Progress OpenEdge with Aurea Sonic

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Solution Providers (SPs) and OEMs are being pressured to handle all of the integration needs of their customers associated with their applications or solutions. Application integration can no longer be an “afterthought” or something that their customers must do “by themselves”.

When coupled with OpenEdge, Aurea® Sonic® is an embeddable, always-available integration platform for ISVs, SPs and OEMs that enables the development of modular and open applications—ensuring that they can integrate seamlessly with other applications “out-of-the box. With this, partners are able to move beyond the delivery of a single layer of integration into a comprehensive integration solution that meets all of their customer’s application integration requirements.

OpenEdge and Sonic enable faster time-to-market and higher customer satisfaction without increasing development costs.

Key features:

Location Transparency
Comprehensive Out-of-Box Security
Guaranteed Message Delivery
Seamless Interoperability
Continuous Availability
Advanced Clustering Technology
Unsurpassed Scalability & Performance

Sonic ESB
Sonic MQ
Sonic ESB Workbench
Sonic Adapters

Most Reliable and Scalable JMS-based Enterprise Service Bus Available

Sonic ESB integrates with any IT resource and quickly scales - without disruption - across multi-site, distributed environments. And with fully integrated, end-to-end operational visibility and semantic data transformation support, it addresses the fundamental limitations of SOA and enables IT organizations to respond more rapidly to ever-evolving business change.

Features:

Semantic Data Transformation and Integration - Sonic can provide a tightly-integrated development and deployment environment that ensures precise semantic data transformation and integration while reducing complexity.
Improved Visibility and Diagnostics - Sonic provides new run-time metrics and alerts with repeating notifications.
Open Services & Integration Standards Programming Model - Sonic ESB supports REST and Web Services development based on a JAX*RS and JAX*WS annotated POJO model that simplifies development, process organization, and productivity while eliminating vendor lock-in with a portable code.
Distributed Operations Management - Sonic ESB is ideal for multi-site, high-transaction environments because it allows installation, upgrading, and management from a central location, reducing deployment time and the costs of on-site resources.
Integrate Across Security Domains - Sonic ESB spans security domains to form a federated environment in which each domain preserves autonomy to manage authentication locally.

Complete Messaging System for Developing Add-on Solutions

Industry-leading companies rely on SonicMQ for mission-critical communications within the enterprise and for connecting remote business partners and customers. Its guaranteed message delivery system ensures that messages are not lost due to any type of software hardware or network failure.

The SonicMQ advanced distributed management and deployment infrastructure dramatically simplifies operations and lowers the total cost of ownership for business-critical communication across the enterprise. Superior authentication, authorization, and encryption support ensures that messages and systems are protected inside and outside the firewall.

Features:

Unsurpassed Scalability and Performance - handles a large number of connections with high-speed, reliable message throughput
Advanced Cluster Technology – brokers are transparently added to the cluster without requiring devleopment or administration changes to the enterprise messaging system
Dynamic Routing Architecture® (DRA) - Sonic’s patented Dynamic Routing Architecture delivers unmatched, software-based fault-tolerance and scalability ideal for multi-site, high-transaction environments.
The Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture (CAA) - Ensures messages are never lost and always delivered in order; measures failover in seconds, not minutes; all without the need for costly RAID, OS clustering software or third-party HA frameworks.

Toolset for Simplifying Your Integration and Development Projects

Aurea® Sonic® Workbench is an Eclipse-based integration toolset for modeling, configuring, testing and deploying processes and services using the Sonic ESB. Give developers tools that will help them be more productive and accelerate time-to-market for new services and applications, and your business will become more operationally responsive to business changes and market trends.

Features:

Top-Down Business Process Modeling - Visually models business processes without requiring specification of the features and properties of services they invoke; developers may subsequently "drill down" into process steps to fully specify their features and properties.
Visual Process Definition - Developers can easily update multi-part services without concern for related artifacts. They can also expose process as REST services, making it easy to rapidly port them to other service containers.
Web Service Configuration - Visual tools to define SOAP messages, specify WS-Security and WS-Reliable Messaging policies, create outgoing Web service invocations and map incoming Web service invocations to ESB messages.
Integrated Test Environment - Build and test processes locally in pre-configured services containers before deploying across the network; developers can define test scenarios directly from within the tools that can be run against their configurations.

Optimized Connectivity for Your IT Infrastructure

Adapters for Aurea® Sonic® ESB mask the technical and semantic differences of various systems, creating a uniform view via dynamic and static transformations. No matter how diverse the components of your IT infrastructure may be, the adapters for Sonic ESB make them all uniformly accessible across the ESB.

Features:

Significant Reduction of Time and Cost - By using prefabricated, vendor-maintained adapters, companies can significantly reduce the time, cost, complexity and skills required to incorporate business assets into a service-oriented architecture.
Seamless Interoperability - Enables the seamless interchange of information across the ESB between enterprise applications, business partners, and existing systems.
Increased Flexibility – Accelerate operational responsiveness by now focusing on business issues, not the underlying integration.