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Business applications are the most visible part of your enterprise, but without the right services infrastructure, you may not be realizing their full potential. When you build a service-oriented architecture (SOA) with solutions from Progress Software, applications can share services and seamlessly interoperate.

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Insurance

Get past siloed legacy data systems and achieve true integration.

Increased profitability is often accompanied by increased competition and greater pricing pressure. Sonic ESB provides a reliable integration infrastructure that can be rapidly deployed and managed remotely—speeding time‐to‐market and reducing costs. Sonic ESB will help you more quickly create new business, improve underwriting performance, and increase customer satisfaction.

Retail

Integrate multiple locations and manage them in real-time.

In order to succeed in today's challenging economic climate, you need to find ways to use technology to retain customers, grow same stores sales and cut inventory costs. Sonic ESB enables retailers both large and small to cut inventory, integrate multiple sales channels and drive operational performance.

Transport and Logistics

Improve business agility with integration.

Addressing the challenges of complex distribution networks is not as simple as performing batch transfers and updates across links in the supply chain. The benefit of SOA infrastructure is its ability to maximize flexibility while simplifying management, and the enterprise service bus (ESB) makes this task much easier. Today, many transport and logistics organizations use Sonic ESB to gain better operational visibility and integration of complex networks.

Regulatory Management

Ensure your business is in compliance with all mandatory regulations.

To achieve compliance with most regulations, there are a few must-haves. But first and foremost, your business needs an accurate and timely flow of internal, customer and partner information and activities. You must also have tools that monitor, manage and respond to events. Sonic ESB allows you to better integrate multiple locations and manage them in real-time. SonicMQ provides a zero downtime solution that will deliver an uninterrupted flow of business critical transactions.

Six Principles for Addressing Multi-site Integration

Risk Management

Monitor, manage and mitigate risks before they can negatively impact your business.

Every organization faces many types of risks. The risks can be operational in nature - resulting from infrastructure failure due to events such as an earthquake or fire, partner or supplier risks from transaction failure or fraud. And as you know, three minutes of downtime during peak transaction times couldl result in lost revenue and poor customer service. SonicMQ provides a zero downtime solution that delivers high availability to your business-critical transactions.

Five Dirty Secrets of High Availability

Multi-site Integration

Excel in integration scenarios that require the integration and management of dozens, hundreds or even thousands of end‐points.

An ESB excels in those integration scenarios that require the integration and management of dozens, hundreds or even thousands of end‐points. Sonic ESB includes management tools that empower you to automate the consistent, reliable and repeatable installation and configuration of SOA infrastructure to remote, unattended locations from anywhere on your network. Reduces the time for IT operations to deploy to a remote site from days to minutes, and enjoy the flexibility and agility promised by SOA.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Look beyond inflexible legacy systems for SOA responsiveness.

SOA can deliver on its promises, but real-world SOA has many challenges, extending from design to management. As the industry's first provider of the enterprise service bus, Progress delivers products that will make it easy for your organization to maximize the value of SOA. Sonic ESB will help simplify the integration and flexible re-use of business applications within your SOA. Eliminate the rigidity and fragility of point-to-point integration with an ESB that can evolve, scale and extend throughout your organization.

Zero Downtime

Experience uninterrupted flow of business critical transactions to those applications that demand continuous availability.

In this fast-paced, competitive world, conducting real-time business operations 24x7 has never been more important. To maximize revenue and profitability through continuous business processing, companies need to architect high availability across their enterprise and beyond, thereby continuously servicing their business partners and customers. SonicMQ will deliver an uninterrupted flow of business critical transactions. With SonicMQ your enterprise can failover and resume processing in a way that is completely transparent to applications and end users.

Continuous Pipeline Processing

If your enterprise is experiencing operational inefficiencies due to batch transfers, if negative customer satisfaction situations arise because systems aren't kept in lock-step, or if it is difficult to introduce new business systems or capabilities into your existing IT environment, an enterprise service bus (ESB) may be the best solution for your business. Sonic ESB will help reduce business process cycle time, gain up-to-date visibility into in-process data, reduce the cost of processing peak transaction loads, and put in place a more flexible architecture to handle new business requirements.

Enterprise Application Integration

Sonic offers 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.

Enterprise Messaging

SonicMQ is a robust enterprise messaging system will ensure that communication and transactions happen accurately and reliably, thereby facilitating fast responses to requests for payments, status checks, quotes and more. By adopting SonicMQ you will enable continuous communications, even during scheduled downtime, and you will also prevent data loss during a system crash.

Enterprise Service Bus

As the industry's first provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB), Sonic ESB will make it easy for your organization to maximize the value of service oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic's messaging-based backbone provides flexible integration of distributed services and applications within an SOA.

High Availability

Our high availability solution is designed to protect you from lost transactions, and guarantees in-order delivery without the cost and management complexity of the 3rd party hardware or software add-ons.SonicMQ will ensure that real-time systems - whether they are interacting with customers on a website, processing fast-moving market transactions, or monitoring human safety systems - can depend on the underlying infrastructure to work all of the time.

Java Message Service (JMS)

SonicMQ is a robust and resilient standards-based enterprise messaging system that is the perfect complement to JMS. SonicMQ is built on a continuous availability architecture that provides a solution that will allow you to tackle problems associated with trapped messages, duplicate messages, out-of-order messages, and broken transactions.

Messaging Middleware

SonicMQ's cost-effective and reliable messaging technology eliminates the need for expensive RAID, OS clustering and third-party HA frameworks. No matter how complex the process, transactions that are processing continue to their intended destination without the need for recovery time or client roll back.

Service Orchestration

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is the most widely accepted standard language for service orchestration. However, it provides no means to integrate or communicate with the target systems. To execute a service orchestration requires an orchestration engine to bind the WSDL interfaces of services to the heterogeneous resources on which a process will execute. Sonic BPEL Server provides unmatched capabilities for creating and managing complex, event-driven processes.

SOA Infrastructure

The vision of SOA infrastructure is powerful because service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to make businesses more agile, make business services broadly available and re-usable, and eliminate boundaries between business functions and value chains. Sonic products are core to achieving a successful SOA and operational responsiveness within your enterprise infrastructure.

Straight-through Processing

Historically, trade processing has involved manual steps and re-keying of data as it passed from one proprietary system to the next. Straight-through processing aims to eliminate these inefficiencies by integrating front-end, middle, and back-end applications and connecting different trading stakeholders electronically, based on standards for system interoperability and business process interoperability. As a result, for straight-through processing to be successful companies require a technology infrastructure that is fast, accurate, and stable enough to reduce time and ensure trade accuracy and completion. Sonic messaging products provide the fast, reliable, message delivery across distributed systems necessary for optimal straight-through processing.