Progress Empowering Software as a Service (SaaS)
Progress recognized early on the value and power of the Software as a Service business model and created what is now one of the industry's longest-running SaaS program offerings. One of the key foundations of this new market and method of deploying applications is the service-oriented approach to automating/delivering business processes, thus aligning the basic principles of service delivery with the application architecture. This new approach is transforming the nature and role of the traditional Independent Software Vendor (ISV).
Progress offers one of the leading development and deployment platforms for building SaaS business applications. Given the growth and resiliency of this market, all types of IT vendors are seeking to seize the opportunity, including many "specialized" ISVs, whose vertical domain expertise equip them to readily transition to the SaaS model. Progress is focusing on the technologies that facilitate the development of a new generation of highly specialized applications by creating a SaaS framework, specifically designed to expose defined business processes for integration within and between applications/organizations.
Products and Services
Progress Software has a rich set of development, management, integration and deployment products that can dramatically improve a company's time to market in providing Software as a Service. The platform for building new or refitting existing Progress-based applications is OpenEdge™ 10 business application platform with its underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Along with OpenEdge 10, there is also OpenEdge Management, OpenEdge Replication, Sonic Product Family, and other deployment services. With this rich set of tools, organizations can not only achieve their immediate goals of deploying applications as services, but also be assured of being prepared for next-generation applications incorporating Web Services components.
Progress® OpenEdge® Business Application Platform
Progress OpenEdge is an integrated platform for the rapid development and deployment of business applications that are standards-based, service-oriented, and require a minimum of system administration. OpenEdge applications can be deployed and managed over virtually any computer platform and across the Internet. OpenEdge provides a unified environment comprising development tools, application servers, application management tools, a database, and the capability to easily connect and integrate with other applications and data sources.
Sonic Products by Progress Software
The Sonic ESB Product Family comprises Sonic ESB and a comprehensive set of compatible products that simplify application integration within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It extends Sonic ESB–robust infrastructure software that integrates large, physically distributed deployments–with complex service orchestration, operational data management, and integration of third-party relational data sources, packaged applications and technologies.
Progress® SonicMQx® is the industry's most robust and resilient standards-based enterprise messaging system, delivering unmatched service availability, high performance, exceptional management capabilities and unsurpassed scalability for vast and sophisticated enterprise deployments.™
The A, B, C's of Software as a Service
Most people have heard the term Software as a Service or SaaS, as it is often called. But what is not clear to everyone is the evolution of how you get from Application Service Provisioning (ASP) to what many industry analysts are saying is the future, SaaS 2.0, functionality-rich infrastructure and business-services delivery. Learn more about the different stages of this evolution, what Progress calls the A, B, C's of SaaS.
Progress Software as a Service Offering
Software as a Service for Progress Partners
