SOA Infrastructure

Using SOA to Integrate Business Services

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

Progress® DataXtend Semantic Integrator

Progress DataXtend™ Semantic Integrator (SI) solves the problem of validating data exchanges between services by focusing on the business integrity of data — not just ensuring that the format of that data is correct, but ensuring that data is valid based on business rules for the users and services that require the data. As services are added to a SOA environment, DataXtend SI lets you rapidly construct and centrally manage the rules and operations you need to validate and reconcile services data

DataDirect Technologies

The DataDirect product line, provide access technologies that enable IT organizations to realize the promise of SOA – flexibility, agility, and performance. As companies look to service-enable their mainframe assets, many have turned to DataDirect Shadow, the industry's leading mainframe integration platform. Using DataDirect Shadow, companies can rapidly service-enable mainframe data, screens, and applications using industry standard interfaces. DataDirect XQuery and DataDirect XML Converters provide the XML data integration technologies to enable data services. DataDirect Connect, the industry's leading data access middleware, offers the fast, scalable access to all relational databases demanded by today’s service enabled applications and SOAs. DataDirect Technologies is an independent operating company of Progress Software.