Enterprise Information Integration

Competitive Enterprises Focus on Information Integration

The integration of information assets within today's enterprise is one of the key requirements for competing in the global marketplace. Typically, organizations have developed disparate applications and systems over time, each have containing large volumes of data. Each new piece of this technology puzzle may not necessarily connect well or interact with the legacy systems that have been deployed in the past, creating a hybrid infrastructure vulnerable to data logjams and too often requiring inefficient, manual workarounds and remediation. The goal of enterprise information integration is to make data, business applications and systems available to all employees across a distributed network, thereby leveraging the organization's investments in technology, and allowing the company to better use information to compete. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is today's preferred approach to the integration of enterprise information. SOA aims to re-configure nearly any application or system as a service so that it can be accessed from any point on the network. For any organization building a service-oriented architecture to improve enterprise information integration, Progress Software offers the leading products that enable this technology.

Progress Software Provides Enterprise Information Integration Solutions

Progress Software is the pioneering inventor of the enterprise service bus (ESB), an SOA infrastructure that simplifies the integration of information and applications within the enterprise. By allowing organizations to reuse business components in a flexible, standards-based SOA, Progress® Sonic ESB® allows organizations to easily and reliably configure the connection, mediation and interactions of all services within the architecture. With Sonic ESB, it's simple to deploy projects, scale them, and enable them to evolve without needing to disrupt the system for reprogramming.

Enterprise Information Integration Made Simpler with Sonic ESB

Sonic ESB improves enterprise information integration by simplifying the three critical tasks involved in managing a integrated infrastructure. First, ESB makes it easier to connect new applications with web services and older technology. Second, ESB allows organizations to more easily mediate those connections; incompatible protocols, interaction patterns and data formats can be reconciled, and the hard-coded service dependencies between applications can be eliminated, making it simpler to combine and extend existing resources to meet new challenges. And third, control of a services oriented architecture is easier with Sonic ESB – services can be quickly deployed across a distributed environment and changes can be configured remotely.

Embrace the Value of Enterprise Information Integration with Smart SOA Infrastructure

Progress products are built with your need for integration and interoperability in mind, and provide the foundation for managing loosely coupled business processes so the processes can seamlessly bridge computing, organizational, geographic, and semantic boundaries. With our SOA Portfolio products, you can deploy a practical SOA that can scale over time with the growth of your business.

• Enterprise Service Bus
  Progress® Sonic ESB® provides flexible integration and re-use of business applications within an SOA. It connects, mediates and orchestrates services wherever they are deployed. Sonic ESB eliminates brittle point-to-point integration and provides a robust, event-driven architecture that can evolve, scale and extend throughout the enterprise.
• Enterprise Messaging
  Progress® SonicMQ® is a standards-based enterprise messaging system that delivers the industry’s highest levels of performance, reliability and availability.
• SOA Management
  Progress® Actional® SOA Management provides end-to-end visibility and control across a distributed, multi-vendor SOA environment.
• Business Process Management (BPM)
  Go beyond ordinary business process management (BPM) with Progress® Savvion and rapidly create and optimize process-driven solutions and efficiently manage daily work with real-time visibility into business processes.
• Data Interoperability
  Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator (SI) simplifies the creation, maintenance and governance of common-model based data services in an SOA. It ensures semantic consistency across the multiple, complex, and ever-changing data models in a service-oriented architecture.
• Mainframe Integration
  Progress® DataDirect Shadow is a comprehensive mainframe modernization toolset, eliminating the complexity and enhancing the performance of mainframe integration within more modern SOA initiatives.  Shadow streamlines connectivity to mainframe relational and non-relational databases such as Adabas, IMS DB, and VSAM.
• Complex Event Processing
  Progress® Apama® monitors fast-moving events, detects patterns, and takes action — all within milliseconds. Apama's integrated dashboards provide business insight based on changing operational data in an event-driven SOA.
• Registry/Repository
  Progress partners with best-in-class SOA registry / repository vendors. Sonic ESB integrates with standards-based SOA registries to locate and invoke Web services. SOA registries leverage Actional for lifecycle SOA management, augmenting registry service metadata with Actional's runtime data on service usage, performance, and interdependencies.
  
  

In addition to enterprise integration, Progress Software products and solutions also address QoS management, complex event processing, enterprise messaging and support for JMS.