Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc., providing reusable software components and services that facilitate enterprise-class application development, announced a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework, Rogue Wave Hydra, designed to facilitate the distribution of business processes within an application. Leveraging Rogue Wave Software’s pioneering “Pipelines” technology, which focuses on achieving efficiency and scalability through parallel processing, Rogue Wave Hydra will empower IT architects and professional developers to achieve order-of-magnitude performance and throughput improvements for critical software applications.

“Customers have told us that a convergence of circumstances and processing limitations is preventing them from taking advantage of growth and new business opportunities. Achieving the application performance and scalability that their businesses require demands a new paradigm in software development,” said Cory Isaacson(pictured), president, Rogue Wave Software division, Quovadx. “With the introduction of Hydra, we are bringing the power of parallel processing to everyday business applications. As a result, we believe we are in a unique position to help IT architects and professional developers address SOA performance challenges head-on - allowing them to adapt applications to exploit available processing resources, improving performance and business results.”

A typical software application is limited by the slowest component in any given business process. Further, while service oriented architecture and enabling formats such as XML have been widely adopted for agility and flexibility by developers, this same flexibility has inflated the size, complexity and volume of transactions and messages, resulting in significant performance penalties. Applications must process transactions and messages efficiently to meet both current and future business demands. As business demands grow and become more dependent on information assets, core application requirements continue to grow in tandem.

To effectively scale to meet these demands the employment of parallel processing, that is processing multiple tasks at the same time, becomes necessary. To date, parallel processing has been utilized for computation-intensive applications such as financial analytics and resolving complex biotech or engineering problems. However, this technology has not yet been widely adopted in generalized business applications. Parallel processing is complex, and general expertise is limited, requiring a new approach to meet performance demands while preserving key business rules. The Rogue Wave Hydra framework and its pipelines technology are designed to fill this void.