The last few years have seen a growing interest and investment in messaging middleware. WebSphere MQ is an industry leader in this area, and provides a messaging infrastructure to many diverse businesses and applications.
IBM has developed a family of products, based around the messaging transport layer, that provides not only the fundamental requirements of secure, reliable information exchange, but also incorporates services and business process support to help you to make the best use of your investment in systems and applications. The richness and flexibility of this support enables you to respond to new opportunities that arise when your business grows and diversifies.
You can use the WebSphere MQ family products to support your business
integration needs:
For more information about the products and solutions that are
available in the WebSphere business integration family, see the WebSphere business integration Web page.
WebSphere MQ is the focal point of the IBM Business Integration strategy, which addresses integration of applications, data, and processes from both business and IT perspectives.
Business integration is the coordination and cooperation of all your business processes and applications. It involves bringing together the data and process intelligence in your enterprise, and harnessing these so that your applications and your users can achieve their business needs.
Business integration means that:
You can use the WebSphere MQ family products to support your business integration needs:
WebSphere MQ provides assured, once-only delivery of messages between your IT systems. It connects more than thirty industry platforms including those from IBM, Microsoft®, and Sun Microsystems, Inc., using a variety of communications protocols.
WebSphere MQ provides rich support for applications:
WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker incorporates WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker and extends its function to provide a powerful message broker solution driven by business rules. Messages are formed, routed, and transformed according to the rules defined by an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI).
Diverse applications can exchange information in dissimilar forms, with brokers handling the processing required for the information to arrive in the right place in the correct format, according to the rules that you have defined. The applications do not need to know anything except their own conventions and requirements.
Applications also have much greater flexibility in selecting which messages they want to receive, because they can specify a topic filter, or a content-based filter, or both, to control the messages that are made available to them.
WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker provides a framework that supports supplied, basic, functions along with user-defined enhancements, to enable rapid construction and modification of business processing rules that are applied to messages in the system.
WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker provides an optimized publish and subscribe function within a limited WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker framework. It works with WebSphere MQ messaging and Java™ Message Service clients to provide high-performance nonpersistent publish and subscribe functionality.
WebSphere MQ Workflow works with WebSphere MQ messaging to add a further dimension to your business integration by aligning and integrating an organization's staff resources, processes, and capabilities with its business strategies. It enables organizations to accelerate its process flow, optimize costs, eliminate errors and improve workgroup productivity.
WebSphere MQ Workflow is designed to enable the integration of all participants in the business process, including those external to your organization. It ensures that the right information gets to the right person at the right time.
WebSphere MQ Workflow can be used in combination with WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker, providing a high level of flexibility to allow business and message processing to be as simple or as complicated as your business demands.
WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker addresses the needs of business and application integration by managing the flow of information. It provides services, based on message brokers, to allow you to:
The benefits of WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker can be realized both within and outside your enterprise:
For information about WebSphere MQ and business integration, see the WebSphere Business Integration Web page.
For information about getting started with setting up and using WebSphere Business Integration Message Brokers, see Getting started.
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