DataXtend Resources
Governance Led Practices to Deliver Effective Semantic Integration
In this Everware-CBDI SOA Best Practice Report, you'll learn how to take a practical approach that facilitates short-term business delivery projects in a coordinated manner that progressively delivers enterprise level semantic integration, keeping costs and time to a minimum. This paper clearly articulates a governance-led approach that can be translated into concrete actions that facilitate and not impede delivery your projects.
ACORD Framework
Because insurers must keep up with the changing expectations of their customers, the ACORD Framework helps unite, align, and link the insurance industry to do that through improved integration, interoperability, and communication. Read this paper and discover new ways that insurers can collaborate with agents/brokers and other members of the insurance ecosystem to deliver a better customer experience.
Gartner: Data Consistency and SOA
Download this Gartner report: With industry leading technologies in SOA (Sonic ESB) and data services (DataXtend Semantic Integrator), Progress Software has the responsive integration technologies to ensure data consistency within SOA with reduced complexity and lower TCO.
Data Integration: Defining the Common Model
Network transformation and process agility are telecoms industry imperatives. Read this article and learn how a common data model architecture greatly facilitates data translation, data aggregation, rule execution, and other features required for data interoperability.
XSDs Are Not Enough
The whitepaper, XSDs Are Not Enough: Leveraging Telco's Abstract SID Information Model for an SOA, discusses the state of TM Forum's Shared/Information (SID) model, and the need to modify, extend, and update it.
Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA - Survey Results
Progress Software released the results of a study it commissioned with Forrester Consulting revealing data integration efforts are increasing across most major industries as a result of the demand for real-time globally accessible data. According to findings, IT professionals are severely challenged in keeping pace – still mired in manual processes and ad hoc fixes. SOA is growing quickly and the survey results identified SOAs as the emerging solution across enterprises to achieve successful end-to-end data management and integration results.
Application Integration Using the SID: A Practical Approach for Project Scoping and Design in Five Steps
Before your next implementation project, learn more about the challenges of scoping and design. Discover the five key steps to insure that you can overcome the challenges and end up with a complete architecture for integration. This white paper is based on a more detailed account in the book "Application Integration Using the SID" by John Reilly and John Wilmes and it addresses two high level issues that you will encounter during development and production.
Architecture & Specification of Information Services with DataXtend SI
Read the SOA Best Practice Report by David Sprott. This report describes the Everware-CBDII framework in context with information services and explains how it can be implemented in the DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI). Learn how you can overcome some of the typical issues of poor SOA implementations.
Checklist for Evaluators of Data Replication Solutions
A guide intended for organizations who have committed to developing a distributed application environment and are evaluating various database synchronization solutions.
Common Information Modeling in a SOA Environment
This Stratecast report explains how telecommunication providers can overcoming the obstacle to rapid OSS/BSS integration. It explores in depth the Common Information Model (CIM) approach to data exchanges between systems, and as Stratecast sees it, the mismatch between data models in diverse OSS/BSS systems is the real reason that integration has been so difficult and the benefits of SOA so hard to achieve.
Common Information Modeling in a SOA Environment
This Stratecast report explains how telecommunication providers can overcoming the obstacle to rapid OSS/BSS integration. It explores in depth the Common Information Model (CIM) approach to data exchanges between systems, and as Stratecast sees it, the mismatch between data models in diverse OSS/BSS systems is the real reason that integration has been so difficult and the benefits of SOA so hard to achieve.
Common Models in SOA: Tackling the Data Integration Problem
Creating an SOA without a data integration strategy to address semantic challenges will limit an SOA project at best, and doom it to failure at worst. Creating a common model ensures that all the information passed between the various systems and services within the SOA is consistent. This approach can significantly reduce SOA project timescales, lower development costs and avoid problems associated with poor data quality. This paper, written by Dave Hollander, Mile High XML, presents ideas on how you can tackle the data integration problem head on.
Distribute Your Applications and Mobilize Your Data
This white paper presents some ideas and thoughts on how companies, and government, can distribute and synchronize your data across multiple locations, even while you are on the move.
Scaling SOA through EAI Enhancement
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) increases business agility by providing loose coupling of systems, standards-based technologies, improved vendor interoperability through the use of standards, and highly reusable service interfaces. Get this whitepaper and read how to scale (or build) an SOA while improving productivity, reducing manual governance, and optimizing performance.
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.
Using the SID in OSS/BSS Integration
The whitepaper, Using the SID in OSS/BSS Integration, capitalizes on established integration expertise and talks about how users of the SID can improve productivity, reduce costs, and shorten the time to market for new services.
A "New Economy" Approach to Event Driven Integration
Prioritize business ROI with SOA, BPM and events. In this 20 minute videocast hosted by Integration Developer News, you’ll find the key to aligning SOA to business priorities. During this videocast Hub Vandervoort, CTO – Americas, at Progress Software, discusses how IT architects can shorten time to value of BPM, how you can leverage SOA for new levels of process optimization, and how to connect federated functions of the business to increase potential for process optimization.
