History

Proginet Corporation, which was acquired by Tibco Software

Tibco Software

TIBCO Software Inc. is a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. TIBCO manages information, decisions, processes and applications in real-time for over 4,000 customers worldwide...

 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

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, UNIX

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, AS/400 and the mainframe

Mainframe computer

Mainframes are powerful computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing.The term originally referred to the...

. 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

Fortune 500

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 companies. The company is headquartered in Garden City, New York

Garden City, New York

Garden City is a village in the town of Hempstead in central Nassau County, New York, in the United States. It was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869, and is located on Long Island, to the east of New York City, from mid-town Manhattan, and just south of the town of...

, has offices in Toronto, Canada, and has been publicly traded under the symbol . On June 22, 2010 the company announced that it is to be acquired by Tibco Corporation for $23 million dollars.

Software

CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI) is a managed file transfer

Managed File Transfer

Managed file transfer ' refers to software solutions that facilitate the secure transfer of data, in flight and at rest, from one computer to another through a network . MFT solutions are often built to support the FTP network protocol...

 (MFT)solution that provides a single point of control for all file transfer

File transfer

File transfer is a generic term for the act of transmitting files over a computer network or the Internet. There are numerous ways and protocols to transfer files over a network. Computers which provide a file transfer service are often called file servers. Depending on the client's perspective the...

 activity inside and outside the extended enterprise. A multi-platform solution that serves the mainframe

Mainframe computer

Mainframes are powerful computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing.The term originally referred to the...

 world and all major distributed platforms, CFI enables file transfer

File transfer

File transfer is a generic term for the act of transmitting files over a computer network or the Internet. There are numerous ways and protocols to transfer files over a network. Computers which provide a file transfer service are often called file servers. Depending on the client's perspective the...

 security, and integrates with a range of B2B

Business-to-business

Business-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...

 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

Solution

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.

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 (HFT) is a high-speed managed file transfer solution for intra-enterprise data movement.

Harbor Network Storage Manager (NSM) is a backup and recovery solution.

History & Timeline

1986 - Company Founded (as Teleprocessing Connection Inc.)

1987 - Developed and introduced XCOM

1991 - Sold XCOM to Spectrum Concepts (itself later acquired by Computer Associates)

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

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

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 (Secure Internet File Transfer)

2004 - Acquired Blockade Systems Corporation and their products: ESAccess (now SecurAccess) and ManagedID (now SecurForce)

2005 - Developed and introduced CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI)

2006 - Partnered with SoftCare EC Solutions Inc. to embed SoftCare's TradeLink EDI Management software in CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI) 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 (i.e. SecurPass, SecurPass, and SecurAccess) for Harbor's file transfer software (i.e. Harbor File Transfer and Network Storage Manager).

2009 - Entered into an OEM transaction with Attachmate, Innovis, and Software AG

2009 - Acquired intellectual property of RocketStream Inc.

2010 - Announced AnyFileNow, a SaaS/Cloud file transfer solution

2010 - Acquired by Tibco for $23MM