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.

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