Operational SOA

An Operational SOA Drives Responsiveness

An operational service-oriented architecture (SOA) can greatly improve responsiveness—the ability of your business systems and processes to respond to changing conditions and interactions as they occur. By streamlining the integration and reuse of business processes, an operational SOA makes it easier to get data to the right people at the right time in the right format. But an operational SOA can be difficult to deploy and manage—many solutions require you to invest a great deal up-front, to deploy another layer of middleware, and allow you to deploy operational SOA in a strictly linear approach that doesn’t recognize the realities of operational implementation of SOA.

When you want solutions for an operational SOA that provides maximum flexibility and affordability, Progress Software has the answer.

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Progress Software—An Innovative Approach to Operational SOA  

Progress Software is a global leader in application infrastructure software and an innovator in solutions for operational SOA. Progress solutions incorporate the best aspects of open source and commercial SOA solutions to create a more flexible and affordable way of designing and deploying operational SOA. With Progress you can:

• Avoid big upfront investments. Progress gives you the ability to build an operational SOA incrementally, adding components only when needed. The result is an architecture that is less costly and more responsive to business needs.
• Eliminate additional proprietary middleware. Where many solutions require another level of middleware, Progress solutions are technology-neutral and standards-based, eliminating vendor lock-in and future-proofing your IT environments.
• Deploy SOA without a centralized hub. With Progress, your IT architects aren’t required to use a single set of standards at every endpoint. As a result, you can leverage existing investments more easily and avoid the disruption of replacing middleware components.

Achieve Operational Responsiveness with Solutions for SOA, Business Monitoring, and More

Progress provides a number of operational technology solutions that contribute to operational responsiveness:

• Progress® Apama® provides innovative business activity monitoring capabilities. Apama is a complex business event processing platform that gives you the ability to monitor streaming events in real time. With a richly featured dashboard design and execution environment, Apama’s operational information system gives your decision makers faster insight into key performance indicators (KPIs) as well as into changing business conditions that may represent new opportunities or threats.
• Progress® Actional® is a business transaction assurance solution providing end-to-end visibility of business transactions from design-time to run-time. With Actional, you can quickly identify lost, stalled, or invalid transactions to ensure that business transactions run and efficiently.

Learn more about these and other Progress solutions for operational responsiveness and SOA, and get an event driven architecture overview.