Cohesions Overview

Choreology Cohesions is the culmination of many years of theoretical and practical pioneering work in the developing field of Business Transaction Management (BTM).

The first product to make application coordination and process synchronization a reality in today's heterogeneous enterprise, Cohesions significantly enhances the management of business transactions that span and coordinate multiple applications.

The rapid movement to real-time processing of partner and customer business transactions has created applications that touch many existing, business-critical systems within an enterprise. When processes and interactions between systems involve complex or high-value transactions, inconsistent business results can create serious costs, risks and delays that both afflict internal operations and damage customer relations and business reputation.

Traditionally, organizations have been faced with two choices: either they build complicated logic into their applications or they identify and manually repair transactional discrepancies after the fact. In either case, the processes are costly and time-consuming to operate or construct.

Cohesions ensures application-level consistency, and automated completion of business transactions, even in the event of failures.

Cohesions implements OASIS Business Transaction Protocol and Web Services Coordination+Transaction. It works in the native Java environment and is also integrated with several leading Web services toolkits - as well as working in the context of the developing Grid services environment. Cohesions is a critical underlay for reliable BPEL-based processes, simplifying their design and providing transactional control and automated recovery of business state.