SOA Whitepaper

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Service-oriented architecture (or SOA) is about designing and deploying information technology that creates modular components, or services, from new and existing applications. By reconfiguring these information assets to enable them to work together and provide value to users throughout the enterprise, an SOA architecture can help enterprises reduce costs, achieve greater efficiency and improve data interoperability. Progress Software, a leader in technology that supports service-oriented architecture, offers a number of SOA whitepapers that provide a framework for discussion around adoption, or lifecycle, of this IT infrastructure. Some of our SOA white papers also articulate the business benefits of a successful migration to a service-oriented architecture, provide a vocabulary and context within which the enterprise can better align IT operation and business objectives, and offer the basis for a roadmap the organization can use to achieve greater agility.

Read our SOA Whitepaper: Introducing a New SOA Maturity Model

This SOA whitepaper outlines the significant differences between SOA and other approaches. For example, a service-oriented architecture is built on the standards of the World Wide Web, offering a more cost-effective implementation on a global basis as well as broad support by vendors. Reusing older technologies and recombining them with newer applications is easier because services are "loosely-coupled", providing greater flexibility to combine applications to solve new business requirements. This in turn delivers greater return on both new and older technology investments. This SOA white paper and SOA model diagram also details the benefits that each area of the business can find in SOA, including:

• Cost reductions which appeals to your financial stakeholders
• You IT department can better meet service goals
• Corporate runtime governance will be interested in the improved alignment of IT and business goals
• Your entire enterprise will benefit from enhanced and expanding business models
  
  

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 delivers solutions for application integration, messaging middleware, business process improvement, active policy enforcement, multi-site integration, bank fraud and complex event processing.