ATERAS Awarded New Conversion After Successfully Completing Migration of Progressive Insurance's IDMS ADS/Online to DB2 CICS COBOL

ATERAS Awarded New Conversion After Successfully Completing Migration of Progressive Insurance's IDMS ADS/Online to DB2 CICS COBOL

April 10, 2007

    DALLAS, April 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 

    ATERAS announced today that they have been selected by
Progressive Casualty Insurance Company for the Policy
Number Expansion Project, using DB-Shuttle(TM) Enterprise
Change capabilities. This project follows the successful
ATERAS migration of Progressive's IDMS CORE Claims System
to a CICS COBOL DB2 environment, retiring IDMS and
ADS/Online completely.

    ATERAS will use its DB-Shuttle Enterprise Change
technology to perform the Policy Number Expansion. The
purpose of the project is to use a standard automated
method to identify and change the field definition and
length of 36 different DB2 columns (including policy
number, name and address) across multiple databases in the
Progressive Enterprise. DB-Shuttle's Enterprise Change
technology will also find and change all related program
variables, regardless of the variable naming conventions
and the use of these fields in the business logic.

    The DB-Shuttle Enterprise Changer will collect and
analyze more than 13,000,000 lines of code across more than
8700 programs and copy modules.  It will then generate the
required change rules and apply them to the programs and
modules, including changes required within the logic for
handling numeric to alphanumeric changes.

    In May 2006, ATERAS used DB-Shuttle's Transformation
Engines to modernize Progressive's mission-critical CORE
Claims System.  The Claims System supports 10,000 users,
processes 2,000,000 transactions a day, and supports claims
activity nationwide.  The following statistics summarize the
conversion:

     *  5 million lines of code
     *  265 IDMS Schema Record Types
     *  397 IDMS Maps
     *  603 ADS/Online dialogs
     *  1797 IDMS COBOL programs

    Progressive now has functionally equivalent DB2
applications that are high-performance, non-proprietary and
fully relational.  The new configuration reduces overall
cost, improves access to the data, and provides the
business with greater agility.  This transition was
performed without disrupting Progressive's business
activities and without impacting the end-user environment.

    "Our patent-pending DB-Shuttle technology
assesses, analyzes and converts non-relational
applications, databases and languages to relational
technologies, while assuring the integrity and completeness
of the resulting applications.  Our new Enterprise Change
technology allows any organization the luxury of automated
field expansion throughout their enterprise.  Insurance
companies benefit from this unique capability as their
businesses require change to fields such as names,
addresses, age tables and policy numbers. More and more
companies are choosing automation over manual methods for
conversion and enterprise-wide change.  We believe that our
unique technology is a key driver in this movement,"
says Scott Miller, president and chief executive officer of
ATERAS.

    About Progressive Insurance

    The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, now
celebrating its 70th year in business, is the country's
third largest auto insurance group and largest seller of
motorcycle and personal watercraft policies based on
premiums written, and is a market leader in commercial auto
insurance.

    Progressive is committed to becoming consumers' #1
choice for auto insurance by providing competitive products
and rates that meet driver's needs throughout their
lifetimes, superior online and in-person customer service,
and best-in-class, 24-hour claims service, including its
concierge level of claims service available at service
centers throughout the United States.

    Progressive companies offer consumers choices in how to
shop for, buy and manage their auto insurance policies. The
Agency Business sells Progressive Drive Insurance private
passenger auto insurance through more than 30,000
independent agencies. To find an agent, go to
http://www.driveinsurance.com . The Direct Business sells
Progressive Direct Private passenger auto insurance online
at http://www.progressive.com and by phone at
1-800-Progressive. Each business makes independent
decisions about private passenger auto insurance product
design and pricing, and both offer Progressive's other
products, including Progressive Commercial, Progressive
Motorcycle, Progressive Boat, etc. Progressive and Drive
are registered trademarks.

    The Common Shares of the Progressive Corporation, the
Mayfield Village, Ohio-based holding company, are publicly
traded at NYSE: PGR. For more information, please visit
http://www.progressive.com . Progressive and Drive are
registered trademarks.

    About ATERAS

    ATERAS has supported global enterprises for over 20
years offering state of the art services to our clients by
modernizing legacy systems to the most current IT
environments. The patent pending DB-Shuttle(TM) automation
technology provides everything from comprehensive
assessments of IT environments to fully automated
conversions. DB-Shuttle offers a complete and automated
method for organizations to protect legacy assets, reduce
maintenance costs, provide agility and flexibility, and
enable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) of
business-critical applications.

    For more information on ATERAS' solutions visit
http://www.ateras.com . 


    For more information, please contact:

     Anna Stamatelatos, ATERAS
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]