Progress Software initiates Pacific Incubator Program for start-ups

Progress has announced the launch of its Pacific Incubator program in India, following an announcement earlier this year by the Company’s President & CEO, Philip Pead, that Progress’ India Development Center would support application development projects for start-ups using the Progress Pacific platform.

The Progress Pacific Incubator program aims to help early stage start-ups that are building business applications. Start-ups that are at the prototype stage of an idea can leverage the Progress Pacific and Progress Rollbase solutions to gain significant productivity benefits and faster time-to-market for their business applications. The Progress Pacific Incubator program will provide work space for each start-up and access to the Pacific platform to build their solutions.

Further, Progress engineers will be available to help the start-ups by lending their domain expertise, mentoring, and providing access to markets – depending on the merit of the start-up’s idea. Any start-up that builds business or domain solutions can benefit from the Pacific development platform, which is SaaS and mobile-ready. The Progress Pacific Incubator program will extend to local Universities interested in engaging with the Pacific platform.

Ramesh Loganathan, Vice-President – Products & Managing Director, Progress Software India, said, “This announcement is aligned with our Pacific product vision to work closely with start-ups as they build their domain solutions, working under severe resource and time constraints, and thus needing the rapid development power of the Progress Pacific platform.”

The Progress Pacific Incubator Program complements and aligns with the Telangana Government’s recent announcement around providing support for innovation and entrepreneurship in Hyderabad and supports the government’s efforts to make Hyderabad into the start-up capital of India.