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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that promoted integrated and 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.


In the real-world, an SOA infrastructure can be challenging, especially when enterprise infrastructures span departments and geographies. SOA offers a fast, always available, secure and affordable way to integrate, and provide visibility and business insight across many different platforms, data sources and applications.

The Progress® SOA Portfolio provides a comprehensive range of capabilities for the entire SOA lifecycle. 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 Infrastructure Portfolio

The Progress SOA Portfolio is comprised of interoperable, best-in-class service infrastructure products used to build, deploy and manage an SOA. From first project to global deployment, our portfolio provides robust, yet agile SOA infrastructure designed for challenging, real-world environments. Thousands of customers rely on Progress as their independent supplier of reliable, interoperable SOA infrastructure software.

Read the white paper, The Right Infrastructure for SOA. Now That's Progress to learn about SOA infrastructure choices that are critical to supporting the incremental roll-out of a SOA design center.

Embrace the Value of SOA with Smart SOA Infrastructure

Progress products are built with your need for integration and interoperability in mind, and provide the foundation for managing loosely coupled business processes so the processes can seamlessly bridge computing, organizational, geographic, and semantic boundaries. With our SOA Portfolio products, you can deploy a practical SOA that 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.
* Business Process Management (BPM)
Go beyond ordinary business process management (BPM) with Progress® Savvion and rapidly create and optimize process-driven solutions and efficiently manage daily work with real-time visibility into business processes.
* 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.
* Mainframe Integration
Progress® DataDirect Shadow is a comprehensive mainframe modernization toolset, eliminating the complexity and enhancing the performance of mainframe integration within more modern SOA initiatives. Shadow streamlines connectivity to mainframe relational and non-relational databases such as Adabas, IMS DB, and VSAM.
* 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.
* 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.

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.