Sonic Software Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Selected by BT for Managed Integration Service; Sonic Selected to Provide ESB for BT SOA Appliance Following Thorough Middleware Software Evaluation
BEDFORD, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE)
03-May-2006
Sonic Software, the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), and an operating unit of Progress Software Corp. (Nasdaq: PRGS), today announced a relationship with BT that enables BT to embed Sonic ESB(R) in their integration appliance as part of BT Integrate, a managed integration service offering supporting Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). BT announced the availability of BT Integrate last week in the UK.
"BT is one of the most trusted and respected companies in the world and we are proud to be associated with them. The innovative BT Integrate offering presents SOA as more approachable for a broad range of customers that might otherwise delay their SOA adoption," said Gordon Van Huizen, vice president of products for Sonic Software. "By choosing the Sonic ESB, BT will deliver to its customers a service built on the most reliable ESB on the market. BT also gains access to Sonic's comprehensive SOA infrastructure products as the needs of their customers evolve."
Stefan Van Overtveldt, vice president and head of practice, BT IT Transformation, said "We are delighted to be launching BT Integrate, which offers our customers greater business agility, reduces integration management complexity and is faster to deploy than alternative approaches. Over the last 12 months we have worked closely with Sonic Software to deliver a shared vision, choosing them for their functionality, high availability capabilities and line-up of SOA infrastructure products. We have developed BT Integrate in response to customer demands for scalable and affordable application integration that can be flexibly used to meet the challenges of dispersed organizations -- we believe that BT Integrate will disrupt and challenge the existing integration market."
The Sonic ESB provides the embedded integration engine for BT Integrate; supporting robust, scalable and highly reliable connections across distributed networks of computing services. With the Sonic ESB, remotely deployed services can be dynamically reconfigured on-the-fly from a single consol. Sonic Software was selected as the SOA infrastructure partner for BT following a thorough and intensive technical evaluation.
About BT
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in more than 160 Countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.
In the year ended 31 March 2005, BT Group's revenue was GBP 18,623 million with profit before taxation of GBP 2,354 million.
British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New
For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt
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.
Sonic ESB and Sonic Software (and design) are registered trademarks of Sonic Software Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Sonic Software
Trip Kucera, +1-781-999-7142
trip.kucera@sonicsoftware.com
or
BT Global Services UK
Justine Manche, +44 (0) 207 356 5371
justine.manche@bt.com
SOURCE: Sonic Software