ACORD Information Model and Progress DataXtend: Profitable Insurance Operations through a Common View of Data
Increasing expectations and demands from more informed customers are forcing insurers to re-align their business processes to deliver true end-to-end experiences across the ecosystem. Learn about solutions that can provide insurers with the insights and controls they need to drive their business.
The Data and SOA Collision – Is Your Organization Ready?
This webinar provides ‘a day in the life of a developer’ format to explain how SOA creates data integration complexities that are often magnified by reconciling differences between applications and services with hand-coded point-to-point mappings.
Data Services Insight: Successful Implementation of Canonical Information Models
In this Webinar, Mike Gilpin from Forrester Research will present Forrester’s latest research, including new case studies that reveal how these models can contribute to greater success with your data services strategy. Conrad Chuang will describe the challenges of using a common model and how Progress Software customers have realized the benefits of a common model.
Application Integration White Board Session with David Millman
Listen and watch as David Millman, Principal Architect, from the Office of the CTO, presents an interactive white boarding session that will help arm you with information you can use as you plan and build out your integrated infrastructure. During this informative presentation, David outlines some of the integration problems that may be ignored, techniques for dissecting your integration challenges, plus strategies and tactics employed by our most successful clients.
Addressing Service Management Needs in Space and Satellite Communication
TM Forum's Government and Defense Initiative, a community of defense service providers, integrators and suppliers are focused on the use of multi-national space-based networks in communications for defense operations. The Catalyst project is focused on using TM Forum Solution Frameworks to standardize support for Network-Centric Operations (NCO) which emphasize the role of networked communications in enabling cooperating forces to share information and situational awareness. Listen to this webinar andl hear how the Solution Frameworks can enable collaboration between decentralized forces and improve their effectiveness in missions. Joining John Wilmes during this presentation is Christy Coffey, Sector Head for Government and Defense, TM Forum.
Integration Infrastructure: More Than Meets the Eye
What happens when poor application integration decisions are made? As you know, various aspects of integration infrastructure are all connected but when you choose to address one aspect and ignore another, you make trade-offs that may not be immediately apparent. Listen to an archived webinar presented by Hub Vandervoort and get some thoughts on how you can make better decisions that will ensure your integration success.
Putting the Information Framework (SID) to Work for You
In combination with architecture, applications and process, information is one of the four pillars of the TM Forum Solution Frameworks (NGOSS). Listen as presenters provide examples from communication service providers who have achieved success in a range of projects -- from large transformation to simple application replacement -- using the Information Framework (SID). You will learn about the Information Framework from overview to implementation, including how it is structured, its relationship with other Solution Frameworks, and how to extend this information model to best meet your unique needs.
Introducing the DataXtend SID Model Browser
This webinar provides an overview and tutorial of the major features of the SID Model Browser, including a live demo of the software. You will learn how to explore the domains and classes of the SID, understand the SID model hierarchy, search the SID model, and generate HTML reports in support of OSS/BSS integration projects that are using the SID.
Reliable Data Replication for Your Mobile Workforce
Hear how Cole Systems, a leading system integration firm, enabled the distributed field sales force of the Indiana Lottery to manage the entire sales process from a single mobile device - driving increased customer employees satisfaction and substantial revenue growth. This webcast focuses on how effective data synchronization will enable your mobile employees to obtain up-to-date information from headquarters, therefore, able to make smarter decisions and increase sales.
Model Driven Integration
This webinar discusses the importance of Model Driven Integration (MDI) and how it can be applied to solve critical data management challenges at various levels of enterprise infrastructure.
Disconnected Doesn't Have to Mean Out of Sync
This webcast illustrates how DataXtend RE enables retail establishments to share sales activities with headquarters, and provide better point-of-sale experiences at their connected stores. The webcast focuses on problems developers face when developing and deploying an application on the edge of the enterprise, solutions to help deal with problems, and how Synchronics used DataXtend RE to solve similiar problems for Lego Group.
An Introduction to DataXtend CE
Listen to an overview and tutorial covering the major features of the DataXtend CE. This is a key resource for anyone evaluating DataXtend CE.
Automating NGOSS: Building NGOSS-based SOA Solutions Using NGOSS Software Tools
Get an overview on two of the key NGOSS elements, the Enhanced Telecom Operations Map® (eTOM) and the Shared Information and Data (SID) Model. Learn how they relate to each other and why they are important in building easy to integrate, standards-based and SOA-based OSS/BSS solutions. In addition, you will hear how NGOSS software from IBM and Progress Software are being used by service providers today in the transformation of legacy OSS to NGOSS-based SOA environments.
