As companies have begun executing on this SOA vision they have realized that there is an essential infrastructure that is mostly missing. This infrastructure would allow the business to quickly integrate services, improve overall reliability and scalability, enhance monitoring and control capabilities, and reduce risk through strong change management. The industry is now calling this infrastructure the Enterprise Services Bus (ESB). Without an ESB in place many organizations are hesitant to deploy mission critical systems using the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm.

Neudesic's Enterprise Services Bus, Neuron·ESB, was created to unify best practices from traditional application development, enterprise application integration and SOA into a common infrastructure that helps organizations build enterprise ready solutions. It is powered by the Microsoft platform, which means your existing investments will be readily leveraged and your developers will be familiar with its underlying technologies. It has pulled together best of breed capabilities of many of Microsoft's enterprise servers and technologies including Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), BizTalk, SQL Server, MSMQ, Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Operations Manager. These technologies provide vast capabilities to the ESB while ensuring that the underlying infrastructure is backed by the largest software company in the industry.

If you have made an investment in Microsoft technologies, then Neudesic's Enterprise Services Bus is a natural choice for your business.

Business Considerations:

●      How trustworthy are your enterprise systems? Are they secure, and reliable? How long
        does it take you to diagnose issues across services?
●      Are your business processes well defined, consistent and auditable?
●      Is changing a service or process unpredictable? Do you know all the systems that will be
        affected? Can you control the impact?
●      How long does it take your enterprise to make a simple process change? How many people
        have to be involved?
●      Do your developers know all the services that are available in your enterprise, who
        consumes them and what they provide?
●      Do you feel your service oriented architecture is enterprise ready?
●      Are you tired of rebuilding systems as new technologies are introduced?
●      How disruptive is a systems upgrade in your environment?

Key System Benefits & Capabilities:

Unified Long Term Architecture
Technologies evolve, and business processes are constantly in flux. Neuron·ESB has been built to anticipate these changes and enable organizations to quickly adopt, improve and evolve while minimizing the need to re-architect systems. Neuron·ESB is a key component for an architecture that has longevity.

Open-Standards Based & Interoperable
Neuron·ESB leverages both open standards such as WS-* and BizTalk's Adaptor framework for communication. This enables integration with a wide variety of systems in a platform independent manner. Whether your platform is based on Oracle, Linux, Microsoft or another vendor, Neuron·ESB is ready to integrate your systems.

Centralized Management
The distributed nature of service oriented programming can create a management nightmare. Neuron·ESB supports this distributed architecture while simultaneously centralizing monitoring and configuration.

Reduced Learning Curve
Neuron·ESB brings together the three perspectives of the traditional application programmer, enterprise integration specialist, and service oriented architect. It integrates these three perspectives in a common messaging platform with minimal effort. For instance, an organization could quickly gain the benefits of BizTalk without having to re-train their entire staff on BizTalk technologies.

Rich Messaging Capabilities
Neuron·ESB provides topical communications, publish/subscribe, request reply, one way messaging, transactional messaging across a wide variety of transports including WCF, PeerChannel, BizTalk, MSMQ and SQL Server. It provides intelligent routing that is secure, transacted, and integrated with rules engines, orchestrations, and content transformation technologies.

Standardized & Compliant
Neuron·ESB provides the business with a repository that contains business process information. These business processes can drive the underlying services. The process repository coupled with Neuron·ESB's audit services provide the business with clear evidence of exactly what processes are executing and their results.

Improved Change Management
Any part of the ESB (business endpoint, functional service, or module of the ESB) can be replaced with a new implementation without disrupting the rest of the enterprise. Services can be changed with minimal impact to their respective consumers. This allows the enterprise freedom to use best of breed products and platforms that the business dictates.

Strengthen Operational Reliability
The physically decentralized, service-based architecture of Neuron·ESB is highly scalable. The logically centralized management promotes high availability, as does the freedom to apply configuration changes without taking down critical systems. Operational health and activity monitoring, throughput controls, and failover routing collectively help enforce service level agreements. In the event of system failures, Neuron·ESB can employ self-healing mechanisms such as failover routing and automatic service deployment and escalate non-resolvable problems to the attention of a human being.

Strong BizTalk Integration
Neuron·ESB enables organizations to quickly implement BizTalk solutions. It further improves BizTalk's capabilities through wider integration options, low latency messaging, topical communication and enterprise wide management. In turn, BizTalk provides the ESB with key EAI functionality for content transformation, rules engine processing, business activity monitoring, and legacy system integration.

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