Adapters for Sonic ESB

One of the challenges IT organizations face is how to move forward with integration initiatives while protecting and preserving current infrastructure investments. By using prefabricated, vendor-maintained adapters, companies can significantly reduce the time, cost, complexity and skills required to incorporate business assets into a service-oriented architecture.

Adapters for Progress® Sonic ESB® mask the technical and semantic differences of various systems, creating a uniform view via dynamic and static transformations. No matter how diverse the components of your IT infrastructure may be, Adapters for Sonic ESB make them uniformly accessible across the enterprise service bus.

Using adapters in combination with Sonic ESB enables true integration of your disparate applications and business partners. More than 300 types of adapters are available including packaged application adapters, B2B adapters, mainframe and legacy adapters and technology platform adapters. The adapters are also available on up to 35 different platforms, offering a total of over 1,200 adapters.

• Packaged Application Adapters
  Many companies have implemented and customized modern packaged applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Packaged application adapters tap into the native transaction interfaces, APIs and data structures that these popular business packages expose, making it easy to reuse the business logic and data of their packages for a wide range of new business requirements.
  
  
• B2B Adapters
  B2B adapters support the automatic transformation of B2B exchange formats such as EDI and dialect-specific XML documents into formats compatible with non-XML-based information resources. These adapters can rapidly transform documents into a variety of XML dialects as well as non-XML documents including cXML, xCBL, OAG BOD, ANSI X.12 EDI and more.
  
  
• Mainframe and Legacy Adapters
  Just as an ESB provides industry standard connectivity between disparate platforms, Shadow provides interoperability across multiple mainframe data and application environments – in essence, a mainframe services bus (MSB). Shadow and other adapters unlock information storehouses to enrich enterprise applications with critical information that would otherwise be underutilized. All adapters operate the same way, minimizing the skills required to use each system and support new projects. Each adapter comprises a communications interface, an SQL translator that manages adapter operations in SQL, and an interface which translates SQL into native API calls. Multiple adapters running on the same platform can share communications and translation components, reducing system resource requirements.
  
  
• Technology Platform Adapters
  The success and often the profitability of enterprise systems hinges on their support for bidirectional information flows between users and existing systems. The technology platform adapters allow you to leverage existing investments in systems such as CORBA. These adapters provide a native interface to the underlying technologies and present a standard XML interface to the enterprise service bus.
  
  

Learn more about Adapters for Sonic ESB

• Adapters for Sonic ESB Data Sheet (PDF)
• List of Adapters
• Connectivity Options
• Supported Platforms
• Documentation
• Progress Sonic ESB Product Family
• SOA Maturity Model
• ESB Architecture & Lifecycle Definition

Related Topics

• Enterprise Integration
• Business Process Reengineering
• Enterprise Information Integration
• ESB
• Services-oriented Architecture
• Continuous Pipeline Processing
• Semantic Integration
• Runtime Governance

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