Business Integration Applications

Business Integration Applications Offer Key to Competitiveness

Enterprises today must constantly strive to find new ways to compete. As the marketplace grows increasingly global and the pace of business accelerates daily, having a solid technology infrastructure is imperative to be successful. Key to developing this infrastructure is the integration of diverse applications that are critical to enterprise agility. As market conditions change, enterprises must be able to move in new directions quickly. A flexible, robust infrastructure can make this possible. In pursuit of this goal, many enterprises have deployed business integration applications to address significant challenges in their IT or SOA architecture. They find that, after years of evolving and adapting their infrastructure with purpose-built systems, their architectures are accidental, making change difficult. Decades-old technology may be combined with new systems, connected in a point-to-point fashion, restricting important information resources to only a few users. With superior business integration applications, enterprises can unlock these resources. That's precisely why more enterprises are choosing Progress Software.

Progress OpenEdge Delivers Integration of Business Applications

Progress® OpenEdge®, a leading platform for developing, deploying and managing business applications, provides robust functionality for integrating technology resources. OpenEdge is built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and supports the deployment of service oriented business applications. An SOA environment simplifies integration by reconfiguring disparate technological resources as standards-based modular services, which can be combined and reused to meet new business requirements. By extending these service-oriented applications to users throughout the enterprise, OpenEdge also helps enterprises to expand the scope of SOA integration, reduce costs and significantly improve agility in combination with other leading business integration applications from Progress.

Innovative Applications for Integration of Critical Business Systems in an SOA

Progress SOA infrastructure for integrating business applications in an SOA includes the Sonic ESB Product Family and DataXtend SI:

Progress® Sonic ESB®, the world's first enterprise service bus, is built from the ground up for SOA. It simplifies the integration of business applications and flexible reuse of services in large, physically distributed deployments. It includes a fast, reliable, and fault-tolerant, messaging-based communications backbone and intelligent routing of services and processes for end-to-end control of event flow. Sonic ESB comes with the Eclipse-based Progress® Sonic Workbench™ for rapidly configuring, debugging, and deploying services and processes.

Also available is the Progress® Sonic™ BPEL Server™. This enables service composition and event correlation to orchestrate complex business applications across heterogeneous computing resources—with minimal programming.
Progress® DataXtend™ Semantic Integrator (SI) ensures semantic data integration across diverse data sources and services in an SOA. With DataXtend SI, companies create and map all data sources and services to a common model. Then at runtime, DataXtend SI automatically transforms and validates data exchanges. This integration ensures the accuracy not only of the format, but of the business meaning of the data in SOA business applications.

Progress technology helps enterprises to achieve the flexibility and agility necessary to compete in a global marketplace by delivering the tools to cost-effectively manage all aspects of SOA integration. With Progress, enterprises can make better use of existing solutions, adopt new applications with ease and respond rapidly to changing business requirements. By reducing costs and speeding development of critical applications, our innovative product line enables the enterprise to maintain competitiveness, maximize opportunities and protect investments.

In addition to SOA solutions, Progress Software also delivers webclient solutions, enterprise application integration solutions, business process management, and a robust software development tool with a development environment that serves as a superior alternative to VB development.

Business Integration Applications