WebSphere gives organisations the power to build, monitor and control an infrastructure to support on demand business, and to develop and extend the applications running on that infrastructure.
Through effective application infrastructure and integration WebSphere delivers people, process and information integration to become the essential channel for delivering, monitoring and expanding on demand business. It provides the means through which to put the right information in front of the right people within a culture of improvement, both in the expansion and distribution of knowledge as well as the collection of demand and performance data for optimisation.
The foundation for WebSphere is the WebSphere Application Server, a high performance transaction engine that enables secure, rapid e-business within a WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture, a Service oriented Architecture which enhances development, deployment and management capabilities. With comprehensive support of Open Standards and the promotion of J2EE and Web Services, WebSphere Application Server provides an ecology that promotes rapid development and reuse to deploy and manage applications ranging from simple Web sites to powerful on demand solutions.
Through the Integration Reference Architecture, WebSphere provides the framework for connectivity, which generates increased business knowledge and opportunity.
The WebSphere Application Server is a modular platform designed to support existing enterprise content and to be extended in line with the needs of the business it supports. This is achieved through a range of WebSphere solutions and ready support for new solution development. Together WebSphere solutions realise the basis for an effective middle tier by providing a framework to address five core enterprise challenges:
WebSphere solutions such as WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Everyplace and WebSphere Voice Offerings provide employees, customers and business partners with access to business information, applications, and business processes, at any time from anywhere across multiple devices, delivering:
WebSphere Business integration products provide process integration capabilities to tune business processes to strategic business goals. WebSphere enables organisations to:
Products such as WebSphere Product Center,WebSphere Information Integration and WebSphere Commerce deliver a consistent, unified view of structured and unstructured information from multiple sources, and manage and synchronise product reference information. WebSphere enables organisations to:
WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker, WebSphere Business Integration Connect and WebSphere Application Server provide the application integration capabilities to support reliable and flexible information flow across applications, some of which could be running in different enterprises. Websphere enables organisations to:
The WebSphere application infrastructure enables organisations to build, deploy, integrate, and enhance new and existing applications. Application infrastructure capabilities are provided by CICS Transaction Server, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services and WebSphere Studio Enterprise Dev. Websphere enables organisations to:
Using WebSphere organsations can enable a proactive business by increasing the speed to which any customer, opportunity or threat can be responded to through process control and automation, and applications can be extended to increase performance in line with opportunity. With proven technologies delivered ‘out-of-the-box’ webSphere is not just the leading industry middle-tier solution, it is also the most cost effective.