Progress Software Corporation has been named as an enterprise service bus (ESB) market leader by Forrester Research, an independent market research company, for its Sonic ESB product family.
Forrester has released a report, "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2006", published 30 June, which states: "Progress (Sonic) has a strong and credible corporate strategy" and "claims a significant number of customers and provided good reference accounts".
While the evaluation considered the Progress Sonic ESB and Actional products that were available up to March, a new version of Sonic ESB (www.sonicsoftware.com/ESB7) was made available in April that delivers powerful new capabilities.
Key findings from the report:
* The Forrester Wave shows Sonic as among the leaders in market presence (4.36 of 5) and in particular new customers (5 of 5).
* The Forrester Wave shows Sonic as providing an ESB which is free from runtime dependencies and scores among the highest in memory utilisation (5 of 5).
* The Forrester Wave shows Sonic as scoring among the highest Product Strategy (4.60 of 5). While the new capabilities delivered in Sonic ESB 7.0 missed the deadline for scoring, the new Eclipse-based toolset and advanced Web services support delivered in 7.0 could positively impact scoring in future evaluations.
* The Forrester Wave shows Sonic earned high marks for its service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance capabilities (5 of 5).
"We introduced the world`s first ESB product over four years ago and are proud to lead the market in product capability, market share and customer success," says Rick Parry, MD of Progress Software South Africa. "With the addition of Actional SOA management, business process visibility and run-time governance to our Sonic ESB, Progress is extending the capabilities of its SOA infrastructure offerings for large-scale, mission-critical deployments - a powerful capability that no other vendor can provide today.
"Our success in the market is a clear indication that companies reject ESB architectures that require heavyweight, proprietary application servers on each node in their SOA in favour of the Sonic ESB, which demonstrates superior resource utilisation."
According to Forrester: "67% of firms with 40 000 or more employees (are) implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) this year, and 44% of small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) already report that implementing SOA is a high or critical priority. Nearly 70% of users say they will increase their use of SOA, while only 1% of users will decrease their use. The data also shows that most firms - 83% - are using SOA for internal integration."
Over 300 of the world`s most demanding enterprise and government customers rely on the Sonic ESB as the backbone of their SOA implementations, including: American Red Cross; AutoTrader; Bank of America; BAA Heathrow; City of Washington, Decide; The Gillette Company; The Great American Insurance Group; Liberty Media (Proflowers); Rotech Healthcare; Telecom Italia; and Tarrant County, TX.
Recently, BT selected Sonic ESB to embed within its integration appliance as part of BT Integrate, a managed integration service offering supporting SOA.
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