Progress Named 2018 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Award Winner · Sweetcode.io

WIRE)–Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today announced that Progress NativeChat, the artificial intelligence-driven platform for creating and deploying chatbots, has been selected as the winner of the "Best Chatbot Solution" award from AI Breakthrough, an independent organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market today. "We are thrilled to be recognized with the AI Breakthrough award for'Best Chatbot Solution'. Progress continues to invest to deliver solutions that enable organizations to deliver the most modern capabilities in their applications," said Dmitri Tcherevik, Chief Technology Officer, Progress. "As the need for solutions around machine learning, AI, AR and VR grow, we will continue to be at the forefront, delivering innovative solutions to drive the future success of our customers and partners." Unlike other chatbot technologies, NativeChat platform is based on patent-pending CognitiveFlow technology that can be trained with goals, examples and data from existing systems, similar to the process for training new customer service agents.