Sonic Resources
Progress® Sonic® products help IT organizations achieve broad-scale interoperability of IT systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to rapidly changing business needs. Learn more about SOA and multi-site integration technologies by reading through our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts, books and other helpful learning resources.
Messaging Architecture
This paper is the first in a series of technical briefs and resources that will explain how the Progress enterprise integration solutions work. This brief examines the four basic components of the Sonic enterprise messaging system, including: brokers, acceptors, clusters, and underlying protocols. This paper will also explain how these four components provide not only robust integration, but business and IT benefits as well.
Six Principles of Multi-site Integration
Overcome multi-site integration challenges. Learn the six guiding principles for overcoming the unique challenges of multi-site integration. Real-world integration projects will demonstrate how those problems were resolved, and how they could have been prevented in the first place.
The Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition
Given the importance of the enterprise service bus (ESB) to SOA implementation, it is important to understand the functions and structure of the ESB and how its design permits rapid change in, easy connections to, and clear visibility and control of services and processes in a SOA-based application. This white paper provides a thorough definition of the Sonic ESB, including complete UML diagrams that provide a conceptual view of the ESB components.
A Playbook for ESBs
Co-authored by Progress Software and eBizQ. The enterprise service bus (ESB) has emerged as a key enabler for more agile and effective integration across enterprise systems and business processes. This white paper introduces four integration patterns for ESBs and the enterprise integration scenarios they help make possible. By combining the advanced capabilities of an ESB with integration patterns you can deliver key benefits to both business and IT.
A New SOA Maturity Model
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as the most significant shift in how business applications are designed, developed and implemented. To address this challenge, Progress Software and its partners jointly developed A New SOA Maturity Model. The model is designed to show the increasingly positive impact of SOA adoption from a business benefits perspective. It provides IT decision makers with simple framework for benchmarking the strategic value of their SOA implementation, and a model for visualizing future success.
Faster than a speeding bullet. Is your business ready?
"Faster than a speeding bullet" doesn't just refer to superheroes anymore; it's the velocity your business needs to compete. For example, the standard for trade-to-settlement time in financial services has gone from T+3 (trade date plus three days) to T+0 in just a few years. Event-driven SOA infrastructure—from ESBs to real-time data services and complex event processing (CEP)—can streamline provisioning and visibility in your business. This paper will explain how you can stay ahead of today's increasing business velocity.
Five Dirty Secrets of High Availability
Don't let unexpected hazards threaten your operations. Take the first step to ensure that you are not the victim of a mostly available infrastructure. Read the white paper Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure and learn how a continuously available enterprise infrastructure will protect you from lost revenue due to hardware, software, or network failure.
High Availability Embedded Messaging for ISV's
For most packaged applications and hardware systems, failure is not an option. Lost messages, service delays, and incomplete transactions lead to high support costs, financial penalties for missed SLAs, and possible legal action by your end users or partners. This white paper explains how you can increase the performance, reliability and availability of your application or device.
You’ve Got an ESB. Now… Don’t Get Lost in Transactions
Sure, your ESB has done a great job of integrating your SOA environment, but an ESB can introduce new management complexities. Watch and learn how you can gain complete end-to-end visibility of your heterogeneous environment, and pinpoint the root cause of any problems that arise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paving the Way to Smart Grid Modernization
Replay a webinar hosted by Progress Software and UISOL. During the webinar, we unveil our unique, standards-based reference architecture that uses a product integration bus to simplify technology deployment and upgrades. With our combined technology, integration and domain expertise, we also provide insights on:
- Market and regulatory conditions
- The readiness of legacy applications to support real-time smart metering data
- The cost and difficulties of integrating disparate utilities systems
- Steps for moving to a smart grid-compatible environment, cost-effectively and non-intrusively
SOA and Web Service Management
Why planning now is vital for success. As organizations frame their strategies, a key measure of success is how well critical applications, from online sales to call center applications, are being served. To ensure success, complete visibility and tracking service interactions to meet SLA's are required. Monitoring transactions in real-time provides visibility into who is experiencing problems, the type and magnitude of problems, and the business transaction impacted. Setting up these fundamental management principles enables the organization to take action before the business is affected, before the SLA is violated and before you've lost control!
