Progress Software releases the Progress Actional 8.1 Business Transaction Management platform, which adds full integration with SAP's ABAP programming language.
Progress Software on Oct. 13 announced the release of the Progress Actional
8.1 Business Transaction Management platform, which adds full integration with SAP's
ABAP programming language. According to its announcement:
"The Actional Business
Transaction Management platform, which enables users to detect and resolve
problems between applications and their interactions, now provides visibility
into all applications built using SAP
NetWeaver.
"Prior to the availability of this
release, only Java-based NetWeaver customers enjoyed full access to the
powerful visibility capabilities of the Actional 8.1 Business Transaction
Management platform."
Dan Foody, vice president of Actional products at Progress Software, said,
"The launch of the Actional 8.1 Business Transaction Management platform
expands the capabilities we can offer for SAP
customers and improves the visibility into ABAP-based applications. Actional
8.1 products now offer SAP Application users
uncompromised business transaction assurance and visibility across distributed,
disparate architectures. It is important to note that other business
transaction management offerings in the market only provide black-box
visibility of the NetWeaver environment, while [the] Actional 8.1 product
includes visibility, tight policy monitoring and intuitive alerting even of
activity within the ABAP environment. Users can expect a greater ROI when
managing their SAP applications with
Actional ... because they will experience [fewer] transaction failures and an
increase in application performance."
Other key features of the Actional 8.1 Business Transaction Management
platform include auditing and logging using messaging infrastructure, enhanced
support for the Spring Framework and Microsoft BizTalk, and support for JMS
(Java Message Service) testing.
Progress has been "a member of the SAP
Co-Innovation Lab, a hands-on environment for SAP,
its customers and partners to collaboratively innovate, accelerate and showcase
new business solutions and technologies," the company said in its news
release.
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