Actional SOA Management Solutions Overview

Progress® Actional® SOA management solutions provide visibility, security, and control of the activities of services and end-to-end business processes in a runtime environment. They meet the challenges of keeping an SOA up and running successfully, in alignment with the business, and secure and compliant.

These solutions include:

SOA Governance

The Actional product family provides organizations with comprehensive runtime SOA governance capabilities. These complement governance tools such as registries and repositories and form an essential part of a comprehensive SOA governance strategy.

SOA Performance Monitoring and Alerting

Actional automatically provides end-to-end visibility to help SOA administrators understand SOA operations as well as policy-based alerting and flow maps of "violating" transactions to support early detection of performance and availability issues.

Root Cause Analysis

When a performance or availability issue arises, Actional generates an alert and an end-to-end snapshot of the flow map of the individual "violating" SOA transaction. This enables organizations to quickly find the root cause of performance problems—eliminating hours of IT diagnostics.

Aligning SOA with Business Goals

Progress® Actional® for Continuous Service Optimization enables organizations to align SOA behavior with business goals by providing business insight into SOA operations for making and prioritizing decisions and integrated runtime controls for continuously optimizing business outcomes.

SOA Security and Compliance

With Progress® Actional® for Active Policy Enforcement, experts centrally create and manage security and compliance policies and apply them across the SOA for consistent, distributed enforcement.