Progress Software South Africa has announced the completion of the Sonic Business Integration Suite, the first comprehensive integration product family built on an enterprise service bus (ESB).
At the same time, it has announced the local availability of Sonic Orchestration Server, Sonic XML Server and Sonic Integration Workbench. These three products complement the capabilities of Sonic ESB to provide business process management, XML processing, storage and query, and an integrated toolset for the suite.
The Sonic Business Integration Suite, which was announced in April, delivers a distributed, flexible and standards-based integration infrastructure that allows companies to connect, orchestrate and manage any number of services or applications - from a few up to many thousands - across extended organisations.
The three new products are:
* Sonic Orchestration Server, which provides business process management capabilities across ESB-enabled companies. Orchestration Server builds on the intelligent routing in Sonic ESB and naturally extends to include any ESB service in a coordinated and managed process. Orchestration Server increases the reach and range of business processes, allowing organisations to manage business processes at the boundary of business, rather than the limits of technology.
* Sonic XML Server, which provides scalable and optimised XML processing, storage and query, using XSLT and XQuery standards, to support auditing, logging, data staging and aggregation, and business event capture and monitoring functions across the ESB. XML Server addresses the "verbosity" challenge of XML by delivering significant performance and XML document scalability advantages, and makes these capabilities natively available to the entire integration network through the ESB.
* Sonic Integration Workbench, which provides the tools and servers needed for modelling, testing and deploying integration projects with the Sonic ESB and layered products in the Business Integration Suite. It includes XML tools from Sonic`s own XML Development environment, Sonic Stylus Studio 5.0.
Using Integration Workbench in combination with traditional IDEs (independent software environments), developers can now work from the bottom up to identify applications and data resources, expose them as services, and bind those services into the Sonic ESB. Architects can work top down, developing XML formats and transformation logic, and modelling business processes, deploying them into a clearly defined integration tier, represented by the Sonic ESB.
"With the delivery of Orchestration Server, XML Server and Integration Workbench, Sonic has again set new standards for integration technology, providing a layered set of products that address the most challenging requirements. We`re particularly proud of the speed with which the company could deliver such a well integrated family of products," says Rick Parry, MD of Progress Software South Africa. "By building the suite on an ESB architecture from the ground up, customers can manage more pervasive business processes - even spanning business units and partners - and leverage business events.
"By combining an XML development environment with visual modelling tools and development-time server licences across all the products, the Sonic Integration Workbench represents a serious leap forward in the emerging integrated services environment (ISE) category," adds Parry. "It`s the development environment for the integration tier."
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