Remote Data Distribution

SOA Infrastructure Relies on Remote Data Distribution

To ensure operational advantage, mission-critical systems increasingly require distributed, real-time information availability for applications ranging from small-scale embedded control systems to large-scale 'enterprise' information management systems. Information stemming from the applications and business processes in these systems must be distributed in a reliable and timely manner to multiple applications and Web services. These applications and services will then combine, fuse and process this information in order to either present it to human operators or use it to control other distributed applications and Web services. To meet the challenge that complex remote data distribution introduces, IT professionals are looking at deploying SOA infrastructure solutions that allow them to share information across multiple channels, eliminate manual processes, reduce IT staff with central management, and even gain rapid compliance with new standards and regulations. One of the backbone technologies that brings applications, services and data together is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), specifically the Progress® Sonic ESB®. By using an ESB to connect mainframes, databases and applications, and performing some business process reengineering, IT organizations are able to create a SOA architecture that is centralized, integrated, streamlined, consistent and leveraged across the enterprise, and beyond.

ESBs Deliver Reliable Remote Data Distribution in Changing IT Environments

By deploying a messaging-based style SOA using Sonic ESB, you can simplify and guarantee reliable remote data distribution and enhance agility in a changing IT environment. Sonic ESB continuously feeds business transactions as they become available, guarantees delivery of information, and can quickly batch events, or processes, for applications that must continue to operate in batch mode. An example of how Sonic ESB can provide reliable remote data distribution is in banking--an enterprise service bus provides real-time distribution of security master data across functions and geographies of a bank, it eliminates trade mispricing and misrouting failures due to out-of-date security master data, and continuous data feeds support intra-day risk assessment needed for compliance. Another example of how Sonic ESB can provide reliable data distribution is in retail--an ESB delivers real-time, store-by-store product pricing updates that support advanced discounting strategies.

So if your business processes and end users demand up-to-date master data, if enterprise information is located in remote data centers or sites, if data distribution must be fast AND reliable, or if endpoints are heterogeneous and may need to continue to work in batch style, Sonic ESB is the backbone technology that will bring immediate results.

Sonic ESB Delivers on the True Promise of SOA

Making remote data distribution work effectively requires an SOA infrastructure that relies on industry standards, and one that allows you to easily connect, mediate and control application and Web services. Today's smart businesses are adopting the Sonic ESB for their service-oriented architecture because it delivers on the promise of SOA:

• Business agility – Almost all business managers contend that business agility is directly proportional to business profitability. SOA enhances business agility by speeding up the ability to respond with new and enhanced applications. And faster time-to-market for new business processes translates into major competitive advantage.
  
  
• Remote data distribution – Using industry standards and standard-based interfaces, SOA promises to simplify the distribution of information from legacy systems. The ability to service-enable and integrate proprietary technologies with open standards helps to reduce the time and cost associated with deploying new or enhanced applications, and it improves how the enterprise links people with the information they need—without sacrificing security or autonomy.
  
  
• Lower development costs – Application development is more economical with Web services. With standardization and the ability to reuse code, developers have better access to proven software and can focus on their value-add rather than rewriting what has previously been solved. What's more, the proliferation of Web services tools by middleware vendors such as Progress Software greatly simplifies enterprise integration of published Web services.

Application Integration Patterns with SOA

The Sonic ESB Product Family comprises Sonic ESB and a comprehensive set of compatible products that simplify application integration within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It extends Sonic ESB—robust infrastructure software that integrates large, physically distributed deployments—with complex service orchestration, operational data management, and integration of third-party relational data sources, packaged applications and technologies. Some of these application integration patterns 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 crosses departments, firewalls, security domains, and large geographies.
  
  
• 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.

In addition to solving the problem of remote data distribution, Progress also delivers SOA infrastructure technology and services for enterprise application integration, business process improvement, messaging middleware, semantic data integration, and SOA and Web services management.