Software Integration

Enterprise Software Integration Requires Superior Infrastructure

Superior technology is a key component of enterprise success in today's global economy. Enterprises with an integrated infrastructure that allows them to achieve greater agility and flexibility have a much greater chance for competitive advantage. They can more easily change direction to meet new business requirements; communicate more effectively with customers, partners and suppliers; and deploy new applications quickly to take advantage of new opportunities. Many enterprises, however, are hampered in their quest for competitive advantage by a technology infrastructure that is not built for change. These infrastructures typically grow out of necessity rather than design – systems are purpose-built to satisfy immediate needs, without a strategy for how individual components will work together or how to lay a foundation for future evolution. In such cases, software integration becomes paramount. Enterprises must find a way for applications to communicate efficiently with each other, and to lay the groundwork for continued development and integration of new solutions that can still communicate with legacy systems. For software integration solutions deployed by leading enterprises worldwide, consider Progress Software.

Progress Software Provides Leading Software Integration Solutions

Our legacy product, Progress® OpenEdge® is one of the most robust and effective software integration products available for the enterprise today. Based on a service oriented architecture (SOA) and using an enterprise service bus, OpenEdge streamlines the integration of applications and Web services in order to extend critical business processes throughout a distributed organization. Utilizing powerful strategies and best practices, it enables systems, platforms and databases to more easily communicate by reconfiguring important information and making it accessible to anyone within the enterprise. To make sure that the enterprise can use the best approach for solving any specific challenge, the OpenEdge platform allows developers and administrators to work with industry standards like XML, .NET, Web services, messaging services such as an ESB, Java and more. With OpenEdge software, enterprises can minimize the complexity of the systems, develop new technology more rapidly, and scale applications easily to meet new business challenges.

Innovative Software Tools Simplify Integration

Progress Software integration applications include a number of cutting-edge tools, such as Progress® SonicMQ®, a leading enterprise messaging server that is highly scalable and provides remarkable reliability. Progress® Sonic® ESB, the first enterprise service bus, is a powerfully efficient tool for software integration that provides a cost-efficient way to centrally develop, deploy and manage services throughout an extended organization. 

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 also delivers solutions for the SOA architect deploying SOA infrastructures, solutions architecture, and a development infrastructure for writing business software application that is a powerful alternative to VB6 development. We also deliver a leading business process management (BPM) solution that IDC recently ranked top in the world.