Actional In The News:

23 Oct 2008 — Data Governance: the Mission-Critical Mandate — Tune into this episode of DM Radio to learn how to design, launch and maintain a robust data governance program.

02 Oct 2008 — Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audience — That statement by Ron Schmelzer sums up the conundrum faced by SOA advocates: governance is desperately needed to keep SOA projects on track and in focus. What happens, though, is SOA governance gets weakened and watered down by vested interests, or lack of motivation to make SOA work.

30 Sep 2008 — Does Enterprise 2.0 Need to be Governed? — Many organizations are wrestling with the ways of governance for their service oriented architecture. SOA projects risk running seriously awry without getting a handle on their purpose and direction for the business

15 Sep 2008 — Same Word, Different Meanings: Still Chasing Down a SOA Definition Writing on Progress’ SOA Infrastructure blog, Foody drilled down to examine what people mean by "architecture" when they talk about service-oriented architecture.

25 Apr 2008 — SOA management, SOA governance — keep them separated  —  What’s the difference between "SOA governance" and "SOA management?" Aren’t they essentially the same thing? Not so, says Eric Roch, who claims some analysts wrongly are lumping the two into a single solution category.

01 Mar 2008 — Progress helps Partners HealthCare manage its network — With dozens of hospitals and healthcare providers stretched across eastern Massachusetts, the Partners HeatlhCare System is a study in complexity.

28 Jan 2008 — Progress Software adds cross-process visibility with Actional 7.1 — Progress Software has beefed up its Actional SOA management offerings with the release today of Progress Actional 7.1, which provides unified visibility into business processes, and connects those business processes to the underlying SOA infrastructure.

27 Jan 2008 — Progress Software views BPM with Actional SOA tool — Progress Software is launching its Progress Actional 7.1 SOA management platform Monday, featuring visibility across business processes and into related services and IT infrastructure.