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.
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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.
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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.
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.
SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture Are you finding it difficult to align your SOA infrastructure across your extended enterprise? Listen as Hub Vandervoort, CTO of Progress Software, talks about how an enterprise can achieve successful SOA federation—technically and socially.
Is SOA a step closer to the code reuse panacea? 
A Playbook for ESBs 
Multiple ESBs: SOA Reality in a Federated Environment
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