Sonic Executives and Customers Address Opportunities and Challenges of SOA at Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit

Business Wire, June 16, 2006

BEDFORD, Mass. -- Dan Foody, CTO of Actional and Sonic products for Progress Software, and Jamey Harvey, deputy CTO for the government of Washington, D.C. are scheduled to address the Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit (http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/apn16.jsp), June 19-21 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel in San Diego.

Foody will present on service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance. His session, "SOA Governance: Where the Rubber Meets the Runtime," focuses on monitoring and controlling what is really happening in an SOA run-time environment, including protecting the organization from rogue services and consumers.

WHAT:     "SOA Governance: Where the Rubber Meets the Runtime"

WHEN:     Monday, June 19, 2006; 3:45 p.m-4:30 p.m. (PST)

Harvey will participate in the case study panel "Leveraging an
Enterprise Service Bus." Washington, D.C. has successfully adopted the
Sonic ESB(R) in several award-winning projects aimed at improving
services for citizens, accelerating and coordinating the flow of
critical information between city agencies, and addressing the need
for coordination across regional emergency operations centers. Harvey
will discuss the benefits the city has realized, including moving the
city's IT from "worst to first," as well as suggestions for successful
adoption across an organization.

WHAT:     "Case Study Panel: Leveraging an Enterprise Service Bus"

WHEN:     Wednesday, June 21, 2006; 11:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. (PST)

Additionally, Mike Gero, director, Actional Product Management for
Progress Software, will present a case study of Starwood Hotels &
Resorts Worldwide, Inc., one of the world's largest hotel and leisure
companies, which is engaged in a multi-year adoption of SOA. Gero will
discuss how Starwood is using Actional(R) SOA management products to
gain visibility and control of its SOA implementation to optimize
bookings. This session will take place on Wednesday, June 21, 2006;
9:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m. (PST).

About the Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit 2006

The Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit 2006 is the most focused event of its kind designed to help enterprises prepare for the challenges of the changing nature of software infrastructure and what it means for integration, web services and architecture initiatives. Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit hits the critical spot between the strategic planning and tactical advice IT organizations need to benchmark strategies on Web services security, SOA, EDA, ESB, application process and data integration, standards, and more.

Additional information is available at www.gartner.com/us/aiwswc.> About Sonic Software

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), a new communication and integration infrastructure that supports the enterprise requirements of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic's technology delivers the scalability, security, continuous availability and management capabilities necessary to connect, integrate and control distributed, mission critical business processes. Over 1,000 customers use Sonic products to achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to ever-changing business needs.

Sonic Software is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a global software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at http://www.sonicsoftware.com, or by phone at 1-781-999-7000 or 1-866-GET-SONIC.

Sonic ESB and Actional are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.