Sonic Resources
Progress® Sonic® products help IT organizations achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to rapidly changing business needs. Learn more about SOA and multi-site integration technologies by reading through our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts, books and other helpful learning resources.
Semantic Integration and Data Lifecycle
Read this white paper to learn how you can get your data validated, translated, routed, and integrated with no hand-coding. By accomplishing that, you'll save time, and lower costs for development, testing, and deployment. This paper is part of our Enterprise Integration Whiteboard Series.
The Integration Model
This technical brief focuses on the seventh point of mediation, the Interaction Model. It presents the model mediation at its finest, creating loosely coupled technology as well as loosely coupled organizations that—with all seven points of mediation discussed—now can move in a more agile way than was possible with other technologies.
Gartner: Data Consistency and SOA
Download this Gartner report: With industry leading technologies in SOA (Sonic ESB) and data services (DataXtend Semantic Integrator), Progress Software has the responsive integration technologies to ensure data consistency within SOA with reduced complexity and lower TCO.
Quality of Service and Privacy
This technical brief is the seventh white paper in the Enterprise Integration Whiteboard Series. This paper provides a high-level overview of some capabilities within Sonic by itself and in association with Actional, which is largely built into the ESB infrastructure, and how those come together to create the foundation of QoS\QoP - trust and commitment - required for effective contracts on.
Sequencing and Error Recovery
This paper is the sixth in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief focuses on the Sonic ESB is designed to perform sequencing and, with multiple output paths on each endpoint, enable error recovery processes that are separate from the “happy” path.
Transport, Location and Semantics
This paper is the fifth in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief focuses on the 7 Points of Mediation. Download this paper to learn more about the Seven Points of Mediation and the importance of each in relation to supporting a truly agile and responsive business application infrastructure.
Dynamic Routing Architecture
This paper is the forth in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief continues the examination of the Sonic architecture, its reliability and transparency. The focus here is on the Progress® Sonic® Dynamic Routing Architecture® (DRA), its purpose and
capabilities over and above the Sonic clustering architecture as well as some
special use cases.
Clusters and Transparency
This paper is the second in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief focuses on administrative and functional transparency in the cluster architecture of Progress® Sonic® versus its competitors, showing why Sonic provides greater operational responsiveness at lower cost.
Messaging Architecture
This paper is the first in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief examines the four basic components of the Sonic enterprise messaging system, including: brokers, acceptors, clusters, and underlying protocols. This paper will also explain how these four components provide not only robust integration, but business and IT benefits as well.
Six Principles of Multi-site Integration
Overcome multi-site integration challenges. Learn the six guiding principles for overcoming the unique challenges of multi-site integration. Real-world integration projects will demonstrate how those problems were resolved, and how they could have been prevented in the first place.
The Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition
Given the importance of the enterprise service bus (ESB) to SOA implementation, it is important to understand the functions and structure of the ESB and how its design permits rapid change in, easy connections to, and clear visibility and control of services and processes in a SOA-based application. This white paper provides a thorough definition of the Sonic ESB, including complete UML diagrams that provide a conceptual view of the ESB components.
A Playbook for ESBs
Co-authored by Progress Software and eBizQ. The enterprise service bus (ESB) has emerged as a key enabler for more agile and effective integration across enterprise systems and business processes. This white paper introduces four integration patterns for ESBs and the enterprise integration scenarios they help make possible. By combining the advanced capabilities of an ESB with integration patterns you can deliver key benefits to both business and IT.
A New SOA Maturity Model
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as the most significant shift in how business applications are designed, developed and implemented. To address this challenge, Progress Software and its partners jointly developed A New SOA Maturity Model. The model is designed to show the increasingly positive impact of SOA adoption from a business benefits perspective. It provides IT decision makers with simple framework for benchmarking the strategic value of their SOA implementation, and a model for visualizing future success.
