Sonic Media Coverage
27 Apr 2008
Web 2.0, RIAs & SOA - Exclusive Q&A with Gordon Van Huizen
When we speak of enterprise mash-ups, composite applications and software as a service (SaaS), it’s easy to forget that you actually need infrastructure behind the user experience to make it happen," says Gordon Van Huizen (pictured) in this exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON Media's SOAWorld Magazine. SOA middleware is among the fastest growing segments of the software industry, Van Huizen notes, adding: "I believe that the increased interest in Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications will drive the growth of middleware faster than EAI did."
17 Apr 2008
Web 2.0 and RIAs Will Drive the Growth of Middleware
Exclusive Q&A with Gordon Van Huizen, VP of Products, Progress Software.
13 Apr 2008
Van Huizen: Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications is Driving SOA Middleware Growth
Exclusive Q&A with Gordon Van Huizen, VP of Products, Progress Software
10 Apr 2008
Data Integration: Defining the Common Model
Looking at Network transformation and process agility are telecoms industry imperatives. However, only by adopting common data model architectures and ensuring data interoperability across all of their systems will carriers avoid challenging, costly and inefficient new service deployments and maximise the potential of new architectures such as SOA.
07 Apr 2008
IBM, Others Bring Event-Driven Tools to SOA
There's nothing intrinsic about SOA that prevents an event-driven approach, but many SOA platforms didn't account for event-driven services in their designs, said Hub Vandervoot, CTO of Progress Software. (Its DataDirect Technologies unit announced the addition of event-driven capabilities for mainframe integration in SOA environments on April 4.)
04 Apr 2008
ebizQ Sneak Peak Podcast: Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, on SOA in Financial Services
This podcast is a sneak peak of a live panel discussion that will occur on April 16, called "Visibility, Control and Evolution: Building on SOA to Meet Today's Financial Services Industry Challenges
01 Apr 2008
Tech Traffic Cop: SOA Tries the Enterprise System on for Size
Unlike Oracle, which offers its own ESB, Infor will rely on Progress Software's Sonic bus.
01 Apr 2008
Hannaford Breach Highlights Messaging System Struggles
Questions remain about how an attacker managed to place malware onto servers at all of Hannaford's nearly 300 grocery stores. But one researcher who has studied information exchange software warns about messaging system misconfiguration issues that could lead to the type of breach experienced by Hannaford.
28 Mar 2008
Two interconnected debates are raging in the blogsphere over how service-oriented architecture (SOA) may be running into resistance in 2008
05 Jan 2008
SOA is About Collaboration, Not Command and Control
SOA, by its very nature, encourages a highly decentralized, loosely coupled approach to management. That's why it often is a difficult fit within organizations that attempt to shoe-horn "SOA" approaches into rigid, hidebound corporate cultures.
Progress Software's Hub Vandervoort recently published an ebook, Socially Oriented Architecture, that talks about the role of management and corporate culture in SOA success. Hub explains "The bottom line is trust and commitment have to replace command and control for SOA to be successful in organizations."
Jan 2008
New Tools Connect SOA to Business Success
The challenge for SOA proponents is to be able to demonstrate how the architecture can tackle even the most vexing business problems, and provide a return to the business in places where it counts most. [With Sonic,] Chicago-based Kemper Auto and Home Insurance uses SOA to modernize the company’s network of legacy systems, avoiding the need to take systems offline for months at a time and disrupt business.
December 26, 2007
Socially Oriented Architecture
In this podcast, Beth Gold-Bernstein spoke with Hub Vandervoort, CTO at Progress Software about his ebook titled “SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture.” In this book Hub talks about the people and management side of complex SOA environments that cross organizational boundaries, and what is necessary to enable people to work together effectively.
December 05, 2007
Gaming industry discovers that SOA is a safe bet
"In gaming and gambling, the odds always favour the house. But for...the UK's government-owned Tote, betting on an emerging technology [Sonic ESB] has brought winnings all round."
November 15, 2007
"Attempting to manually redeploy a service-oriented architecture can be a costly and risky proposition, as it is labor-intensive and introduces the risk of human error. Recognizing that, Progress Software is trying to help customers remove the human element and automatically roll out SOA deployments."
