Integrated Infrastructure

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In today’s online world, the backbone of a strong integrated infrastructure is a best-in-class enterprise service bus (ESB). An ESB acts as a shared messaging layer for connecting applications and web services throughout an enterprise computing infrastructure. It supplements its core asynchronous messaging backbone with intelligent transformation and routing to ensure that messages are passed reliably. Gartner once defined an ESB as the core component in a service-oriented infrastructure (SOA). Progress® Sonic® ESB is not only the industry’s first ESB but it is also the most complete, out-of-the-box enterprise integration solution available today. With broad support for industry standards and superior management capabilities, Sonic ESB offers state-of-the-art performance across the global enterprise. 

If your business wants to break free from single-purpose applications and point-to-point integration's so that you can create loosely coupled, re-useable business services, making an ESB core to your integrated infrastructure will help you gain agility, reduce risk, and achieve 20/20 foresight.

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Once you’ve got your highly available and reliable messaging backbone (an ESB), you'll need infrastructure management and governance tools that will ensure that you never lose a transaction, achieve end-to-end visibility, and have policy enforcement. The very nature of an integrated infrastructure (or SOA) consists of many component services that can be recombined and reused, but this gives rise to potential responsiveness and management issues… not to mention business risks that include lost transactions, poor service quality, and non-compliance of regulatory and business policies. Progress® Actional® allows you to manage interconnected applications from development through runtime.  Actional provides operational and business visibility, root cause analysis, policy-based security and control of services in a heterogeneous environment.

If your business needs to effectively manage business-critical applications, invest in solutions that will deliver business transaction visibility, security, and control during runtime as well as service quality and validation in pre-production.

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Don’t forget about the data! Data is one of those tiny details that's easily forgot when you're architecting or enhancing an application infrastructure. When implementing an integrated infrastructure or SOA, developers are typically so busy worrying about how to move information that they tend to ignore whether or not it will be understood when it gets where it's going. Adopting data modeling best practices and common data models are a key enabler to making sure you get the most out of your data quality investments. Progress® DataXtend® SI solves the problem of validating common information exchanges between systems by focusing on the business integrity of data—allowing you to reconcile data inconsistencies among diverse data sources and web services in order to deliver the ROI, agility and superior customer service.

If your business is trying to deliver services more quickly and improve customer experiences with order efficiency, consider relying on industry standards and a common-model driven approach to data integration. It is a pragmatic and cost effective solution for reconciling semantic data differences and improving data quality.