The technical sessions at Progress Technology World Africa earlier this week focused on demonstrating the additional offerings within Progress Software`s range.
The company, which is best known for its OpenEdge solution, has acquired five software companies in the past 18 months. It is now urging partners and customers to look beyond its traditional offering to its full service oriented architecture (SOA) solution.
At the opening of the conference, Progress Software`s director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, Karl Campbell, encouraged delegates to investigate the company`s expanded offering.
"Our community is not embracing what we have to offer. There is a lot of vapourware in the [SOA] market; but we have a full solution that encompasses application platforms, services infrastructure and data infrastructure. We want to be the leader in SOA," he explained.
Although Progress focused largely on its extended offerings, it also made announcements regarding the cornerstone of its offering - OpenEdge. The platform for developing and deploying service oriented business applications is expected to see the OpenEdge 10.1b update released later this year; while OpenEdge 10.2 - currently in beta version - is expected to be released in 2007.
Additions
Actional, acquired earlier this year for approximately $32 million, has been added to Progress`s Sonic Software operating unit. It will add Web services management to Sonic`s enterprise service bus. Similarly, the acquisition of Neon Systems adds a mainframe services bus for interoperability with distributed services.
For more specialist conditions, the Apama algorithmic trading platform was bought to enable specific and complex parameters to be set for real-time action and strategies. Developed for the trading industry, the platform monitors events and completes actions in line with the parameters set by each user.
Following the acquisition of EasyAsk in May last year, Progress demonstrated the abilities of its search and business intelligence tool. It has been developed with the language and habits of the non-technical business user in mind. Accordingly, the search and reporting tool gathers the correct information regardless of how the question is posed.
Progress`s most recent acquisition of Pantero adds data integration to the company`s portfolio. The Pantero range facilitates data mapping and enables transformation using a common, canonical data model; thereby simplifying the heterogeneous data integration problems often associated with SOA.
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