Did you know that Progress® Sonic® was the industry's first Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)? It was, however, introduced in 2002 by Sonic Software which was an independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation. In April independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc. named...

I’ve been working in high-tech marketing roles for over 20 years now and every time some new marketing collateral comes across my desk and “I get it”, I get excited. As a matter of fact, my first job in a high tech company was as a marketing assistant to an R&D group at BBN Systems and...

It is a common software and integration architectural principle that the more dependencies built into a service, the less reusable that service becomes.  So then, why do some many vendors and enterprises continually create tightly coupled services and therefore lose re-usability?

The...

When discussing an ESB, many people keep it simple, sticking to the generalities of SOA and sharing services to build composite business applications.  Certainly, these are incredibly important benefits of an ESB but what do these discussions really mean at the architecture level? ...

This week's deep dive into the gears of Enterprise Integration take us to the Dynamic Routing Architecture or DRA.  SonicMQ's Dynamic Routing Architecture (DRA)...

As we continue our series on Enterprise Integration as a foundational element for Operational Responsiveness we venture into the world of Performance, Scalability and Reliability.

These characteristics are vital to...

On Friday last week I visited Progress customer, Royal Dirkzwager, in the Netherlands. It’s nice to be able to talk about a customer publically - Dirkzwager have been a generous public reference for some time. This was my first visit to their...

Over the last year you’ve heard a lot about Operational Responsiveness from Progress and what it means to and for your business - the ability to:

• Respond to changing business conditions as they...

On Monday we announced the release of Progress® Sonic® 8.0. Sonic 8.0 enhances existing SOA infrastructure and enterprise integration by introducing the...