Continuous Availability for Enterprise Message
Reduce operational risk and administration complexity. Today's enterprise is challenged to maximize business processing up-time through the implementation of high availability solutions. This paper discusses the current state and associated issues of enterprise messaging fault-tolerance approaches, and describes how the Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture™ not only improves operational availability but decreases the associated development costs and administration complexities.
Five Dirty Secrets of High Availability
Don't let unexpected hazards threaten your operations. Take the first step to ensure that you are not the victim of a mostly available infrastructure. Read the white paper Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure and learn how a continuously available enterprise infrastructure will protect you from lost revenue due to hardware, software, or network failure.
High Availability Embedded Messaging for ISV's
For most packaged applications and hardware systems, failure is not an option. Lost messages, service delays, and incomplete transactions lead to high support costs, financial penalties for missed SLAs, and possible legal action by your end users or partners. This white paper explains how you can increase the performance, reliability and availability of your application or device.
A "New Economy" Approach to Event Driven Integration
Prioritize business ROI with SOA, BPM and events. In this 20 minute videocast hosted by Integration Developer News, you’ll find the key to aligning SOA to business priorities. During this videocast Hub Vandervoort, CTO – Americas, at Progress Software, discusses how IT architects can shorten time to value of BPM, how you can leverage SOA for new levels of process optimization, and how to connect federated functions of the business to increase potential for process optimization.
SOA 101: Simplifying Enterprise Integration for OpenEdge Applications
Listen as Progress Software employees Gary Clink, Senior Solution Engineer, and Matt Cicciari, Product Marketing Manager, discuss how to leverage OpenEdge and Sonic to simplify the deployment of an integrated service-oriented architecture (SOA) business applications.
Enable Agility and Change
Listen to the intro of Hub Vandervoort's recent keynote at Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum. Get insight into the 7 Points of Mediation and the importance of building for change and change management. Today’s integrated infrastructure isn’t just about an ESB, it's about the transparency, policy management, semantics, visibility and governability of your web services.
The Data and SOA Collision – Is Your Organization Ready?
This webinar provides ‘a day in the life of a developer’ format to explain how SOA creates data integration complexities that are often magnified by reconciling differences between applications and services with hand-coded point-to-point mappings.
You’ve Got an ESB. Now… Don’t Get Lost in Transactions
Sure, your ESB has done a great job of integrating your SOA environment, but an ESB can introduce new management complexities. Watch and learn how you can gain complete end-to-end visibility of your heterogeneous environment, and pinpoint the root cause of any problems that arise.
Integration Infrastructure: More Than Meets the Eye
What happens when poor application integration decisions are made? As you know, various aspects of integration infrastructure are all connected but when you choose to address one aspect and ignore another, you make trade-offs that may not be immediately apparent. Listen to an archived webinar presented by Hub Vandervoort and get some thoughts on how you can make better decisions that will ensure your integration success.
Sonic Essentials For OpenEdge Developers
What if you could easily integrate new applications into your OpenEdge Environment? Hear how you can meet the increased demands of integrating an OpenEdge application with internal and external applications across the enterprise. Learn how to leverage Sonic in an OpenEdge environment and how to simplify the integration and flexible re-use of business applications.
Six Principles for Addressing Multi-site Integration
In this on-demand webinar, Larry Fulton, Independent Consultant, Experienced IT Architect and Former Forrester Analyst, discusses his Six Guiding Principles for overcoming the unique challenges of multi-site integration. Larry will take you through the problems encountered in real-world multi-site integration projects, how those problems were resolved, and how they could have been prevented in the first place.
Top 10 IT Trends in Securities & Capital Markets
Hosted by Integration Developer News and Progress Software, and featuring Stephen Bruel from the TowerGroup. This webinar talks about why today's securities and capital markets firms are demanding more from IT to address new challenges and meet shifting business opportunities. Financial service professionals will learn how SOA and ESBs are on-the-money for many current issues.
Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
Are you ready for event-driven business? Your systems can't keep up with the ever-increasing velocity of business. Financial trade settlement has accelerated from three days to two hours in just a few years; the trend towards real-time business is repeating itself in almost every industry.
