Company Profile

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications. Today the company has over 1,600 employees in over 90 countries. Progress is headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, and is a worldwide leader in application infrastructure software.

Progress supports service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments with products that easily create, connect, mediate and control interactions among business services. In addition, Progress continually provides new technologies that provide solutions for such emerging areas as real-time event processing, SOA management, and federated data service management. All Progress products are standards-based, and interface with a wide variety of business applications in today's heterogeneous business environment.

For more information, please visit www.progress.com.

CentraSite™ for Progress Actional

Today's SOA deployments are complex and dynamic, with component services being combined, re-used and evolved in order to meet changing business needs.

Progress® Actional® SOA management products provide the operational and business visibility you need to actively manage your heterogeneous, distributed SOA environment, and ensure that your SOA business processes and services are delivering the right level of customer service. Actional also gives you the tools you need to rapidly perform root cause analysis and pinpoint the source of the problems when they do occur.

Actional continuous service optimization and policy enforcement capabilities are equally important. With Actional you can continuously optimize services according to business requirements and ensure compliance with regulatory and security policy.

As a result, Actional is a key component of a service governance strategy, complementing in-place processes and other standards-based technologies. In addition, with Actional SOA Management products, you can begin to build an SOA and run it successfully today and evolve it incrementally to connect people, functions, and computing resources across, and beyond, enterprise boundaries.

Key capabilities include:

  • Support for the entire SOA lifecycle. Actional includes solutions for effective management of all stages of SOA maturity. It includes features you benefit from immediately such as end-to-end monitoring, which is critical for development, quality assurance, and staging environments to ensure reliable SOA operation as well as other features that provide support as your SOA evolves.
  • Policy-based, centralized SOA management. Actional provides centralized configuration and management of policies and distributed enforcement on the network. This allows appropriate experts, rather than developers, to define a policy once and apply it wherever relevant, for consistent enforcement. Actional also applies policies to end-to-end processes wherever they flow, allowing processes and services to change without requiring policy changes or re-applications, for lower IT overhead and cost.
  • An architecture designed for high performance and scalability. Actional monitors and controls end-to-end SOA processes with only microseconds of latency on the network and without server bottlenecks. It requires less than two percent of CPU capacity per network node, and one Actional server can support more than 1,000 managed systems. That means you can build and scale an enterprise-class SOA cost-effectively.
  • Unmatched integration and interoperability-for easy SOA deployment and evolution in the heterogeneous enterprise. Actional is built to easily integrate and interoperate with a wide variety of heterogeneous infrastructure such as applications, data sources, network devices, middleware, identity management products, and registries and repositories. Actional places great importance on supporting industry standards, to make this interoperability possible.

Executive's Opinion

"We're pleased to work with Software AG to ensure that Progress Actional, the best SOA management solution on the market, seamlessly integrates with the leading SOA governance solution," said Dan Foody, Vice President, Actional Products, Progress Software. "This close collaboration ensures that all SOA stakeholders will be better served - reducing the cost and risk, while improving the overall time-to-value of a SOA initiative."

Contact Information

14 Oak Park Drive
Bedford, MA 01730, USA

Tel: 781-280-4000
Toll Free: 800-477-6473