Progress Software Earnings Beat Estimates, Boosts Forecast
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Progress is selling a very specific AI value prop—data aggregation that reduces tokens for agents—into existing customers and it’s showing up in earnings. If you’re an infrastructure or middleware vendor, you need a similarly concrete AI cost or performance story this year, not just “we enable AI.”
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