Actional Resources
Progress® Actional® is the leader in delivering management products and solutions for today's interconnected applications - including service-oriented architecture (SOA). Learn more about SOA and business transaction management technologies by reading through our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts and other helpful learning resources.
Don't Let Your SLAs Get Lost in the Cloud
Service-level agreements (SLAs) are crucial any time a business service provider (BSP) provides an application or service to a client via the cloud. In this survey, 76% of respondents report that SLAs are critical to winning new business. Yet, 84% are unable always to meet their SLAs.
Actional Architecture: Core Operational Management
The Actional architecture enables end-to-end transaction monitoring and alerting as well as fast root cause analysis—with cost-effective scalability and high performance. This paper presents a detailed description of the unique technology that makes these and other key characteristics possible.
Agile Load Checking for SOA Quality
Uncover SOA performance problems early in development. This white paper clears up misconceptions about early load testing, and offers practical advice on how to incorporate early load testing on your SOA projects.
Application Portfolio Assessment Guide: Are Your Business-critical Applications at Risk?
This Assessment Guide helps you to create a high-level overview for each business-critical application, detailing the context of the application, highlighting risk factors and overall effectiveness of each application. This assessment, in turn, will provide a foundation for further investigation and actions to optimize the outcomes of your business-critical transactions and mitigate risk.
Business Process Visibility: Aligning IT and Business Goals
As distributed, interconnected applications of all kinds grow in popularity, there is a need for line-of-business owners to collaborate more effectively with IT departments to align their implementations with business goals. The problem is the lack of visibility into, and data on, what exactly is going on in the real-time services network from a business point of view. This white paper discusses this problem and the unique solution from Actional that enables organizations to realize the full business potential of distributed, interconnected applications that are essential to critical business operations and lines of revenues.
Managing Business-Critical Applications: A Guide to Finding the Right Software
The right software for managing critical applications can actually optimize your business results. Consider this... your critical applications are those that are vital to increasing revenue or productivity. In other words, they execute your key business transactions and are key business assets that support revenue generation, productivity, and customer satisfaction. Read this buyers' guide and learn how to choose the right management software for your critical applications.
Operational Excellence for Distributed, Interconnected Applications
Modern distributed, interconnected applications provide a new level of agility to businesses and IT. In these applications, the software for a business process is composed of "services," components consisting of discrete business functionality that can be recombined and reused in different business processes, enabling rapid business change. This white paper examines the challenges of, and solutions for, effectively managing their operations.
Team Collaboration in Development
This paper examines the challenges and importance of team collaboration during all phases of development, testing, and deploying Web services and service-oriented initiatives. It also explores how individuals in different roles can share critical information and work together by using Progress® Actional® Application Development.
The Foundation for SOA Quality
What does SOA quality really mean? This white paper not only answers that question but it also examines the many facets of SOA quality. Learn how you can ensure that your service-based initiative, such as Web 2.0, cloud computing, and BPM, can deliver the visibility and operational responsiveness that your enterprise demands.
Why Runtime Governance Is Critical for Service-based Applications
With the increasing deployment of SOA infrastructure and other distributed, interconnected, service-based applications in organizations, IT professionals are discovering the importance of being able to take control of the runtime environment. Many service-based implementations are just not working in production as designed or expected. This white paper explains why runtime governance is essential for modern, distributed, interconnected applications and what problems it solves.
Customer Transaction Management, Gaining Visibility, Control and Reliability
If you don’t have real-time visibility across all of your business transactions, how will you respond to failures or interruptions? Start getting the level of visibility you need to optimize business processes and give your customers the service they deserve. Watch this Bank Systems & Technology-moderated webcast to learn more.
Mainframes Made Visible in Banking
Listen to this archived webinar and find out how banks are adopting solutions to gain the visibility into legacy systems in order to address the regulatory issues and market dynamics that are demanding greater transparency into all banking transactions. This webinar is moderated by Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Director Greg MacSweeney
Maximize Your OpenEdge Application Investment with Actional
Are you ready to achieve new levels of visibility and management control? If so, then view this archived webinar and see how the latest release of OpenEdge is integrated with Actional. Bring these two technologies together will give you unprecedented visibility and transaction management capabilities that go above and beyond your existing OpenEdge applications.
Reduce Order Fallout and Keep Profit in your Pocket
Has multi-play service delivery increased your IT complexity and accelerated order fallout? Multi-play service delivery, evolving products and services, and ongoing customer churn have increased order fallout exponentially for many service providers. Industry analysts have stated that more than 25% of consumer orders are lost, stalled, or inaccurate. For enterprise customers, rates can be even higher. This not only results in lost revenue and increased operational costs, it diminishes the customer experience and pushes customers to your competition.
SOA At The Edge Of The Enterprise
In the real world if you break a window, a door doesn’t fall down. But in the IT world, small changes in data or policy can have a big impact on the success of SOA. Listen as Hub Vandervoort tells us how advanced service-oriented architecture (SOA) toolsets in 2012 empower multiple dimensions (of) integration – service mediation, data semantics, policy and governance – to enable business agility and asymmetric change across extended internal and external SOA environments. This presentation was given at the February 2012 IDN SOA Summit.
