Business Process Engineering

Business Process Engineering Drives Operational Responsiveness

Business process engineering is critical to achieving operational responsiveness in a constantly shifting business landscape. Business process engineering enables systems and processes to respond quickly to changing business conditions and customer interactions, giving business leaders the ability to capitalize on new opportunities. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has proven to be a highly effective solution for business process engineering. By transforming a variety of heterogeneous applications, legacy systems, and processes into standards-based modular units that can be made available to a variety of users, SOA offers an easy and powerful approach to process engineering. Deploying and maintaining SOA infrastructure, however, can be complicated and expensive, with large upfront costs and the potential for vendor lock-in. When you want a highly effective SOA infrastructure for business process engineering that is cost-efficient and easy to manage, Progress Software has the answer.

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Progress Software Delivers Operational SOA for Business Process Engineering

Progress Software is a leader in application infrastructure software for developing, deploying, integrating, and managing enterprise applications. For operational implementation of SOA infrastructure and business process engineering solutions, Progress offers the Progress® Sonic® family of products.

Progress® Sonic ESB® is a messaging-based enterprise service bus that simplifies the engineering of systems and processes by enabling the flexible re-use of existing applications. Sonic ESB also solves the operational challenges posed by other SOA solutions. By using a free, full-featured, open-source integration core, Sonic ESB requires no big upfront investments, no proprietary middleware solutions, and no centralized hubs. The result is a more flexible, affordable, and innovative deployment for greater SOA responsiveness and easier business process engineering.

Other Business Solutions for Engineering Change and Process Refinements

Progress provides a number of software suites that can aid business process engineering and optimize system responsiveness. These include:

• Progress® Actional®, a business transaction and operational assurance solution that simplifies process engineering by identifying and resolving lost, stalled, or invalid transactions.
• Progress® Apama®, a complex event processing platform that delivers a richly-featured business activity monitoring dashboard design and allows decision makers to see operational activity and work with streaming events in real time.
• Progress® DataDirect®, an application for translating data between a variety of formats to ensure that information can move seamlessly between systems and organizations.

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