Independent Research Firm Recognizes Progress(R) Sonic(R) ESB as a Leader in Enterprise Service Bus Market
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Jan. 27, 2009--
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading provider of
application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and
manage business applications, announced today that
Forrester Research,
Inc. named
Progress®
Sonic® ESB as a leader in the
enterprise
service bus (ESB) market with top scores in the current offering and
strategy dimensions of "The Forrester Wave
: Enterprise Service Buses,
Q1 2009" Report.
The Forrester Research report evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of
10 top commercial and open
source ESB vendors based on a comprehensive set of evaluation
criteria. The report found that Progress Sonic ESB:
- "...sports the broadest set of out-of-the-box availability options; its
internal software clustering provides no-rollback continuation of
processing in the face of messaging node failures while at the same time
meeting state-of-the-art performance levels for persistent messaging."
- "...has among the strongest set of capabilities to support geographic
scalability of the ESB across a large number of nodes and physical
locations."
- "...has broad support for runtime protocols, connectivity options,
mediation capabilities, security, and service monitoring and
management."
- "has the most comprehensive out-of-the-box support for developing and
supporting both lightweight and BPEL orchestrations."
Ken Rugg, vice president and general manager, Integration
Infrastructure,
Progress Software
, said: "This report echoes the
feedback we receive from our customers, who acknowledge the tremendous
competitive value they gain when using the Sonic ESB. We introduced the
world's first ESB product and are proud that Forrester has named Sonic
ESB a leader. Customers demand more from their IT infrastructure,
especially in today's challenging economic environment: uninterrupted
flow of business-critical transactions, richer functionality, higher
availability, out of the box usability, and the capability to manage
multi-site deployments as easily as a single data center."
"The Sonic ESB enables us to build an integrated, agile architecture
with its standardized messaging capabilities," says Jan Vink, CIO and
director of IT for BGN. "With the Sonic ESB, we can manage the
ever-increasing velocity of our business, supporting new customers and
growing our store presence both geographically and online."
To download a copy of "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Buses, Q1
2009," visit: http://www.progress.com.
Sonic ESB is a messaging-based enterprise service bus that simplifies
the integration and flexible re-use of business applications within a
SOA. Sonic ESB eliminates the rigidity and fragility of point-to-point
integration with a robust, event-driven architecture that can evolve,
scale and extend throughout the enterprise.
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application
infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and
management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the
benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and
total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com
or +1-781-280-4000.
Progress, Sonic ESB and Sonic are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Progress Software Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Any
other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective
owners.
