Progress Software Integrates with SAP Application Programming Language (ABAP) and Actional 8.1 Business Transaction Management

Progress Software, a software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, announced the release of the Progress Actional 8.1 Business Transaction Management platform, which adds full integration with ABAP programming language.

The Actional Business Transaction Management platform, which allows users to detect and resolve problems between applications and their interactions, now provides visibility into all applications built using SAP NetWeaver.

Actional 8.1 products offer SAP customers insight into and between ABAP-based applications and their interactions within heterogeneous environments. When issues occur either outside or within these applications directly impacting a transaction's success, the IT department can target and address the problem before it becomes critical or even negatively impacts the SAP application or the enterprise as a whole.

Other highlights of Actional 8.1 Business Transaction Management platform:

- Auditing and logging using messaging infrastructure: Actional product extends auditing and logging capability, which now provides customers with the choice of distributing audit and log information via JMS, or sending it directly to a database - offering customers the choice between flexibility, reliability, and performance. This capability also acts as a foundation for event driven architectures, allowing event consumers to gain access to the rich set of events occurring within business applications.

- Support for JMS testing: Progress has increased the testing capabilities of Actional 8.1 product by including assets that are built directly on JMS with no underlying SOA architecture. This feature delivers support across heterogeneous environments.

Additionally, Progress said it worked as a member of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, a hands-on environment for SAP, its customers and partners to develop, accelerate and showcase new business solutions and technologies.

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