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SOA Solutions

SOA Solutions Offer Keys to Competitive Advantage

The competitive enterprise today relies more on technology than ever before. Superior infrastructure and applications help the enterprise increase speed to market, improve customer experience, maximize supply chain efficiencies, and enhance communication with partners, customers and employees. But to remain competitive, enterprise technology infrastructure must evolve easily to meet new demands and incorporate new technology, and that's where many organizations run into obstacles. Frequently, enterprise application infrastructure is a hodge-podge of solutions developed over time to meet specific demands, without any plan for how all these various pieces would communicate with each other, let alone with future applications. The service oriented environment (SOA) promises to change that. By transforming every program into a service oriented business application, SOA solutions allow applications to communicate easily with each other and to combine to form new approaches to problem-solving. The secret of successful SOA solutions is to find the most robust platform on which to deploy them, and for this purpose more enterprises choose Progress Software.

Progress® OpenEdge® Delivers Innovative SOA Solutions

Progress OpenEdge is a business application platform designed to support the needs of enterprises deploying SOA solutions. OpenEdge delivers a complete end-to-end approach for solving business integration challenges—from departmental connectivity to global integration and collaboration with business partners. OpenEdge includes applications that speed development, simplify deployment, streamline integration and enhance management of SOA solutions. With the technology and strategies to implement best practices, OpenEdge makes it easier for applications, databases and platforms to communicate with each other by automatically routing and transforming business-critical data so it can be accessed by anyone, anytime, anywhere in the organization.

Superior Tools for SOA Solutions Simply Deployment

Among the tools included in the OpenEdge integration portfolio for SOA solutions are:

  • OpenEdge® Application Server provides a foundation for integration that allows enterprises to extend applications and services throughout the organization and to customers, partners and suppliers as well. Business applications with the OpenEdge Application Server can support almost every user or client interface.
  • SonicMQ® delivers a highly scalable messaging server environment that delivers superior authentication, authorization and encryption support to ensure that all messages are protected both inside and outside the firewall.
  • Sonic ESB®, an enterprise service bus, lets the enterprise dynamically configure the reliable connection, mediation and control of services and their interactions with the SOA environment.

In addition to applications for SOA integration, Progress also provides software for web services development, software integration and more.

Learn more about Progress OpenEdge solutions