November 12, 2007
Progress customer European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN CH) named on IDG's InfoWorld 100 Best Projects of 2007 List
November 05, 2007
Progress Sonic and Cape Clear blaze the SOA trail
"The concept of an SOA "suite" may seem antithetical to those who were counting on SOA to free us from the tyranny of vendor lock-in, but there's an upside to this development. First, today’s ESB (enterprise service bus) suites are much more capable than the early point solutions. Second, when you're dropping six figures on a paradigm shift, you want to know someone has your back at every layer of the services stack." Read why James Borck says he "...was immediately impressed by the level of maturity and development..." brought to Sonic ESB by Progress.
October 20, 2007
Commodities Exchange Has Web Service-Less SOA
Joe McKendrick picked up on Rich Seeley’s SearchWebServices.com coverage of NYMEX's choice of Sonic and he supports the idea that "...SOA is about services of all kinds, not necessarily just Web services."
October 18, 2007
Progress Software extends SOA reach with new deployment manager offering
"SOA can provide many benefits to an enterprise — agility and lower cost come to mind — but it’s not without its challenges. Once a company has decided on a SOA strategy, put an infrastructure in place, and tackled such issues as data access and governance, it’s still faced with the daunting task of deployment, rolling out applications across the enterprise and across the lifecycle of each component." Find out how Sonic solves this problem.
October 02, 2007
Non-Web services SOA handles trading on NYMEX
To plan for expansion in trading, New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the world's largest physical commodities future exchange, turned to the Sonic ESB. "Services are built very much as services would be in a Web services world… It's composed from a process standpoint very much like a Web services-based SOA would be in that the processes flow from service-to-service in the execution of the trade cycle."
September 14, 2007
The Tote, the UK’s state-run betting system, needed to connect to systems all over the world. It chose to do that with Progress Sonic. “We looked at what city traders’ were doing with their technology, because we regard ourselves as essentially trading in bets,” says system architect Andrew Ling. “We saw service-oriented architecture as a way to achieve the agility we needed.”
August 28, 2007
Anarchy hits free-wheeling SOA-land
"Service-oriented architecture, the snap and play approach to business software that promises so much, is being hampered by the old bogey - a lack of standards among users." Learn how the Australian wine company, Ricard Pacific, owner of Orlando Wines, prevailed with SonicMQ which, "...allows us to spread the cost of very specialised services over many customers...The cost drops significantly."
July 19, 2007
Turning Integration on its Head
"The standard definition of service-oriented architecture is still being debated. But semantics aside, companies are using a variety of frame-works to integrate applications and increase efficiency."
"Progress represents another take on service-oriented integration: the enterprise service bus. Enterprise service bus products handle the same linkage chores as the IBMs and Tibcos of the world, but were designed from the start as a standards-based approach to integration. Enterprise service bus supporters also contend that the technology is better suited to event-driven architecture, an approach for building systems that respond to events in real time."
July 16, 2007
SOA project links to mainframe batch systems
Rich Seeley asks "What happens when new service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications from 2007 meet state-of-the-art mainframe batch-update systems from circa 1977?"
Bruce Hogg of Pacific Blue Cross says, "...while batch processing does not have a future in his SOA environment, linking them into it is currently a necessity because SOA is here today and the mainframes won't be gone for several years of tomorrows." Read how Sonic helps bridge the gap between legacy systems and the SOA environment.
July 06, 2007
Beyond the Stack: Another Option for BPM, SOA
Marc Smith, director of Technical Marketing for Lombardi Software, a Progress partner, explains how their BPM product, TeamWorks, works with Sonic ESB to create a "best of breed stack," extending the reach of their BPM, and allowing customers to leverage the work they may have already done with their SOA initiatives.
June 26, 2007
An SOA built without Web services!
Joe McKendrick has been thinking "... about divorcing Web services from service-oriented architecture. The two work together, but aren’t necessarily the same."
Hub Vandervoort, CTO of the Enterprise Infrastructure Division at Progress, concurs, saying of CERN, “This is very much event-driven SOA, but there are no Web services in use.”
June 19, 2007
JMS-based SOA monitors CERN particle accelerators
"Service-oriented architecture (SOA) may not exactly be nuclear physics, but at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) physics laboratory on the border of France and Switzerland, an SOA system is watching over giant particle accelerators. Particle accelerators at the CERN are monitored by an event-driven service-oriented architecture (SOA) system based on Java Messaging Service (JMS) and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).
