Progress Software Announces Integration with SAP Application Programming Language (ABAP(TM)) and Actional(R) 8.1 Business Transaction ManagementBEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2009--
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider
that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, announces today
the release of the Progress® Actional® 8.1 Business Transaction
Management platform, which adds full integration with ABAP™ programming
language. The Actional Business Transaction Management platform, which
allows users to detect and resolve problems between applications and
their interactions, now provides visibility into all applications built
using SAP NetWeaver.
Prior to the availability of this release, only Java™-based NetWeaver
customers enjoyed full access to the powerful visibility capabilities of
the Actional 8.1 Business Transaction Management platform. Actional 8.1
products offer SAP customers unprecedented insight into and between
ABAP-based applications and their interactions within heterogeneous
environments. When issues occur either outside or within these
applications directly impacting a transaction’s success, the IT
department can quickly target and address the problem before it becomes
critical or even negatively impacts the SAP application or the
enterprise as a whole.
Dan Foody, vice president of Actional Products, Progress Software, said:
“The launch of the Actional 8.1 Business Transaction Management platform
expands the capabilities we can offer for SAP customers and improves the
visibility into ABAP-based applications. Actional 8.1 products now offer
SAP Application users uncompromised business transaction assurance and
visibility across distributed, disparate architectures. It is important
to note that other business transaction management offerings in the
market only provide black-box visibility of the NetWeaver environment,
while Actional 8.1 product includes visibility, tight policy monitoring,
and intuitive alerting even of activity within the ABAP environment.
Users can expect a greater ROI when managing their SAP applications with
Actional product because they will experience less transaction failures
and an increase in application performance.”
Other highlights of Actional 8.1 Business Transaction Management
platform:
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Auditing and logging using messaging infrastructure: Actional product
extends auditing and logging capability, which now provides customers
with the choice of distributing audit and log information via JMS, or
sending it directly to a database – offering customers the choice
between flexibility, reliability, and performance. This capability
also acts as a foundation for event driven architectures, allowing
event consumers to easily gain access to the rich set of events
occurring within business applications.
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Increased visibility: Actional platform expands visibility
functionality levels for the entire enterprise including support for
the Spring Framework development platform and the Microsoft Biztalk
platform.
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Support for JMS testing: Progress has increased the testing
capabilities of Actional 8.1 product by including assets that are
built directly on JMS with no underlying SOA architecture. This new
feature delivers continued support across heterogeneous environments.
Additionally, Progress worked as a member of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab,
a hands-on environment for SAP, its customers and partners to
collaboratively innovate, accelerate and showcase new business solutions
and technologies. To help customers, SAP and Progress Software recently
co-authored and published a report from the SAP Co-Innovation Lab titled
“Management
and Business Transaction Assurance with SAP and Progress Actional”.
This report provides a summary of the integrated SOA management solution
developed and validated as part of the lab.
Progress customers of the Actional product include Cablevision, Credit
Suisse, IHG (InterContinental Hotel Group), Partners Healthcare,
Verizon, several US federal agencies, and many more. For more
information about Actional 8.1 platform, visit http://www.Actional.com/products/release-highlights/.
Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software
company that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive to
changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur – to
capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce
risk. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class
infrastructure software spanning event-driven visibility and real-time
response, open integration, data access and integration, and application
development and deployment – all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud
deployments. Progress maximizes the benefits of operational
responsiveness while minimizing IT complexity and total cost of
ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com
or +1-781-280-4000.
Progress and Actional are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates
in the U.S. and other countries. SAP, ABAP, SAP NetWeaver and all SAP
logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and
in several other countries. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other
countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of
their respective owners.
Source: Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software
Lisa Coulouris, +1-781-280-4995
lcoulour@progress.com
or
LEWIS
PR
Mari Melguizo, +1-617-226-8840
progresssoftware@lewispr.com
