Enterprise Integration
The Core Foundation to Operational Responsiveness
The Enterprise Integration Whiteboard Series provides an in-depth look at the foundations of enterprise integration. Each part of the series will include a whiteboard video plus a technical paper that explains how Progress enterprise integration solutions work, how they compare to other vendor offerings, and what the role these solutions play in your enterprise modernization and business process management initiatives.
Operational responsiveness is the ability of businesses to respond to changing conditions as they occur, enabling leaders to capitalize on more opportunities, drive greater efficiencies, make real-time course corrections, and reduce risk. Being operationally responsive is being able to achieve the highest level of business performance. Today, the Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite offers all the capabilities businesses need to be operationally responsive and provides them in one solution. Progress calls these capabilities real-time visibility, immediate sense and respond, and continuous process improvement.
To fully benefit from RPM, you need a services and application platform architecture whose key elements provide services, information, and operational integration. The services foundation for that platform is messaging and an enterprise service bus (ESB). For effective information or data integration, you need a data services foundation for data connectivity. And to ensure that operations run reliably, you will require end-to-end transaction visibility across the heterogeneous, distributed environment. Progress offers best-of-breed enterprise integration solutions for supporting the Progress RPM suite in all of these areas.
The Enterprise Integration Whiteboard Series provides an in-depth look at these foundations. Each part of the series will include a whiteboard video plus a technical paper that explains how Progress enterprise integration solutions work, how they compare to other vendor offerings, and what the role these solutions play in your enterprise modernization and business process management initiatives.
Messaging Architecture
This paper is the first in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief examines the four basic components of the Sonic enterprise messaging system, including: brokers, acceptors, clusters, and underlying protocols. This paper will also explain how these four components provide not only robust integration, but business and IT benefits as well.
Clusters and Transparency
This paper is the second in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief focuses on administrative and functional transparency in the cluster architecture of Progress® Sonic® versus its competitors, showing why Sonic provides greater operational responsiveness at lower cost.
High Availability & Load Balancing
This paper is the third in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief examines a unique, patented technology that enables Sonic to optimize the high availability of a cluster while maintaining performance.
Dynamic Routing Architecture
This paper is the forth in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief continues the examination of the Sonic architecture, its reliability and transparency. The focus here is on the Progress® Sonic® Dynamic Routing Architecture® (DRA), its purpose and
capabilities over and above the Sonic clustering architecture as well as some
special use cases.
Transport, Location and Semantics
This paper is the fifth in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief focuses on the 7 Points of Mediation. Download this paper to learn more about the Seven Points of Mediation and the importance of each in relation to supporting a truly agile and responsive business application infrastructure.
Sequencing and Error Recovery
This paper is the sixth in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief focuses on the Sonic ESB is designed to perform sequencing and, with multiple output paths on each endpoint, enable error recovery processes that are separate from the “happy” path.
Quality of Service and Privacy
This technical brief is the seventh white paper in the Enterprise Integration Whiteboard Series. This paper provides a high-level overview of some capabilities within Sonic by itself and in association with Actional, which is largely built into the ESB infrastructure, and how those come together to create the foundation of QoS\QoP - trust and commitment - required for effective contracts on.
The Integration Model
This technical brief focuses on the seventh point of mediation, the Interaction Model. It presents the model mediation at its finest, creating loosely coupled technology as well as loosely coupled organizations that—with all seven points of mediation discussed—now can move in a more agile way than was possible with other technologies.
Semantic Integration and Data Lifecycle
Read this white paper to learn how you can get your data validated, translated, routed, and integrated with no hand-coding. By accomplishing that, you'll save time, and lower costs for development, testing, and deployment. This paper is part of our Enterprise Integration Whiteboard Series.
 
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Introduction to Whiteboard SeriesTo benefit fully from the capabilities of the Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) solution suite requires the right foundation - a services and application platform architecture whose key elements provide services, information, and operational enterprise integration. This short whiteboard presentation introduces the foundation of RPM - the basic first steps to helping you achieve operational responsiveness. |
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Messaging Architecture, Part I on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureTo benefit fully from the capabilities of the Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) solution suite requires the right foundation - a services and application platform architecture whose key elements provide services, information, and operational enterprise integration. This short whiteboard presentation explains how the foundation of a strong messaging architecture will help you achieve actionable insight into the events that affect your business day in and day out. |
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Clusters and Transparency, Part II on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureThis is the second in a series of whiteboard presentations that examine integration architecture as a foundation for operational responsiveness. In this video, Hub Vandervoort, explains how clusters and clustering are necessary for achieving three characteristics vital to distributed networks: performance, scalability, and reliability. These characteristics, in turn, are necessary for operational responsiveness. |
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High Availability & Load Balancing, Part III on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureThis is the third in a series of whiteboard presentations by Hub Vandervoort that examine integration architecture as a foundation for operational responsiveness. This video examines a unique, patented technology that enables Progress Sonic to optimize the high availability of a cluster while maintaining performance. |
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Dynamic Routing Architecture, Part IV on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureIn the fourth of our enterprise integration whiteboard series, Hub Vandervoort, introduces the Progress Sonic Dynamic Routing Architecture (DRA), its purpose, and its capabilities that above and beyond other enterprise messaging-based middleware software offerings. |
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Transport, Location and Semantics, Part V on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureWatch this video to learn more about the 7 Points of Mediation - a core consideration when building and supporting a SOA infrastructure - and the importance of each in relation to supporting a truly agile and responsive business application infrastructure. This is the fifth in a series of whiteboard presentations that examine integration architecture as a foundation for operational responsiveness. |
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Sequencing and Error Recovery, Part VI on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureThis is the sixth in a series of whiteboard presentations that examine integration architecture. Sequencing and error recovery are points 4 and 5 of the 7 Points of SOA Mediation. In the video presentation, you will see how and why you should delegate sequencing and error recovery completely away from web services, and how Sonic ESB is designed to handle your sequencing and error recovery processes. |
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Quality of Service and Privacy, Part VII on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureIn the 7th installment of our Enterprise Integration Whiteboard Series, Hub Vandervoort, talks about Quality of Service (QoS) and Privacy/Protection - the 6 point of SOA mediation. The video offers a high-level overview of the capabilities within Sonic ESB by itself, and in how its enhanced by Progress Actional. Together they create the foundation for QoS and QoP - trust and commitment. |
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The Interaction Model, Part VIII on Enterprise Integration ArchitectureThis video focuses on the seventh point of enterprise integration mediation, The Interaction Model. It is a whiteboard presentation that presents the model mediation at its finest, creating loosely coupled technology as well as loosely coupled organizations that—with all seven points of mediation discussed—now can move in a more agile way than was possible with other technologies. |
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