SOA Infrastructure

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. Lately it seems that service-oriented architecture (SOA) -- especially Web services-based SOA -- is the talk of IT professionals, architects and application developers. IT professionals find it almost impossible to discuss corporate technology plans or strategies without discussing SOA. Why? Because many IT departments see a SOA infrastructure as a way to speed up the application development process and make their enterprise and application infrastructure more secure, agile and adaptable to changing business needs.

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 similiar SOA vision. Progress believes that this a prerequisite for aligning the technology with your business goals.

In the Progress Software SOA vision, the architecture of business applications and the infrastructure that supports them no longer create rigid business systems and change-resistant processes, but, instead, are able to support the timely execution of business decisions. In this world, agile businesses respond more quickly to market changes and customer demands, and can then easily adjust their business practices in real time to deliver new products and services faster than their competition.

Read the whitepaper, The Right Infrastructure for SOA. Now That's Progress., to learn which infrastructure choices are critical to supporting the incremental roll-out of an optimal SOA design center.

Source: For more information, please visit http://www.progress.com/soa-infrastructure/index.ssp