You’ve Got an ESB. Now… Don’t Get Lost in Transactions
Sure, your ESB has done a great job of integrating your SOA environment, but an ESB can introduce new management complexities. Watch and learn how you can gain complete end-to-end visibility of your heterogeneous environment, and pinpoint the root cause of any problems that arise.
Understanding the TEI of Progress Actional
Interested in how a company achieved a 208% ROI with a payback period of less than 12 months?
Replay this webinar to hear featured guest Randy Heffner, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, detail the total economic impact (TEI) of Actional using in-depth interviews with Actional customers.
SOA Security and Compliance: How to Avoid the Risks
If your business has substantial security or regulatory compliance requirements, chances are you have concerns about enforcing appropriate measures, while keeping overhead and costs to a minimum. Ensuring security and compliance won’t bring in additional revenue, but failure to enforce such measures can result in substantial risk and cost. Join Progress Actional for this webinar and learn how a decoupled approach to service development and centralized security management can help you manage the risk across your enterprise SOA.
The Risks, Strategies and PayOff: SOA Runtime Governance
Cut through all of the confusion around SOA governance to learn the ins-and-outs of the two key aspects of SOA runtime governance: visibility and policy enforcement. Hear the challenges and strategies for addressing them. By learning how SOA runtime governance can directly impact your business, you will have the key information needed to build a business case to justify the investment in SOA solutions.
Visibility and Tracking for Critical Applications
Optimize application performance and increase revenue. Whether you have one or 500 web services, learn why Web Service and SOA Management is becoming "required insurance" for any enterprise that has mission critical applications that rely on these services. Hear first hand how customers are using Web Service and SOA Management to stay two steps ahead of the competition.
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Beyond SOAHow do you move beyond the limitations of first generation SOA to enable truly responsive business integration? This report by Bloor Research explains how you can add plug-and play architectural enhancements to SOA and dramatically improve business performance and make your job a whole lot easier. |
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Competitive Analysis: Application Performance Management and Business Transaction MonitoringIn this application performance management (APM)-business transaction management (BTM) report, Forrester Research, Inc. details a reference model it has developed of what makes an ideal APM solution today – and that solution includes BTM technology. You'll also learn how the APM and BTM solutions from Progress Software stack up against the competition. |
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Forrester Wave for Integrated SOA GovernanceForrester Research, Inc. recently evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top integrated service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance vendors, and Progress came out on top. Get this important analyst report. |
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Gartner MQ for SOA Governance 2011With Actional, companies can assure business transaction success as they execute within a governed architecture that’s optimized for business outcomes while keeping their SOAs secure and compliant. Is it any wonder why Progress Software is positioned as an SOA Governance Technologies leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant? Read the report today! |
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Forrester Wave for SOA Management 2011Get a detailed review of SOA providers from the Forrester Research analyst report. The report evaluates the product strategy, current product offering and overall market presence of SOA Management providers. Forrester recognizes Progress Actional as an industry leader in the SOA marketplace. |
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OVUM Technology Audit of ActionalThis OVUM technology audit details the key strengths of Actional, including transaction tracking against SLAs, automatic generation of a detailed topology of your application environment, and support for in-depth root cause analysis. |
Actional Enterprise Data Sheet
Learn how Actional Enterprise manages interconnected applications from development through application support to achieve business transaction assurance and optimize business outcomes.
Business Transaction Assurance
Never lose a transaction! Read this data sheet ensure the success of every transaction with end-to-end visibility into your enterprise operations.
Actional Application Development
Fix quality and validation issues in your SOA and service based applications before production.
Progress Customer Transaction Management for Mainframe Visibility
Within the banking industry, mainframe applications account for the majority of business-critical transactions. Read this 5-page data sheet and learn how Progress® Actional® enables banks to see what’s going on across all transactions
within the bank’s environment, take action on events and opportunities, and improve processes through a unified, interactive environment—all in real-time
Actional for Multi-platform Insurers
One of the key challenges faced by many insurance companies today is how to ensure the integrity of key business transactions. This 5-page data sheet explains how we have expanded the capabilities of Progress® Actional® to provide insurance customers with end-to-end visibility into the mainframe environment and its distributed applications as well.
Actional on the Mainframe
Within the banking industry, mainframe applications account for the majority
of business-critical transactions. Read how Business Transaction Assurance (BTA) and visibility can help you overcome the challenges for the mainframe.
Actional for Sonic ESB Management
Enhance ESB management to ensure reliable operations across your entire service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Actional Deployment Optimization Workpackage
The Progress Consulting Methodology (PCM) is the collection of processes, intellectual property (IP), and tools used by Progress Professional Services to ensure we efficiently complete your project. Read this data sheet to learn how to make repeatable
performance improvements as needs change, ensure Actional deployment success
for all stakeholders, and maximize the ROI for your Actional deployment.
Optimizing OpenEdge Applications with Actional Management
Get a closer look at how Actional monitors a wide variety of technologies and systems including OpenEdge and proactively manages end-to-end operations—to ensure transaction success and optimize business outcomes.
Progress Sonic SLA Support Solution
Reducing systems fallout by even 1% can save your company lots of money. Learn more!
