Superior technology is a key component of enterprise success in today's global economy. Enterprises with an infrastructure that allows them to achieve greater agility and flexibility have a much greater chance for competitive advantage. They can more easily change direction to meet new business requirements; communicate more effectively with customers, partners and suppliers; and deploy new applications quickly to take advantage of new opportunities. Many enterprises, however, are hampered in their quest for competitive advantage by a technology infrastructure that is not built for change. These infrastructures typically grow out of necessity rather than design – systems are purpose-built to satisfy immediate needs, without a strategy for how individual components will work together or how to lay a foundation for future evolution. In such cases, software integration becomes paramount. Enterprises must find a way for applications to communicate efficiently with each other, and to lay the groundwork for continued development and integration of new solutions that can still communicate with legacy systems. For software integration solutions deployed by leading enterprises worldwide, consider Progress Software.
Progress OpenEdge is one of the most robust and effective software integration products available for the enterprise today. Based on a service oriented architecture and using an enterprise service bus, OpenEdge streamlines the integration of applications and Web services in order to extend critical business processes throughout a distributed organization. Utilizing powerful strategies and best practices, OpenEdge enables systems, platforms and databases to more easily communicate by reconfiguring important information and making it accessible to anyone within the enterprise. To make sure that the enterprise can use the best approach for solving any specific challenge, the OpenEdge platform allows developers and administrators to work with industry standards like XML, .NET, Web servies, messaging services, Java and more. With OpenEdge software, enterprises can minimize the complexity of the systems, develop new technology more rapidly, and scale applications easily to meet new business challenges.
Progress Software integration applications include a number of cutting-edge tools, such as SonicMQ®, a leading messaging server that is highly scalable and provides remarkable reliability. Sonic ESB®, the first enterprise service bus, is a powerfully efficient tool for software integration that provides a cost-efficient way to centrally develop, deploy and manage services throughout an extended organization. And Sonic Orchestration Server is a business process management server delivering support for complex data flows and long-running transactions.
Progress also delivers solutions for the SOA architect deploying service oriented architectures, solutions architecture, and a development infrastructure for writing business software application that is a powerful alternative to VB6 development.
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