15 Oct 2008
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Faster than a speeding bullet. Is your business ready?
"Faster than a speeding bullet" doesn't just refer to superheroes anymore; it's the velocity your business needs to compete. For example, the standard for trade-to-settlement time in financial services has gone from T+3 (trade date plus three days) to T+0 in just a few years. Event-driven SOA infrastructure—from ESBs to real-time data services and complex event processing (CEP)—can streamline provisioning and visibility in your business. Register for the paper Faster Than A Speeding Bullet to learn how you can stay ahead of today's increasing business velocity.
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08 Oct 2008
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Common Models in SOA: Tackling the Data Integration Problem
Creating an SOA without a data integration strategy to address semantic challenges will limit an SOA project at best, and doom it to failure at worst. Creating a common model ensures that all the information passed between the various systems and services within the SOA is consistent. This approach can significantly reduce SOA project timescales, lower development costs and avoid problems associated with poor data quality. This paper, written by Dave Hollander, Mile High XML, presents ideas on how you can tackle the data integration problem head on.
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22 Sep 2008
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View a 5 Minute Demo of Progress® Actional®
Imagine optimizing your business-critical applications without coding or configuration. You can with Actional. Watch the product demo to see how Actional addresses cross-system visibility and troubleshooting performance and availability issues—with minimal latency and a low TCO.
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02 Sep 2008
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SOA Management: Do you really need it? What the cost is for not having it.
Presented by Dan Foody, VP of ActionalProducts at Progress Software
What the cost is for not having it. Did you forget to think about SOA management when you developed your SOA infrastructure deployment plan? Listen as Dan gives an example of a company that did just that and regretted it. Make your SOA more agile by making sure that the right SOA management tools are in place before you deloy.
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18 Aug 2008
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Progress Software Buys IONA, Mindreef: Expands Options
for Business-Critical SOA, ESB
Featuring: Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, and Integration Developer News
Hub shares insights into the purchase of two 'companies to watch' in the ESB and SOA sector - IONA Technologies and Mindreef Inc. Hear how the purchases will drive Progress toward 2 main goals for customers: (a) improve collaboration among designers, architects and even business managers; and (2) provide more options for getting started with (and building out) business-critical ESB/SOA projects.
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31 Jul 2008
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SOA and Cloud Computing
Presented by Dan Foody, VP of Products for Actional at Progress Software
A brief podcast that briefly describes what "we" mean by cloud computing and how cloud computing may affect your existing SOA infrastructure.
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16 Jul 2008
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Data Interoperability to Fulfill the Promise of SOA
Presented by John Wilmes and Martin Creaner, President & CTO, TM Forum
SOA relies on standards. To fulfill the promise of SOA, you need data interoperability. It stands to reason then that there need to be standards for data interoperability. John shares the good news that the standards are here, and they're ready for prime time.
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16 Jun 2008
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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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16 Jun 2008
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Event-driven SOA vs CEP. What is the difference?
Presented by Giles Nelson, Director of Technology at Progress Software
How does event-driven SOA differ from CEP? With all the internet chatter about event-driven SOA, many people have asked "how is event-driven SOA different from complex event processing?" Listen as Giles presents examples of an event-driven styles of business and what industries he feels would truly benefit from an event-driven SOA infrastructure.
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10 Jun 2008
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Implementing SOA during a Recession
Presented by Dan Foody, VP of ActionalProducts at Progress Software
By now we all know that service-oriented architecture (SOA) isn't something you buy out of the box. It's also a long term initiative that involves planning, implementation and fine-tuning. But when budgets are tight, many companies may slow down or even stop their SOA initiatives. During this podcast Dan talks about the importance of maintaining your initiatives during an economic downturn by looking for the quick wins and hits that will allow you continually enhance your SOA infrastructure. He talks about business-critical issues such as security and compliance, and SOA governance that just can't be ignored - even during a recession.
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22 May 2008
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Gain Better Enterprise Visibility of Your SOA
Presented by Giles Nelson, Director of Technology at Progress Software
What if you could gain better visibility of business systems and services across your SOA infrastructure? At Progress Software, we believe that you can achieve the promise of SOA without compromising your architecture or getting locked into a single-vendor approach. Listen as Giles presents his observations on the challenges that you and other enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements, deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements, and how - at the end of the day - you'll be able to monitor and analyze operations so that you can make smart decisions that will improve ROI and reduce risk.
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22 May 2008
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Podcast Series: Data Integration in SOA and the Common Model
Presented by Ken Rugg, VP of Products for DataXtend and ObjectStore, Progress Software
As we talk to customers and prospects who are beginning to plan or enhance their SOA, we've realized that data is often overlooked in the development of a SOA infrastructure. As a matter of fact, some SOA technologists refer to it as the "day 2" problem. Why? Well, we think it might be because application and data architects may have difficulty making informed architectural decisions about it. Below are 3 podcasts that talk about the importance of planning for data integration and deploying a common information model.
