SOA Infrastructure
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating the enterprise as integrated, reusable business processes or services. The vision of SOA infrastructure is powerful because service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to make businesses more agile, make business services broadly available and re-usable, and eliminate boundaries between business functions and value chains.
The vision is achievable, but real-world SOA infrastructure can be challenging. In today's highly competitive landscape, many enterprise infrastructures span departments and geographies. IT professionals must find an easy and affordable way to integrate, and provide visibility and business insight across many different platforms, data sources and applications. And all of these systems need to be fast, always available and secure.
Today's enterprise integration dilemma has become one of the core reasons why SOA has become the preferred mechanism for IT professionals who want to deliver business agility and complete visibility to information and processes across the enterprise. In choosing an SOA infrastructure provider, you need to start by looking for a vendor who shares a similiar SOA vision. Progress Software believes that this is a prerequisite for aligning the technology with your business goals.
The Progress® SOA Portfolio provides a comprehensive range of capabilities for the entire SOA lifecycle. Together, they deliver the agility, re-use and integration you expect from SOA with the manageability and robustness you require. Free from cross-product dependencies, each best-in-class SOA infrastructure product can be deployed independently, and delivers its full benefit in a real-world, multi-vendor environment.
| The Progress® SOA Portfolio is comprised of interoperable, best-in-class service infrastructure products used to build, deploy and manage a service-oriented architecture. From first project to global deployment, our portfolio provides robust, yet agile SOA infrastructure designed for challenging, real-world environments. Over 1000 customers rely on Progress as their independent supplier of reliable, interoperable SOA infrastructure software. Read the whitepaper, The Right Infrastructure for SOA. Now That's Progress., to learn about a couple of SOA infrastructure choices that are critical to supporting the incremental roll-out of an optimal SOA design center. |
Embrace the Value of SOA with Smart SOA Infrastructure
A key part of the business requirement that SOA offers is real time information access. Progress products are built for optimal integration and interoperability and are modular for scalable SOA adoption. As a result, they provide the foundation for managing loosely coupled business processes so that these processes can seamlessly bridge computing, organizational, geographic, and semantic boundaries. Our SOA Portfolio products allow companies to deploy a practical SOA that includes today's existing systems and can scale over time with the growth of your business:
- Enterprise Service Bus
Progress® Sonic ESB® provides flexible integration and re-use of business applications within an SOA. It connects, mediates and orchestrates services wherever they are deployed. Sonic ESB eliminates brittle point-to-point integration and provides a robust, event-driven architecture that can evolve, scale and extend throughout the enterprise.
- Enterprise Messaging
Progress® SonicMQ® is a standards-based enterprise messaging system that delivers the industry’s highest levels of performance, reliability and availability.
- SOA Management
Progress® Actional® SOA Management provides end-to-end visibility and control across a distributed, multi-vendor SOA environment.
- Data Interoperability
Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator (SI) simplifies the creation, maintenance and governance of common-model based data services in an SOA. It ensures semantic consistency across the multiple, complex, and ever-changing data models in a service-oriented architecture.
- Complex Event Processing
Progress® Apama® monitors fast-moving events, detects patterns, and takes action — all within milliseconds. Apama's integrated dashboards provide business insight based on changing operational data in an event-driven SOA.
- Business Process Management (BPM)
Progress partners with best-in-class BPM platform vendors to provide sophisticated process modeling and management. BPM tools leverage Sonic ESB to integrate with a distributed and heterogeneous computing environment. Actional provides visibility and control of each step of a BPM process and its interactions with the distributed SOA environment.
- Registry/Repository
Progress partners with best-in-class SOA registry / repository vendors. Sonic ESB integrates with standards-based SOA registries to locate and invoke Web services. SOA registries leverage Actional for lifecycle SOA management, augmenting registry service metadata with Actional's runtime data on service usage, performance, and interdependencies.
- Mainframe Integration
Progress® Shadow from Progress subsidiary DataDirect offers a single, unified architecture that integrates the mainframe into an SOA. It incorporates diverse legacy applications and data without compromising mainframe performance, security or operational cost.
Delivering the Business Agility that Successful SOA Infrastructure Requires
To deliver the business agility promised by SOA infrastructure requires technology that can truly cross the boundaries of and connect today's distributed organizations and heterogeneous systems - quickly, seamlessly, and reliably. Progress focuses – as no platform vendor can – on the cross cutting concerns in SOA. Progress also has the hands-on implementation experience to reduce the risk of SOA projects while delivering the available business benefits. And the Progress practical SOA approach, represented in the new SOA Maturity Model, enables companies to get started on SOA today and break it down into achievable projects that progressively deliver greater and greater business benefits. In fact, a practical path to SOA success and ROI.
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