Maintain and Innovate

Organizations seeking to maintain their existing aging infrastructure while adopting new innovations are embracing IT modernization.  Done right, it is the first step in aligning IT with business objectives and priorities. IT modernization brings greater operational efficiencies, tighter IT and business alignment, real-time responsiveness, and enterprise-wide information sharing. It enables IT with the speed and agility to respond faster to business change while mitigating disruption.

Next-generation architectures, technologies, and business models—web services, service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, to name a few—are ideal for IT modernization. They create the “future ready” enterprise. New technologies provide new efficiencies such as shared services and drive integration – identifying IT and information assets, aggregating results to allow understanding of management functions common across the enterprise, and integrating the systems and databases that drive these management functions into core activities that define how an organization operates.

The Progress® Responsive Business Integration (RBI) solution supports your IT modernization strategy with its comprehensive and holistic approach to integration. The RBI solution mitigates business disruption with:

• Continuous service delivery with zero downtime
• Integration of diverse, distributed systems--without lengthy, costly point-to-point integration
• Information delivery in the right format, at the right time, with semantic data transformation and integration
• Dynamic, end-to-end visibility—for transaction assurance, SOA governance and change management from a single interface

Responsive Business Integration: Your Next-generation SOA

Whether your IT modernization is just beginning or underway the Responsive Business Integration (RBI) can help. It provides a more comprehensive integration infrastructure that is agile, flexible and modular. It offers advanced features such as real-time semantic data integration that enables your organization to be more productive and better serve your customers.

Achieve IT modernization:

• Continuously available enterprise messaging architecture that ensures service delivery
• Independent changes to services, data and policies with no impact on existing applications
• Precise semantic data transformation coupled with support for standard industry data models
• End-to-end visibility and governance to ensure regulatory compliance and  reduce risks

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Organizations in a variety of industries worldwide have benefited from our solutions for their IT modernization initiatives. 

	Supply Chain Replay a presentation to hear how the Responsive Business Integration helped Southern Union create and deploy an award-winning enterprise integration strategy.
	Banking Sallie Mae has enhanced their event-driven SOA – powered by Sonic, Actional, DataXtend and Apama – to include Savvion BPMS and the Progress Control Tower. The result was increased revenue and enhanced customer experiences. Watch the video testimonial.
	Communications Belgacom transformed its integration platform using Progress Software. Read the press release.
	Insurance All insurers are facing tough choices about how and where to allocate precious IT investment dollars. For those looking for ways to differentiate themselves, an investment in taking underwriting automation to the next level is the right choice. Read the white paper.
	Government The U.S. Army is using Progress® DataXtend to unify battlefield information. Get the case study.