About Us
You have probably stumbled across our blog because you already know that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a highly talked about topic with IT and business managers looking to integrate new and re-use existing applications, and services, to improve their enterprise application infrastructure. Whether or not you believe a SOA infrastructure is a way to speed up the application development process and make your enterprise infrastructure more secure, agile and adaptable to changing business needs, we think you'll find this blog informative, intriguing and certainly provocative. This blog is being hosted by Progress Software, a leader in providing smart application and SOA infrastructure software, technology and tools.
But, this blog isn't about Progress Software, it's about SOA Infrastructure. It's about the best-practices, industry standards, and the innovative news and technology that is shaping how companies, service-providers and application developers are delivering - or not delivering - on the true promise of SOA. Our core team of SOA bloggers will disseminate the pros and cons of SOA technologies such as enterprise messaging, SOA and Web Services management, semantic integration, SOA governance, enterprise service bus (ESB), SOA integration and much more. We welcome hearing about what you think are hot SOA infrastructure tools and emerging technologies. We welcome your views and opinions of SOA. We want you to share your SOA experience. Make sure to post Comments to blog topics or feel free to email us if you are interested in being a guest author.
Meet the SOA Infrastructure bloggers:
- David Bressler, SOA Management Evangelist
- Dan Foody, VP of Actional Products
- Ramesh Loganathan, Managing Director & VP of Products, Progress Software India
- Dr. Giles Nelson, Director of Technology
- Ken Rugg, VP and General Manager, Integration Infrastructure
- Hub Vandervoort, CTO
David Bressler
SOA Management Evangelist
As SOA Evangelist for the Actional products, David Bressler provides Progress' customers and field teams with the expertise and experience required to deliver an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA). David also helps steer technology partnerships to provide pragmatic value to customer deployments. From his 15+ year career in enterprise software and data networking, David brings to customer engagements a deep knowledge of application integration and data networking, blended with an ability to leverage emerging technology to create business value. David joined Progress in 2006 with the acquisition of Actional. Prior to joining Actional, David drove TIBCO's IP multicast adoption and designed many of the first IP multicast trading floors on Wall Street, and around the world. He went on to become Vice President of Strategic Technology development at Aether Systems, and then on to manage the delivery of shared middleware networks at Radianz (now BT Radianz). David received his MBA in International Business from New York University Stern School of Business where he graduated with distinction.
Dan Foody
VP of Actional Products
Dan Foody leverages his 20+ years of enterprise software development to span the boundary between business and technology with service-oriented architectures (SOA). Previously serving as CTO for Actional Corp., acquired by Progress in early 2006, Dan's experience with distributed systems technologies including SOA middleware, SOA integration and Web services management have provided him with a broad understanding and passion for solving today’s critical business issues with innovative technology solutions. Most recently, Foody was the recipient of InfoWorld's 2005 CTO 25 award.
Ramesh Loganathan
Managing Director and VP of Products, Progress Software India
Ramesh Loganathan is the Managing Director and VP of Products for Progress Software India and is responsible for leading product development at the India Development center. Mr. Loganathan is responsible for providing strategic guidance to all the product teams, with specific focus on cross-product considerations for the SOA and data integration products. He is an accomplished technologist and evangelist and speaks regularly at workshops and seminars. He is also a co-authored of the book "SOA Approach to Integration", published by Packt Publishers. Mr. Loganathan holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering (Control Systems) from Anna university, Guindy, India. Learn more: Personal blog, Facebook, LinkedIn.
Dr. Giles Nelson
Director of Technology
Dr. Giles Nelson is Director of Technology for Progress Software and is responsible for new product sales. Giles is a regular speaker at financial industry events and is published and quoted widely in the press. Prior to joining Progress, Giles co-founded Apama, a startup which achieved a leadership position in the financial software market before being acquired by Progress in 2005. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University.
Ken Rugg
VP of Products, DataXtend & ObjectStore
Ken is a 25-year veteran of the software industry and is responsible for the strategic direction and development of the DataXtend and ObjectStore products. In 2002, Ken joined the company as a result of Progress Software's acquisition of eXcelon Corp., the maker of ObjectStore, the world's most popular object database and a leader in the XML tools market. At eXcelon he was VP of Product Development and CTO. Under his leadership, eXcelon became the established leader in XML database and XML integration technologies, while maintaining its dominant position in the object database market.
Hub Vandervoort
CTO
Hub has more than 20 years of experience as a consultant and senior technology executive in the networking, communications software and Internet industries. As CTO, Hub is responsible for incorporating market and customer requirements into Enterprise Infrustructure products, including Sonic, Actional, and DataXtend SI. Before joining the EI group, Vandervoort was VP of Strategic Services for Sonic Software® and led a number of key initiatives including Sonic's expansion into the Financial Services market worldwide. Prior to Sonic Software, Vandervoort co-founded three start-up ventures. He was co-founder and CTO of TSCentral, Inc., a leading ASP solutions provider and exchange portal in the trade-events industry. He was CEO of Horizon Strategies, Inc., which he co-founded and merged with Momentum Software Corporation, where he then served as Executive VP of Strategic Planning. Vandervoort is a frequent speaker at industry events and contributor to numerous industry publications.