Progress Software – DataDirect Connect Paul Griffin Product Marketing Manager January 20, 2012

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation2 Agenda  Company background  Product Overview  Product Features  Customer Support

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation3 DataDirect’s Corporate History  Formally known as TechGnosis(1987) Pioneer(1988) Q+E(1993) INTERSOLV(1994) MERANT(1999)  DataDirect business unit spun off from MERANT to form privately-held, independent software vendor, called DataDirect Technologies. (2001)  Acquired by Progress Software, Inc. in 2003  Privately-held OpenAccess Software acquired in 2006 – allows ODBC and JDBC access to unique & proprietary data sources through SDK

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation4 Critical Applications Reply on Progress DataDirect  Thousands of Corporate IT departments rely on DataDirect for their critical applications 92 of the Fortune of 10 top world banks Worldwide customer base in all industries

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation5 Cross-Industry Blue Chip Customers

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation6 Corporate Overview  Over 300 software vendors embed DataDirect technology Over 60% of top 50 software vendors 8 of top 10 packaged software vendors 9 of top 10 application development and deployment vendors 8 of top 10 system infrastructure vendors

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation7 Business Applications Leading Provider to the Software Industry

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation8 Any application, Any platform, Any database

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation9 Product Overview – Connect  Wire-protocol connectivity to all major databases No client libraries means better performance and easier deployment  Standards-based connectivity to all major databases Support for multiple databases, and multiple versions of each database - with only one set of application code to develop and maintain  Flexible deployment – all platforms

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation10 Product Overview – Sequelink/Open Access  Flexible deployment – all platforms, all API’s: OLE DB, ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, 32-bit and 64-bit  Sequelink-specific Can connect to any database from any platform, as long as the database has an ODBC or JDBC driver  Open Access-specific Connectivity to proprietary data sources Standards-based connectivity to web services

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation11 Product Overview – Data Integration Suite (DIS)  XML Converters Convert EDI to XML  Stylus Studio Easy to use IDE  XQuery Expose XML as a web service Query relational and XML data Insert XML data into relational databases

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation12 Product Features - Performance  Stronger throughput  More efficient use of memory and CPU cycles  Performance tuning options allow developers to optimize performance based on what the application is doing

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation13 Codeless Configuration/Rapid Application Modernization Bulk Load –Stream data from cloud or relational data sources to other data sources –Allows for faster data integration and data migration to multiple data sources Application Failover Security –Kerberos –SSL

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation14 Product Features – Cloud Deployments Save Money Servers Servers w/DataDirectCost Cost w/ DataDirectSavings 208$504,576$414,310$90, $1,261,440$1,035,776$225, $2,522,880$2,019,763$503,117

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation15 World Class Customer Support  Award winning technical support: 24x7x365 Live telephone support, extensive web resources Co-located with development and QA teams in Europe, USA & Asia NorthFace Award 10 consecutive years Member of TSANET

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation16 Summary  Full featured, high-perfomance data access components from any platform/application, to any data source  Vendor viability, expertise, and award-winning customer support  Customer Case Studies:

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation17 Contact Information  Paul Griffin Phone: (919)

© 2012 Progress Software Corporation18