Advanced Portal Integration with an ESB
How can you share critical information across multiple channels without compromising privacy or organizational autonomy? Today's portals make it easy to connect locally provisioned databases and Web services. But integration challenges mount when back-end resources run in another data center or remote site. Hear Marullus Williams, President and CEO of Limbic Systems, discuss implementation best practices for portal integration in government projects.
Drive Operational Excellence with SOA
Everybody knows batch transfers and manual intervention cost the business time and reduce its operational efficiency. Call it what you will—straight-through-processing (STP) in financial services, just-in-time (JIT) inventory management in manufacturing, or self-service provisioning in telecommunications—the drive for operational excellence makes legacy batch and manual processing a target for modernization across every industry today. Hear from Progress and its customer Pacific Blue Cross how using a leave-and-layer approach with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) can help you quickly meet your SOA goals.
Socially Oriented Architecture: Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges
Are you finding it difficult to align your SOA across your extended enterprise?
SOA is expanding the management challenges for IT executives as they try to build applications for their different constituents–using a federated multi-party approach for all interactions. Hub shares the three critical factors that will determine the success of any SOA initiative: free connection of interactions, active mediation of policy, and precise control of semantics. And he will also share success stories of how organizations who are focusing on the social challenges are gaining SOA success. Download the companion E-book too!
Best Practices in Designing for Scalability with Sonic ESB
One of SOA's promises is to enable highly scalable, distributed applications. But, how do you make the promise real for your organization? This webinar presents how hundreds of customers have benefited from Sonic ESB's out-of-the-box scalability for their mission-critical SOA projects. You will learn about the key design principles of Sonic ESB that enable painless scalability, best practices for the distributed deployment and execution of independently scalable integration services, and hear about real-world case studies of mission-critical ESBs in action.
ESB Lessons Learned
Listen as industry expert Larry Fulton discusses key insights on ESB adoption led by today's business-driven agility model. Learn how to run a successful pilot project and how to build and gain wider adoption in the business community. You'll also hear about key challenges and critical factors to achieve successful adoption.
Improving Development and Integration Agility
True IT responsiveness comes from the ability to develop and integrate solutions that meet current business needs. Listen as industry leaders Progress and Lombardi discuss the benefits of using best-in-class BPM and event-driven SOA technologies to reduce application development cost and maintain flexibility for change. Whether you’re a business analyst, developer or integration architect, having the right SOA infrastructure to support your initiatives is critical.
SaaS Architecture for Extreme Agility and Scalability
How does Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) prevent $1 billion in fraud annually? The answer is, a SaaS Architecture. When you provide software, processing and fraud prevention services to 7,800 global financial institutions and 47,000 retailers, you learn a thing or two about SOA flexibility and scalability. Listen to a discussion about FIS' business and the SaaS architecture they built to meet varied and fast-growing client needs.
How to Optimize SOA to Better Serve Your Business Goals
Listen as guest speaker Sandy Rogers from IDC and Dan Foody from the Progress Actional team discuss the critical steps necessary to ensure that your most vital business concerns -- your enterprise and its customers, channels, and partners-- will get the best service, resulting in a true competitive edge.
Building an SOA Roadmap in State & Local Government
State and local agencies have selected or built applications tailored to meet functional or departmental requirements. While highly effective in this context, they are often unable to serve the state's need to develop cross-agency business processes which require operational automation or visibility beyond single agency boundaries. Listen and learn how state and local agencies have successfully implemented Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), and how Tarrant County used SOA to integrate their Jail Management System and link workflow across police, court, Sheriff, and District Attorney's offices.
Faster SOA Integration with Progress Sonic ESB
Despite SOA's mission to break down the barriers between silos of legacy and packaged applications, too often SOA projects bog down when SOA development needs to cross application boundaries. Listen and learn how you can use the Sonic BPEL Server for fast, sophisticated, standards-based service orchestration, not only of Web services and how you can tackle the problem of point-to-point transformations with new common data model lifecycle management, transformation and validation capabilities.
