Application Integration

Application Integration is Critical to Enterprise Competitiveness

The ability to integrate applications to support business needs is an absolute competitive differentiator in the today's technology-driven economy. The interconnectedness of the global marketplace is driving organizations of every size to interact with each and exchange data with increasing volume and speed. Application integration strategies strive to make this possible. Yet the average company is built on a technological infrastructure that is a hybrid of old and new enterprise software, often comprised of inefficient point-to-point connections and proprietary islands of information. Disparate approaches to solving this integration challenge result in greater difficulty and cost as organizations continue to evolve. Perhaps the most promising solution to enterprise application integration is the service oriented architecture. And for enterprises everywhere seeking the infrastructure to support such an approach, Progress Software offers the leading solutions.

Successful Application Integration Will Help Your Business Achieve Operational Responsiveness

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 decisions, 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 integration architecture whose key elements provide services, information, and business 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 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.

Progress RPM easily integrates with your existing IT systems and applications, providing you a flexible, high performance event driven business process management solution without disrupting your existing infrastructure.

Superior Tools for Application Integration 

An operationally responsive enterprise needs comprehensive and dynamic integration infrastructure software capable of keeping pace with changing market conditions, operational requirements, and business demands. That’s what businesses can achieve by connecting their people, processes, and systems with the following Progress solutions for business application integration:

• Progress® Sonic® ESB, the original and leading enterprise service bus, incorporates multiple sites or management domains within a distributed SOA and provides reliable zero-downtime integration through its patented Continuous Availability Architecture™ (CAA).
  
  
• Progress® SonicMQ® is the industry’s most robust and resilient standards-based enterprise messaging system.
  
  

Progress also delivers solutions for the SOA architect, for software architecture and solutions architecture, for service oriented development, and a programming language called Progress 4GL, a robust alternative to VB development.

You may also want to learn more about how the Progress has raised the bar for intelligent BPM solutions, and about how our solutions can help with specific business challenges such as schedule disruption management or bank fraud detection.