SOA Responsiveness
Innovative Technology Drives SOA Responsiveness
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) responsiveness is an important component of operational responsiveness—the ability of your business systems to respond to changing conditions in real time; a necessity and a challenge in today’s quickly shifting business environment. An SOA can help by managing information more quickly and efficiently, ensuring the right data gets to the right people at the right time and giving them the power to effect change rapidly. SOA responsiveness requires an SOA infrastructure that is easy to manage and highly flexible. Yet many SOA solutions today require you to invest heavily in middleware, create vendor lock-in, and only permit you to deploy SOA in a linear approach, hindering SOA responsiveness.
For an SOA responsiveness solution that offers maximum flexibility, requires no big, up-front costs or middleware investments, and allows you to develop your SOA incrementally, consider the SOA responsiveness solutions from Progress Software.
Learn more about SOA responsiveness and Progress Software.
Achieve SOA Responsiveness with Progress Software
Progress Software is a global provider of application infrastructure software that simplifies the development, deployment, integration, and management of enterprise applications. Progress solutions for SOA responsiveness leverage the best aspects of open source and commercial software and, along with world-class service and support, provide a highly flexible, affordable, and innovative approach to designing operational SOA infrastructure.
Progress solutions require no large, up-front investments and can be deployed incrementally. You can leverage the open source technology at the core of Progress SOA solutions to significantly lower costs. Also, the software is technology-neutral and standards-based, so Progress solutions eliminate vendor lock-in. And Progress requires no centralized hub—your IT architects are not forced to use a single set of standards at every endpoint, allowing you to leave existing middleware investments in place.
Progress enables you to achieve infrastructure responsiveness more easily by integrating and providing visibility into diverse platforms, sites, and systems, keeping them fast, secure, and always available.
Improve Responsiveness of Your SOA and Business Processes
Other Progress solutions for operational responsiveness and SOA include:
- Progress® Apama®, a complex event processing platform that allows your decision makers to work directly with streaming data in real time. As a superior operational information system, Apama enables your business leaders to react quickly to business events as they occur and to monitor business activity through richly featured dashboards and execution environments.
- Progress® Actional®, a business transaction assurance solution that provides end-to-end visibility of business transactions throughout your organization for greater operational assurance.
- Progress® SonicMQ®, a standards-based enterprise messaging service with industry-leading performance and reliability.
In addition to offering product solutions for SOA responsiveness, Progress Software offers business solutions for responsive business integration (RBI), including an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a data integration platform, plus industry solutions for Banking, Communications, and Supply Chain management.



