Support the Enterprise with a Scalable, Secure Platform

No matter how well you have optimized your business processes, these solutions will quickly become obsolete if they cannot support enterprise levels of usage, be safely run over the Web and comply with corporate standards for scalability and security.

Pegasystems has designed its solutions to provide the highest levels of scalability and security. Pega’s Services-based architecture leverages Java EE and clustered servers to deliver the scalability needed to support thousands of concurrent users. In-depth performance benchmarks show that the distributed architecture offers unmatched scalability, enabling organizations to take maximum advantage of the scaling power provided by leading hardware and middleware vendors. With Pega’s proven scalability, you can rest assured that your applications can reliably scale to meet projected growth.

In addition, Pegasystems has implemented multiple layers of security, providing the functionality required to safely run enterprise business applications in a Web environment. However, Pegasystems does not require you to abandon your current corporate security standards. Because of the Services-based architecture, you can continue to leverage your best-practice security mechanisms for single sign-on, authentication, authorization and more within your Pega applications.

Key Capabilities

• Server Clustering — The Services-based Java EE architecture supports application-server clustering with physical servers executing concurrently to provide both load balancing (scalability) and failover (reliability).
• Horizontal and Vertical Scalability — Web and EJB containers can be deployed on different JVMs for horizontal scaling or scaled vertically by deploying Pega applications on multiple Web and EJB containers.
• Support for Leading Hardware and Middleware Vendors — Pega applications run on proven application servers, including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and Apache Tomcat. A common process and rule database runs on Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server or IBM DB2 Universal Database, and can support distributed concurrent nodes on and across Windows, Solaris, Linux, z/OS or AIX.
• Integration with Existing Security Mechanisms — Pegasystems manages access and privileges for external users without affecting internal security and setup so that you can maintain your enterprise security and privacy infrastructure without additional coding or hardware.
• Encryption/Authentication Support — Pegasystems supports a wide variety of encryption and authentication patterns, including URL encryption and obfuscation, HTTPS, field/object level encryption, SSO, Kerberos and SPNEGO.
• Multi-Zone Web Architecture — Support for standard multi-zone Web architectures helps to prevent denial of service attacks, cross-site scripting, URL and session hijacking and spoofing.