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		<title><![CDATA[Actional Diagnostics: A better view into services integrity]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2784]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I think we can expect more love between EMC and Progress, as well as more Progress solutions (in modular, best of breed or larger holistic deployments) finding a place under the hood of more cloud offerings. by Dana Gardner]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:43:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Financial Services Company Uses Progress Actional for Web Service Control, Better Governance, and Distributed SOA Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=882797]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Intercontinental Hotels Group Uses Progress Actional SOA Management Software Throughout the Service Lifecycle to Ensure That Its Global SOA Provides High-Speed, Reliable Operations 24x7]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=882801]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[InterContinental Hotels Group IHG is the world's largest hotel company by number of rooms - 585,000. The Group wanted to ensure reliable SOA operations in a high-transaction, heterogeneous, SOA environment - without impacting performance and scalability. IHG deployed Progress Actional SOA management software for their solution. The key was the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Progress Software adds cross-process visibility with Actional 7.1]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2599]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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.     Key features of the latest release include an automatic discovery feature...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:32:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Partners Healthcare System Ensures Reliable Web Services Operations and Management for Mission-Critical Applications With Progress Actional Software]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An integrated, non-profit health system founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital MGH, Partners HealthCare System is committed to delivering "High-performance medicine." The Hospital wanted to monitor web services and enforce security across a distributed organization. MGH implemented Progress Actional Web services and SOA management software. Actional...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SOA Worst Practices, Volume I: How to Prevent Your SOA From Being DOA]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=288320]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When calculating the value of an SOA, it's best to focus on reuse among existing Web services, rather than the number of newly developed Web services. Reuse is not only a key benefit of SOA, but also something that one can quantify. One can measure how many times a service...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Progress on the SOA front]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=523]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Another vendor has been plucked from the SOA tree by a larger, mainstream IT vendor.Progress Software Corporation just announced that it is acquiring privately-held Actional Corporation for a cool  $32 million. Actional, a provider of Web services management WSM software, will become part of Sonic Software and an operating...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:46:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Progress nabs Actional for Web services tools]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Progress nabs Actional for Web services toolsProgress should...Concentrate on their 4GL and make it more functional, before buying off other companies.does it stillsuck?  I used it 20 years ago and it was just so unwieldy.  The concept was cool, but even their 'IDE' made it painful to develop.Progress...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:02:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hong Kong government embraces SOA]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=230]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Actional Corp. has joined HP Services and Getronics to deploy a new SOA-based e-government exchange that enables Hong Kong's citizens,producers andvariousgovernmentalagencies toeasily access and sharerelevant information.The exchange is now in production, and the security andXML infrastructure is in place to run it. With a goal of reducing IT costs as...]]></description>
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