Paving the Way to Smart Grid Modernization
Learn about a unique, standards-based reference architecture from Progress that uses a product integration bus to simplify technology deployment and upgrades. The technology, integration and domain expertise of Progress also enables them to share insight about:
- Market and regulatory conditions
- The readiness of legacy applications to support real-time smart metering data
- The cost and difficulties of integrating disparate utilities systems
- Steps for moving to a smart grid-compatible environment, cost-effectively and non-intrusively
Common Models Being Used TodayPresented By Ken Rugg A 5 minute podcast that discusses what common models are being used today, how they fit in, and how Progress’ is helping you realize the value of deploying a common model within your enterprise application infrastructure. For example, one common model being deployed today is TM Forum’s Shared Information/Data (SID) model. By using the SID model, telecommunication companies are reducing costs because they can deploy new services faster and maintain semantic consistency across different services and systems. |
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Data Integration in SOAPresented By Ken Rugg As we talk to customers and prospects who are beginning to plan or enhance their SOA, we've realized that data is often overlooked in the development of a SOA infrastructure. Some SOA technologists refer to it as the "day 2" problem. Why? Well, we think it might be because application and data architects may have difficulty making informed architectural decisions about it. Listen and hear about the importance of data integration in SOA, why people may forget to plan for it, and some concepts related to smart data mediation. |
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Data Interoperability to Fulfill the Promise of SOAPresented By John Wilmes , Martin Creaner SOA relies on standards. To fulfill the promise of SOA, you need data interoperability. It stands to reason then that there need to be standards for data interoperability. Listen as presenters share the good news that the standards are here, and they're ready for prime time. |
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Integration TaxPresented By Ken Rugg When we talk about data interoperability, many people ask, "What is an Integration Tax?" Well some technologists refer to the cost associated with bringing systems together as an integration tax. Progress Software believes that by deploying a common information model that will mediate data transfers and ensure data consistency across legacy, and new, systems, the enterprise will reduce their integration tax. Learn more... |
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Metadata in Data IntegrationPresented By Ken Rugg When we refer to "meta data" when talking about data interoperability, we are talking about data that describe or accompany other data. DataXtend SI uses metadata at design time to describe components of the exchange model. This podcast presents how metadata is used at runtime to configure and manage the operation of data services. |
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The Value of Standards in TelecommunicationsPresented By John Wilmes Reap the benefits of standards when building a common model for your SOA infrastructure or enterprise. Listen to this podcast and hear how you can leverage the knowledge a group of industry experts instead of starting from scratch. You will also hear how Progress DataXtend SI can help extend the model you are working with. |
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What is a Common Model?Presented By Ken Rugg This podcast explains what a common information (or data) model is and how a common model it fits into SOA infrastructure. By adopting common data model architectures and ensuring data interoperability across enterprise systems, companies can avoid challenging, costly and inefficient new service deployments and at the same time maximize the potential of SOA. |
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DataXtend SI
This data sheet explains how you can overcome the limitations of SOA with precise data semantics - Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator (SI).
What’s New in Sonic ESB and DataXtend 8.5
The concurrent release of version 8.5 Sonic ESB and DataXtend SI offers a more comprehensive and seamless—yet modular—integration solution that addresses the fundamental limitations of SOA with advanced integration functionalities. Read this data sheet to learn more about the advanced integration tools you need to more quickly respond to rapid business change.
Progress OSS/BSS Integration Using the SID
Learn how you can use standards-based, best practices through the TM Forum Information Framework (the SID) to provide scalable, maintainable data interoperability across the OSS/BSS integration lifecycle.
RBI Brochure
Operational performance means enabling application design for continuous optimization and change. This brochure provides an in-depth description of the features and benefits of the Progress® Responsive Business Integration (RBI) suite.
DataXtend CE Product Family
The data sheet for Progress DataXtend CE (Caching Engine) product family
Application Integration Using the SIDThis book provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on scoping, analyzing and designing OSS/BSS integration projects that leverage NGOSS (New Generation Operations Systems and Software) frameworks and integration tools for data interoperability. Written by TM Forum's Sr. Technical Program Manager, John Reilly, and co-author John Wilmes, Progress Software, this book is the third in a series that describes how to adopt and apply the TM Forum's NGOSS program. This book is a companion to the previously released Getting Started Using the SID: A SID Modeler's Guide. You can purchase the book on Amazon.com. |
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Getting Started Using the SIDTo help you learn your way around the SID, this book, by John P. Reilly, a Sr. Technical Program Manager with the TeleManagement Forum, is the second in a series of books that describe how to adopt and apply the TM Forum's NGOSS program. Getting Started with the SID explains how to take all or part of the SID as-is and refine and extend it based on your organization's information requirements. It teaches you the importance of SID modeling patterns and how to apply them, and provides exemplary guidance on how to transform the SID information model into the SID data model. You can purchase the book from TM Forum. |
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IBM RedbookThe IBM Redbook: Implementing Technology to Support SOA Governance and Management discusses implementing NGOSS-based SOA solutions—such as DataXtend SI—for OSS/BSS transformation and tangible benefits. Read the Executive Overview, or download the complete IBM Redbook today. |
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SOA: Socially Oriented ArchitectureTechnical Opportunities, Social Challenges. In this E-book, Hub will make you rethink the centralized, top-down approach to SOA governance and develop a consensual form of governance that supports a socially oriented architecture. This E-book presents ideas on how to create federated communities among diverse SOA participants for richer, more dynamic user experiences. |
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