Progress Software Launches the Apama Parallel CorrelatorBEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2009--
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global provider of
event-driven and open application infrastructure software used to
develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today
announced the latest release of the
Progress®
Apama® Complex Event Processing (CEP) platform with an
enhanced Parallel Correlator that leverages multi-core, multi-processor
functionality. The Apama Parallel Correlator delivers significantly
superior complex event processing performance by providing developers
and business users with unprecedented speed and greater event
throughput, resulting in improved real-time visibility and operational
responsiveness.
The Apama Parallel Correlator enables significant performance
enhancements. Internal benchmark testing, which used real-world customer
scenarios, revealed a seven-fold increase in event processing
performance on an eight core machine.
Maureen Fleming, Program Director for IDC's Business Process Management
and Middleware service notes: "Software that supports the full capacity
of multi-core servers offers enterprises the opportunity to
significantly improve performance and reduce cost. Given the importance
of cost-effective, high-speed throughput for CEP, software products that
make full use of modern server technology are at a strong competitive
advantage that extends not just to the vendor but to customers adopting
this technology."
In an analysis by IDC (within a report titled "Complex
Event Processing - Opportunity Analysis and Assessment of Key Products"),
the Apama platform achieved the highest cumulative scores in a
comparison that included CEP products from several other vendors. Apama
was the only product to receive IDC’s highest ranking in three of the
five categories.
Dr. John Bates, founder and general manager, Apama division of Progress
Software, said: “This new Apama product release demonstrates a
fundamental shift in the design, development and deployment of CEP
applications in a way that makes it even easier for business users to
benefit from CEP on multi-core architectures in real time. The pace at
which organizations accumulate and analyze data is increasing
exponentially, and CEP products must keep pace. The Apama platform is
designed to meet and surpass the changing needs of businesses, and is
the foundation for a CEP solution that delivers unprecedented
performance with limitless scalability.”
Other key Apama Parallel Correlator capabilities include:
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Full support for latest Intel and SPARC hardware that provide multiple
threads per core (and, multiple cores per CPU).
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Reduces the complexity of designing and implementing concurrent CEP
applications.
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Implementation is a natural extension of CEP development and
deployment using event processing language and visual design tools.
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High-level thread management process enabling parallel contexts to be
created.
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Apama Smart Scheduler ensures optimal scheduling of contexts on
operating system threads.
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A fine-tuned latency framework works tightly coupled with the Apama
architecture ensures real-time designs create predictable real-time
results.
The Apama platform supports dynamic business operations that are
constantly changing and which require immediate, forward-looking
responsiveness to business events with sub-millisecond latency. The
Apama platform is recognized as the leading CEP product with the largest
client base in capital markets comprising top sell-side firms, buy-side
firms, hedge funds and regulators, including companies such as JP
Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and FSA (Financial Services Authority) of the
U.K. Outside capital markets, the Apama platform is used in industries
such as retail (e.g. Boekhandels Groep Nederland – BGN – who introduced
the world’s first item-level RFID implementation) and manufacturing
(e.g. Manuvis with their application that delivers real-time visibility
into manufacturing ERP systems).
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application
infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and
management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the
benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and
total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com
or +1-781-280-4000.
Progress and Apama are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress
Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the
U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the
property of their respective owners.
Source: Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation
Lisa Coulouris, 781-280-4995
lcoulour@progress.com
or
LEWIS
PR
Dan Gaffney, 617-226-8844
progresssoftware@lewispr.com
