New Book Reveals How to Create SOA the Right Way
The book, An Implementor’s Guide to Service Oriented Architecture: Getting it Right, explores SOA related topics ranging from design services, registries and repositories, to runtime management, and organizing for success with insight provided by AmberPoint, BearingPoint, Composite Software, and MomentumSI, in addition to Progress Software. The book includes a chapter about ESBs, written by Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, that includes advice on when to use one, the different types being used, typical use cases, as well as the 7 key points of mediation that an ESB should perform. Purchase your copy from Amazon.com.

OUR PRODUCTS

Sonic ESB
The industry's #1 ESB. Service oriented architecture (SOA) is changing the way enterprises integrate and manage information assets. An SOA infrastructure maximizes flexibility while simplifying management, and the enterprise service bus (ESB) makes this task much easier. Progress® Sonic ESB® eliminates the rigidity and fragility of point-to-point integration with a robust, event-driven architecture that can evolve, scale and extend throughout the enterprise.

SonicMQ
The award winning enterprise messaging environment. The importance of enterprise messaging to operational productivity cannot be overstated. Messaging systems ensure that communication and transactions happen accurately and reliably. Progress® SonicMQ® is a standards-based enterprise messaging system that supports complex networking environments by offering unmatched service availability, superior scalability and comprehensive management capabilities.

HIGHLIGHTS

Why should you deploy an ESB? An enterprise service bus (ESB) provides you with interoperability across many distributed, heterogeneous services and systems. Watch the video above and hear Hub Vandervoort tell you more about the power of the industry's 1st ESB - Sonic ESB.

ESB Lessons Learned
Listen as Larry Fulton, Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., provides key insights on ESB adoption led by today's business-driven agility model. Learn how to run a successful pilot project and how to build and gain wider adoption in the business community.

Is SOA a step closer to the code reuse panacea?
Progress Software has been touting code reuse dating back to the days of client/server application development. How does Software Oriented Architecture (SOA) expand those goals and move developers a step closer to true code reuse? Progress CTO Hub Vandervoort explains on this edition of Network World Panorama.

A Playbook for ESBs
The enterprise service bus (ESB) has emerged as a key enabler for more agile and effective integration across enterprise systems and business processes. The paper, A Playbook for ESBs, introduces four integration patterns for ESBs and the enterprise integration scenarios they help make possible.

Multiple ESBs: SOA Reality in a Federated Environment
Listen as Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, and an industry expert from Gartner, Inc., discuss how companies that are working in federated environments need to approach the governance of their SOAs in both run-time and design-time contexts.

NEWS

18 Apr 2008
Web 2.0 and RIAs Will Drive the Growth of Middleware

07 Apr 2008

IBM, Others Bring Event-Driven Tools to SOA

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PRESS

18 Aug 2008 - McCamish Systems Improves Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services for Insurers with Progress(R) Sonic(R) ESB

25 Jun 2008 - Progress Software Corporation to Acquire IONA Technologies

16 Jun 2008 - Seven SOA Experts Co-author Practical “How-To” Book, “An Implementor’s Guide to SOA: Getting it Right”

27 May 2008 - Farmers Alliance Selects Progress(R) Sonic ESB(R) for SOA Deployment

EVENTS

Archived Webinar
ESB Lessons Learned

Podcast
Hub Vandervoort, CTO
7 Points of SOA Mediation