Survey Reveals Data Integration Projects to Increase by 2009

Progress Software released the results of a study it commissioned with Forrester Consulting revealing data integration efforts are increasing across most major industries as a result of the demand for real-time globally accessible data. According to findings, information technology (IT) professionals are severely challenged in keeping pace – still mired in manual processes and ad hoc fixes. The survey results are presented in the whitepaper, Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA. In it, fifty-five percent of respondents reported that they had undertaken four or more integration efforts over the past two years, and the majority of respondents don't see this number decreasing in the near future. Forty-eight percent of those surveyed predicted that the number of integration efforts will increase during the next two years, while 41 percent said it will stay the same.

SOA is Growing Quickly

The survey results identified service oriented architectures (SOAs) as the emerging solution across enterprises to achieve successful end-to-end data management and integration results. A SOA-based approach was identified as the enterprise solution of choice to evolve and grow data management and integration projects; while 44 percent of enterprises use SOA today, this number is projected to climb to 60 percent by 2009. Topics presented in the survey results whitepaper include:

• Overcoming Barriers to Integration
• Integration Strategies
• SOA is Gaining Ground
• Managing the Top Challenges
• Future Tool Intentions
• Buying Decisions
• Key Findings
• Best-In-Class Infrastructure Solutions from Progress Software
• Assuring Data Format and Semantic Consistency

Best-In-Class Infrastructure Solutions

Using best-in-class infrastructure software from Progress Software, IT can deploy SOA solutions with a lightweight footprint, and only buy capabilities they need today. Progress products allow organizations to build enterprise-grade infrastructure that scales to meet the most demanding performance, reliability, and interoperability requirements of SOA applications.

• Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator's (SI) standards-based, model-driven, visual design tools and distributed runtime operate within existing EAI frameworks to ensure the real-time scalability of SOA application integration. Semantic integration with DataXtend SI provides advantages for productivity, governance, and performance as corporations scale their SOA projects.
• Progress® Sonic ESB® is a messaging-based enterprise service bus that simplifies the integration and flexible re-use of business applications within a service-oriented architecture (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. With Sonic ESB, all connected resources - whether a J2EE application, Web service, or legacy message broker - are first-class citizens. These services are broadly available for dynamically-configured interaction with other services. Services can be scaled, moved or upgraded without disturbing other running services. Service configurations and relationships are stored in a globally-accessible repository. With distributed caching, access to configuration artifacts is fast and is made continuously available, even during periods of network outage.
• Progress® Actional® delivers Web services management and SOA governance products that provide visibility, security, and control of the activities of services and end-to-end business processes in the runtime environment. Actional Web services management and SOA governance capabilities include system and process-level visibility as well as policy enforcement across an SOA infrastructure deployed on any combination of platforms.

Register today for the survey results SOA whitepaper, Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA.