Sonic Resources

Application Integration White Board Session with David Millman

Listen and watch as David Millman, Principal Architect, from the Office of the CTO, presents an interactive white boarding session that will help arm you with information you can use as you plan and build out your integrated infrastructure. During this informative presentation, David outlines some of the integration problems that may be ignored, techniques for dissecting your integration challenges, plus strategies and tactics employed by our most successful clients.

Integration Infrastructure: More Than Meets the Eye

What happens when poor application integration decisions are made? As you know, various aspects of integration infrastructure are all connected but when you choose to address one aspect and ignore another, you make trade-offs that may not be immediately apparent. Listen to an archived webinar presented by Hub Vandervoort and get some thoughts on how you can make better decisions that will ensure your integration success.

Six Principles for Addressing Multi-site Integration

In this on-demand webinar, Larry Fulton, Independent Consultant, Experienced IT Architect and Former Forrester Analyst, discusses his Six Guiding Principles for overcoming the unique challenges of multi-site integration. Larry will take you through the problems encountered in real-world multi-site integration projects, how those problems were resolved, and how they could have been prevented in the first place.

ESB Lessons Learned

Listen as industry expert Larry Fulton discusses key insights on ESB adoption led by today's business-driven agility model. Learn how to run a successful pilot project and how to build and gain wider adoption in the business community. You'll also hear about key challenges and critical factors to achieve successful adoption.

Sonic Essentials For OpenEdge Developers

What if you could easily integrate new applications into your OpenEdge Environment? Hear how you can meet the increased demands of integrating an OpenEdge application with internal and external applications across the enterprise. Learn how to leverage Sonic in an OpenEdge environment and how to simplify the integration and flexible re-use of business applications.

Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

Are you ready for event-driven business? Your systems can't keep up with the ever-increasing velocity of business. Financial trade settlement has accelerated from three days to two hours in just a few years; the trend towards real-time business is repeating itself in almost every industry.

What's New in Progress Sonic 7.6

Listen as we explore the exciting new capabilities of Sonic 7.6. Learn about the increased developer productivity you'll get with Sonic ESB enhancements and about the improved workbench interfaces. We will also introduce sample tutorials for "batch to real time" and "remote information access" use cases, Actional integration with SonicMQ and improved instrumentation of BPEL and ESB, and improved adapter and client support—including the addition of a JCA adapter for BEA WebLogic.

Top 10 IT Trends in Securities & Capital Markets

Hosted by Integration Developer News and Progress Software, and featuring Stephen Bruel from the TowerGroup. This webinar talks about why today's securities and capital markets firms are demanding more from IT to address new challenges and meet shifting business opportunities. Financial service professionals will learn how SOA and ESBs are on-the-money for many current issues.

Advanced Portal Integration with an ESB

How can you share critical information across multiple channels without compromising privacy or organizational autonomy? Today's portals make it easy to connect locally provisioned databases and Web services. But integration challenges mount when back-end resources run in another data center or remote site. Hear Marullus Williams, President and CEO of Limbic Systems, discuss implementation best practices for portal integration in government projects.

Drive Operational Excellence with SOA

Everybody knows batch transfers and manual intervention cost the business time and reduce its operational efficiency. Call it what you will—straight-through-processing (STP) in financial services, just-in-time (JIT) inventory management in manufacturing, or self-service provisioning in telecommunications—the drive for operational excellence makes legacy batch and manual processing a target for modernization across every industry today. Hear from Progress and its customer Pacific Blue Cross how using a leave-and-layer approach with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) can help you quickly meet your SOA goals.

Socially Oriented Architecture: Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges

Are you finding it difficult to align your SOA across your extended enterprise?
SOA is expanding the management challenges for IT executives as they try to build applications for their different constituents–using a federated multi-party approach for all interactions. Hub shares the three critical factors that will determine the success of any SOA initiative: free connection of interactions, active mediation of policy, and precise control of semantics. And he will also share success stories of how organizations who are focusing on the social challenges are gaining SOA success. Download the companion E-book too!

Best Practices in Designing for Scalability with Sonic ESB

One of SOA's promises is to enable highly scalable, distributed applications. But, how do you make the promise real for your organization? This webinar presents how hundreds of customers have benefited from Sonic ESB's out-of-the-box scalability for their mission-critical SOA projects. You will learn about the key design principles of Sonic ESB that enable painless scalability, best practices for the distributed deployment and execution of independently scalable integration services, and hear about real-world case studies of mission-critical ESBs in action.

Improving Development and Integration Agility

True IT responsiveness comes from the ability to develop and integrate solutions that meet current business needs. Listen as industry leaders Progress and Lombardi discuss the benefits of using best-in-class BPM and event-driven SOA technologies to reduce application development cost and maintain flexibility for change. Whether you’re a business analyst, developer or integration architect, having the right SOA infrastructure to support your initiatives is critical.

SaaS Architecture for Extreme Agility and Scalability

How does Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) prevent $1 billion in fraud annually? The answer is, a SaaS Architecture. When you provide software, processing and fraud prevention services to 7,800 global financial institutions and 47,000 retailers, you learn a thing or two about SOA flexibility and scalability. Listen to a discussion about FIS' business and the SaaS architecture they built to meet varied and fast-growing client needs.

How to Optimize SOA to Better Serve Your Business Goals

Listen as guest speaker Sandy Rogers from IDC and Dan Foody from the Progress Actional team discuss the critical steps necessary to ensure that your most vital business concerns -- your enterprise and its customers, channels, and partners-- will get the best service, resulting in a true competitive edge.

Building an SOA Roadmap in State & Local Government

State and local agencies have selected or built applications tailored to meet functional or departmental requirements. While highly effective in this context, they are often unable to serve the state's need to develop cross-agency business processes which require operational automation or visibility beyond single agency boundaries. Listen and learn how state and local agencies have successfully implemented Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), and how Tarrant County used SOA to integrate their Jail Management System and link workflow across police, court, Sheriff, and District Attorney's offices.

Faster SOA Integration with Progress Sonic ESB

Despite SOA's mission to break down the barriers between silos of legacy and packaged applications, too often SOA projects bog down when SOA development needs to cross application boundaries. Listen and learn how you can use the Sonic BPEL Server for fast, sophisticated, standards-based service orchestration, not only of Web services and how you can tackle the problem of point-to-point transformations with new common data model lifecycle management, transformation and validation capabilities.

Extreme Transaction Processing: Electronic trading at NYMEX

How did NYMEX drive 10x growth in their enterprise messaging throughput? They deployed a SonicMQ enterprise messaging infrastructure. With future growth threatened by the limitations of their existing messaging infrastructure, it was time to trade up. Listen as Mark Francetic, VP of Software Development at NYMEX, explains how they used SonicMQ to increase messaging capacity ten-fold - with zero message loss and high availability.

Building an SOA Roadmap in the Federal Government

For many years, government IT has been managed by individual agencies to the specific goals of federal funding streams, and agencies' desires for autonomy, flexibility and security. This webinar will demonstrate how federal agencies have successfully implemented SOA to share critical information across agencies, realize reduced costs, and automate manual processes.

Faster SOA Development with Sonic ESB 7

Fast and agile system delivery is the SOA vision. The challenge is to make it real.
Despite SOA's mission to break down the silos created by monolithic architectures, most SOA-enablement products are still stuck in the world of silos. That's because they are limited to small-scale projects where everything is built by one team and runs in one place. Learn how you can accelerate turnaround on the complete ESB development lifecycle. With advanced SOA infrastructure and an integrated Eclipse-based SOA toolset, we will address the real-world challenges of SOA that users confront once they move into large-scale, widely distributed deployments. We will also demonstrate how Sonic ESB brings distributed SOA development to the desktop. 

Implementing a Successful SOA Pilot Program

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not easy to do right: IT teams must overcome technical, organizational, political and other hurdles on the path to SOA nirvana. In this on-demand webinar, Progress Actional and key partners share their real-world experience to help you avoid the most common pains associated with implementing SOA for the first time.

A messaging-based enterprise service bus that simplifies the integration and re-use of business applications within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Enterprise messaging that will simplify operations and lower the cost of
ownership for business-critical communication across the enterprise.

An Eclipse-based SOA toolset for modeling, configuring, testing and deploying processes and services using products in the Sonic ESB Product Family.

Simplifies the building, testing and deployment of sophisticated service orchestration.

Simplifies access and reuse of relational data sources in a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and eliminates the need for inflexible and costly custom coding.

Provides fast and cost-effective Sonic development and rollout in large-scale projects.

Simplifies incorporation of internal and external IT systems into a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

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