Sonic Media Coverage
02 Dec 2008
Leveraging SOA Management for Competitive Advantage
SOA management is part of SOA governance. SOA infrastructure turns monolithic applications and silo business functions into distributed services. The increased flexibility and agility adds complexity to security and access control.
25 Nov 2008
Progress Software key player in Big Bang experiement
Progress and SonicMQ played a key role when recording data at CERN.
17 Nov 2008
Total World Domination - Will SOA Take Over the World? (SOA feature)
Services are a modern way of looking at application functionality, says Progress Software SA MD Rick Parry. "When one views application functionality as a service, you realize that's what application functionality does – it's there to deliver service. The biggest inhibiting factor {to SOA} getting people to recognize and understand the concept of service."
13 Nov 2008
CRM's Holy Grail: How SOA can Unlock a 360-Degree View of the Customer
ice.net needed to build its systems architecture around that data model. Norberg choose two products from Progress Software, an enterprise service bus (ESB) called Progress Sonic, and a data integration tool called Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator.
12 Nov 2008
Guidebook for Getting SOA Right the First Time
It was great to see Beth Gold-Bernstein's latest post on SOA: Getting It Right, copies of which will be awarded to five selected attendees at next week's SOA in Action megaconference here at ebizQ. This past summer, I had the honor of emceeing the launch of the book, and discuss insights from the book with the various co-authors. The book actually had seven co-authors from various disciplines, each providing a unique perspective on getting started with SOA.
12 Nov 2008
Progress Software is a Key Player in Big Bang Experiement
Progress and SonicMQ played a key role when recording data at CERN.
11 Nov 2008
SOA: Getting it Right is a mashup book, edited by Jim Green, CEO of Composite Software, with chapters contributed by Jim Green, David Besemer, CTO of Composite Software, Luc Clément, Co-chair of OASIS UDDI Specification Technical Committee, Hub Vandervoort, CTO of Progress Software, Paul Butterworth, CTO of Amberpoint, Hemant Ramachandra, Managing Director of Business Systems Integration for BearingPoint, Jeff Schneider, CEO of Momentum SI.
11 Nov 2008
The Appropriate Information in Due Time
There are different ways of integrating a SOA in the retail business.
05 Nov 2008
CERN makes progress on giant physics project
Sonicmq was chosen by officials at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) to form the communications backbone of its Technical Infrastructure Monitoring (Tim) system, designed to alert researchers in the event of an emergency.
03 Nov 2008
CERN makes progress on giant physics project
SonicMQ allows the system to immediately alert operators in the control centre if there is a project-threatening disruption, such as a fire, cooling system failure or technical breakdown, so that it can be tackled quickly.
27 Oct 2008
Standards Are Standing in Way of External SOA
The promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a world where everything interoperates seamlessly, pieces of applications are reused endlessly and development of new systems is quick, cheap and easy. But despite some high-profile deployments and the spread of Web services, when it comes to financial firms doing serious business with each other, SOA is being held back by competing standards and varying implementations.
23 Oct 2008
Serving up better business performance
At Premier, for instance, the solution to Barna's dilemma turned out to be an SOA-based plant-floor intelligence and performance management application from Manuvis, built around data capture, storage, and retrieval technology from application infrastructure specialist Progress Software. Conventional operator control station panels attached to production machinery have been adapted to capture information as diverse as temperatures, pressures, voltages, and—of course—production output.
15 Oct 2008
Progress Invests in Mexico to leverage SOA
During the fith annual PTW, Progress Software presented its new line of products.
14 Oct 2008
How a Short-Term Issue Morphed into Long-Term SOA
I have always felt that one of the most lucid ROI cases that could be made for SOA is the time savings in avoiding duplicate data entry. Maybe it isn't a strategic global business gain of agility and insight that SOA eventually promises, but its one of those down-and-dirty areas of outright, demonstrable, cost savings.
29 Sep 2008
OppenheimerFunds Gets Return on Investment from Agile and SOA
According to Progress Software CTO Hub Vandervoort, the Sonic ESB allows developers to model the integration, instead of writing pieces of code for each connection. "It's actually more understandable by business analysts, and more changeable without the same level of complexity of writing and testing Java code," Vandervoort said
26 Sep 2008
OppenheimerFunds gets return on investment from Agile, SOA
OppenheimerFunds used to have a data entry problem. Address changes that customers made on its website had to be manually re-entered into a variety of back-end systems before they went into effect.
26 Sep 2008
OppenheimerFunds Gets Return on Investment from Agile and SOA
According to Progress Software CTO Hub Vandervoort, the Sonic ESB allows developers to model the integration, instead of writing pieces of code for each connection. "It's actually more understandable by business analysts, and more changeable without the same level of complexity of writing and testing Java code," Vandervoort said.