Extreme Transaction Processing: Electronic trading at NYMEX
How did NYMEX drive 10x growth in their enterprise messaging throughput? They deployed a SonicMQ enterprise messaging infrastructure. With future growth threatened by the limitations of their existing messaging infrastructure, it was time to trade up. Listen as Mark Francetic, VP of Software Development at NYMEX, explains how they used SonicMQ to increase messaging capacity ten-fold - with zero message loss and high availability.
Building an SOA Roadmap in the Federal Government
For many years, government IT has been managed by individual agencies to the specific goals of federal funding streams, and agencies' desires for autonomy, flexibility and security. This webinar will demonstrate how federal agencies have successfully implemented SOA to share critical information across agencies, realize reduced costs, and automate manual processes.
Faster SOA Development with Sonic ESB 7
Fast and agile system delivery is the SOA vision. The challenge is to make it real.
Despite SOA's mission to break down the silos created by monolithic architectures, most SOA-enablement products are still stuck in the world of silos. That's because they are limited to small-scale projects where everything is built by one team and runs in one place. Learn how you can accelerate turnaround on the complete ESB development lifecycle. With advanced SOA infrastructure and an integrated Eclipse-based SOA toolset, we will address the real-world challenges of SOA that users confront once they move into large-scale, widely distributed deployments. We will also demonstrate how Sonic ESB brings distributed SOA development to the desktop.
Implementing a Successful SOA Pilot Program
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not easy to do right: IT teams must overcome technical, organizational, political and other hurdles on the path to SOA nirvana. In this on-demand webinar, Progress Actional and key partners share their real-world experience to help you avoid the most common pains associated with implementing SOA for the first time.
Paving the Way to Smart Grid Modernization
Learn about a unique, standards-based reference architecture from Progress that uses a product integration bus to simplify technology deployment and upgrades. The technology, integration and domain expertise of Progress also enables them to share insight about:
- Market and regulatory conditions
- The readiness of legacy applications to support real-time smart metering data
- The cost and difficulties of integrating disparate utilities systems
- Steps for moving to a smart grid-compatible environment, cost-effectively and non-intrusively
SOA and Web Service Management
Why planning now is vital for success. As organizations frame their strategies, a key measure of success is how well critical applications, from online sales to call center applications, are being served. To ensure success, complete visibility and tracking service interactions to meet SLA's are required. Monitoring transactions in real-time provides visibility into who is experiencing problems, the type and magnitude of problems, and the business transaction impacted. Setting up these fundamental management principles enables the organization to take action before the business is affected, before the SLA is violated and before you've lost control!
Secret No. 2 - The Myth of Five NinesPresented By Hub Vandervoort , Ken Rugg Three minutes of downtime may not seem detrimental now but if that failure occurs during peak transaction times, it will result in lost revenue and poor customer service. In this podcast, Hub and Ken present ideas on how to deliver a highly available enterprise infrastructure. This podcast is the 2nd in a series of 5 that unveil the Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure. |
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Secret No. 1 - Cost and ComplexityPresented By Hub Vandervoort , Ken Rugg In this podcast, Hub and Ken present ideas on how to manage the cost and complexity associated with delivering a highly available enterprise infrastructure. This podcast is the 2nd in a series of 5 that unveil the Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure. |
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Gain Better Enterprise Visibility of Your SOAPresented By Giles Nelson What if you could gain better visibility of your SOA infrastructure? Listen as Giles Nelson presents his observations on the challenges that many enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements and deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements. |
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Impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise ArchitecturePresented By David Bressler What impact will Cloud Computing have on your enterprise architecture? Why should you care? In this podcast David Bressler presents his thoughts on how Cloud Computing will make it easier for you to get business-critical information to your consumers. Allow yourself to imagine the impact of being able to easily bring information from multiple data services, and sources, into the cloud. |
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Beyond SOA: How IT Infrastructure Can Become More Responsive to Business NeedsHow do you insure that your IT infrastructure has the flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements? SOA provides a measure of agility, but for many it has failed. This white paper from Bloor Research includes strategies on how to address the limitations of SOA with data integration, governance to ensure IT performance and security, and the evolving role of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). |
