18 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
If if haven't had a chance to read the interview by Jeremy Geelan, Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events, take a moment to read it. Middleware is one of the fastest growing segments of the software industry today because of SOA. Gordon talks about why and how he believes that the increased interest in Web 2.0 and rich Internet applications (RIA) will further accelerate this growth. He also explains what he believes are the current barriers to SOA adoption and that IT infrastructures need to move toward normalization, as opposed to homogenization, and that the adoption of SOA infrastructure such as enterprise service bus (ESB) and SOA management will help normalize infrastructure interactions with backend systems.
Gordon also talks about the Progress Software approach and how he believes 2008 will be the "year of the events" and that events are the decoupling agent in modern enterprise computing architectures and are as important as services and processes.
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20 Feb 2008 | Breaking Up The Stack
The SOA Strategy of Progress Software
This whitepaper, published by the Butler Group, provides an introduction to the breadth of solutions provided by Progress Software in support of the implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It provides the context around the discrete products delivered by Progress Software, some of which are described in Butler Group's Technology Audits. |
07 Jan 2008
 | Multiple ESBs: SOA Reality in a Federated Environment Listen as Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software, and an industry expert from Gartner, Inc., discuss how companies that are working in federated environments need to approach the governance of their SOAs in both run-time and design-time contexts. Replay this webcast and gain important insights into how to isolate and manage multiple SOA domains, which aspects of SOA you should control at the edge, the importance of semantic control at the interface between domains, and how event-driven ESBs can ensure loose coupling between SOA stacks. |
10 Dec 2007
 | 7 Points of SOA Mediation
Featuring Hub Vandervoort, CTO
WSOA: A podcast channel that features interviews with Progress technologists. The second in our series features Hub Vandervoort, our CTO. He talks about what he believes are the 7 Points of SOA Mediation (MP3) that will enable companies to achieve better business results - faster. In this podcast, Hub details how transport, symantics, location, sequence, error recovery, quality of service, and interaction will help SOA integrators connect data sources and enhance enterprise application flexibility.
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06 Nov 2007
| SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture
Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges
An eBook by by Hub Vandervoort
Rethink the centralized, top-down approach to SOA governance and develop a consensual form of governance that supports a socially oriented architecture. Create federated communities among diverse SOA participants for richer, more dynamic user experiences. Read what Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Enterprise Infrastructure Division, Progress Software, has to say in his eBook, SOA: Socially Oriented Architecture. Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges. |
06 Nov 2007
| SOA: Time to Value of IT
Featuring Hub Vandervoort, CTO
WSOA: A podcast channel that features interviews with Progress technologists. The first in our series features Hub Vandervoort, our CTO. He addresses a topic he has found rich ground for discussion with the customers he has been visiting with in recent months. SOA: Time to Value of IT is an interactive dialog capturing how Hub has counseled architects and SOA project leaders to help evangelize SOA infrastructure value with corporate business leaders. In his inimitable fashion, he "connects the dots" in a way I believe you will find very interesting, and useful in helping build the business case for SOA initiatives.
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Oct 2007
| SOA Visionaries
Hosted by: Dave Linthicum
This podcast channel provides SOA visionaries, such as Progress Software, with the ability to explain how they have provided value to the world of SOA, and how their technology is changing the landscape.
19 Sep 2007 - SOA Visionaries with Julianna Cammarano, Product Marketing for Progress Actional |
Aug 2007 | Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA
Survey Reveals Data Integration Projects to Increase by 2009
Progress Software released the results of a study it commissioned with Forrester Consulting revealing data integration efforts are increasing across most major industries as a result of the demand for real-time globally accessible data. According to findings, information technology (IT) professionals are severely challenged in keeping pace – still mired in manual processes and ad hoc fixes. SOA is growing quickly and the survey results identified service oriented architectures (SOAs) as the emerging solution across enterprises to achieve successful end-to-end data management and integration results. Learn more and read the SOA survey, Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA.
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Aug 2007
| Socially Oriented Architecture Introduction
A world where architecture and infrastructure enable dynamic execution of business.
Hub Vandervoort, CTO of the Enterprise Infrastructure Division of Progress Software, discusses the social impact of SOA on IT culture. SOA is expanding the management challenges for IT executives as they try to build applications for their different constituents – using a federated multi-party approach for all interactions. If you’re delivering software on a scheduled release basis or trying to manage SOA governance in a top-down command and control fashion, stop and listen to this 30 minute analysis. |
Jul 2007
| An Open Dialog About Building an Agile SOA Infrastructure
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. |
Apr 2007
| The Right Infrastructure for SOA
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. Tim Dempsey, VP of Marketing, Enterprise Infrastructure, explains just how to determine that in the paper, The Right Infrastructure for Your SOA. |
Sep 2006 | Did You Know There is a "C" in SOA?
Gus Björklund, Vice President, Technology, Progress Software Corporation wrote this article which originally appeared in SOA Web Services Journal, September 2006. When designing your SOA and services, keeping service consumers in mind will make the job easier. Consumers must conform to the interfaces of each service they use and invoke them with the right data in the right format. The more similarity there is among the services, the less coding and translation your consumers will have to do. Using the techniques of transformation, semantic data modeling, and a conceptual data model can make your job much easier both during initial design and testing and when making changes later.
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02 Aug 2006 | SOA Governance and Rogue Services
Sonic CTO, Dan Foody, explores the counter-intuitive notion that adding rules to a service-oriented architecture can actually increase risk, and what can be done to mitigate those risks. He also explains how rogue services can disrupt an otherwise tightly controlled environment. "In order to implement a complete approach to SOA governance, you need to consider the roles of development, deployment, and runtime governance. Taking a holistic view of governance across the life cycle will automate as much of the governance burden as possible, while providing a backstop to catch the rogue services and service-uses that your human-centric processes don't catch." |
05 Dec 2005 | ESB Defined, or the Definitive ESB?
VP 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. |
19 Sep 2005
| Movin' SOA On Up:
Introducing a New Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity Model
Jon Bachman, Senior Director of Product Marketing, introduces the New Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity Model (SOA MM) in this SOA Insight. Influenced by field experiences and Forrester Research Analyst Randy Heffner, and leveraging the well known SEI Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI), the SOA Maturity Model is a tool that IT managers can use to assess their teams, projects and overall organizational capabilities with respect to SOA maturity. IT decision makers can also use this model to educate business managers and set expectations within executive teams.
The SOA Maturity Model was developed in conjunction with Progress' SOA partners AmberPoint, BearingPoint and Systinet. |
17 Mar 2005
| Shifting into the Next Gear
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." |
16 Nov 2004
| Architecting the Bus, Part 3
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. |
19 Oct 2004
| Architecting the Bus, Part 2
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. |
14 Sep 2004
| Architecting the Bus
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. |
26 Jul 2004
| Missing the Bus?
Progress 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 service-oriented architecture land-grab. |
08 Jun 2004
| SOA Comes of Age
Progress 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.
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