Begin your OpenEdge Integration with Enterprise Messaging

OpenEdge® Applications As Services On The Enterprise Service Bus

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OpenEdge® and the Sonic ESB® Product Family: Integrating the World's Best Business Applications

Today, being able to react quickly and cost-effectively to the changing needs of your customers is essential to staying competitive. Many organizations are saving development time and money by assembling new application features from existing services. These organizations are also recognizing that collaborative commerce—the ability to interoperate, sharing information across applications both within their own enterprise as well as outside with partners and other vendors, is also essential for success.

In short, all organizations, including yours, need to become increasingly agile and flexible to remain competitive and meet ever-changing supply chain demands.

Streamlining development and enabling connectivity inside and outside your organization requires an integration strategy at the technology level as well as at the business level. Broad-based integration of heterogeneous applications and business systems constitutes an important step toward making an organization more agile, responsive, and competitive. Web services are an important step towards increased agility, coupled with standards-based enabling technology to facilitate communication and data sharing.

To meet the growing requirements for a company's integration strategy, OpenEdge offers a standards-based, distributed infrastructure, tightly coupled with the industry's most reliable Java-based integration solutions - SonicMQ® and Sonic ESB®. Progress OpenEdge offers support for Web services, connections to SonicMQ and Sonic ESB, and the other components of the Sonic SOA infrastructure and enterprise messaging solutions. As a result, organizations can expand their integration reach, reduce their integration costs, and significantly enhance their business agility.

Progress is ready to help you embrace change and meet your business goals and technical demands with integration services built on Service-Oriented Architecture principles and methodologies.

Begin your OpenEdge Integration with Enterprise Messaging

The vision of component assembly from existing services rather than writing each line of code means faster time to market at lower costs. Reliable enterprise messaging enhances the environment by ensuring that the communication between services is guaranteed—messages are never lost. By utilizing standards-based messaging, organizations can fulfill business and end-user demands for reliability and interoperability today.

Progress OpenEdge® and SonicMQ® provide the most scalable messaging server environment, delivering extensive connectivity, unmatched management capabilities, exceptional reliability, and comprehensive security for business-critical communications across the extended enterprise. The proven performance, patent-pending Dynamic Routing Architecture™ (DRA) and advanced clustering technologies allow OpenEdge and SonicMQ deployments to scale without limits.

SonicMQ is the backbone for Open Standards Messaging with features that enable connectivity to the Internet, along with support for OpenEdge Application Server and other industry application servers. OpenEdge Application Server is the foundation that provides the interface between the OpenEdge ABL (formerly Progress 4GL) business logic and the messaging backbone. Developers can easily generate and assimilate a range of message types along with the data that is critical for business applications.

It is easy and seamless for OpenEdge applications to connect using SonicMQ messaging, both to other Progress (OpenEdge), non-Progress applications, as well as Java and .NET. Guaranteed delivery ensures that messages exchanged between business applications are never lost due to any type of software, network, or hardware failure.

Once the messaging foundation is established, organizations can incrementally introduce work flow features giving them and their customers the ultimate flexibility of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Business agility is thus achieved by embracing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

OpenEdge® Applications As Services On The Enterprise Service Bus

Today's organizations face tremendous integration challenges that are best addressed by a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to dramatically improve the alignment and flexibility of the computing infrastructure with the needs of the business. An effective SOA requires an infrastructure that can accommodate integration across all IT resources, regardless of where they are deployed.

Sonic ESB is the world's first enterprise service bus, a fundamentally new and profoundly powerful and efficient approach to application integration. Combining XML, enterprise-grade communication services, and a service-oriented architecture based on Web services standards, Sonic ESB provides a cost-effective way to centrally develop, deploy, and manage services distributed across the extended enterprise. A clear evolution from traditional integration brokers and home-grown integration solutions, the Sonic ESB supports incremental deployment, enables companies to reuse resources from one integration project to the next, and is flexible enough to start at the project level and scale to virtually any size business.

OpenEdge Application Server now provides a first-class interface for OpenEdge applications on the enterprise service bus. Through this connection, an OpenEdge application can be deployed as a service directly on the ESB, and can be configured, monitored, and managed by the Sonic Management Console. Any application connected to the bus can then access OpenEdge applications as reusable services provide specialized solutions.

Through technology innovations, OpenEdge and the Sonic service-oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise messaging products have helped numerous clients rapidly and flexibly integrate services and applications within the departmental landscape and across the enterprise.