Sonic Software

Our Business

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) presents the opportunity for organizations to achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems, while providing the flexibility required to continually adapt these systems to changing business requirements. Adoption of SOA has dramatically increased over the last year, with technology executives responsible for such mission-critical applications as supply-chain, manufacturing, financial trading and airport operations moving their infrastructure toward an SOA.

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), a new communication and integration infrastructure that supports the enterprise requirements of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic's technology delivers the scalability, security, continuous availability and management necessary to connect, mediate and control services in mission-critical business processes across the extended enterprise.

Our Products & Services

Sonic offers a comprehensive family of products to support enterprise SOA requirements. Our core product, Sonic ESB®, provides the foundation for an SOA, with additional layered products providing key SOA infrastructure services

The Sonic SOA Suite™ is a bundled product offering that delivers deployment flexibility and simplicity for organizations pursuing SOA projects. A cohesive solution to the challenges of broad-scale business event and process management, Sonic SOA Suite lets you dynamically manage, mediate and orchestrate services in a unified SOA framework. Joining enterprise-wide operational visibility with the flexibility to respond to changing requirements, the Sonic SOA Suite helps align IT with the needs of business.

Sonic ESB® is an enterprise service bus which simplifies the integration and flexible reuse of business components using a standards-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Free of the inflexible and costly customization required by other middleware technologies, Sonic ESB lets architects dynamically configure the reliable connection, mediation and control of services and their interactions.

SonicMQ® is an enterprise-class messaging backbone, and provides the communications infrastructure for the ESB. SonicMQ is the only messaging product that has made transparent fault tolerance a reality through the patented Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture™ (CAA). This and other patented innovations have made Sonic the market leader in enterprise messaging based on industry standards.

Sonic Orchestration Server™ extends the intelligent routing capabilities of the Sonic ESB to enable the modeling, automation, and management of complex, stateful business processes across the extended enterprise.

Sonic XML Server™ provides high-speed XML processing, storage, and query services for management of Sonic ESB operational data.

The Sonic Collaboration Server™ is a B2B server which extends the capabilities of Sonic ESB to integrate external business partners using B2B protocols and Web services standards.

Sonic Database Service™ simplifies access and re-use of relational data sources in a serviceoriented architecture. Eliminating inflexible and costly custom coding, Sonic Database Service makes it easy to configure and execute queries, updates and stored procedures as broadly-available services on the Sonic ESB.

Sonic Workbench™ is an integrated services environment to model business processes and configure the relationships among services deployed by products in the Sonic SOA infrastructure products.

A Commitment to Customers

A strong product offering is more than just technology – it also includes the delivery of leading-edge services, support and education. Sonic Software provides expert services in the form of Consulting, Education and Technical Support to maximize the power of Sonic products and meet our customers' and partners' enterprise-wide application requirements. Sonic has also partnered with leading system integrators and ISVs to meet customer demands for tailored industry solutions.

Sonic Software products help over 1,000 organizations meet their top business priorities and realize the value of service-oriented architecture. Our commitment to providing leading-edge technology, and superior service and support enables our customers to achieve and sustain business agility in today's competitive markets. Faced with increased globalization, M&A activity and the need to stay "one step ahead" of the competition, the value of pervasive integration realized through an SOA has never been greater.

From the President

Sonic Software is accelerating the enteprise transition to service-oriented architecture (SOA) through our enterprise service bus (ESB). SOA has quickly become the prevailing model for building and connecting new business applications giving organizations the agility to pursue new business opportunities more effectively.

Introducing the first ESB in 2002, Sonic Software was one of the first software vendors to recognize the need for a new kind of infrastructure capable of connecting, mediating and controlling large-scale networks of services. The leading industry research firms have validated Sonic's early vision, recognizing ESB as critical infrastructure for supporting enterprise SOA requirements, and providing the industry with a clear definition of the ESB.

In the past year, Sonic once again advanced the state of the art for SOA infrastructure. In April 2004 Sonic introduced its Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture™, making transparent fault tolerance a reality for the first time. With the recent introduction of the Sonic SOA Suite™, Sonic significantly simplified standards-based integration, making it easier for organizations to achieve broad SOA adoption.

With over 200 customers of its SOA infrastructure products, Sonic Software remains the clear ESB technology and market leader.

Gregory J. O'Connor
President
Sonic Software Corporation