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Business applications are the most visible part of your enterprise, but without the right services infrastructure, you may not be realizing their full potential. Build a service-oriented architecture (SOA) with products from Progress Software and applications can share services and seamlessly interoperate.

Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)

Progress helps organizations build a more adaptable IT infrastructure that delivers business agility and complete visibility to information and processes across the enterprise. Our technologies allow companies to deploy a practical SOA infrastructure that includes leveraging existing systems, being able to easily integrate new services and applications, and making sure that it can scale over time. Progress technology solutions that help deliver on the true promise SOA include:

• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  An ESB is software infrastructure that simplifies the integration and flexible reuse of business applications using a service-oriented architecture. 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.
  
  
• SOA Management and Governance
  SOA management and runtime governance solutions from Progress® Actional® provide enterprise-class software to address the critical challenges of securing, governing and managing SOA environments.
  
  
• Semantic Data Integration
  Connecting services from diverse applications isn't enough, they need to be able to talk to each other. Progress® DataXtend™ Semantic Integrator (SI) solves the problem of validating data exchanges between systems by focusing on the business integrity of data — not just ensuring that the format of that data is correct, but ensuring that data is valid based on business rules for the users and applications that require the data.

Enterprise Messaging

Organizations need to architect systems that connect their enterprise and beyond, continuously servicing their business partners and customers. Messaging middleware allows distributed applications to communicate with each other, helping IT organizations solve a variety of business problems. Progress Software delivers one of the industry's highest performing enterprise messaging solutions in Progress® SonicMQ®. This standards-based enterprise messaging system supports complex networking environments by offering unmatched service availability, superior scalability and comprehensive management capabilities.

Learn more about enterprise messaging solutions:

• Enterprise Messaging
• High Availability
• Enterprise Messaging Resource Center

Enterprise Application Integration

Sonic ESB helps IT organizations integrate and flexibly re-use diverse business applications through the use of open standards and a service-oriented architecture. Sonic ESB makes complex systems more adaptable to changing business requirements and provides the enterprise qualities of service required for large, physically distributed deployments. Customers use Sonic ESB to reduce process cycle time, gather and disseminate information, and reliably respond to business conditions as they occur. Some key integration patterns that Sonic ESB can simplify include:

• Continuous Pipeline Processing
  When incompatible business applications are bridged by batch processing or manual intervention, business processes slow down. Migrating from batch to continuous processing will reduce cycle time, gain consistent, up-to-date visibility into in-process data, reduce the cost of processing peak transaction loads, and put in place a more flexible architecture to handle new business requirements.
  
  
• Remote Information Access
  User-facing portals are an ideal way to share information collected from multiple applications. The challenge is doing that without compromising the security, privacy or autonomy of the participating applications. To do this effectively, you need a distributed enterprise service bus that can cross wide-area networks, security domains, and organizational boundaries.
  
  
• Remote Data Distribution
  Simplify reliable information distribution and enhance agility in a changing IT environment. Exploit support for notification style SOA using Sonic ESB.
  
  
• Respond to Real Time Business Events
  Real-time business events can be easily distributed to additional systems on the ESB as the need arises. New systems can join the bus and instantly subscribe to events without disruption to existing services and scenarios already running on the bus. This allows new events to be quickly integrated across nodes in a global environment with zero administrative overhead.

Related Topics

• Business Process Management Software
• Business Process Re-engineering
• Infrastructure Software
• Messaging Software
• SOA Integration

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