In an increasingly complex and competitive global marketplace, enterprises have sought competitive advantage by reengineering business processes to deliver greater performance, reduced costs, and improved agility. While a variety of approaches to business process reengineering have arisen in recent years, the use of service-oriented architecture has caught the attention of many as a solution with enormous potential. In a service-oriented architecture, or SOA, applications and information assets that once were unable to efficiently communicate with each other are modified to become modular units, or services, in a standards-based environment. By freeing applications from hard-coded dependencies and making them available to other resources and all users, an SOA delivers a powerful platform for business process reengineering. New solutions to evolving information challenges can be created by combining two or more services, solving problems cost-effectively and with greater responsiveness. For the software services infrastructure that gives companies the agility to easily deploy and manage an SOA, enterprises have chosen Progress Software.
Progress Software delivers a wide range of software infrastructure products for the enterprise seeking better integration of applications and improved management of data in real time the keys to efficiently reengineering and improving processes throughout the business. To support the deployment of a service-oriented architecture, Progress offers Progress® Sonic ESB®, an enterprise service bus that facilitates the flexible combination and reuse of applications and other information components. Sonic ESB spans clusters and security domains to form a federated environment that can be managed from any point. Configurable service interaction eliminates hard-wired dependencies, so enterprises can more easily deploy project and quickly evolve, scale and extend them without disruptive coding. Progress also offers the industry's leading platform for event stream processing Progress® Apama® ESP Platform. By allowing enterprises to better monitor and manage real-time data, Apama promotes faster optimization of business process reengineering.
With Progress Software service infrastructure technology, organizations can:
In addition to business process management software, Progress delivers solutions for application integration, enterprise integration, infrastructure software, service oriented architecture (SOA), master data management and more.