Read how SonicMQ enables event-driven SOA through JMS.
June 05, 2007
Guaranteeing uptime at world's largest particle physics lab
As the European agency CERN was gearing up to build the world's largest particle accelerator, officials there knew they could not afford to have problems in their technical infrastructure cause any downtime. Read how they used SonicMQ, an enterprise messaging system, to ensure that they'd operate at optimum capacity.
June 05, 2007
Hub Vandervoort, CTO of Progress Software's Enterprise Infrastructure Division, discusses how SonicMQ helps CERN, the largest physics and particle accelerator laboratory in the world, "keep the lights on."
May 21, 2007
Industry companies look for solutions to legacy IT issues
Modernizing legacy information systems through service-oriented architecture appears to offer many insurers real hope, not just hype..."SOA is in its early states of evolution," said [Sonic customer] Keith Sievers, senior vp and chief information officer with the Jacksonville, Fla.-based Kemper Auto & Home Insurance Co., an affiliate of Chicago-based Unitrin Corp.
Read about the growing interest in SOA.
May 02, 2007
Progress extends Sonic ESB 7.5 with BPEL server, SOA management
Progress Software this week released Sonic ESB 7.5, an update to the innovative enterprise service bus that adds a BPEL process orchestration server and integrates with Progress Actional, the company's SOA monitoring and management solution. The ESB also now integrates with Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI), a data validation and transformation engine that can be deployed as a service into the bus.
May 01, 2007
Global technology suppliers take their seats on the enterprise service bus
"People see differences between ESBs on a lot of fronts," Larry Fulton senior analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, explains. "Some users will eliminate an ESB because they don't like its tool set, or they like how another ESB integrates its services."
Hub Vandervoort, CTO of Progress Software's Enterprise Infrastructure Division, believes distributed execution should be included as a strict criterion when defining ESBs.
April 30, 2007
Dueling Business Process Management Vendors Up Ante
Progress Software unveiled its latest enterprise service bus software and a brand new BPEL BSP server to choreograph services in the ESB. Hub Vandervoort, CTO of the Enterprise Infrastructure Division at Progress, said Sonic ESB 7.5 and Sonic BPEL Server are the first major products to support the recently adopted WS-BPEL 2.0 standard.
April 16, 2007
Progress quoted: "Hub Vandervoort, CTO of Progress Software, in Bedford, Mass., whose Sonic Software unit offers Sonic ESB, said, "We have 350 deployments of our ESB out there, and we haven't lost to an open-source ESB yet."
Vandervoort said that, among other issues, the "mission-criticality" of open-source ESBs is still not up to par with that of commercial solutions such as Sonic's."
March 12, 2007
SOA By the Book with RFID, CRM and Event Handling
The "SmartStore" service-oriented architecture system developed by Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN), a Dutch book retailer, brings together RFID-based order tracking and complex event processing (CEP) with more traditional inventory and customer relationship management applications...The backbone of the SOA implementation is the Sonic enterprise service bus (ESB) from Progress Software Corp.
March 08, 2007
Transformation, Agility: Are Expectations Too High for SOA
Joe McKendrick blogs about SOA adoption and impediments. He concludes with comments based on a Progress-sponsored Forrester survey. "We're still a long way off from licking the integration challenge, however, so it's likely SOA will remained anchored to many internal integration projects for some time to come. Another survey conducted by Forrester and released by Progress Software found, for example, that 80% of the 250 companies surveyed still manually change schemas as required. According to the findings, while these percentages will slightly decrease over the next two years, manual processes will continue to trump automation. Despite the popularity of these brute force approaches, an SOA-based approach is gaining ground quickly; while 44% use SOA today, 59% of respondents reported that they plan to use SOA for integration efforts over the next two years."
March 07, 2007
How SOA Boosts Customer Service
Volvo's Brussels-based subsidiary boosted customer service with a simple SOA rollout—and learned some important lessons along the way...Two weeks is all it took for Volvo Cars Belgium to be up and running, interfacing with VCC, with all systems fully functional. "It was so simple," says Cordier, slightly embarrassed. "By using an SOA-based enterprise service bus from Progress Software, called Sonic, the company wasn't required to go through an extensive integration process. Instead, the software essentially brokered the transactions between Belgium and Goteborg, translating data along the way.
