SOA Architecture
SOA Architecture is Changed the Technology Landscape
Enterprises new and old have chosen or created applications to meet the specific needs of various departments or to serve various functions within the organization. While these investments provided value at the time, they are typically rigid and not very adaptable to changing business needs. Now, enterprises are confronted with the choice of struggling with these older systems, and attempting to modify them to meet new requirements, or abandoning old investments, and the information assets they contain.
To deal with this dilemma, more and more companies have turned to the service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure. A SOA architecture will transform your old applications and systems into modular services with clear interfaces that can be made available across the enterprise for integration and reuse. SOA architecture gives enterprises a way to leverage past investments and retain the knowledge locked within them, while allowing them to integrate with new applications to form custom solutions. Today, more than 1,000 enterprises worldwide have chosen SOA infrastructure products from Progress Software to optimize their investment in SOA architecture.
Progress Brought To Market the First Enabler of the SOA Architecture. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Progress® Sonic® ESB helps IT organizations improve responsiveness and reduce IT cost by implementing SOA architecture to integrate and re-use the functionality of their best-of-breed applications. With service infrastructure software from Progress, enterprises can easily re-purpose older applications and legacy IT investments as modular services which can be combined with other products to solve new challenges facing the business. With a flexible and dynamic SOA architecture, enterprises are now able to remain more agile and are able to respond to changing business conditions. Sonic ESB enables enterprises to significantly reduce IT costs by cutting application integration costs, reducing vendor lock-in, minimizing custom software development and enabling reuse of existing applications.
Sonic ESB Delivers Infrastructure for SOA Architecture
Sonic's product line up includes the industry's first and leading enterprise service bus (ESB), a SOA architecture infrastructure for integrating enterprise applications. With a comprehensive family of products to support SOA architecture requirements, Sonic partners, system integrators and ISVs create and customize applications to meet their client's needs. Sonic products delivers superior management capabilities that include message and service flow monitoring, SLA governance, versioning and security.
Introducing the Next-Generation SOA... the Responsive Business Integration Suite
The Progress® Responsive Business Integration (RBI) suite is a comprehensive integration suite that extends the agility of service orientation to include flexible data and policy change. Organizations can design new business capabilities for continuous change, with increased information transparency and integration integrity across distributed IT and federated SOA deployments. For ISVs, indirect partners and systems integrators, Progress RBI transforms into a suite of modular, best-of-breed integration products that can extend the market opportunity functionality, and data interoperability of the software and services.
Progress RBI helps close the gap between business needs and IT delivery by providing:
- Enhanced Agility – Extending the agility of service orientation to address changes in data and policy.
- Information Transparency – Increasing the transparency of information access via self-governance.
- Integration Integrity – Ensuring integration integrity with an intelligent infrastructure that expands visibility into the impact of change.
Progress Software also provides messaging middleware, infrastructure software,application performance management, as well as products for business process improvement, complex event processing, and QoS management.
