As business conditions force companies to become more and more flexible, service oriented architecture (SOA) provides a scalable, reliable way to connect with, interact with, and deliver information. This brochure shows how you can be a superhero by making WebSphere MQ the messaging backbone for your SOA, creating a common connection for the free flow of information.
WebSphere MQTo support your business objectives
How to become an SOA superhero."The scale and pace of [global economic integration]
is unprecedented . the greater part of the earth's
population is now engaged."
- Ben Bernanke, chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve System
Today's business landscape in the global economy affects Where are the superheroes when you need one? companies of all sizes. These companies are being forced to Imagine being able to connect with, interact with and deliver reshape themselves in fundamental ways to address important information to any and all of your technology assets, whether changes: they are home-grown assets, packaged applications, mobile devices or even unmanned devices on a remote oil pipeline. . New and changing customers. China and India will add over one Imagine also being able to start simple to meet your immedi-billion new consumers over the next 5 to 10 years. Baby boomers ate needs while at the same time creating a foundation for the will either spend their accumulated wealth or pass it on to their future that enables you to grow and adapt dynamically without ®heirs. having to rearchitect your solutions. IBM WebSphere soft-. Global integration. Technology and standards will enable the ware provides that ability so that all your assets can be incor-immediate transfer of goods and services, as well as redefine how porated and reused in your multiple business processes, add-information is shared. Work will be broken into pieces that flow ing levels of scalability and qualities of service to match your globally to wherever it can be done best and then reassembled. business needs. . Business-model innovation. Industry, revenue and enterprise models will emerge that enable companies to rapidly seize new Without reliable connectivity, your business and its profitability opportunities, differentiate themselves and their partners from can be directly affected by breakages in business continuity the masses, and dynamically adapt to change. that prevent having the right information at the right time to . New technology models. New architectures, systems and skill sets support the decision-making process. Organizations can be will emerge in order to more effectively support business-model overwhelmed with the complexity of IT systems?-?along with innovation. the development and maintenance costs of those systems. Flexible, agile integration capabilities enable IT to respond In 2006 IBM conducted a CEO survey. The results showed quickly to new business-driven opportunities.that 87 percent of CEOs believe that fundamental change is required over the next two years to drive innovation. It also revealed that extensive integrators were growing revenue 5 percent faster than their competitors. CEOs who extensively integrated business and technology reported greater customer satisfaction, speed and flexibility than their less-integrated peers.
Service oriented architecture: Join the superheroes club How to become a superhero with WebSphere MQ?-?the messaging Service oriented architecture (SOA) simplifies IT projects and backbone for SOAenables business agility. It is an IT architectural style that sup- Many businesses face the challenges of connecting resources ports integrating your business as a set of linked services. that were never designed to work together, including multiple What do we mean by a service? It is a repeatable business hardware systems from different vendors, as well as, operating task, such as checking a potential customer's credit rating or systems and programming languages within and outside the opening a new account. The task can be orchestrated into enterprise.current and future business processes. WebSphere MQ provides a universal messaging backbone for Many companies today are already adopting SOA and realiz- your SOA with assured transactional delivery, connecting ing meaningful benefits, but the most agile and globally inte- everything together using a common interface so that informa-grated organizations are taking it to the next level, employing tion can flow freely. The backbone removes connectivity code the IBM Smart SOAT approach. With this approach, the con- from applications and places it in the network, so that your tinuum of challenges faced by an organization is matched to a developers spend less time maintaining connection code and continuum of SOA responses?-?from basic to adv... [download for more]
