A Financial Services Company Uses Progress Actional for Web Service Control, Better Governance, and Distributed SOA Management

To fully leverage the SOA investment the U.S. financial services company wanted to expand access to local IT centers and to retool its infrastructure for better long-term manageability. The existing infrastructure lacked runtime service management and a registry/repository for SOA governance. As a result, corporate IT developers had no way of knowing what services existed and so created redundant services. The company chose Progress Actional SOA management software in addition to a standards-based service registry. This gave the company the two most important elements to control the lifecycle of services in its environment.