Adapters for Sonic ESB
Adapters for Progress Sonic ESB
Adapters for Progress® Sonic ESB® mask the technical and semantic differences of various systems, creating a uniform view via dynamic and static transformations. No matter how diverse the components of your IT infrastructure may be, Adapters for Sonic ESB make them uniformly accessible across the enterprise service bus.
Corporations have tens to hundreds (or thousands) of packaged applications, legacy systems and data sources distributed across their enterprise. As companies move to standardize on XML and achieve greater reuse of existing data assets through the implementation of service-oriented architectures (SOA), the challenge is to easily service-enable these business assets.
Without native support and a service framework for application connectivity and management, significant time is spent coding XML transformations in languages such as C++, Java and JavaScript and "hand coding" the associated connection settings, management functions and service interactions. What is needed is a more productive and natural way for business assets to become reliable, reusable services that can be called by other applications across the enterprise service bus.
Sonic ESB provides optimized connectivity to relational databases, and supports literally hundreds of adapters to packaged applications, B2B systems, and mainframe and legacy technologies. By using prefabricated, vendor-maintained services and adapters, companies can significantly reduce the time, cost, complexity and skills required to incorporate business assets into a SOA infrastructure.
One of the challenges IT organizations face is how to move forward with integration initiatives while protecting and preserving current infrastructure investments. Adapters for Sonic ESB can significantly reduce the time, cost, complexity and skills required to incorporate business assets into a SOA infrastructure. No matter how diverse the components of your IT infrastructure may be, Adapters for Sonic ESB make them uniformly accessible across the enterprise service bus.
Using adapters in combination with Sonic ESB enables true integration of your disparate applications and business partners. Here are the types of adapters available:
- Packaged Application Adapters
Packaged application adapters tap into the native transaction interfaces, APIs and data structures that popular business packages (such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) expose, making it easy to reuse the business logic and data of their packages for a wide range of new business requirements.
- B2B Adapters
B2B adapters support the automatic transformation of B2B exchange formats such as EDI and dialect-specific XML documents into formats compatible with non-XML-based information resources. These adapters can rapidly transform documents into a variety of XML dialects as well as non-XML documents including cXML, xCBL, OAG BOD, ANSI X.12 EDI and more.
- Mainframe and Legacy Adapters
Just as an ESB provides industry standard connectivity between disparate platforms, Progress® Shadow® provides interoperability across multiple mainframe data and application environments – in essence, a mainframe services bus (MSB). Shadow and other adapters unlock information storehouses to enrich enterprise applications with critical information that would otherwise be underutilized.
- Technology Platform Adapters
The success and often the profitability of enterprise systems hinges on their support for bidirectional information flows between users and existing systems. The technology platform adapters allow you to leverage existing investments in systems such as CORBA. These adapters provide a native interface to the underlying technologies and present a standard XML interface to the enterprise service bus.
An array of adapters are available including packaged application adapters, B2B adapters, mainframe and legacy adapters and technology platform adapters. If the adapter you need is not listed, please contact your regional sales representative.
Standard Adapters |
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| SAP R/3 JD Edwards Baan PeopleSoft SAGE Navision PRMS LIS (Red Prairie) Dispatcher mFour MYOB Oracle Financials BPCS Arrow Scala Nexus Quicken Great Plains Oracle (includes Advanced Queue) SQL Server DB/2 Sybase Informix mySQL |
PICK D/3 Tuxedo HSQLDB JDBC SwiftMQ Fiorano SunONE Micorsoft MQ Odette FTP (OFTP) TCP/IP Sockets ISO 8583 Flat File EDI (EDIFACT, ANSIX12) OpenVMS Oracle EBS AS/400 RabbitMQ Lawson Siebel SWIFT VSC Salesforce.com |
B2B Adapters |
Bridges |
| ebXML B2B Adapter RosettaNet B2B Adapter Adaptris EDI-INT B2B Adapter (includes AS/1, AS/2, AS/3) |
Adaptris Bridge for Tibco RV Adaptris Bridge for WebsphereMQ Adaptris Bridge for JMS Adaptris FTP Bridge Adaptris email Bridge |
