Adapters for Sonic ESB
Service-enable Over 300 Internal and External IT Systems
Adapters for Progress® Sonic ESB® mask the technical and semantic differences of various systems, creating a uniform view via dynamic and static transformations. No matter how diverse the components of your IT infrastructure may be, Adapters for Sonic ESB make them uniformly accessible across the enterprise service bus.
Corporations have tens to hundreds (or thousands) of packaged applications, legacy systems and data sources distributed across their enterprise. As companies move to standardize on XML and achieve greater reuse of existing data assets through the implementation of service-oriented architectures (SOA), the challenge is to easily service-enable these business assets.
Without native support and a service framework for application connectivity and management, significant time is spent coding XML transformations in languages such as C++, Java and JavaScript and "hand coding" the associated connection settings, management functions and service interactions. What is needed is a more productive and natural way for business assets to become reliable, reusable services that can be called by other applications across the enterprise service bus.
Sonic ESB provides optimized connectivity to relational databases, and supports literally hundreds of adapters to packaged applications, B2B systems, and mainframe and legacy technologies. By using prefabricated, vendor-maintained services and adapters, companies can significantly reduce the time, cost, complexity and skills required to incorporate business assets into a SOA infrastructure.
One of the challenges IT organizations face is how to move forward with integration initiatives while protecting and preserving current infrastructure investments. Adapters for Sonic ESB can significantly reduce the time, cost, complexity and skills required to incorporate business assets into a SOA infrastructure. No matter how diverse the components of your IT infrastructure may be, Adapters for Sonic ESB make them uniformly accessible across the enterprise service bus.
Using adapters in combination with Sonic ESB enables true integration of your disparate applications and business partners. Here are the types of adapters available:
- Packaged Application Adapters
Packaged application adapters tap into the native transaction interfaces, APIs and data structures that popular business packages (such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) expose, making it easy to reuse the business logic and data of their packages for a wide range of new business requirements.
- B2B Adapters
B2B adapters support the automatic transformation of B2B exchange formats such as EDI and dialect-specific XML documents into formats compatible with non-XML-based information resources. These adapters can rapidly transform documents into a variety of XML dialects as well as non-XML documents including cXML, xCBL, OAG BOD, ANSI X.12 EDI and more.
- Mainframe and Legacy Adapters
Just as an ESB provides industry standard connectivity between disparate platforms, Progress® Shadow® provides interoperability across multiple mainframe data and application environments – in essence, a mainframe services bus (MSB). Shadow and other adapters unlock information storehouses to enrich enterprise applications with critical information that would otherwise be underutilized.
- Technology Platform Adapters
The success and often the profitability of enterprise systems hinges on their support for bidirectional information flows between users and existing systems. The technology platform adapters allow you to leverage existing investments in systems such as CORBA. These adapters provide a native interface to the underlying technologies and present a standard XML interface to the enterprise service bus.
This is a partial list of adapters available for use with Sonic ESB. More than 300 types of adapters are available including packaged application adapters, B2B adapters, mainframe and legacy adapters and technology platform adapters. The adapters are also available on up to 35 different platforms, offering a total of over 1,200 adapters. If the adapter you need is not listed, please contact your regional sales representative.
Packaged Application Adapters
Ariba
Baan
BroadVision
Clarify
Commerce One
Hogan Financials
i2 Technologies
Integral Systems
J.D. Edwards OneWorld
J.D. Edwards World
Lawson
Manugistics
Millennium
MySAP.com
Oracle Applications
Oracle Financials
PeopleSoft 7
PeopleSoft 8
QAD Enterprise Applications
SAP BW
SAP Portals
SAP R/3
SCT
Siebel
Vantive
Walker Interactive
Mainframe and Legacy Adapters
Adabas
Adabas/C
ALL-IN-1
Btrieve
CA-Datacom
Caché (Micronetics MUMPS)
C-ISAM/Informix
C-ISAM/Microfocus
D-ISAM
DBASE
Delimited Files
ENSCRIBE
Essbase
Excel
Flat Files
FOCUS
Foxpro
IDMS/CA-IDMS
IDMS/R
IDMS/SQL
IDS-II
ImageSQL
IMS
InfoMan
ISAM
KSAM
Model 204
MUMPS (Digital Standard MUMPS)
Net-ISAM
NOMAD
Nucleus
Omnidex
PACE
Pick
Proprietary Files
QSAM
Red Brick
RMS
Shadow
ShareBase
SUPRA
System 2000
Teradata
TOTAL
TurboIMAGE
Unisys DMS
UniVerse
VSAM
WIIS
B2B Adapters
BizTalk Framework
EDI-ANSI X12 (American)
EDI-EDIFACT
FIX
FIXML
HIPAA
HL7
ISO 15022
SWIFT
SWIFTML
Transaction Adapters
Bull TDS
Bull TP8
CICS
IBM OTMA
IMS/TM
Tuxedo
Unisys ClearPath
Messaging Adapters
Candle Roma
Microsoft MSMQ
Oracle AQ
CORBA Adapters
JacORB
Orbix
Visibroker
Any INS or IFR-Compliant ORB
XML Adapters
cXML
OAG BOD
OAGIS
XBRL
XCBL
E-mail Adapters
cc:mail (VIM)
Lotus Notes (VIM)
Microsoft Exchange (MAPI)
Communication Adapters
APPC
DECNet
LU 0
LU 2
LU 6.2
NetBIOS
WAP
XCF
Procedural Program Adapters
ADS-Online
COBOL
FOCUS
FORTRAN
Oracle PL/SQL
Perl
Pascal
Python
RPG
Software AG Natural
Terminal Adapters
3270 (Mainframe, zSeries)
5250 (AS/400, iSeries)