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24 Apr 2008
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Data Integration: Defining the Common Model
Network transformation and process agility are telecoms industry imperatives. Read this article and learn how a common data model architecture greatly facilitates data translation, data aggregation, rule execution, and other features required for data interoperability. |
18 Apr 2008
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Web 2.0 and RIAs Will Drive the Growth of Middleware
Exclusive Q&A with Gordon Van Huizen, VP of Products, Progress Software
If if haven't had a chance to read the interview by Jeremy Geelan, Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events, take a moment to read it.
Middleware is one of the fastest growing segments of the software industry today because of SOA. Gordon talks about why and how he believes that the increased interest in Web 2.0 and rich Internet applications (RIA) will further accelerate this growth. He also explains what he believes are the current barriers to SOA adoption and that IT infrastructures need to move toward normalization, as opposed to homogenization, and that the adoption of SOA infrastructure such as enterprise service bus (ESB) and SOA management will help normalize infrastructure interactions with backend systems.
Gordon also talks about the Progress Software approach and how he believes 2008 will be the "year of the events" and that events are the decoupling agent in modern enterprise computing architectures and are as important as services and processes. |
17 Apr 2008 |
ESB Lessons Learned
Listen as Larry Fulton, Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., and David White, Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Progress Sonic, discuss 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. You'll also hear about key challenges and critical factors to achieve successful adoption, and hear real-world examples of best practices by leading Progress customers running successful SOA and ESB implementations today. |
20 Feb 2008 |
Breaking Up The Stack
The SOA Strategy of Progress Software
This whitepaper, published by the Butler Group, provides an introduction to the breadth of solutions provided by Progress Software in support of the implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It provides the context around the discrete products delivered by Progress Software, some of which are described in Butler Group's Technology Audits. |
07 Jan 2008
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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. Replay this webcast and gain important insights into how to isolate and manage multiple SOA domains, which aspects of SOA you should control at the edge, the importance of semantic control at the interface between domains, and how event-driven ESBs can ensure loose coupling between SOA stacks. |
10 Dec 2007
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7 Points of SOA Mediation
Featuring Hub Vandervoort, CTO
WSOA: A podcast channel that features interviews with Progress technologists. The second in our series features Hub Vandervoort, our CTO. He talks about what he believes are the 7 Points of SOA Mediation (MP3) that will enable companies to achieve better business results - faster. In this podcast, Hub details how transport, symantics, location, sequence, error recovery, quality of service, and interaction will help SOA integrators connect data sources and enhance enterprise application flexibility. |
06 Nov 2007
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SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture
Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges
An eBook by by Hub Vandervoort
Rethink the centralized, top-down approach to SOA governance and develop a consensual form of governance that supports a socially oriented architecture. Create federated communities among diverse SOA participants for richer, more dynamic user experiences. Read what Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Enterprise Infrastructure Division, Progress Software, has to say in his eBook, SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture. Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges. |
06 Nov 2007
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SOA: Time to Value of IT
Featuring Hub Vandervoort, CTO
WSOA: A podcast channel that features interviews with Progress technologists. The first in our series features Hub Vandervoort, our CTO. He addresses a topic he has found rich ground for discussion with the customers he has been visiting with in recent months. SOA: Time to Value of IT is an interactive dialog capturing how Hub has counseled architects and SOA project leaders to help evangelize SOA infrastructure value with corporate business leaders. In his inimitable fashion, he "connects the dots" in a way I believe you will find very interesting, and useful in helping build the business case for SOA initiatives. |
Oct 2007
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SOA Visionaries
Hosted by: Dave Linthicum
This podcast channel provides SOA visionaries, such as Progress Software, with the ability to explain how they have provided value to the world of SOA, and how their technology is changing the landscape.
19 Sep 2007 - SOA Visionaries with Julianna Cammarano, Product Marketing for Progress Actional |
Aug 2007 |
Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA
Survey Reveals Data Integration Projects to Increase by 2009
Progress Software released the results of a study it commissioned with Forrester Consulting revealing data integration efforts are increasing across most major industries as a result of the demand for real-time globally accessible data. According to findings, information technology (IT) professionals are severely challenged in keeping pace – still mired in manual processes and ad hoc fixes. SOA is growing quickly and the survey results identified service oriented architectures (SOAs) as the emerging solution across enterprises to achieve successful end-to-end data management and integration results. Learn more and read the SOA survey, Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA. |
Aug 2007
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Socially Oriented Architecture Introduction
A world where architecture and infrastructure enable dynamic execution of business.