18 Sep 2008
Sonic ESB Improves Integration, Updates for Insurance BPO
McCamish is using the Sonic ESB from Progress Software to reduce the complexity of integrating their BPO data and rules architecture with their client's corporate and end user web sites. In specific, McCamish’s BPO offerings support many key functions associated with providing and managing insurance policies, including issuing new policies, billing, collection of premiums, customer account inquires and call center services, Sam Thomas, Executive McCamish’s Vice President, Product Management told IDN.
08 Sep 2008
New RFID Software Dramatically Simplifies Bookseller's Systems
An innovative RFID automation program from Progress Software can dramatically cut the time needed for inventory checks, decrease the need for labor and improve customer satisfaction. Dutch bookstore chain BGN, which is implementing the system, plans to have its inventory of about 2.2 million books marked with RFID chips by the end of 2009. In-store kiosks that enable customers to find books in the stores are a key part of the program.
01 Sep 2008
Imagine that you could check a carton of inventory in 10 seconds rather than five or six minutes and reduce labor, increase sales and ensure customer service and satisfaction at the same time. This retailer’s dream is no longer a fantasy thanks to an RFID-driven, end-to-end supply chain solution that enables companies to integrate day-to-day business tasks using service-oriented architecture (SOA). The innovative automation program from Progress Software is at the heart of the customer-centric strategy employed by BGN (Boekhandels Groep Nederland), the Dutch bookstore chain that operates 42 Selexyz stores in the Netherlands and carries anywhere from 25,000 to 275,000 books at each of its locations.
19 Aug 2008
McCamish Systems Improves BPO with Progress Sonic ESB
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, announced today that McCamish Systems, a supplier of Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) solutions to the insurance industry, has deployed the Progress® Sonic® ESB platform to create a service oriented architecture (SOA) that will help them provide integrated services to their BPO clients.
18 Aug 2008
McCamish Deploys Progress Sonic ESB Platform to Create A SOA
Progress Software announced that McCamish Systems has deployed the Progress Sonic ESB platform to create a service oriented architecture (SOA) that will help them provide integrated services to their BPO clients. As a result of the ESB, McCamish can reduce the complexity of integration to their client's corporate web sites by exposing standard web services.
18 Aug 2008
McCamish Deploys Progress Sonic ESB Platform to Create A SOA
Progress Software announced that McCamish Systems has deployed the Progress Sonic ESB platform to create a service oriented architecture (SOA) that will help them provide integrated services to their BPO clients. As a result of the ESB, McCamish can reduce the complexity of integration to their client's corporate web sites by exposing standard web services.
18 Aug 2008
McCamish Deploys Progress Sonic ESB Platform to Create A SOA
Progress Software announced that McCamish Systems has deployed the Progress Sonic ESB platform to create a service oriented architecture (SOA) that will help them provide integrated services to their BPO clients. As a result of the ESB, McCamish can reduce the complexity of integration to their client's corporate web sites by exposing standard web services.
18 Aug 2008
McCamish Deploys Progress Sonic ESB Platform to Create A SOA
Progress Software announced that McCamish Systems has deployed the Progress Sonic ESB platform to create a service oriented architecture (SOA) that will help them provide integrated services to their BPO clients. As a result of the ESB, McCamish can reduce the complexity of integration to their client's corporate web sites by exposing standard web services.
18 Aug 2008
Progress Software Explains SOA
Dr. Giles Nelson explains the mysteries of SOA and provides exapmles and explanations of implementations.
25 Jul 2008
CERN LHC is Monitored by Progress Technology
The world’s largest particle physics laboratory uses SonicMQ to monitor and control complex technical infrastructure.
22 Jul 2008
How to handle SOA vendor consolidation
The SOA concept -- developing a software architecture based on service components that can be mixed and matched as needed to reduce development time and increase application deployment flexibility -- is only a few years old, but the providers of SOA-supporting infrastructure are fast consolidating. Oracle captured the headlines with its acquisition of BEA Systems this spring, and Progress Software recently bought Iona Technologies.
22 Jul 2008
Get a Grip on SOA Vendor Consolidation
The SOA concept -- developing a software architecture based on service components that can be mixed and matched as needed to reduce development time and increase application deployment flexibility -- is only a few years old, but the providers of SOA-supporting infrastructure are fast consolidating. Oracle captured the headlines with its acquisition of BEA Systems this spring, and Progress Software recently bought Iona Technologies.
22 Jul 2008
How to handle SOA vendor consolidation
"Focusing on one vendor provides the benefit of reducing finger-pointing between vendors when things go wrong," Heffner says, but that doesn't mean having to choose a single provider for your SOA infrastructure. Instead, companies that don't want to manage lots of vendors for their SOA infrastructure can use an integrator to handle the various providers or choose a primary vendor that then manages the other providers. "Forrester's rule of thumb is to focus on a primary vendor without ruling out 'best of breed' substitutions," he says.
16 Jul 2008
Seven SOA experts explain how to ‘just do it’
No one thinks it all through at once. No one puts all the pieces in place perfectly. But once on the right path, it is more straightforward than it first seems, and additional pieces fall into place logically.