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Forrester Wave for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 2011Get a detailed review of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) providers from the Forrester Research analyst report. The report evaluates the product strategy, current product offering and overall market presence of 11 ESB providers. Forrester recognizes Sonic ESB as an industry leader in the ESB marketplace. |
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Data Consistency and SOA: Old Challenges Rear Their Ugly HeadsGet this Gartner Research report to gain insight into the data consistency challenges organizations that have adopted service-oriented architecture (SOA) are now facing. Find out how your SOA infrastructure can evolve without sacrificing the integrity of your data along the way. |
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Forrester Wave: Comprehensive Integration Solutions (CIS) 2010Download a copy of the Forrester Wave that evaluates the strategy, current offering and market presence of 15 Comprehensive Integration Solutions (CIS) providers. Learn about the strengths of the Progress Integration suite which combines technologies from Progress products Sonic ESB, Actional, Apama, and Savvion. The report also recognizes Progress Software as providing "one of the leading ESB solutions (Sonic) for some time." |
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Breaking up the Stack - The SOA Strategy of Progress SoftwareThis Butler Group White Paper shows the breadth of Progress Software's SOA portfolio and the unique manner by which it delivers these technologies to the marketplace. "Progress takes a refreshingly pragmatic view of the SOA market, recognizing that for most organizations (and certainly for most large and very large enterprises) the SOA infrastructure will itself be heterogeneous, either by design or by evolution and necessity. It provide its solutions in a form that can be readily implemented to enhance an existing SOA implementation, providing missing elements, or potentially replacing elements that are a less than optimal fit with the requirements of the organization." |
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Current Analysis Takes Positive Stance on Progress Software CorporationTech Industry-watcher Current Analysis took a positive stance on Progress Software, reflecting its “unstack” approach and full SOA Portfolio of products. The report notes, “Progress refers to these solutions as the “unstack” because although the products are closely integrated, they are not interdependent. In all, Progress has positioned itself as a strong integration vendor with numerous SOA-scale capabilities that will appeal to enterprises focusing on both data and process integration. The company is a solid competitor on price and scalability compared with even larger vendors such as IBM and BEA.” |
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The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Buses, Q1 2009Independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc., named Sonic ESB as a leader in the enterprise service bus (ESB) market with top scores in the current offering and strategy dimensions of "The Forrester WaveTM: 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. The report also identified IONA FUSE (now owned by Progress) as an "established and successful" ESB. |
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A Technology Audit of the Progress SOA PlatformButler Group profiled the expanded Progress Portfolio for SOA, writing that “the recent additions to Progress’s SOA platform capability will allow it to offer appropriate solutions to organizations across a wide spectrum of requirements, from simple integration projects to full-blown strategic SOA, supporting a range of organization sizes with varying degrees of SOA maturity. Commercial and open source elements can be combined to create the desired solution at an appropriate entry price. Butler Group also noted the “strong interoperability across the range (of Progress offerings) and with competitive products, the economic stability and strong international presence of Progress Software, great scalability and high availability choices, and the availability of companion products that provide SOA governance, CEP and Data Interoperability.” |
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SOA Adoption: Technology Diversity AcceleratorsAlthough it is no surprise to say that technology diversity drives adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA), Forrester's survey data shows patterns in the use of development platforms, development languages, and application platform vendors that affect how rapidly certain IT segments adopt SOA. For example, enterprises with four or more application platform vendors have significantly higher SOA adoption than enterprises that use three or fewer. Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) that use three development platforms have significantly higher SOA penetration than those using only one. By finding the patterns that match their organization's technology environment, architects can bolster their case for SOA with industry adoption numbers that correspond closely with their peer organizations' adoption rates. |
Sonic ESB
A messaging-based enterprise service bus that simplifies the integration and re-use of business applications within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
What’s New in Sonic ESB and DataXtend 8.5
The concurrent release of version 8.5 Sonic ESB and DataXtend SI offers a more comprehensive and seamless—yet modular—integration solution that addresses the fundamental limitations of SOA with advanced integration functionalities. Read this data sheet to learn more about the advanced integration tools you need to more quickly respond to rapid business change.
