Progress Software Corp. engages in the provision of products that develop and deploy mission-critical business applications. Its products and solutions include Chef, Corticon, DataDirect, Developer Tools, Flowmon, Kemp LoadMaster, MarkLogic, MOVEit, OpenEdge, Semaphore, ShareFile, Sitefinity & WhatsUp Gold. The company was founded by Joseph Wright Alsop, Clyde Kessel, and Charles Arthur Ziering in 1981 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.