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Business Process Improvement

Service Oriented Architecture Enhances Business Process Improvement

In the last two decades, business process improvement has become a widely accepted path to greater efficiency and profitability in operations. Oriented around outcomes instead of routines, business process improvement aims to provide significant change in organizational performance. In recent years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has arisen as a significant tool for achieving this task. In an SOA, new and legacy applications are broken down into modular units of business functionality or services, which can be made available for access by any other service on the network. Consequently, information and processes that were once isolated in purpose-built or legacy applications can be combined—and reused with other functionality—to quickly respond to the needs of business improvement. For enterprises seeking applications to implement SOA, Progress Software offers industry-leading solutions.

Progress Software Delivers Innovative Business Process Improvement

Progress Software offers several SOA solutions that support and enhance business process improvement efforts. Progress® Sonic ESB® is an enterprise service bus that simplifies the integration of applications in an SOA environment. With Sonic ESB, J2EE applications, .NET applications, legacy message brokers, databases and more can all be made equally available for interaction with other resources to form more powerful solutions to meet evolving information requirements and business requirements. With the full integration of the Progress® Sonic™ BPEL Server™ into the Sonic ESB, companies can also rapidly develop, debug, and run sophisticated business processes that bridge distributed organizations and their suppliers, partners, and customers and meet large-scale information requirements.

Sonic ESB also seamless integrates with other Progress solutions for further—and flexible—support of business process improvement:

  • Progress® DataXtend™ Semantic Integrator (SI) solves the problem of point-to-point data transformation with an approach that makes it easier to create a common data model to mediate incompatible data schema. This allows organizations to more quickly and easily integrate data across applications and evolve an SOA with diverse services, systems, and information—to adapt and improve business processes.

  • The Progress® Actional® SOA Management product family give organizations visibility into and control of SOA business processes. Actional products provide real-time and historical operational metrics, issue alerts on service-level violations, and enable rapid root-cause analysis of their cause. Progress® Actional® for Continuous Service Optimization also provides user-configurable business metrics as well as automated and manual mechanisms for optimizing infrastructure performance to align with business goals.

Apama: Improving Business Processes with Fast-moving Data

Progress® Apama® solutions enable business process improvement for industries such as financial services and applications such as RFID tracking by applying complex event processing (CEP) to the daunting challenge of low-latency response to fast-moving data. A complete platform for building CEP solutions, Apama allows business users and IT to design, test, and deploy event scenarios that monitor, analyze and act on streaming data in milliseconds, enabling the enterprise to more quickly refine processes.

Business Process Improvement Made Easier

With Sonic ESB, DataXtend SI, and Actional products enterprises can improve businesss processes by:

  • Extending and integrating the functionality and information of new and legacy applications throughout the organization through the easy and efficient deployment of an service-oriented architecture.
  • Easily integrating—and reusing—services representing diverse technologies, without modifying underlying applications or introducing hard-coded dependencies
  • Monitoring and measuring operational performance and improvements across a distributed enterprise with automatically generated dashboards.
  • Easily managing a large SOA deployment from a single console
  • Responding to the need for business process improvement and other business changes by quickly adapting IT systems to support the new business goals.

Progress Software delivers solutions for service-oriented architecture (or SOA), QoS management, enterprise information integration, semantic data integration, messaging middleware and more.