal about the $1B USD revenue mark is that we have achieved it.

http://in.sys-con.com/node/886348