Services Infrastructure

Integrating Business Services

Using an SOA approach, information systems are built from shared components called "services" which automate discrete business functions. A services infrastructure connects, mediates, controls and monitors these services and their communications to support and optimize business processes. Specialized integration capabilities of the services infrastructure enable legacy systems to take part in an SOA environment.

Progress® Sonic™ Enterprise Service Bus

Sonic products from Progress Software help IT organizations achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to rapidly changing business needs. The Sonic products include SonicMQ®, the industry’s only continuously available JMS enterprise messaging system, and Sonic ESB®, the world’s first and market-share leading ESB. Sonic products simplify the integration and flexible reuse of diverse and often proprietary business systems by manipulating them as modular, standards-based services which can be rapidly combined to serve the business in new ways.

Progress® Actional® SOA & Web Services Management

The Progress Actional® product line delivers Web services management and SOA governance products that provide visibility, security and control of the activities of services and end-to-end business processes in the runtime environment. Actional Web services management and SOA governance capabilities include system and process-level visibility, as well as policy enforcement across an SOA infrastructure deployed on any combination of platforms. The combination of the Sonic and Actional products establishes Progress as a leading provider of platform-independent, enterprise-grade SOA infrastructure software.

DataDirect® Shadow® Mainframe Integration

Shadow is a robust, multi-threaded, native runtime architecture and consolidated development environment providing a real-time foundation architecture for standards-based mainframe integration. Shadow supports: Web Services for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Real-time events for Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), SQL for direct data access and transactional support and automatic presentation layer generation for extending screen-based applications to the Web.

With the Shadow® product, organizations have an infrastructure that delivers a secure, reliable and scalable framework for all mainframe integration.