Progress Software Corporation  a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive announced the launch of  the Progress® Responsive Business Integration™ (RBI) suite, a comprehensive integration suite under which enterprises can add new business capabilities into their infrastructure with the ability to make continuous change easily and quickly.

The Progress RBI suite includes an intelligent policy-driven infrastructure that allows enterprises to more rapidly create, re-use and recombine new services that seamlessly interoperate with real-time, semantic information.  It also includes operational insight to ensure IT professionals can maintain integration at the highest levels of reliability. With the Progress RBI suite, enterprises now have the tools to ensure all structural, behavioral, and performance-centric mediation points are optimized for IT adaptability, business responsiveness, and downstream operational success. 

Hub Vandervoort, Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Infrastructure at Progress Software, said: “The pace of change is increasing exponentially. And this is creating a widening gap between the needs of the business and the ability of IT professionals to deliver new capabilities. The Progress RBI suite addresses the agility limitations of classic SOA implementations by providing an intelligent, policy-driven infrastructure that connects, mediates and governs services, data and policies.  It also provides visibility and management ensuring integration integrity.  All of this leads to the ability to make changes across an IT infrastructure when the business dictates and without a forklift upgrade or disruption to current activities and tasks.”

The enhanced agility of the Progress RBI suite can be applied to industries such as Insurance, Telecommunications, Travel, Leisure and Supply Chain and will be available in the third quarter of 2011.