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Enterprise Service Bus Offers Best-in-Class SOA Infrastructure
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is changing the way enterprises integrate and manage information assets. Old systems and applications are no longer lost investments – an SOA infrastructure allows them to be reconfigured as modular services and made available throughout the enterprise. The benefit an SOA infrastructure is to maximize flexibility while simplifying management, and the enterprise service bus (ESB) makes this task much easier. Today, many organizations use an ESB to better connect, mediate and control the services available on an SOA. The enterprise service bus also makes it easier to reduce the cost of IT investment by better enabling older or legacy systems to be reused, reducing the cost of custom software development. For the industry leading enterprise service bus, look to Progress® Sonic ESB®.
Below you will find our collection of whitepapers, archived webinars, and other resources that will help you learn more about enterprise service bus technology and Sonic ESB.
What's New
Date | Title | Type |
17 Apr 2008 | ESB Lessons Learned | Webinar |
10 Apr 2008 | Webinar | |
20 Feb 2008 | Sonic ESB 7.5 Technology Audit | Whitepaper |
17 Dec 2007 | A Playbook for ESBs | Whitepaper |
07 Dec 2007 | 7 Points of SOA Mediation | SOA Podcast |
06 Nov 2007 | SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture by Hub Vandervoort | eBook |
06 Nov 2007 | SOA: Time to Value of IT | SOA Podcast |
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Whitepapers
Title | Description |
Sonic ESB 7.5 Technology Audit | Looking ahead, the Butler Group says, "Progress Software is heavily involved with all of the necessary standards' bodies, and will continue to implement these standards as they gain universal acceptance. Additionally, Progress® Sonic ESB® will grow to match the requirements of SOA management and deployment, and in particular, it has been designed as a best-of-breed solution enabling organisations to implement solutions rapidly." |
A Playbook for ESB | The enterprise service bus (ESB) has emerged as a key enabler for more agile and effective integration across enterprise systems and business processes. Yet, as a technology, ESBs are only part of the answer. What is required to deliver agile and effective integration is a combination of the right ESB technology with "defined patterns" that increase effectiveness of the integration team in their use of an ESB. The paper, A Playbook for ESBs, introduces four integration patterns for ESBs and the enterprise integration scenarios they help make possible. By combining the advanced capabilities of an ESB with integration patterns you can deliver key benefits to both business and IT. |
The right SOA technology can accelerate business breakthroughs and ROI. But what is the "right" technology for your business? This white paper focuses on optimal integration and interoperability as the key and provides a decision framework for evaluating vendors' SOA approach and technology, to help companies get started on a practical SOA infrastructure today. Tim Dempsey, VP of Marketing, Enterprise Infrastructure, explains just how to determine that in the paper, The Right Infrastructure for Your SOA. | |
The Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition (pdf) | Given the importance of the enterprise service bus (ESB) to SOA implementation, it is important to understand the functions and structure of the ESB and how its design permits rapid change in, easy connections to, and clear visibility and control of services and processes in a SOA-based application. This whitepaper provides a thorough definition of the Sonic ESB, including complete UML diagrams that provide a conceptual view of the ESB components. |
In this Integration and BPM Technology Audit, the Butler Group offers their assessment of the Sonic SOA Suite. "Sonic SOA Suite provides a wealth of functionality for building, deploying, and managing a SOA environment... Sonic has not rested on its corporate laurels in relying on the past perception, and it has extended the core ESB and messaging infrastructure to a competitive range of infrastructure products for helping architects who have to bring SOA to fruition." | |
A New Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) Maturity Model (pdf) | Sonic Software and its partners created this model to better enable organizations in their quest for business agility through service-oriented architecture (SOA). The SOA Maturity Model outlined in this whitepaper was specifically developed to offer guidance to managers who may be struggling to communicate the business value of their SOA vision and be able to benchmark SOA adoption within their organization. |
Distributed service-oriented architectures allow system architects to create a distributed environment in which applications can interoperate seamlessly. This paper discusses the advantages of building distributed service-oriented architectures and identifies components for successful deployment and management of distributed processes, including Web services. | |
The Enterprise Service Bus: Disruptive Technology for Software Infrastructure Solutions (pdf) | IDC examines the enterprise service bus (ESB) as an open standards-based technology that will potentially revolutionize IT and enable flexible and scalable distributed computing for generations to come. IDC also identifies how ESB technology can offer IT customers cost savings and shorter development and deployment cycles within the IT environment. |
Integration approaches have been refined over the last ten years, resulting in the emergence of architectures that offer flexible and adaptable platforms for integration. One of the most exciting developments to emerge is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This paper contrasts the characteristics of ESBs and identifies areas that represent best-of-breed capabilities. | |
Raising EAI Standards (pdf) | This paper considers the changing dynamics of the EAI market and how these dynamics are likely to play out, focusing particularly on one aspect that could prove a real paradigm shift - the emergence of standards. The conclusion should be encouraging to any company looking to invest in enterprise application integration (EAI) as a means to deliver improved business integration. |
