Great American Insurance Group Selects Sonic and Actional for Strategic SOA Infrastructure
Sonic ESB(R) 7.0 and Actional(R) 6.0 Provide Foundation for Agile, Service-Oriented Architecture-based Underwriters Desktop Application
BEDFORD, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE)
05-Jun-2006
Sonic Software, an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), today announced that Great American Insurance Group has selected Sonic and Actional(R) products for its strategic service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software. Sonic ESB(R) 7.0 provides Great American Insurance with an enterprise service bus (ESB) as its SOA-based integration backbone, connecting and orchestrating service components across Great American Insurance's technology environment. Actional 6.0 provides advanced SOA and web services management, runtime governance and business process visibility (BPV), allowing Great American Insurance to view, manage and enforce both business and IT policy from a business process-centric perspective.
Great American Insurance will deploy the Sonic and Actional products to realize its SOA strategy, enabling Great American Insurance to more effectively connect, reuse, monitor and manage common business services across its various insurance products. As a result, Great American can lower IT costs and more quickly respond to the needs of the business.
"In our business, the ability to respond quickly and cost effectively to new market opportunities is very important. An SOA implementation built on Sonic and Actional will allow us to be more competitive," said Piyush Singh, senior vice president and chief information officer of Great American Insurance Group. "As an enterprise with a wide range of infrastructure, the fact that the Sonic and Actional products are not tied down to any one application platform or technology is critical for us. In our technical evaluation, Sonic and Actional proved to be the most reliable and scalable."
"Great American Insurance is a powerful demonstration of the value that Sonic and Actional deliver," said Dan Foody, CTO of Sonic and Actional products at Progress Software. "Great American's assessment proved that Sonic delivered both superior SOA software infrastructure products and a set of best practices and methodology developed over years of collective in-field SOA engagement experience. The demand for our joint solution, with Sonic ESB and Actional SOA management is becoming evident in the market. At Great American we will help them realize their migration to SOA to better support their business objectives in the highly competitive insurance industry."
About Great American Insurance
Great American Insurance Group, based in Cincinnati, OH, is primarily engaged in the sale of specialty commercial products for businesses, and annuities and supplemental health insurance products. The Group's property and casualty insurance operations are led by its flagship company Great American Insurance Company, founded in 1872. Great American's parent corporation, American Financial Group, Inc., also based in Cincinnati, OH, is publicly-owned and listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq (AFG).
About Sonic Software
Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), a new communication and integration infrastructure that supports the enterprise requirements of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic's technology delivers the scalability, security, continuous availability and management capabilities necessary to connect, integrate and control distributed, mission critical business processes. Over 1,000 customers use Sonic products to achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to ever-changing business needs.
Sonic Software is an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a global software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at http://www.sonicsoftware.com, or by phone at +1-781-999-7000 or 1-866-GET-SONIC.
Information about Actional products are available on the Web at www.actional.com.
Sonic ESB and Actional are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE: Progress Software Corporation
