CorVu

Key Market Forces

Regulatory, competitive, and economic pressures are driving dramatic change for virtually all businesses today. Since most organizations have largely squeezed costs as much as possible, they now face significant pressure to grow the business and improve visibility. As a result, companies are looking to technology to help drive profitable growth.

Performance Management technology, which is designed to manage and monitor business performance, holds the promise of helping businesses drive profitable growth. But the traditional metric-focused approach has fallen short. That's because there's more to performance management than metrics, dashboards, and scorecards.

The problem is that there is a fundamental disconnect. Strategy, objectives, resources, and risks are discussed at the executive level, but day-to-day activities and performance metrics are not connected to them. As a result, organizations can measure performance, but they can't manage it.

The Key to Breakthrough

Performance management is tying performance metrics to business strategy. It's not just about performance metrics, it's about tying performance metrics to strategic objectives, corporate initiatives, resources, and risks.

CorVu 5 combines the two key technology components necessary for driving breakthrough performance:

Strategic Management System - a purpose-built application that ties performance metrics to business strategy by managing strategy related processes, including objective and initiative management, budgeting and planning, risk management, and incentive management
Performance Metrics - a robust business intelligence platform for automated data exchange, reporting, and analysis

Progress Products and Services

Progress Software Corporation delivers products and services through its operating units:

Progress OpenEdge Division

The Progress OpenEdge Division offers a complete platform for developing and deploying business applications. Through its standards-based, service-oriented architecture OpenEdge allows the development of business applications that can be deployed and managed over a wide range of computing platforms and across the Internet. OpenEdge offers a unified environment including development tools, application servers, flexible integration options, its market leading embedded Progress database, and systems management tools.

DataDirect Technologies

DataDirect Technologies is the leading provider of components for connecting software to data. Products from DataDirect use industry standard interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC and, ADO.NET to ensure consistent behavior and performance across diverse environments such as J2EE, .NET, Web and client/server. DataDirect also offers an XML development tool, Stylus Studio, and has been instrumental in the development of the XQuery standard for querying and processing XML data.

Sonic Software

Our Sonic Software subsidiary is the inventor and leading provider of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the standards-based foundation for building a Service Oriented Architecture, or SOA. Sonic products provide reliable, manageable and cost-effective distributed infrastructure to integrate applications and orchestrate business processes across the extended enterprise.
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Our Progress Real Time Division provides event stream processing, data management, data access, and synchronization products to enable the real-time enterprise. Our products monitor and analyze real-time event stream data for applications such as algorithmic trading and RFID; accelerate the performance of existing databases through sophisticated caching; manage and process complex data in the industry’s leading object database; and support occasionally connected or mobile users requiring real-time access to enterprise applications.