Progress Actional for SOA Operations

End-to-End SOA Visibility

Progress® Actional® for SOA Operations is an SOA management tool for organizations that want a cost-effective, high-performance, scalable SOA runtime environment. It provides centralized management and end-to-end visibility into the dynamic, loosely coupled SOA environment necessitated by the move from application silos.

Actional SOA Operations offers a non-invasive approach to monitoring and managing SOA operations. This is made possible through a unique Flow Mapping™ technology that provides global SOA views without much of the coding and manual configuration required by other solutions. As a result, with Actional you can better understand how services are being used and by whom, yet improve IT productivity and reduce SOA development time and costs.

Actional also makes finding the root cause of policy violations, exceptions, and other service processing problems easy. Alerts are triggered by violations, automatically generating a snapshot of the actual transaction that caused the policy violation, making root cause analysis fast and accurate.

This auto-discovered flow map of the entire SOA shows process flows and service interdependencies. (Click on image to enlarge.)

Highlights

• End-to-end visibility into performance and service-level availability across a heterogeneous environment—reducing the risk of SOA adoption
• Efficient root cause analysis of operational issues—allowing you to quickly pinpoint problems
• Early detection of service performance anomalies—analyze real-time and historical data on performance and availability
• Non-invasive management approach—for low latency and cost-effective, enterprise-class scalability without adding costly SOA management servers

Actional Add-on: Governance Integration Module

The Governance Integration Module integrates with third-party governance products such as BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Registry Repository, Software AG's CentraSite Governance Edition, Fujitsu's and Software AG's CentraSite Enterprise Edition, and HP Systinet to control rogue services, share policy information, and augment registry service metadata with runtime service metadata. It automatically discovers rogue services and interrupts them, pending their review and approval--preventing possible breaches of security and regulatory compliance and their costly consequences, such as fines and litigation, as well as capacity overloads from unplanned services.

The Governance Integration Module also adds value to integrated registries and repositories by copying in metadata on actual service usage, performance, and interdependencies. This information helps developers understand the impact of SOA versioning and maintenance.

Technical Specifications

Actional supports a wide range of platforms and standards.

Product available May 24, 2007. For more information on purchases or upgrades, contact your local Progress office.

Effective with the Actional 7.0 release the "Looking Glass" and "SOAPstation" product names are retired. Relevant functionality from these products is now incorporated in various Actional products.

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