13D Filing: Praesidium Investment Management Company, Llc and Progress Software Corp (NASDAQ:PRGS)

*	The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person’s initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.

This Amendment No. 8 supplements the information set forth in the Schedule 13D filed on behalf of (i) Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Praesidium”), (ii) Kevin Oram and (iii) Peter Uddo (together with Praesidium and Mr. Oram the “Reporting Persons”) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 19, 2011, as amended and supplemented by Amendment No. 1 filed with the SEC on March 14, 2012, Amendment No. 2 filed with the SEC on October 26, 2012, Amendment No. 3 filed with the SEC on January 31, 2013, Amendment No. 4 filed with the SEC on February 6, 2014, Amendment No. 5 filed with the SEC on January 11, 2016, Amendment No. 6 filed with the SEC on September 14, 2016, and Amendment No. 7 filed with the SEC on January 6, 2017 (the “Schedule 13D”), relating to common stock (“Common Stock”), of Progress Software Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”).

All capitalized terms contained herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Schedule 13D.  Information given in response to each item shall be deemed incorporated by reference in all other items, as applicable.

Item 2(a) of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

(a) This statement is filed by: (i) Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Praesidium”), (ii) Kevin Oram and (iii) Peter Uddo (together with Praesidium and Mr. Oram, the “Reporting Persons”).

Praesidium, in its capacity as investment manager to certain managed accounts and investment fund vehicles on behalf of investment advisory clients (collectively, the “Accounts”), has sole power to vote 4,167,190 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts and to dispose of 4,440,037 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts. As the managing members of Praesidium, each of Kevin Oram and Peter Uddo may be deemed to control Praesidium.

Item 3 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

The net investment costs (including commissions, if any) of the shares of Common Stock directly owned by the Accounts is approximately $23.34 per share.  The source of these funds for the Accounts was their working capital.

Purchases of some securities for certain Accounts were effected through margin accounts maintained with brokers, which may extend margin credit as and when required to open or carry positions in the margin accounts, subject to applicable federal margin regulations, stock exchange rules and the brokers’ credit policies. In such instances, the positions held in the margin accounts may be pledged as collateral security for the repayment of debit balances in the accounts.

Item 4 of Schedule 13D is supplemented and superseded, as the case may be, as follows:

This Amendment No. 8 is being filed to report dispositions of beneficial ownership of Common Stock in an amount equal to one percent or more of the Issuer’s outstanding Common Stock since the Reporting Persons’ previous amendment to Schedule 13D.  The disclosure in Item 5(c) below regarding transactions in the Common Stock effected during the previous 60 days is incorporated by reference herein.

Consistent with their investment purpose, the Reporting Persons may make, or cause, further dispositions of Common Stock from time to time.  In addition, the Reporting Persons may acquire, or cause to be acquired, additional shares of Common Stock, in each case depending on market conditions and other factors.

Additionally, the Reporting Persons expect to continue to engage in communications with one or more of the Issuer’s officers, members of the Issuer’s Board of Directors, representatives, shareholders of the Issuer and other relevant parties concerning specific initiatives, including strategic acquisitions, and topics such as the business, management, operations, assets, capitalization, financial condition, governance, including Board structure and Board composition, strategy and future plans of the Issuer that may result in the Reporting Persons proposing one or more ideas that, if effectuated, may result in any of the actions described in subsections (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D. Depending on such communications, and subject to the conditions below, the Reporting Persons may make additional purchases or may sell or transfer Common Stock beneficially owned by them from time to time in public transactions. Any such transactions may be effected at any time or from time to time subject to any applicable limitations imposed on the sale of the Common Stock by applicable law. The Reporting Persons may, at any time and from time to time, review or reconsider their position and/or change their purpose and/or formulate plans or proposals with respect thereto.

Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

(a) – (b) The Reporting Persons beneficially own 4,440,037 shares of Common Stock, which represents approximately 9.1% of the Issuer’s outstanding shares of Common Stock. The percentage of beneficial ownership of the Reporting Persons, as reported in this Schedule 13D, was calculated by dividing (i) the total number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by each Reporting Person as of March 29, 2017, as set forth in this Schedule 13D, by (ii) the 48,734,771 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of January 23, 2017, according to the Issuer’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on January 30, 2017.

Praesidium, in its capacity as investment manager to the Accounts, has sole power to vote 4,167,190 shares of Common Stock and the power to dispose of 4,440,037 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts. As the managing members of Praesidium, each of Kevin Oram and Peter Uddo may be deemed to beneficially own the Common Stock held in the Accounts.

(c) Transactions in the Issuer’s securities by the Reporting Persons during the last 60 days are listed in Annex A attached hereto.

(d) Not Applicable.

(e) Not Applicable.

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, the undersigned certifies that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: March 29, 2017