SOA Whitepapers
In choosing an SOA infrastructure provider, you need to start by looking for a vendor who shares a similiar SOA vision. Progress Software believes that this a prerequisite for aligning the technology with your business goals. Below you will find whitepapers on a variety of SOA topics, including enterprise service bus (ESB), soa management, runtime governance, and semantic integration.
Visit the ESB Resource Center for resources specific to ESB, or the Enterprise Messaging Resource Center for resources specfic to enterprise messaging.
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Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
A Playbook for ESBs (pdf)
co-authored by Progress Software and eBizQ
The enterprise service bus (ESB) has emerged as a key enabler for more agile and effective integration across enterprise systems and business processes. 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 Infrastructure for SOA (pdf)
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 today.
High Availability Embedded Messaging for ISV's (pdf)
For most packaged applications and hardware systems, failure is not an option. Lost messages, service delays, and incomplete transactions lead to high support costs, financial penalties for missed SLAs, and possible legal action by your end users or partners. Download this whitepaper and learn how you can increase the performance, reliability and availability of your application or device.
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.
Butler Group Technology Audit: Sonic SOA Suite (pdf)
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)
Progress 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 (pdf)
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.
Identifying Best-of-Breed Characteristics in ESBs (pdf)
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 EAI as a means to deliver improved business integration.
Sonic ESB® Product Backgrounder (pdf)
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.
Enterprise Messaging
Continuous Availability for Enterprise Messaging (pdf)
Companies seek to maximize their business processing uptime through the implementation of high availability solutions, leading to increased revenue and profitability. This paper discusses the current state and associated issues of enterprise messaging fault-tolerance approaches, and describes how the Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture™ not only improves operational availability but decreases the associated development costs and administration complexities.
Massive Scalability (pdf)
OSS developers have moved away from monolithic, telecommunications specific architectures and embraced off-the-shelf multi-tier architectures and distributed-object middleware. Initiatives such as the OSS through Java™ Initiative (OSS/J) promote the adoption of a component-based approach to developing OSS solutions. This paper demonstrates OSS/J deployment strategies and patterns that accommodate performance or scalability shortfalls.
Clustering and Dynamic Routing with SonicMQ® (pdf)
The need to create and extend computing infrastructures across and between distributed enterprises is increasingly becoming a competitive necessity. Find out how Sonic's clustering and Dynamic Routing Architecture (DRA) capabilities meet the needs of enterprise-scale, distributed message-based systems.
Benchmarking Enterprise
Messaging Systems
(pdf)
Knowing how a distributed messaging infrastructure performs under heavy load is a key factor in planning a development and deployment strategy. This paper discusses how to plan and conduct a comprehensive benchmark with any Java Message Service (JMS) implementation.
JMS Performance Comparison: SonicMQ® vs TIBCO Enterprise™ for JMS (pdf)
This performance analysis focuses on durable publish/subscribe messaging and examines the throughput and scalability of SonicMQ and TIBCO Enterprise for JMS. The analysis provides a head-to-head comparison of these two products, illustrating their relative performance characteristics in various messaging scenarios.
High-Performance Messaging with JMS: IBM® MQSeries® (pdf)
This performance analysis addresses point-to-point and durable publish/subscribe messaging and examines the throughput and scalability of SonicMQ and IBM MQSeries. The analysis provides a head-to-head comparison of these two products, illustrating their relative performance characteristics in various messaging scenarios.
A Messaging Primer - How Messaging Solves Today's Business Problems (pdf)
Businesses are constantly searching for ways to improve efficiency and, therefore, their bottom line. This paper outlines business problems being solved with messaging, and discusses the various types of messaging implementations.
Security in SonicMQ® (pdf)
Security is a key concern for system architects who are grappling with the challenge of making their integration solutions secure yet also performant and convenient. This paper discusses authentication, authorization and encryption support in SonicMQ and reviews various deployment scenarios.
Application Servers and SonicMQ® (pdf)
Collaboration has become a catchphrase in the way business is conducted today. Find out how SonicMQ can be integrated with application servers to provide a robust mechanism for exchanging information among participating applications.
Using JNDI with SonicMQ® (pdf)
JNDI and SonicMQ are both valuable technologies in the creation of highly distributed solutions to key business processes. This paper reviews how to integrate JNDI in your Sonic applications.
Using Messaging in Progress Applications (pdf)
Internet-based software requires a reliable, fast, and scalable communication between newly developed and legacy applications and data sources. This paper provides a general overview of messaging and its use in Progress-based applications.
Industry Solutions
Highly Scalable Service-Oriented Architectures for Telecom (pdf)
As telecoms are inherently a WAN-based, federated environment with multiple points of control across lines of business and an ever expanding net of partnerships and content suppliers - the challenge has been to integrate services outside of local domains. This whitepaper presents why the enterprise service bus (ESB) is the first SOA platform for integrating OSS/BSS applications end-to-end.
Real-Time Distributed Event Management in the RFID-Enabled Supply Chain (pdf)
Integrating radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology into the supply chain makes it possible to detect and address exceptions in the supply chain in real time and close to the source of the exception. This whitepaper defines the fundamentals of RFID-enabled supply chain event management and discusses how an enterprise software bus (ESB) can be used to resolve the underlying architecture challenges and complexities of integrating real-time decision support into the supply chain.
Extending Trading Services Beyond the Firewall (pdf)
How do sell side firms extend their product offerings to include advanced algorithmic trading, customized analysis and more direct market access? This whitepaper discusses the rationale for moving to an enterprise service bus, where traditional application integration capabilities are combined with Internet middleware to support enhanced trading services with hedge funds, active traders, investment mangers and independent brokers.
Assessing the Retailer's Payback from Application Integration (pdf)
Leading retailers have demonstrated that success today is driven by fast access to accurate, timely and integrated information. But achieving real-time, integrated applications is far from easy. This paper examines current integration practices, presents ways to determine the business value of application integration and introduces the enterprise service bus (ESB) as a cost-effective approach to real-time retail integration.
Improving Retail Financial Performance Through Business Process Integration (pdf)
As retailers increase their reliance on technology, systems integration is increasingly becoming a competitive advantage. Though the concept of retail — buying and selling merchandise — is simple in theory, the reality can often become very complex. This paper will review the current retail technology landscape and discuss some of the key reasons why the Sonic Enterprise Service Bus offers retailers significant benefits.
Real-Time Service Provisioning (pdf)
Service providers need to deliver new telco services more rapidly with less human intervention to achieve the benefits of increased revenue and reduced customer churn. This whitepaper authored by OSS Observer and Sonic Software discusses the business benefits and challenges of real-time service provisioning and how Sonic facilitates the automation of service fulfillment processes through the rapid integration of provisioning applications.
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