Proginet


Proginet Corporation, which was acquired by Tibco Software in 2010, was a systems management software company. It is best known for having developed a breakthrough product in the late 1980s called XCOM, which allowed companies to manage the process of moving bulk data between 26 different computer operating systems. In the early 1990s, the company's rights in XCOM were sold to its distributor, which was itself later acquired by CA-Inc. XCOM went on to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in sales for CA-Inc. After the sale of its only product, the company secured equity stakes from Microsoft and Novell, and began the development of enterprise managed file transfer products across many major computing platforms including Windows, UNIX, Linux, AS/400 and the mainframe. The company has been in business since 1986. Proginet's products include CyberFusion Integration Suite, Slingshot, Edge Server, Harbor NSM and HFT, and the Rocketstream software suite. Proginet's global customer base spans more than 23 countries and includes many Fortune 500 companies. The company is headquartered in Garden City, New York, has offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. On June 22, 2010 the company announced that it is to be acquired by TIBCO Corporation for $23 million.

Software

CyberFusion Integration Suite is a managed file transfer solution that provides a single point of control for all file transfer activity inside and outside the extended enterprise. A multi-platform solution that serves the mainframe world and all major distributed platforms, CFI enables file transfer security, and integrates with a range of B2B applications in support of true end-to-end processing. It also allows email attachments to be handled without going through the email server.
Slingshot is an enterprise solution that helps solve e-mail attachment problems.
AnyFileNow is a robust yet affordable SaaS/Cloud file transfer solution.
RocketStream is a file transfer acceleration solution.
Edge Server is an appliance-based proxy server that provides a secure gateway for bi-directional communications between enterprise file transfer systems and external business partners and systems.
Commerce Server CFI Commerce Server is a fully featured EDI integration solution for B2B data exchange, enabling full enterprise integration for a range of vertical industries including healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and financial services.
Harbor File Transfer is a high-speed managed file transfer solution for intra-enterprise data movement.
Harbor Network Storage Manager is a backup and recovery solution.

History & Timeline

1986 - Company Founded
1987 - Developed and introduced XCOM

1991 - Sold XCOM to Spectrum Concepts
1991 - Changed company name to "Proginet Corporation"
1994 - Novell takes Equity Stake in Proginet, company acquires IND$File Plus and Network Navigator from Novell
1995 - Developed and introduced Fusion FTMS
1995 - Completed IPO
1996 - Acquired KnowledgeNet
1996 - Microsoft takes equity Stake in Proginet
1996 - Acquired TransAccess from Microsoft
1996 - Kevin M. Kelly becomes CEO
1997 - Developed and introduced CyberFusion
2000 - Acquired TCS and the Tempus suite of products from Surefire
2002 - Developed and introduced SIFT
2004 - Acquired Blockade Systems Corporation and their products: ESAccess and ManagedID
2005 - Developed and introduced CyberFusion Integration Suite
2006 - Partnered with SoftCare EC Solutions Inc. to embed SoftCare's TradeLink EDI Management software in CyberFusion Integration Suite as CFI Commerce Server
2008 - Developed the Slingshot e-mail attachment management solution
2008 - Partnered with Rocketstream to embed Rocketstream's file transfer acceleration technology in CyberFusion Integration Suite
2008 - Sandy Weil becomes president and CEO
2008 - Announced Edge Server, a Secure Gateway Appliance to facilitate secure file transfer with external parties
2008 - Announced, a hardware-based appliance for e-mail attachment management with full archiving capabilities
2008 - Entered into an expanded partnership agreement with Beta Systems Software AG. This included an asset swap of Proginet's line of security products for Harbor's file transfer software.
2009 - Entered into an OEM transaction with Attachmate, Innovis, and Software AG
2009 - Acquired intellectual property of RocketStream Inc.
2010 - Announced , a SaaS/Cloud file transfer solution

2010 - Acquired by Tibco for $23MM