Actional Enterprise

With the proliferation of companies investing in interconnected distributed applications, organizations are now grappling with how to manage the complexity of these applications. The need to effectively manage these applications is especially dire for business-critical applications that require transaction success. During runtime, these often-service-based applications execute across heterogeneous systems, may be owned by different organizations, and reside in different locations, making visibility difficult. Increasing volumes of traffic compound this complexity, leading to an increase in issues and, therefore, increased IT time and costs to resolve them. With Actional Enterprise, you gain the quality, visibility and control needed for business transaction assurance from development through application support. This is achieved with:

• Comprehensive validation tools driving quality early in the development lifecycle.
  
  
• Automatic end-to-end visibility to detect issues proactively and repair problems quickly and effectively.
  
  
• Business insight on executing transaction and tools to dynamically manage service behavior to optimize business outcomes.
  
  

Manage today's interconnected applications with fewer resources: no coding, minimal configuration, faster deployment, fewer issues.

• Develop high-quality, service-based applications quickly, easily and cost-effectively with a collaborative pre-production platform and transaction path visualization.
  
  
• Ensure fast, reliable business transactions and SLA adherence through end-to-end visibility across distributed, heterogeneous systems and proactive alerting without coding.
  
  
• Minimize downtime and business loss with fast root-cause analysis and issue resolution.
  
  
• Improve business outcomes with multi-dimensional runtime business analytics and dynamic controls for optimizing service for high-priority customers, partners, channels.
  
  
• Achieve high performance and scalability at a low total-cost-of-ownership.
  
  

Actional Enterprise's powerful tools and unique architecture make it easy to manage interconnected applications. Here are the key product features that make this lifecycle approach possible:

• Quality and validation tools for pre-production teams that provide diagnostics, functional and load testing and compliance validation.
  
  
• Workspaces enable pre-production teams to organize, collaborate, and share test assets.
  
  
• Root-Cause Analysis with patented Flow Mapping™ technology that automatically discovers services and maps interdependencies across heterogeneous systems.
  
  
• Runtime policy authoring and alerting supports single or average transaction metrics, and simple and complex policy. Flow maps and statistics are automatically created when alerts are sent due to policy violation.
  
  
• Exception management to effectively detect, diagnose, repair and prevent transaction disruptions.
  
  
• Business insight and runtime controls via dashboards that monitor business metrics and multiple control mechanisms that modify transaction behavior for optimized business outcome.
  
  
• Design and runtime governance with policy and compliance validation during development through runtime governance with transaction monitoring, enforcement of security, compliance and business policy.

Progress® Actional® products are built for optimal integration and data interoperability with a wide range of heterogeneous infrastructure such as applications, data sources, network devices, middleware, identity management products, and registries and repositories. Actional places great importance on supporting industry standards to make this interoperability possible. Click here for a detailed list of supported platforms.

Actional Enterprise includes Actional Management Server and Actional Team Server.

Technical requirements for Actional Management Server:

Operating system(s):

• Microsoft Windows
• Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat pSeries
• Solaris (including the x86 series)
• HP-UX
• IBM AIX
• SUSE Linux Enterprise
• Glassfish Application Server (Enterprise and Open Source)
  

Browser(s):

• Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
  
  

Application server(s):

• Oracle WebLogic Server (formerly BEA WebLogic Server), IBM WebSphere, JBoss Server, Oracle Application Server (OAS) 10g, SAP NetWeaver, Glassfish (Enterprise and Open Source)
  
  

Database(s):

• SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, MSDE, Apache Derby
  
  

Java virtual machine:

• Sun JDK, BEA Jrockit JVM
  
  

Protocols and interfaces:

• Axis, SOAP, REST, POX, EJB, JMS, Servlets (HTTP), Jakarta HTTP client, ADO.Net, RMI and JDBC
  
  

Actional agents can instrument a broad range of environments, including (but not limited to) Apache Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server (formerly BEA WebLogic Server), IBM WebSphere, JBoss Server , Oracle Application Server (OAS), Systinet WASP/J, Microsoft .NET framework and Biztalk 2006, SAP NetWeaver and ABAP, Progress® Sonic® ESB, Progress® SonicMQ®, Progress® Artix® (formerly IONA Artix), Progress® Orbix (formerly IONA Orbix), Progress® OpenEdge®, Oracle Service Bus (formerly AquaLogic Service Bus), WebMethods Integration Server, X-broker, TIBCO, and IBM DataPower*, as well as the Lombardi Teamworks and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks business process management (BPM) solutions.

Actional also integrates with a variety of standards-based, third-party identity management and single sign-on (SSO) technologies including RSA ClearTrust, Oracle Access Manager, CA SiteMinder, Tivoli Access Manager, HP SelectAccess, and Securent.

* Contact your local sales representatives for detailed information.

Technical requirements for Actional Team Server:

General Requirements:

• 2 GHz processor or faster
• 2 GB memory (recommended)
• 398 MB disk space for the server
  • Requires Java JDK 1.6 (or higher). The Java Virtual Machine version that you use must support the -server option.
  • If you are using Actional Team Server with Actional Management Server, Actional Management Server must have an equal or higher version than that of Actional Team Server for the installation to work properly

Operating System(s):

• Microsoft Windows Server, XP Professional, Vista*
• Red Hat Linux*
• Solaris* for SPARC

* The Collector is not supported under Vista, Linux, or Solaris

Database Manager(s):

• Microsoft SQL Server MySQL
• Oracle
• Apache Derby (Embedded)
  
  

Browser(s):

• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
  
  

Click here for a more detailed list of supported platforms for Actional Enterprise.