SOA Integration

With deployment of SOA, Integration of Applications Is Simple

The integration of technology resources is a critical point of competitiveness for today's global enterprise. To maintain or improve market share, enterprises must be flexible and agile, able to change direction on a dime in order to exploit new opportunities or mitigate competitive threats. A flexible and versatile software infrastructure is needed to speed development and deployment of applications that can provide competitive advantage. But many enterprises are stuck with antiquated infrastructure cobbled together over time in response to specific evolving needs, without a plan to provide a foundation for future needs. To solve this dilemma, many enterprises are adopting a service oriented architecture (SOA) integration strategy. By allowing all application and information resources to be converted into modular services that can be combined or reused, SOA integration allows the enterprise to better leverage existing assets and reduce the total cost of ownership while laying a foundation for the smooth and efficient evolution of technology over time. When leading enterprises seek the software to support their SOA deployment for better application integration, they turn to Progress Software for the answer.

Progress Software Provides Leading SOA Integration Platform

Progress Software offers a suite of solutions that simplify the development, deployment and integration of applications within an SOA environment. These SOA infrastructure solutions include:

Progress® OpenEdge® for application development;
Progress® Sonic™ for messaging-based SOA deployment;
Progress® Actional® for SOA management and security;
Progress® DataXtend™ for semantic data integration; and
Progress® Apama® for complex event processing.

Progress technology helps enterprises to achieve the flexibility and agility necessary to compete in a global marketplace by delivering the tools to cost-effectively manage all aspects of SOA integration. With Progress, enterprises can make better use of existing solutions, adopt new applications with ease and respond rapidly to changing business requirements. By reducing costs and speeding development of critical applications, our OpenEdge product line enables the enterprise to maintain competitiveness, maximize opportunities and protect investments.

Streamline Integration with Cutting-Edge SOA Tools

Progress offers a number of innovative components to help simplify and streamline SOA integration. Progress® SonicMQ® is a highly scalable messaging environment that raises the bar for high availability and fault-tolerant messaging. By delivering extensive connectivity and extraordinary reliability, SonicMQ reduces operational risk and decreases the development time and administrative complexity involved in creating high-availability solutions. Progress® Sonic ESB®, the world's first enterprise service bus, allows integrated services to be deployed and managed from any physical location, and frees the enterprise from the inflexible and costly customizations required by other SOA integration technologies. And the OpenEdge Application Server provides a foundation for building applications that can connect and extend services across the organization and to partners, customers and suppliers.

Once an SOA has been successfully developed and deployed, Progress offers additional SOA integration components, such as DataXtend SI, that allow the enterprise to build a common information model that ensures that the free flow of data is valid based on business rules for the users and applications. The SOA governance and management features of Actional ensure that services are secure and compliant with appropriate regulatory and business policies.

In addition to SOA solutions, Progress Software also delivers webclient solutions, entererprise application integration solutions, business process management, and a robust software development tool with a development environment that serves as a superior alternative to VB development.