Secret No. 2 - The Myth of Five NinesPresented By Hub Vandervoort , Ken Rugg Three minutes of downtime may not seem detrimental now but if that failure occurs during peak transaction times, it will result in lost revenue and poor customer service. In this podcast, Hub and Ken present ideas on how to deliver a highly available enterprise infrastructure. This podcast is the 2nd in a series of 5 that unveil the Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure. |
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Secret No. 1 - Cost and ComplexityPresented By Hub Vandervoort , Ken Rugg In this podcast, Hub and Ken present ideas on how to manage the cost and complexity associated with delivering a highly available enterprise infrastructure. This podcast is the 2nd in a series of 5 that unveil the Five Dirty Little Secrets of Highly Available Integration Infrastructure. |
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Gain Better Enterprise Visibility of Your SOAPresented By Giles Nelson What if you could gain better visibility of your SOA infrastructure? Listen as Giles Nelson presents his observations on the challenges that many enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements and deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements. |
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SOA: Time to Value for ITPresented By Hub Vandervoort Hub Vandervoort discusses the steps for bridging the gap between formulating new business plans for change and creating the information technology in an SOA to support them. |
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Impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise ArchitecturePresented By David Bressler What impact will Cloud Computing have on your enterprise architecture? Why should you care? In this podcast David Bressler presents his thoughts on how Cloud Computing will make it easier for you to get business-critical information to your consumers. Allow yourself to imagine the impact of being able to easily bring information from multiple data services, and sources, into the cloud. |
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Multiple ESBs: SOA Reality in a Federated EnvironmentPresented By Hub Vandervoort Featuring: Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, and an industry expert from Gartner, Inc. |
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Sonic ESB
A messaging-based enterprise service bus that simplifies the integration and re-use of business applications within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
SonicMQ
Enterprise messaging that will simplify operations and lower the cost of
ownership for business-critical communication across the enterprise.
Sonic ESB Workbench
An Eclipse-based SOA toolset for modeling, configuring, testing and deploying processes and services using products in the Sonic ESB Product Family.
Sonic BPEL Server
Simplifies the building, testing and deployment of sophisticated service orchestration.
Sonic Database Service
Simplifies access and reuse of relational data sources in a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and eliminates the need for inflexible and costly custom coding.
Sonic Deployment Manager
Provides fast and cost-effective Sonic development and rollout in large-scale projects.
Progress Sonic SLA Support Solution
Reducing systems fallout by even 1% can save your company lots of money. Learn more!
Enterprise Service BusO'Reilly's book, written by Dave Chappell, provides you with both a conceptual and architectural overview of ESB from the viewpoint of a seasoned expert in the areas of standards for enterprise messaging, web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA). In it he offers his unique insights and delivers practical strategies for understanding the architecture of an ESB and its impact on integrating diverse applications into enterprise-wide solutions. He then goes on to present integration patterns that clearly show how an ESB can help solve the thorniest application integration challenges using standard components and interfaces. Buy it from Amazon.com. |
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SOA: Socially Oriented ArchitectureTechnical Opportunities, Social Challenges. In this E-book, Hub will make you rethink the centralized, top-down approach to SOA governance and develop a consensual form of governance that supports a socially oriented architecture. This E-book presents ideas on how to create federated communities among diverse SOA participants for richer, more dynamic user experiences. |
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Java Web ServicesJava Web Services shows you how to use SOAP to perform remote method calls and message passing; how to use WSDL to describe the interface to a web service or understand the interface of someone else's service; and how to use UDDI to advertise (publish) and look up services in each local or global registry. Java Web Services also discusses security issues, interoperability issues, integration with other Java enterprise technologies like EJB; the work being done on the JAXM and JAX-RPC packages, and integration with Microsoft's .NET services. |
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Building Web Services with JavaWritten by the team that helped create XML and Web services standards, updated for the next generation of tools and standards. The second edition of this well-reviewed book includes the newest standards for managing security, transactions, reliability, and interoperability in Web services applications, plus Apache Axis and the new Java APIs from Sun. It takes you beyond the hype, detailing the design and implementation of a production-quality Web services solution. Throughout the book the authors focus on practical examples of each concept and provide a running example illustrating a full enterprise solution. Buy the book from Amazon.com. |
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