Progress Software: Actional Product Line Backgrounder

As organizations make the shift to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), they do so expecting greater business agility, reduced IT overhead and improved developer productivity. Early Web services and SOA adopters have encountered roadblocks to successful implementations, whether deploying small-scale Web services projects or charting the course for wholesale adoption of SOA across the enterprise.

Actional products from Progress Software provide enterprise-grade SOA management capabilities, including service and message flow monitoring, SLA governance, SOA versioning, and security - at extremely low overhead and thus minimal impact on system performance. Every enterprise building or testing an SOA will require the capabilities available in Actional products; whether they are starting to expand early SOA projects, or have a fully deployed enterprise-grade SOA using ESBs, application servers, or other technologies.

History

  • 2006: Acquired by Progress Software Corporation
  • 2004: Actional and Westbridge Technology merge, doing business as Actional Corporation
  • 2001: Westbridge Technology founded
  • 1998: Actional founded through the acquisition of the assets of VisualEdge (a Canadian company)

Awards

Progress’ leadership in SOA management has gained market acceptance and validation through recognition and industry awards including: Network Computing's Well Connected Award, InfoWorld's CTO 25 (Dan Foody), Loosely Coupled SOA Management Leader, Codie Award Finalist, InfoWorld 100 and more.

Customers

Progress’ proven Actional technology is currently deployed by over 40+ Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Key customers include: Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Hong Kong Government, MCI, Partners Healthcare, SAIC, Telstra, Thomson Prometric, Travelers, the U.S. government and many others.

Partners

Progress partners with leading systems integrators, resellers and technology providers including: Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Netegrity, Northrop Grumman, RSA, Systinet and others.

For More Information

To learn more about how Progress Actional products and services can help streamline Web services management at your organization, contact us.