SOA Solutions

Progress® Actional® is a leading provider of award-winning SOA solutions for SOA and Web services management and runtime governance as a result of the company's extensive experience with customer deployments and its unique technology capabilities. With the ability to automatically discover Web service consumers and services in production environments, Actional makes it possible for organizations running service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to immediately and automatically apply Web services and SOA security policies, compliance policies, and other policies required to implement and maintain the safety and smooth running of their businesses.

This capability represents a fundamental shift forward in SOA governance, not to mention a significant advancement in reducing the risk traditionally associated with SOA implementations.

100% Compliance Assured

Where system architects in the past had no choice but to pursue an extremely constrained strategy of:

• The services that we've tested for compliance are...

They now can confidently state:

• There is no service in production that does not meet the compliance requirements of our governance policy.

Components of Actional (SOA) Web Services Management Solution

Actional makes this all possible. Today it is delivering runtime SOA governance for many of the world's most complex application environments. Actional's innovative technology applies directly to any basic governance model, including:

• Service provider discovery
• Automatic Web services discovery
• Out-of-the-box integration with leading registries (such as HP Systinet and CentraSite Governance Edition—formerly X-Registry)
• Flow mapping and service dependency tracking (both upstream and downstream)
• Rogue service elimination