WebSphere application connectivity products (formerly WebSphere Business Integration) integrate data, applications, processes, and people across and beyond the enterprise to leverage existing IT investments.
During the past decade, businesses placed higher expectations on the value of data and the velocity at which it moves. Terminology such as SOA, On Demand, and Agility are used to describe an environment where data moves seamlessly among systems and to external customers, suppliers, and business partners. The desired benefits are clear. They are faster projects, lower risk, and with greater re-use of IT assets. Creating a mature infrastructure with these characteristics requires some fundamental pieces of infrastructure to route, count, transform, publish, and correlate data. These characteristics are often grouped under the conceptual umbrella of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Yet SOA goes beyond the fundamentals of message oriented middleware (MOM), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and the other typical components. Perhaps more important aspects of proper, agile SOA infrastructure are the “higher brain functions” it enables. When you consider the exciting opportunities presented by business event correlation and dynamic, content-driven business rules, you really begin to grasp the power of SOA and why you need the fundamental building blocks to make it possible.
After nearly a decade of SOA it is clear not all organizations can adopt infrastructure the same way. Some drive SOA efforts from a perspective of the user through web portals, commerce engines and analytics. Some drive their SOA efforts through a “bottom up” definition of critical, common services. At Ascendant Technology we tailor our consulting services to represent the SOA architecture best suited to your environment.
IBM Products
- WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
- WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
- WebSphere MQ
- WebSphere Application Server
- WebSphere Message Broker