Fortune 500 companies recognize that they must move to a service-oriented architecture to bridge applications within the enterprise and expose their business systems over the Internet. This paper describes how Sonic ESB delivers the enterprise-class throughput, global scalability and manageability required for large-scale integration projects. |
Other ESB Resources
| Type | Title | Description |
SOA Insights | SOA has become the preferred approach for companies who want to deliver business agility and complete visibility to information and processes across the enterprise. Subscribe to the informative, intriguing and provocative SOA Infrastructure blog that will help your enterprise realize the true potential of SOA. SOA success at every step. Now that's Progress. | |
Book | O'Reilly's Enterprise Service Bus provides you with both a conceptual and architectural overview of ESB from the viewpoint of a seasoned expert in the areas of standards for enterprise messaging, web services and SOA. In it, Dave Chappell offers his unique insights - gained from years of working with the pioneers and innovators defining the ESB - and delivers practical strategies for understanding the architecture of an ESB and its impact on integrating diverse applications into enterprise-wide solutions. He then goes on to present integration patterns that clearly show how an ESB can help solve the thorniest application integration challenges using standard components and interfaces. | |
SOA Insights | Gus Björklund, Vice President, Technology, Progress Software Corporation wrote this article which originally appeared in SOA Web Services Journal, September 2006. | |
SOA Insights | Sonic Software Vice President Tim Dempsey addresses the challenges customers face with the lack of clarity in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) market, and introduces "Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Lifecycle Definition," a detailed explication of our market-creating offering, Sonic ESB, as the foundation for an industry-wide discussion and debate on a clear vocabulary for the ESB. | |
SOA Insights | Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen offers his views on the rapid adoption of service-oriented architecture and the role of the ESB as essential SOA infrastructure software. Major corporations are making big bets on SOA and Van Huizen notes "I've had a remarkable number of IT leaders tell me that for them SOA with an ESB is the underpinning of a 10- to 15-year architecture plan." | |
SOA Insights | Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen concludes his discussion of enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture in the final installment of this three-part SOA Insight series. Van Huizen argues that for ESBs to meet the requirements of enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments they must have a cohesive services framework, refuting the assertion that a truly flexible ESB can be created by extending existing middleware products. | |
SOA Insights | In the second installment of this SOA Insight series Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen looks at service configuration, deployment and monitoring within and across an ESB. | |
SOA Insights | In part one of a three-part series Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen argues that architecture, while frequently missing is discussions about ESBs, "directly affects how flexible, manageable and scalable an ESB actually is." Van Huizen goes on to provide some tangible terms for discussing ESB architecture. | |
SOA Insights | Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen discusses recent reports from Forrester, META Group, Burton Group and others, and argues that analysts can add value to the debate by focusing on "the vital issues and assisting with industry-wide convergence around best models and practices" instead of attempting an SOA land-grab. | |
SOA Insights | Sonic CTO Gordon Van Huizen looks at service-oriented architecture evolution and how the enterprise service bus (ESB) moves SOA beyond the application platform. He argues that businesses should carefully evaluate service-oriented architecture (SOA) products to ensure they deliver the IT flexibility and business agility as promised. |
Sonic ESB
Progress Software Delivers Superior Enterprise Service Bus
As the industry's first provider of the enterprise service bus, Progress delivers a product that easily enables organizations to maximize the value of their service oriented architecture. Sonic ESB enables the creation of federated services by allowing architects to more easily manage the SOA from any point. Hard-wired dependencies are eliminated through configurable service interaction, so it's easier to deploy projects initially and – without need for disruptive re-programming – allow them to scale and evolve, extending their value throughout the organization. Sonic enterprise service bus allows all resources to be readily connected and made broadly available across the enterprise – Web services, J2EE applications, legacy message brokers, and more. By making these federated services available for dynamically-configured interaction with other services, Sonic ESB allows the organization to bring IT resources into better alignment with organizational requirements.
Improve Connection, Mediation and Control with the Sonic Enterprise Service Bus
The Sonic best-in-class enterprise service bus allows organizations to better accomplish the major tasks necessary to exploit the value of service oriented architecture.
- Connect: Simplify the connection of new applications, web services and legacy technologies.
- Mediate: Reconcile incompatible protocols, data formats and interaction patterns; eliminate hard-coded service dependencies between applications; and make it easier to combine and extend existing services to meet new requirements.
- Control: Simplify deployment of services across a distributed environment; deploy configuration changes remotely; and provide detailed statistics to monitor performance, detect faults, and diagnose problems.
More about Sonic ESB:
- Product Overview
- Data Sheet (PDF)
- Supported Platforms
- Documentation
- Application Integration Patterns with SOA
- Sonic Customers
- SOA Management
Contact us to gain more insight and to learn more about enterprise service bus (ESB) and SOA infrastructure products from Progress Software. In addition to the enterprise service bus, Progress also offers business process management software, infrastructure software, integration software, messaging software, semantic data integration and more.
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