Sonic ESB
Open Standards, Enterprise Scalability and Performance
Progress® Sonic® ESB advances service-oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise integration by bringing you the power and flexibility of an open services and integration standards-based development model. With Sonic ESB, you will get dynamic multi-site operations management and deployment capabilities backed by the industry’s only true 100% up-time enterprise messaging infrastructure.
What's New in Progress Sonic 8.5
Progress Sonic 8.5 builds on Sonic’s industry-best enterprise service delivery, by adding even stronger semantic data integration capabilities, as well as enhanced visibility and governance features. In the Enterprise Service Bus marketplace, Sonic 8.5 represents a significant step forward. With the simultaneous release of Sonic 8.5 and Progress® DataXtend® 8.5, Progress Software greatly improves on the integration between these products, facilitating better collaboration between development teams, simplified usability and increased architectural flexibility, while a more robust approach to responsive business integration.
- When working in concert, Sonic and DataXtend now provide you with a tightly-integrated development and deployment environment that ensures precise semantic data transformation and integration while reducing complexity.
- Improved management and diagnostic capabilities between the products allow Sonic ESB users to leverage DataXtend common information models.
- Sonic also now includes improved visibility and impact analysis capabilities - via Progress® Actional® - which allow developers to easily visualize the interdependencies of data exchanges and make changes to critical integration applications without negatively impacting production systems.
With Sonic 8.5 and DataXtend 8.5, move beyond XSLT and gain control over your enterprise data! Developers can take advantage of data services packaged as native Sonic ESB services and enjoy the richness Sonic provides at run-time.
- Take advantage of industry common models, such as the SID in Telcom or the ACORD Information Model in Insurance, to enable better partnering.
- Build your own data model iteratively and incrementally to eliminate the last mile of “data spaghetti” that accounts for over 40% of your integration costs.
- Employ GUI-driven configuration of Sonic ESB data sources and collaborate more effectively throughout the development lifecycle through better packaging and integration of services.
- Choose a shared development environment or separate, collaborative development environment – you decide.
- Reduce development efforts and improve performance and architectural flexibility with a comprehensive integration solution that enables IT to dynamically and more quickly respond to constant business change.
Sonic ESB connects people, processes, and systems with the right information at the right time, any time—and with greater performance and high availability. By helping you become more responsive, agile and efficient, Sonic ESB will set you on the path towards true operational responsiveness.
Sonic ESB development and runtime integration working in concert with Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator (SI) dramatically simplifies the problem of common data model lifecycle management, transformation, and validation. DataXtend SI leverages common Eclipse-based tooling and the ability to deploy semantic services in ESB containers. Just as Sonic ESB helps organizations eliminate architectures of point-to-point connections, DataXtend SI solves the problem of point-to-point data transformations, making it much easier to integrate data and evolve a SOA with diverse, connected systems.
Sonic ESB is the most reliable and scalable JMS-based enterprise service bus available today. It quickly integrates any IT resource and quickly scales - without disruption - across multi-site, distributed environments. And with fully integrated, end-to-end operational visibility and semantic data transformation support, it addresses the fundamental limitations of SOA and enables IT organizations to respond more rapidly to ever-evolving business change.
Achieving operational responsiveness means you are able to accelerate new business initiatives, quickly adjust to M&As, reorganizations, and changing business conditions, and comply with new regulations. Choosing Sonic ESB as your integration solution will enable you to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. It will also help you:
- Increase developer productivity and IT responsiveness with an open service and integration standards-based programming model.
- Flexibly adapt existing systems to new user and business requirements and quickly integrate new applications into existing IT environments.
- Eliminate the rigidity and fragility of hard-wired point-to-point integration of applications and services.
- Leverage robust DataXtend 8.5 product integration to deliver precise semantic data transformation and integration while reducing complexity and cost.
- Assure business continuity with high levels of reliability and availability.
- Reduce risk and up-front investment with incremental deployment.
Sonic ESB is designed to simplify the integration and flexible re-use of business applications in the most heterogeneous enterprise IT environments. Here's a closer look at its key features:
- Semantic Data Transformation and Integration - Working in concert, Sonic 8.5 and DataXtend 8.5 provide a tightly-integrated development and deployment environment that ensures precise semantic data transformation and integration while reducing complexity.
- Improved Visibility and Diagnostics - Sonic 8.5 delivers improved visibility via Progress Actional for Sonic WS, REST and DataXtend SI services. Sonic 8.5 provides new run-time metrics and alerts with repeating notifications.
- Open Services & Integration Standards Programming Model - Sonic ESB supports REST and Web Services development based on a JAX*RS and JAX*WS annotated POJO model that simplifies development, process organization, and productivity while eliminating vendor lock-in with a portable code.
- Distributed Operations Management - Sonic ESB is ideal for multi-site, high-transaction environments because you can install, upgrade, and manage it all from a central location, reducing deployment time and the costs of on-site resources.
- Integrate across security domains - Sonic ESB spans security domains to form a federated environment in which each domain preserves autonomy to manage authentication locally.
- The Dynamic Routing Architecture® (DRA) - Sonic’s patented Dynamic Routing Architecture delivers unmatched, software-based fault-tolerance and scalability ideal for multi-site, high-transaction environments.
- The Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture (CAA) - Ensures messages are never lost and always delivered in order; measures failover in seconds, not minutes; all without the need for costly RAID, OS clustering software or third-party HA frameworks.
- Prefabricated Sonic Adapters - Sonic ESB provides optimized connectivity to relational databases, and supports a wide variety 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.
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