Actional Enterprise

Manage Interconnected Applications for Business Transaction Assurance from Pre-production to Runtime

Manage interconnected applications from development through application support to achieve business transaction assurance and optimize business outcomes. Progress® Actional® Enterprise provides operational and business visibility, root cause analysis, policy-based security and control of services in a heterogeneous environment. Actional can be used early in the lifecycle to enable pre-production teams to address service quality before runtime, and Actional's comprehensive visibility and management tools can be quickly and easily applied to production applications.

Product Overview
Key Benefits
Features
Platform Support

With the proliferation of companies investing in interconnected distributed applications, organizations are now grappling with how to manage the complexity of these applications. The need to effectively manage these applications is especially dire for business-critical applications, such as the mainframe and often-service-based applications, that require transaction success. During runtime, these transactions traverse across heterogeneous systems which may be owned by different organizations, and reside in different locations, making visibility difficult. Increasing volumes of traffic compound this complexity, leading to an increase in issues and, therefore, increased IT time and costs to resolve them. With Actional Enterprise, you gain the quality, visibility and control needed for business transaction assurance from development through application support. This is achieved with:

Quality and validation tools and workspaces enable pre-production teams to organize, collaborate, and share test assets
Automatic discovery and mapping of services across distributed systems and mainframes to effectively detect, diagnose, repair, and prevent transaction disruptions.
Business insight and runtime governance controls with policy and compliance validation.

Manage today's interconnected applications with fewer resources: no coding, minimal configuration, faster deployment, fewer issues.

Develop high-quality, service-based applications quickly, easily and cost-effectively with a collaborative pre-production platform and transaction path visualization.
Ensure fast, reliable business transactions and SLA adherence through end-to-end visibility across distributed, heterogeneous systems, including mainframes, and proactive alerting without coding.
Minimize downtime and business loss with fast root-cause analysis and issue resolution.
Improve business outcomes with multi-dimensional runtime business analytics and dynamic controls for optimizing service for high-priority customers, partners, channels.
Achieve high performance and scalability at a low total-cost-of-ownership.

Actional Enterprise's powerful tools and unique architecture make it easy to manage interconnected applications. Here are the key product features that make this lifecycle approach possible:

Quality and validation tools for pre-production teams that provide diagnostics, functional and load testing and compliance validation.
Workspaces enable pre-production teams to organize, collaborate, and share test assets.
Root-Cause Analysis with patented Flow Mapping™ technology that automatically discovers services and maps interdependencies across heterogeneous systems.
Runtime policy authoring and alerting supports single or average transaction metrics, and simple and complex policy. Flow maps and statistics are automatically created when alerts are sent due to policy violation.
Exception management to effectively detect, diagnose, repair and prevent transaction disruptions.
Business insight and runtime controls via dashboards that monitor business metrics and multiple control mechanisms that modify transaction behavior for optimized business outcome.
Design and runtime governance with policy and compliance validation during development through runtime governance with transaction monitoring, enforcement of security, compliance and business policy.

Progress® Actional® products are built for optimal integration and data interoperability with a wide range of heterogeneous infrastructure such as applications, data sources, network devices, middleware, identity management products, and registries and repositories. Actional places great importance on supporting industry standards to make this interoperability possible. Click here for a detailed list of supported platforms.

Actional Enterprise includes Actional Management Server and Actional Team Server.

Technical requirements for Actional Management Server:

Operating system(s):

Microsoft Windows
Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
HP-UX
IBM AIX
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Solaris (including the x86 series)

Browser(s):

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox

Application server(s):

BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere, JBoss Server, Oracle Application Server (OAS) 10g, Glassfish Application Server (Enterprise and Open Source)

Database(s):

Apache Derby, DB2, MSDE, OpenEdge, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

Java virtual machine:

Sun JDK, BEA Jrockit JVM

Protocols and interfaces:

Axis, Axis 2, EJB, Apache HttpClient, JDBC, JMS, RMI, Servlets (HTTP), SOAP, Spring WS

Actional agents can instrument a broad range of environments, including (but not limited to) Apache CXF, BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, BEA WebLogic Server, Glassfish Application Server, IBM WebSphere; IONA Artix, IONA Orbix, JBoss ESB, JBoss Server, Lombardi Teamworks, Microsoft Biztalk Server, Microsoft .NET Framework, Progress OpenEdge, Oracle Application Server 10g, SAP NetWeaver, SAP NetWeaver Java Application Server, SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, SAP NetWeaver ABAP, Progress Savvion BPM, Progress Sonic ESB, Progress SonicMQ, Systinet WASP/J, Tomcat, webMethods Broker Java Client API, webMethods Integration Server, webMethods Mediator, webMethods X-broker.

Actional also integrates with a variety of standards-based, third-party identity management and single sign-on (SSO) technologies including CA TransactionMinder, RSA Federated Identity Manager, and Sun Java System Identity Manager.

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Technical requirements for Actional Team Server:

General Requirements:

2 GHz processor or faster
2 GB memory (recommended)
398 MB disk space for the server
Requires Java JDK 1.6 (or higher). The Java Virtual Machine version that you use must support the -server option.
If you are using Actional Team Server with Actional Management Server, Actional Management Server must have an equal or higher version than that of Actional Team Server for the installation to work properly.

Operating System(s):