Hub Vandervoort, CTO of the Enterprise Infrastructure Division of Progress Software, discusses the social impact of SOA on IT culture. SOA is expanding the management challenges for IT executives as they try to build applications for their different constituents – using a federated multi-party approach for all interactions. If you’re delivering software on a scheduled release basis or trying to manage SOA governance in a top-down command and control fashion, stop and listen to this 30 minute analysis. |
Jul 2007
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An Open Dialog About Building an Agile SOA Infrastructure
SOA has become the preferred approach for companies who want to deliver business agility and complete visibility to information and processes across the enterprise. Subscribe to the informative, intriguing and provocative SOA Infrastructure blog that will help your enterprise realize the true potential of SOA. SOA success at every step. Now that's Progress. |
Apr 2007
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The Right Infrastructure for SOA
Given the importance of the enterprise service bus (ESB) to SOA implementation, it is important to understand the functions and structure of the ESB and how its design permits rapid change in, easy connections to, and clear visibility and control of services and processes in a SOA-based application. This whitepaper provides a thorough definition of the Sonic ESB, including complete UML diagrams that provide a conceptual view of the ESB components. Tim Dempsey, VP of Marketing, Enterprise Infrastructure, explains just how to determine that in the paper, The Right Infrastructure for Your SOA. |
Sep 2006 |
Did You Know There is a "C" in SOA?
Gus Björklund, Vice President, Technology, Progress Software Corporation wrote this article which originally appeared in SOA Web Services Journal, September 2006.
When designing your SOA and services, keeping service consumers in mind will make the job easier. Consumers must conform to the interfaces of each service they use and invoke them with the right data in the right format. The more similarity there is among the services, the less coding and translation your consumers will have to do. Using the techniques of transformation, semantic data modeling, and a conceptual data model can make your job much easier both during initial design and testing and when making changes later.
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02 Aug 2006 |
SOA Governance and Rogue Services
Sonic CTO, Dan Foody, explores the counter-intuitive notion that adding rules to a service-oriented architecture can actually increase risk, and what can be done to mitigate those risks. He also explains how rogue services can disrupt an otherwise tightly controlled environment.
"In order to implement a complete approach to SOA governance, you need to consider the roles of development, deployment, and runtime governance. Taking a holistic view of governance across the life cycle will automate as much of the governance burden as possible, while providing a backstop to catch the rogue services and service-uses that your human-centric processes don't catch." |
05 Dec 2005 |
ESB Defined, or the Definitive ESB?
VP Tim Dempsey addresses the challenges customers face with the lack of clarity in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) market, and introduces Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition," a detailed explication of our market-creating offering, Sonic ESB, as the foundation for an industry-wide discussion and debate on a clear vocabulary for the ESB. |
19 Sep 2005 |
Movin' SOA On Up:
Introducing a New Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity Model
Jon Bachman, Senior Director of Product Marketing, introduces the New Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity Model (SOA MM) in this SOA Insight. Influenced by field experiences and Forrester Research Analyst Randy Heffner, and leveraging the well known SEI Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI), the SOA Maturity Model is a tool that IT managers can use to assess their teams, projects and overall organizational capabilities with respect to SOA maturity. IT decision makers can also use this model to educate business managers and set expectations within executive teams.
The SOA Maturity Model was developed in conjunction with Progress' SOA partners AmberPoint, BearingPoint and Systinet. |
17 Mar 2005 |
Shifting into the Next Gear
Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen offers his views on the rapid adoption of service-oriented architecture and the role of the ESB as essential SOA infrastructure software. Major corporations are making big bets on SOA and Van Huizen notes "I've had a remarkable number of IT leaders tell me that for them SOA with an ESB is the underpinning of a 10- to 15-year architecture plan." |
16 Nov 2004 |
Architecting the Bus, Part 3
Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen concludes his discussion of enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture in the final installment of this three-part SOA Insight series. Van Huizen argues that for ESBs to meet the requirements of enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments they must have a cohesive services framework, refuting the assertion that a truly flexible ESB can be created by extending existing middleware products. |
19 Oct 2004 |
Architecting the Bus, Part 2
In the second installment of this SOA Insight series Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen looks at service configuration, deployment and monitoring within and across an ESB. |
14 Sep 2004 |
Architecting the Bus
In part one of a three-part series Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen argues that architecture, while frequently missing is discussions about ESBs, "directly affects how flexible, manageable and scalable an ESB actually is." Van Huizen goes on to provide some tangible terms for discussing ESB architecture. |
26 Jul 2004 |
Missing the Bus?
Progress CTO Gordon Van Huizen discusses recent reports from Forrester, META Group, Burton Group and others, and argues that analysts can add value to the debate by focusing on "the vital issues and assisting with industry-wide convergence around best models and practices" instead of attempting an service-oriented architecture land-grab. |
08 Jun 2004 |
SOA Comes of Age
Progress CTO Gordon Van Huizen looks at service-oriented architecture evolution and how the enterprise service bus (ESB) moves SOA beyond the application platform. He argues that businesses should carefully evaluate service-oriented architecture (SOA) products to ensure they deliver the IT flexibility and business agility as promised. |