RBI Brochure
Operational performance means enabling application design for continuous optimization and change. This brochure provides an in-depth description of the features and benefits of the Progress® Responsive Business Integration (RBI) suite.
SonicMQ
Enterprise messaging that will simplify operations and lower the cost of
ownership for business-critical communication across the enterprise.
Sonic ESB Workbench
An Eclipse-based SOA toolset for modeling, configuring, testing and deploying processes and services using products in the Sonic ESB Product Family.
Sonic BPEL Server
Simplifies the building, testing and deployment of sophisticated service orchestration.
Sonic Database Service
Simplifies access and reuse of relational data sources in a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and eliminates the need for inflexible and costly custom coding.
Sonic Deployment Manager
Provides fast and cost-effective Sonic development and rollout in large-scale projects.
Simplifying OpenEdge Integration with Sonic ESB
OpenEdge offers architects and developers a platform for building and deploying highly responsive business applications within service-oriented architectures (SOA). Learn how Sonic ESB streamlines the use of SOA through flexible open services and integration standards that simplify the integration of OpenEdge applications across multi-application, multi-site, and distributed environments.
Progress Sonic SLA Support Solution
Reducing systems fallout by even 1% can save your company lots of money. Learn more!
Enterprise Service BusO'Reilly's book, written by Dave Chappell, provides you with both a conceptual and architectural overview of ESB from the viewpoint of a seasoned expert in the areas of standards for enterprise messaging, web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA). In it he offers his unique insights and delivers practical strategies for understanding the architecture of an ESB and its impact on integrating diverse applications into enterprise-wide solutions. He then goes on to present integration patterns that clearly show how an ESB can help solve the thorniest application integration challenges using standard components and interfaces. Buy it from Amazon.com. |
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Chapter 4: ESBs - SOA: Getting it RightGet a preview of a new book on SOA. The book, An Implementor's Guide to Service Oriented Architecture: Getting it Right, explores SOA related topics ranging from design services, registries and repositories, to runtime management, and organizing for success. Chapter 4, entitled Enterprise Service Buses, is authored by Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, and discusses the ESB. 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. Register to read Chapter 4, or purchase your copy from Amazon.com. |
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SOA: Socially Oriented ArchitectureTechnical Opportunities, Social Challenges. In this E-book, Hub will make you rethink the centralized, top-down approach to SOA governance and develop a consensual form of governance that supports a socially oriented architecture. This E-book presents ideas on how to create federated communities among diverse SOA participants for richer, more dynamic user experiences. |
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Java Web ServicesJava Web Services shows you how to use SOAP to perform remote method calls and message passing; how to use WSDL to describe the interface to a web service or understand the interface of someone else's service; and how to use UDDI to advertise (publish) and look up services in each local or global registry. Java Web Services also discusses security issues, interoperability issues, integration with other Java enterprise technologies like EJB; the work being done on the JAXM and JAX-RPC packages, and integration with Microsoft's .NET services. |
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Building Web Services with JavaWritten by the team that helped create XML and Web services standards, updated for the next generation of tools and standards. The second edition of this well-reviewed book includes the newest standards for managing security, transactions, reliability, and interoperability in Web services applications, plus Apache Axis and the new Java APIs from Sun. It takes you beyond the hype, detailing the design and implementation of a production-quality Web services solution. Throughout the book the authors focus on practical examples of each concept and provide a running example illustrating a full enterprise solution. Buy the book from Amazon.com. |
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