SOA Leaders to Provide an Enterprise Business Platform for both Business and IT Agility

AUSTIN, Texas & BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2007--Lombardi(R) (www.lombardi.com), a leader in business process management (BPM) suite software for Global 2000 companies, and Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a provider of leading application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced a strategic alliance to jointly market and sell the Lombardi Teamworks(R) BPM platform and the Progress(R) Sonic ESB(R) (Enterprise Service Bus). The combination of the award-winning Teamworks BPM and the world's best-selling ESB(1), best-of-breed BPM and ESB products, brings enterprise customers unmatched business and IT agility.