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About Progress Software Corporation

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.

About Progress EasyAsk Division

Progress EasyAsk® delivers powerful, easy-to-use software for information discovery and analysis. Used by industry leaders globally, EasyAsk leverages its natural language query technology in two distinct solutions: EasyAsk for Operational BI and EasyAsk for eCommerce:

EasyAsk is widely adopted by business users and consumers who use the business language they employ everyday to find pertinent information, regardless of the information source or location.

EasyAsk was acquired by Progress Software Corporation in May 2005.

EasyAsk Management

Dr. Larry R. Harris, General Manager and Vice President
Dr. Richard Wood,Vice President of Development
Stephen Walsh, Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Worldwide Offices

Worldwide and North American Headquarters
Progress Software Corporation
14 Oak Park Drive
Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Tel: 781-280-4000
Toll Free: 800-477-6473

Worldwide offices
Directions to Worldwide Headquarters

EasyAsk Products

EasyAsk for Operational BI software delivers the benefits of BI to the masses. It can be used by virtually any authorized employee or user within the extended enterprise to easily access and analyze business intelligence information on demand. EasyAsk for Operational Business Intelligence (BI) places the power and insight of business intelligence into the hands of the operational business user, customer, or partner. By leveraging existing BI investments and exposing existing reports, EasyAsk for Operational BI delivers greater value from traditional BI investments while extending critical ad hoc reporting capabilities to casual users via a ‘search box’ user interface. With EasyAsk for Operational BI, operational staff have the insight that they need to maximize business potential; all without the need to understand the underlying data structure or the necessity to learn a complex BI reporting tool.

EasyAsk for eCommerce is the retail industry's most intuitive Website search, navigation and merchandising software. It helps merchandisers to deliver immediate ROI through increased conversion rates, sales revenue and customer satisfaction. EasyAsk for eCommerce is an easy-to-use, powerful site search, navigation, and merchandising software solution that helps B2C and B2B companies boost revenue opportunities, drive customer loyalty, and strengthen relationships with customers. Sites that use EasyAsk have the highest conversion rates in the industry according to Nielsen//NetRatings (graph). Through a combination of unique and powerful capabilities that come together in a single, easy-to-use application, EasyAsk gives merchandisers the direct control they need to showcase their products and increase sales.

EasyAsk for ISVs enables forward-thinking developers of data-intensive applications to gain a competitive advantage through advanced data search and ad hoc reporting capabilities. With EasyAsk for ISVs, leading software developers serving human resources, medical records, ERP, knowledge management, and many other sectors are enabling their customers to maximize their ability to act upon the data created and stored within their applications - delivering greater value and ROI.

EasyAsk Services

EasyAsk's professional services team members possess in-depth experience and expertise in our solution set and work in tandem with our customers to ensure successful initial implementations and on-going support as needed. Services include:

Project Management
Technical Implementation Services
Strategic Consulting & Best Practices
Technical Support
Training Services

Customers

A sampling of EasyAsk customers:

Ascensus

BASF

Cardif Pinnacle

Ceridian

Coldwater Creek

Dynix

hpshopping.com

Hartford Hospital

Lands' End

Lawson

Siemens Medical

TruServ

Markets

EasyAsk is deployed leading retail, financial services, health care, pharmaceutical, government, high-tech and manufacturing organizations worldwide.

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Progress Software Corporation supplies business application platform, soa infrastructure and data infrastructure software that simplifies and accelerates the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Our superior business application platforms include Progress OpenEdge for high performance SOA integration and software as a service (SaaS), and Progress Apama for complex event processing. Our innovative event-driven SOA infrastructure solutions include Progress Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Progress DataXtend semantic data integration, Progress Actional SOA management and SOA governance, and DataDirect data connectivity for mainframe SOA and web services. Our data infrastructure products include DataDirect Connect for database driver and data provider connections to relational databases and XML data integration, EasyAsk for enterprise search and e-commerce, and ObjectStore object data management.

Progress EasyAsk delivers powerful, easy-to-use software for information discovery and analysis. Used widely by industry leaders, EasyAsk leverages its natural language query technology in two distinct offerings: EasyAsk for Operational BI and EasyAsk for eCommerce. EasyAsk for Operational BI software delivers BI to the masses. It can be used by virtually any authorized user within or beyond the enterprise to easily access and analyze business intelligence information on demand. EasyAsk for eCommerce is the retail industry's most intuitive Website search, navigation and merchandising software. It helps merchandisers to deliver immediate ROI through increased conversion rates, sales revenue and customer satisfaction.