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IBM has announced new versions of its WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) Server Express software to address the usability needs of small- and mid-size businesses (SMBs), large enterprises and Business Partners.
IT analyst group IDC projects that SMBs will spend $360 billion on IT in 2005, and IBM wants to make sure it gets an IBM-size slice of the pie.
SMBs and large businesses alike struggle to control costs for home-grown integration solutions.
The new version of WebSphere MQ helps reduce the costs of on-going support for manual coding and file transfer and point-to-point solutions to exchange data between business applications and systems. The new version of WBI Server Express includes new adapters that integrate with existing applications, improved business flexibility using wizard-driven business rules, and simplified Web-based remote deployment.
The latest versions of WebSphere MQ and WBI Server Express provide SMBs and Business Partners with more tools and resources to support their specific business needs, including:
* Sales and technical training, as well as FAQs, marketing resources, and technical support for the latest version of WebSphere MQ are available for no cost via the IBM Virtual Innovation Center, an online community for SMBs and Business Partners.
* Support for the new versions of WebSphere MQ and WBI Server Express are now available via PartnerWorld Industry Networks (PWIN), enabling IBM Business Partners to build vertical market capabilities.
* A new tutorial called Quick Tour for WebSphere MQ features easy instructions and animations that help SMBs and IBM Business Partners quickly understand how the software works and aids in rapid deployment.
* A new user productivity aid, called File Transfer Sample Application, for WebSphere MQ demonstrates how SMBs and IBM Business Partners can easily and safely move files between applications.
* WebSphere Business Integration Server Express offers improved business flexibility using wizard-driven business rules, acceleration of business processes, simplified Web-based remote deployment, configuration and administration, and tools to create adapters for home grown and business applications.
WebSphere MQ's new features allow enterprises to connect point-to-point applications, establish enterprise-wide connectivity, or seamlessly extend application connections into and across mainframe environments and streamline a variety of complex application integration challenges throughout the organization.
Version 6.0 of WebSphere MQ includes, for the first time, the foundation for creating an enterprise service bus (ESB) from a single, Eclipse-based workbench by providing not only point-to-point reliable delivery of information, but also ability to publish information to multiple queues at one time from a common tool. For example, when a product update is made, all applications and partners that leverage that product can be sent an update.
Copyright Publications & Communications, Inc. May 2005
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