Operational Responsiveness and SOA

Innovation Drives Operational Responsiveness and SOA Flexibility

Operational responsiveness is the ability of your business systems and processes to respond to changing business conditions and customer interactions in real time. The more responsive your business, the better prepared your decision makers are to take advantage of new opportunities, to increase efficiency and reduce risk, and to deal effectively with unexpected events. For many companies today, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a significant part of improving infrastructure response. But superior operational responsiveness and SOA deployment require innovative technology to be effective. For many SOA solutions, vendor lock-in and upfront expenditures hinder operational responsiveness and SOA flexibility, and offset potential gains in efficiency of business operations and response processes.

When you want solutions for operational responsiveness and SOA design that increase efficiency and lower IT costs, consider the market-leading products from Progress Software.

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Progress Software Delivers Operational Responsiveness and SOA Innovation

With more than 60,000 clients in 140 countries, Progress Software is a global leader in application infrastructure software that can help increase operational responsiveness and SOA effectiveness, as well as improve business operational planning. Progress solutions are designed to simplify and optimize the development, deployment, integration, and management of software to help your organization and your SOA infrastructure be more responsive.

The Progress® Sonic® family of products gives you the tools for operational implementation, a more flexible and efficient SOA that can help you improve operational responsiveness, makes business services more widely available and reusable, and eliminates the boundaries between business functions. Progress Sonic solutions are innovative in their approach to SOA design—by leveraging the best parts of open source and commercial software, they enable SOA deployment without requiring large, up-front investments, proprietary middleware solutions, or centralized hubs. Not only are your IT costs lower, but also your SOA infrastructure is more flexible and can be deployed incrementally instead of using a linear approach. With Progress solutions, you can improve SOA and operational responsiveness while simultaneously making your system easier to deploy and manage.

Progress operational technology improves responsiveness and simplifies SOA deployment

Progress solutions for operational responsiveness and SOA deployment include:

• Progress® Sonic ESB®, an enterprise service bus for flexible integration and re-use of business processes within an SOA.
• Progress® SonicMQ®, a standards-based messaging system offering unmatched performance, availability, and reliability.
• Progress® Actional®, a solution for SOA management that provides end-to-end visibility and control over a distributed, multi-vendor SOA environment and increases operational awareness.
• Progress® DataXtend SI, a data interoperability solution that simplifies the creation, maintenance, and governance of common-model-based data services.
• Progress® Apama®, a complex event processing platform for delivering business insight from operational data in an event-driven SOA and improving operational decision making.

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