Because your time is valuable, we’ve created the Actional SOA Management and Web services E-Kit—-so that you don’t have to search through countless white papers, datasheets, and Webinars to find the information you need.

Highlights

Forrester Research: Actional #1 in Core SOA Management

Forrester Wave Report places Actional Web service management and SOA security solutions in the Leaders category

Forrester Wave Report ranks Actional Web services and SOA management solutions #1 in Core SOA Management, and places them in the Leaders category. See the results >

InfoWorld: Actional provides a far weightier Web Services management capability and toolset for building, securing, and managing a SOA network than its competitors

Actional 7.1 extends visibility to BPM—revealing "dependencies across business processes, services, and middleware." Find out why a leading analyst says this is "necessary…and incredibly sophisticated."

Progress’ Dan Foody Talks to Eric Knorr of InfoWorld

A lively discussion of SOA governance with veteran SOA technologist, Dan Foody conducted by Eric Knorr, editor-in-chief of InfoWorld.

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Actional Wins Network Computing Well-Connected Award

Actional SOA management solutions were recognized for their ability to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of deploying and managing Web Services projects.

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White Papers

SOA and Web Services Management Whitepapers

Actional Architecture Series: Actional for SOA Operations

Learn how Actional provides end-to-end SOA visibility and root cause analysis—with low management overhead.

SOA Operations Excellence with Progress Actional

Learn about the key capabilities that reduce the risk of SOA deployment.

Why Runtime Governance Is Critical for SOA: A SOA Primer

Learn how to take control of your SOA runtime environment.

 

Webinars

Faster than a speeding bullet - are you ready for event-driven business?

Your systems can’t keep up with the ever-increasing velocity of business. Financial trade settlement has accelerated from three days to two hours in just a few years; the trend towards real-time business is repeating itself in almost every industry.

Visibility and Tracking for Critical Applications – Optimize Application Performance and Increase Revenue

Whether you have one or 500 web services, learn why Web Service and SOA Management is becoming "required insurance" for any enterprise that has mission critical applications that rely on these services. See first hand how customers are using Web Service and SOA Management to stay two steps ahead of the competition.

1+1=3: Marrying Best-of-Breed Tools for Business Process Governance

Communication is the basis of any successful relationship, including that between business people and technologists. Bringing together BPM and SOA Governance enables business drivers to be translated quickly to SOA implementation, with full accountability, lower cost of ownership, and business-level SOA optimization.

The Risks, Strategies and PayOff: SOA Runtime Governance

Cut through all of the confusion around SOA governance to learn the ins-and-outs of the two key aspects of SOA runtime governance: visibility and policy enforcement. Hear the challenges and strategies for addressing them. By learning how SOA runtime governance can directly impact your business, you will have the key information needed to build a business case to justify the investment in SOA solutions.

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EBook

Hub Vandervoort

Get the free eBook "Socially Oriented Architecture. Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges," where Progress CTO Hub Vandervoort explains the importance of enabling organizations to create meaningful interactions between communities to deliver a richer customer experience.
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