Business Application Integration

Application Integration Is Crucial to Business Success

As the world of business moves at ever-increasing speed, IT is expected to deliver tools that enable the company to move more quickly and achieve operational responsiveness.  Technology integration is the foundation. Yet too many enterprises are stuck with unwieldy infrastructures that stymie business application integration. These architectures have been developed more by accident than design as software and services were added incrementally to solve specific  problems. Even with the implementation of service-oriented architecture (SOA), they are integrated point-to-point, resulting in brittle connections that are time-consuming to re-do for each systems change.  To truly compete on a global level, enterprises must adopt a powerful and flexible solution for business application integration.  That’s why many companies are turning to Progress Software.

Business Application Integration—Start with a Business Application Platform

For organizations developing suites of applications—for themselves or customers—the ability to integrate applications and services begins with the right product platform. The Progress® OpenEdge® product platform is a complete, “in-the-box” solution for developing, deploying, and managing business applications and services. Consisting of a development environment and a deployment platform, OpenEdge allows you to build your software with high-productivity development tools. OpenEdge is also a leading SaaS/Cloud development platform for creating services and applications that can run on-premise or in the cloud.  You can then run and manage your OpenEdge applications with a reliable, scalable, low overhead, multi-operating system deployment platform.

Superior Tools for Integration of Business-Critical Applications

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® Orbix® is a multi-protocol, multi-platform CORBA integration solution that bridges the gap between different operating systems and diverse languages often found in heterogeneous IT environments. Its Adaptive Runtime Technology™ (ART) allows developers to dynamically add new features and support for technology through standard CORBA services at runtime.
  
  
• Progress ® Orbacus™ is a source-available, CORBA 2.6 implementation designed for rapid development, deployment, and support of an infrastructure that matches your application and environment. Its small footprint allows it to be easily embedded into memory-constrained applications.
  
  

Build Integrated Business-critical Applications

Progress® OpenEdge® is the leading SaaS and Cloud platform for simplifying and streamlining the development, integration, and management of business applications for deployment “in the cloud.” Consisting of a development environment and a deployment platform, it allows you to build SaaS software with the OpenEdge high-productivity development tools. You can then run and manage these services or applications with the OpenEdge reliable, scalable, low overhead, multi-operating system deployment platform. 

In addition to delivering best-in-class business application integration solutions, Progress also has solutions for enterprise integration and a comprehensive Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite that delivers real-time visibility, immediate sense and respond, and continuous process optimization.