IBM connectivity and integration solutions deliver fast, flexible and reliable access to processes, applications and information regardless of platform, device, or data formats; increase visibility and improve governance of services, processes, files, rules, and events; and connect to customers, partners, and suppliers and extend processes through messaging infrastructure, ESBs, or appliances.
Featured products

WebSphere MQ
Provides application programming services that enable application programs to communicate with each other using message queues.

IBM Sterling B2B Integration
Enable the secure and seamless execution of multi-enterprise business processes

WebSphere Message Broker
Simple yet powerful integration engine for any size project

IBM Sterling Managed File transfer
Enables enterprises to gain control of the movement of critical corporate data
All products - Connectivity integation and SOA
- Communication Controller for Linux on System z
- Communications Server - Overview
- z/OS Communications Server
- Sterling Commerce
- System z Operating Systems
- VTAM for VSE/ESA and VM/ESA
- WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks
- WebSphere Data Interchange
- WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances - Overview
- WebSphere Remote Server
- WebSphere Transformation Extender
- IBM Enterprise Integrator for Domino
- IBM Notes and Domino family - Overview
- Lotus Connector for SAP Solutions
- Integration Bus family - Overview
- WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances - Overview
- WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
- WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Registry Edition
- WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets
- WebSphere Message Broker
- WebSphere MQ
- WebSphere MQ Hypervisor Edition for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
- WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
- WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition
Related solutions

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (US)
A business-centric IT architectural approach that allows organizations to integrate their business as linked, repeatable tasks (services).
Featured offers
Connecting your business using WebSphere Message Broker as an ESB
WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance capabilities
Extend your ESB with industry data transformation
What exactly is MQ Messaging?
SOA for Dummies
WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI52
Start thriving in an interconnected world
A survey of companies in several industries shows a strong correlation between business agility and success. But to achieve greater business agility and greater success, you have to able to connect and integrate all of your different processes, applications and systems not only within your business, but across your entire business network -- and around the world. And you have to be able to do it regardless of platform, device or data formats.
Opportunities in the interconnected world
Connectivity and integration solutions can help you thrive in this challenging, interconnected environment. Become more collaborative and speed innovation. Improve agility to respond to changing business demands. Improve relationships with partners, suppliers and customers. Control costs and save time.
IBM connectivity and integration solutions provide you with the capability to:
- Maximize the value of your architecture
- Reduce the time and complexity of integrating your enterprise, the cloud and your broader trading community
- Rapidly deliver new services by bridging new channels and delivery models with back-end core applications
- Share services and extend business processes across the extended enterprise
- Guarantee and secure delivery of files, messages and services between businesses and applications
Real results
SXC Health Solutions Corporation (US) needed a secure and reliable center of data exchange for interaction with all facets of the pharmaceutical supply chain. A comprehensive integration solution from IBM not only delivered comprehensive integration across the exchange, it did so with exceptional security and reliability, and gave SXC greater insight into its business processes.
Electronics company Sharp (US) has created a first-of-a-kind new integrated manufacturing facility that relies on an IBM solution to gain visibility of the entire production process from stock, sales and accounting information and from raw materials to finished goods. The result is maximized efficiency thanks to real-time visibility into production, sales and accounting information.
Related IBM software categories
Application infrastructure
Efficiently deliver applications and services with robust performance, transactional integrity and maximum security and control while optimizing costs
Cloud and virtualization management
Automate virtualized infrastructure and the delivery of the services that run on it.
Business process management
Discover, model, execute, govern, and gain end to end visibility on core business processes, rules and events
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
A business-centric IT architectural approach that allows organizations to integrate their business as linked, repeatable tasks (services)
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Blogs
A view from the clouds: Cloud computing for developers
WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
Youtube
Communities
IBM developerWorks: WebSphere application integration zone
IBM developerWorks: WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
IBM developerWorks: WebSphere MQ
IBM developerWorks : Meet the experts
Forums
Contact IBM
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- Request a quote
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- Video: New WebSphere MQ 7.5 Transaction processing and enhanced capabilities
- Redbook: DataPower SOA Appliances strategic overview
Connectivity and integration resources
- Demo: WebSphere MQ
- Redbook: WebSphere DataPower Architectural Design Patterns
- White paper: WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances Application Optimization
- Whitepaper: Lower Business Risk and Increase IT with Managed File Transfer for SOA
- White paper: The Critical Path to Cloud Computing
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Customer case studies
Mothercare Group PLC,
Quick and secure data transfer using WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker
SXC health solutions
Creates a reliable platform for interaction with the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Sprint deploys WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances to secure and manage its SOA transactions
Aetna drives Business Agility and Faster SOA Adoption with WebSphere Datapower