Progress Announces Winners of the Progress Sitefinity 2018 Website of the Year Awards

30,000 votes determined thirteen winners for their excellence in
website, digital experience, creativity, design, user experience and
functionality

BEDFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and
digital experience technologies, today announced winners of its annual Progress^® Sitefinity®
Website of the Year Awards. Each year, the awards recognize websites
powered by Progress Sitefinity for creativity, design, user experience,
functionality and overall website presentation. Winners were selected
based on the highest number of votes received during the public voting
process.

This year, 39 websites developed using Progress Sitefinity were
nominated across 13 categories: Multisite, Ecommerce, Financial
Services, Healthcare, Education, Public Sector, Manufacturing, Services,
Technology, Associations & Non-Profit, Sports & Entertainment, Travel &
Tourism, and Graphic Design.

The 2018 Website of the Year Awards winners were selected in two phases.
First, a Progress judging panel shortlisted the three best websites per
category. After narrowing the field, voting was opened to the community.
Finalists with the highest number of votes were appointed the category
winners.

With more than 30,000 votes cast, the results are as follows:

• Multisite: Greenheck,
  implemented by The
  Greenheck Group
• Ecommerce: Weaver
  Leather, implemented by Premier
  Group
• Financial Services: Lead
  Bank, implemented by ZIV
• Healthcare: Change
  Healthcare, implemented by Americaneagle.com
• Education: Nyenrode
  Business University, implemented by Fenêtre
  online solutions
• Public Sector: City
  of Lecce, implemented by Co.M.Media
  srl
• Manufacturing: Alumil,
  implemented by DOPE
  STUDIO
• Services: Ag-Pro
  Companies, implemented by Team
  SI
• Technology: Blackbaud,
  implemented by Americaneagle.com
• Associations & Non-Profit: World
  Health Organization, implemented by Siili
  Solutions
• Sports & Entertainment: Virgin
  Active, implemented by Equator
• Travel & Tourism: Crystal
  Cruises, implemented by Americaneagle.com
• Graphic Design: MAN
  Energy Solutions, implemented by MAN
  Energy Solutions and Netspectrum

“Today’s customer demands high-touch, personalized experiences with
rich, relevant content delivered instantly through the digital channel
they choose,” said John Ainsworth, Senior Vice President, Core Products,
Progress. “We congratulate this year’s winners, as their work continues
to affirm that Sitefinity partners and customers are setting a new
precedent for exceptional digital experiences.”

Progress Sitefinity is a leading web experience management solution that
empowers organizations with the ability to manage content and customer
interactions across all channels and touchpoints throughout the customer
journey. With capabilities like multisite and multilingual capabilities,
and AI analytics to refine content development, personalization, and
journey optimization, this highly extensible solution enables
organizations to deliver more effective web experiences, faster and more
easily. Today, Sitefinity powers 10,000 enterprise websites worldwide
across various industries – from financial and government services to
communications, retail and entertainment.

To explore the contest winners and Progress partners that built many of
the winning websites, visit the “Website
of the Year” page. In addition, all submissions received as part of
the Website of the Year Awards will be considered for the Web Experience
category of the 2019
Progress App Innovation Awards, which will be announced during
ProgressNEXT 2019, taking place May 6-9 in Orlando, Florida. To register
for ProgressNEXT 2019, go to https://www.progress.com/next.

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About Progress
Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and deploying
strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners to
deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the
effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily
building adaptive user experiences across any type of device or
touchpoint, award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive
capabilities to be a part of any application, the flexibility of a
serverless cloud to deploy modern apps, business rules, web content
management, plus leading data connectivity technology. Over 1,700
independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers, and two
million developers rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn
about Progress at www.progress.com
or +1-800-477-6473.

Progress and Sitefinity are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Progress Software Corporation and/or one of its subsidiaries or
affiliates in the US and other countries. Any other trademarks contained
herein are the property of their respective owners.

Contacts

Progress
Kim Baker
1 888-365-2779
pr@progress.com