SOA Whitepapers

In choosing a SOA infrastructure provider, you need to start by looking for a vendor who shares a similiar SOA vision. Progress Software believes that this is 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, SOA governance, semantic data integration and more.

Whitepapers by topic:

ESB
Enterprise Messaging
SOA

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Sonic ESB 7.5 Technology Audit
published by Butler Group
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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Enterprise Messaging

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.

Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)

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.

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.

SOA Whitepapers

Enterprise Messaging

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