SOA Infrastructure
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating the enterprise as integrated, reusable business processes or services. The vision of SOA infrastructure is powerful because service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to make businesses more agile, make business services broadly available and re-usable, and eliminate boundaries between business functions and value chains.

The vision is achievable, but real-world SOA infrastructure can be challenging. In today's highly competitive landscape, many enterprise infrastructures span departments and geographies. IT professionals must find an easy and affordable way to integrate, and provide visibility and business insight across many different platforms, data sources and applications. And all of these systems need to be fast, always available and secure.

Today's enterprise integration dilemma has become one of the core reasons why SOA has become the preferred mechanism for IT professionals who want to deliver business agility and complete visibility to information and processes across the enterprise. In choosing an SOA infrastructure provider, you need to start by looking for a vendor who shares a similar SOA vision. Progress Software believes that this is a prerequisite for aligning the technology with your business goals.

The Progress® SOA Portfolio provides a comprehensive range of capabilities for the entire SOA lifecycle. Together, they deliver the agility, re-use and integration you expect from SOA with the manageability and robustness you require. Free from cross-product dependencies, each best-in-class SOA infrastructure product can be deployed independently, and delivers its full benefit in a real-world, multi-vendor environment.

Figure: The Progress® SOA Portfolio
The Progress SOA Portfolio is comprised of interoperable, best-in-class service infrastructure products used to build, deploy and manage an SOA. From first project to global deployment, our portfolio provides robust, yet agile SOA infrastructure designed for challenging, real-world environments. Over 1000 customers rely on Progress as their independent supplier of reliable, interoperable SOA infrastructure software.

read the white paper, The Right Infrastructure for SOA. Now That's Progress., to learn about a couple of SOA infrastructure choices that are critical to supporting the incremental roll-out of an optimal SOA design center.