Application Integration
Application Integration is Critical to Enterprise Competitiveness
The ability to integrate applications to support business needs is an absolute competitive differentiator in the today's technology-driven economy. The interconnectedness of the global marketplace is driving organizations of every size to interact with each and exchange data with increasing volume and speed. Application integration strategies strive to make this possible. Yet the average company is built on a technological infrastructure that is a hybrid of old and new, often comprised of inefficient point-to-point connections and proprietary islands of information. Disparate approaches to solving this integration challenge result in greater difficulty and cost as organizations continue to evolve. Perhaps the most promising solution to enterprise application integration is the service oriented architecture. And for enterprises everywhere seeking the infrastructure to support such an approach, Progress Software offers the leading solution.
Progress® OpenEdge® Offers Leading Solution for Application Integration
Progress OpenEdge is a business application platform that simplifies development, deployment and management of business solutions, as well as their swift and easy integration. Built on a service oriented architecture, the OpenEdge suite of products includes Sonic ESB, the world's first enterprise service bus, a new and powerful way to enhance application integration. With OpenEdge, enterprises can more easily integrate incompatible and distributed systems, coupling application and Web services and extending them throughout the enterprise. OpenEdge reduces the complexity of IT infrastructure and offers greater flexibility, reliability and scalability in support of new service-oriented business initiatives that may help capitalize on changing market conditions. The OpenEdge platform allows enterprises to use the best approach to a technological challenge, with interfaces for industry-standard technologies such as Java, XML, Microsoft .NET, Web services, and more.
Integration of Diverse Applications Made Simpler with Progress
OpenEdge® Application Server provides the foundation for integration of applications with a powerful business-processing engine that can be accessed easily by OpenEdge, .NET and Java clients. With OpenEdge, the ability to connect and extend applications across an enterprise and to customers and partners outside the firewall is virtually unlimited. And OpenEdge® Enterprise Messaging provides a scalable messaging server environment that provides extensive connectivity, unmatched management capabilities, remarkable reliability and complete security for distributed communications.
Progress also delivers solutions for the SOA architect, for software architecture and solutions architecture, for service oriented development, and a programming language called Progress 4GL, a robust alternative to VB development.
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