SOA Solutions

SOA Solutions Offer Keys to Competitive Advantage

The competitive enterprise today relies more on technology than ever before. Superior infrastructure and applications help the enterprise increase speed to market, improve customer experience, maximize supply chain efficiencies, and enhance communication with partners, customers and employees. But to remain competitive, enterprise technology infrastructure must evolve easily to meet new demands and incorporate new technology, and that's where many organizations run into obstacles. Frequently, enterprise application infrastructure is a hodge-podge of solutions developed over time to meet specific demands, without any plan for how all these various pieces would communicate with each other, let alone with future applications. The service oriented environment (SOA) promises to change that. By transforming every program into a service oriented business application, SOA solutions allow applications to communicate easily with each other and to combine to form new approaches to problem-solving. The secret of successful SOA solutions is to find the most robust platform on which to deploy them, and for this purpose more enterprises choose Progress Software.

Progress Software Delivers Innovative SOA Solutions

Progress provides business application platforms designed to support the needs of enterprises deploying SOA solutions. We offer a complete end-to-end approach for solving business integration challenges - from departmental connectivity to global integration and collaboration with our business partners. Our objective is to build applications and solutions that speed development, simplify deployment, streamline integration and enhance management of SOA solutions. With the technology and strategies to implement best practices, we make it easier for applications, databases and platforms to communicate with each other by automatically routing and transforming business-critical data so it can be accessed by anyone, anytime, anywhere in the organization.

Superior Tools for SOA Solutions Simply Deployment

Among the tools included in our integration portfolio for SOA solutions are:

• Progress® Sonic® ESB, an enterprise service bus, lets the enterprise dynamically configure the reliable connection, mediation and control of services and their interactions with the SOA environment.
• Progress® Actional®, web services management that provides end-to-end visibility and control across a distributed, multi-vendor SOA environment.
• Progress® Savvion®, rapidly create and optimize process-driven solutions and efficiently manage daily work with real-time visibility into business processes.
• Progress® OpenEdge®, an application development platform provides a foundation for integration that allows enterprises to extend applications and services throughout the organization and to customers, partners and suppliers as well. Business applications with the OpenEdge can support almost every user or client interface.
  

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.

In addition to applications for SOA responsiveness, Progress also provides software for application performance management, business operational planning, algorithmic trading, revenue management and claims automation.