11 Jul 2008
Quick Poll: What does your enterprise architecture group deliver?
In the first of my own two-cent response to Jeff's, I said, "If you want an actionable enterprise architecture, you must go beyond artifacts" Seeing my words in Richard's post, combined with a completely unrelated discussion with Hub Vandervoort on standards organizations, reference implementations, and open source communities, got me wondering, what are most enterprise architecture group's responsible for delivering?
11 Jul 2008
The SOA Market is Growing at $52 Billion
According to a forecast of AMR Research, the market for SOA products and services will double by 2012.
11 Jun 2008
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.
04 Jun 2008
Insurers Are Discovering A SOA
According to FAMI's Edwardson, the carrier plans to go live in early June with Bedford, Mass.-based Progress Software's Sonic ESB, an enterprise service bus, as the core of a large technology modernization effort. The goal of the enterprise service bus solution, Edwardson says, is to improve ease of use on future integration efforts with various new and existing applications.
02 Jun 2008
Top Insurer Streamlines Apps with ESB
Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Co. will streamline many businesscritical apps, including billing, policy administration, and claims management, with an SOA powered with Sonic ESB.
19 May 2008
Sonic ESB 7.6 of Progress Software simplifies SOA development
Sonic 7.6 now offers more productivity for the development and management of service oriented architecture (SOA). In addition to prototypes and templates, extensive tutorials are now available.
09 May 2008
Doctor Visits with all Patient Information at Hand
"Barmherzige Brüder, the biggest hospital in Austria, is using an Progress Software based solution. The software allows medical practitioners and the nurses have all important patient information on their laptops when visiting a patient."
27 Apr 2008
Web 2.0, RIAs & SOA - Exclusive Q&A with Gordon Van Huizen
When we speak of enterprise mash-ups, composite applications and software as a service (SaaS), it’s easy to forget that you actually need infrastructure behind the user experience to make it happen," says Gordon Van Huizen (pictured) in this exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON Media's SOAWorld Magazine. SOA middleware is among the fastest growing segments of the software industry, Van Huizen notes, adding: "I believe that the increased interest in Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications will drive the growth of middleware faster than EAI did."
17 Apr 2008
Web 2.0 and RIAs Will Drive the Growth of Middleware
Exclusive Q&A with Gordon Van Huizen, VP of Products, Progress Software.
13 Apr 2008
Van Huizen: Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications is Driving SOA Middleware Growth
Exclusive Q&A with Gordon Van Huizen, VP of Products, Progress Software
10 Apr 2008
Data Integration: Defining the Common Model
Looking at Network transformation and process agility are telecoms industry imperatives. However, only by adopting common data model architectures and ensuring data interoperability across all of their systems will carriers avoid challenging, costly and inefficient new service deployments and maximise the potential of new architectures such as SOA.
07 Apr 2008
IBM, Others Bring Event-Driven Tools to SOA
There's nothing intrinsic about SOA that prevents an event-driven approach, but many SOA platforms didn't account for event-driven services in their designs, said Hub Vandervoot, CTO of Progress Software. (Its DataDirect Technologies unit announced the addition of event-driven capabilities for mainframe integration in SOA environments on April 4.)
04 Apr 2008
ebizQ Sneak Peak Podcast: Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, on SOA in Financial Services
This podcast is a sneak peak of a live panel discussion that will occur on April 16, called "Visibility, Control and Evolution: Building on SOA to Meet Today's Financial Services Industry Challenges
01 Apr 2008
Tech Traffic Cop: SOA Tries the Enterprise System on for Size
Unlike Oracle, which offers its own ESB, Infor will rely on Progress Software's Sonic bus.
01 Apr 2008
Hannaford Breach Highlights Messaging System Struggles
Questions remain about how an attacker managed to place malware onto servers at all of Hannaford's nearly 300 grocery stores. But one researcher who has studied information exchange software warns about messaging system misconfiguration issues that could lead to the type of breach experienced by Hannaford.
28 Mar 2008
Two interconnected debates are raging in the blogsphere over how service-oriented architecture (SOA) may be running into resistance in 2008
05 Jan 2008
SOA is About Collaboration, Not Command and Control
SOA, by its very nature, encourages a highly decentralized, loosely coupled approach to management. That's why it often is a difficult fit within organizations that attempt to shoe-horn "SOA" approaches into rigid, hidebound corporate cultures.
Progress Software's Hub Vandervoort recently published an ebook, Socially Oriented Architecture, that talks about the role of management and corporate culture in SOA success. Hub explains "The bottom line is trust and commitment have to replace command and control for SOA to be successful in organizations."
Jan 2008
New Tools Connect SOA to Business Success
The challenge for SOA proponents is to be able to demonstrate how the architecture can tackle even the most vexing business problems, and provide a return to the business in places where it counts most. [With Sonic,] Chicago-based Kemper Auto and Home Insurance uses SOA to modernize the company’s network of legacy systems, avoiding the need to take systems offline for months at a time and disrupt business.
