Business integration, along with the IT integration resources required to support it, has become an essential focus for companies across industries. These organizations want to update existing technology assets—and realize new value from what were previously disconnected and isolated applications.
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IntroductionContents Business integration, along with the IT integration resources required to support it, has become an essential focus for companies across industries. 2 Introduction These organizations want to update existing technology assets-and realize 2 The integration challenge new value from what were previously disconnected and isolated applications. 3 Providing universal connectivity By using a flexible solution to integrate their most critical assets efficiently, 5 Rich transformation and mediation businesses can help optimize their operations today and help ensure that their capabilities help you make the most infrastructures are poised to take advantage of new technologies as they evolve.of your data8 Flexible deployment and ®This white paper focuses on the value that IBM WebSphere Message Broker management for your advanced ESB provides for businesses that want to streamline and optimize their business 9 WebSphere Message Broker processes through an advanced enterprise service bus (ESB) solution. It topologies discusses the key benefits delivered by an advanced ESB, such as universal 11 Delivering value through connectivity and transformation, flexible deployment and management, and performance capabilities supporting an event-driven architecture. You can use this 12 Powering your event-driven information to help understand how WebSphere Message Broker software architecture with complex-event serves as a foundational component from which you can build your service processing oriented architecture (SOA) today. 13 What is the real value to your business? The integration challenge14 Conclusion The diagram in Figure 1 might remind you of how your organization's IT 15 For more information assets are connected-and it is, in fact, the actual topology of a major U.S. corporation's IT infrastructure. With new applications come new interfaces to build and maintain, which in turn create a barrier to future modifications to your IT infrastructure. As new standards emerge, integration developers must spend increasing amounts of time to develop support for and test against those standards internally. The result is a sea of connectivity as developers connect IT applications manually from point to point to solve today's problem without an eye to future requirements. WebSphere Message Broker: Delivering business value through an advanced enterprise service bus.Page 3
"The speed at which we can implement SOA is at least 30 percent faster using IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Version 6 as the underlying ESB compared to implementing SOA using tools from competitive vendors in the marketplace. By using IBM WebSphere Adapter solutions (technology and application adapters), the process of implementing business integration solutions has been greatly enhanced-resulting in reduced total cost of ownership [TCO] and a better return on investment [ROI]. Based on our experience, we are glad to say that the upgrade path to Version 6 from any previous versions of WebSphere Message Broker is painless and effortless. This Figure 1. Topology of a major U.S. corporation's IT infrastructureis indeed a genuine way to protect any existing investments in IBM integration To illustrate this point further, consider a simpler example where an IT infrastructure." organization has 10 applications it needs to connect. The result is that the - Prasad Lokam, organization must develop and manage 90 (N*N-1) separate interfaces. Now CEO and chief architect, suppose that same organization needs to add a new application or service: the Miracle Software Systems, Inc. result is 20 additional interfaces that must be built and maintained. The complexity that results from manual, point-to-point integration also increases bottom-line cost in terms of development time and expense-and in opportunities lost as customers and partners move to competitors with more effective solutions.
Providing universal connectivityTo reduce this cost and complexity, you need to optimize your integration solution by reducing the number of interfaces, as well as increasing the flexibility of managing those connections. By implementing an advanced ESB... [download for more]
