Optimize Service Management with an ESB

Maximize the Agility of Your Enterprise Architecture with an ESB

Get a preview of a new book co-authored by Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, Service Oriented Architecture: Getting It Done Right. Chapter 4, entitled Enterprise Service Buses, is about the ESB, a messaging-based communications backbone for SOA implementations. In this chapter Hub shares his collective experience of working with over 300 ESB end-users, and summarizes the styles and applications of ESB technology. More importantly, the secret to ESB success—captured in the synopsis he has dubbed the "seven points of mediation"—is revealed to illuminate why all ESBs are not created equal, and provides practical advice about how to be successful using an ESB in your SOA initiatives.

Topics covered in Chapter 4 include:

• Introduction to ESBs
• When To Use An ESB
• Selecting An ESB Product
• Applications Of An ESB
• Mediation and ESBs

Need to know more an ESB? Watch this video and hear Hub Vandervoort, CTO at Progress Software, tell you more about the power of the ESB and the industry's 1st ESB - Sonic ESB.

SPECIAL OFFER! Register and also get The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Buses, Q1 2009 report. The Forrester Research report evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of 10 top commercial and open source ESB vendors based on a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria. Sonic ESB was named as a leader in the ESB market with top scores in the current offering and strategy dimensions.