Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise Application Integration Drives Operational Responsiveness and Competitiveness
Enterprise application integration has become a top priority for the competitive enterprise. With the objective of linking data and applications in diverse information systems, enterprise application integration allows organizations to access business-critical information more quickly, share it broadly with employees at every level, and leverage existing investments in IT. In the past, sharing information between systems has been difficult because many legacy systems were developed using proprietary technology, thereby creating islands of information throughout the organization. And often, when systems are developed incrementally over time, the result is a haphazard architecture that resists evolution toward standardization. The goal of enterprise application integration is to create a framework for integrating incompatible and distributed systems—making it faster and easier to extend business processes throughout the organization. Today, many leading companies throughout the world turn to Progress Software for the tools and service infrastructure to accomplish this task.
Enterprise Application Integration Patterns with Service-based Architecture
Today's service-oriented enterprise is challenged with simplifying application integration within their existing environment. Progress offers Progress® Sonic® ESB which is a robust integration infrastructure that helps companies integrate large, physically distributed deployments—specifically those with complex service orchestration, operational data management, and integration of third-party relational data sources, packaged applications and technologies. Sonic ESB helps promote continuous pipeline processing, remote information access, remote data distribution, and the ability for the enterprise to respond to real-time business events.
The Sonic enterprise service bus (ESB) supports a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in which old systems and programs are reconfigured as modular, reusable services. Sonic ESB is an integration infrastructure that enables enterprise application integration by providing an environment that easily connects new programs, web services and hundreds of legacy technologies. From J2EE and .NET applications to databases and legacy message brokers, Sonic ESB allows resources to be made broadly available for communication with any other resource on the network. With Sonic ESB, organizations can easily add services or re-configure them on the fly - changing the logic flow between services as business processes evolve. More than 1,000 leading enterprises worldwide currently rely on Sonic ESB to deliver greater functionality, connectivity and application integration.
Sonic ESB Makes Enterprise Application Integration Simpler
In making enterprise application integration easier to accomplish, Sonic ESB enables organizations to:
- Minimize the time and resources involved in creating new processes by re-purposing existing programs and information.
- Improve agility and speed of operations by decreasing the hidden dependencies between programs, middleware and services in a distributed system.
- Decrease total cost of ownership by incorporating standard protocols and interfaces.
- Ensure reliable delivery of messages across all services.
- Deliver a hosting infrastructure that can be both centrally managed and highly distributed.
- Set up services in an incremental manner in order to speed up the delivery of high-priority functionality to customers while minimizing risk on larger and more complicated projects.
In addition to helping companies with their enterprise application integration projects, Progress Software also provides software and technology that helps companies achieve superior operational responsiveness. Some of the product capabilities that we offer solutions for include enterprise messaging, data transformation, mainframe integration, complex event processing and business transaction assurance.
