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1 FEBRUARY, 2005 Progress starts to package SOA offerings Progress Software has started to push the possibilities of using its ObjectStore and Sonic Software offerings together as a package that can cover both the data services and the application integration front-end requirements of building an SOA environment. There is, it must be said, a good deal of sense to be found in the message that underpins this opinion, namely that most attention on SOA has centred so far around application integration, but that a good deal of the operational reality involved more mundane technologies such as data caching and a well-thought out data architecture. Not surprising, Progress feels that it has something to offer both camps. Sonic can provide the front end applications integration capabilities, but it is ObjectStore that the company is pitching at the necessary real time data services layer needed to deliver virtual data integration at the backend. Putting these two together with the company's OpenEdge10 platform for rapid development of component-based distributed applications puts the company in the position where it feels it can claim to be the only software company with proven technologies able to deliver both the front end and back end elements required for SOA. Well, it fair to suggest that there might be some companies that would argue with that claim, but it is reasonable to observe that front-end integration tools are somewhat `sexier' than the back-end `drudges', and do garner an undue amount of coverage. This is particularly important, as the more complex the data structures become the more organisations need to address the problems of providing timely, high quality, consistent data to the enterprise. To address this, ObjectStore uses real time data services (RTDS) to deliver two important elements of the real time enterprise: Event-driven architecture (EDA) and real time data services. EDA enables the automation and complex event processing that is required for such real-time applications as customer self service, automated stock trading, and efficient supply chains. Data services enables a similar shift toward the simplification of enterprise architecture through the re-use of corporate databases and improved performance at the data access level. www.progress.com |
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