WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

Integrate applications and services with a dynamic connectivity solution

WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a flexible connectivity infrastructure for integrating applications and services. An ESB provides the connectivity to implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA), reducing the complexity of integrating applications and services. With WebSphere ESB, you can focus on your core business initiatives instead of IT maintenance.

WebSphere ESB allows you to increase your business agility with these comprehensive benefits:

Reduce costs with a fast and flexible application integration solution that eliminates point-to-point connectivity programming.
Develop new business services opportunities without impact to your current IT environment.
Achieve efficiency and faster time to value with easy-to-use components and familiar WebSphere functionality.
Build your SOA solutions with extensions that work with ESBs, like WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and WebSphere eXtreme Scale.

Reduce costs with a flexible and reliable integration infrastructure

Simplify application integration and share information across applications and platforms.
Reduce maintenance costs caused by complex application interface mismatches.
Gain robust performance from the WebSphere Application Server base, which includes clustering, failover, and security.

Extend existing assets for new business opportunities

Use existing applications and data to create new services for business growth.
Reduce IT costs and impact associated with new service rollouts.
Gain support for hundreds of software vendors, web services and open standards to connect with your existing assets.

Achieve efficiency and faster time to value

Improve developer productivity with prebuilt mediation functions. Minimal knowledge of Java and J2EE is required.
Get up and running quickly with simplified system installation and cluster configuration.
A central administrative console provides full access to the underlying WebSphere Application Server administration capabilities.

Create synergy and savings while building your SOA platform

Integrates with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for SOA solutions with a published catalog of services supporting dynamic endpoint resolution.
Combines with WebSphere eXtreme Scale to provide elastic caching capabilities with improved system response times and enhanced throughput.
Delivers smooth interoperability with WebSphere MQ V7, WebSphere Message Broker, and other WebSphere software products and adapters.
Streamlines IT development and maintenance, reducing costs.

WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus resources

Flash Video: Value and Synergy of IBM ESBs with WebSphere MQ
Learn how WebSphere ESB enables fast and flexible application integration, reducing integration costs, and bridging to next-generation interconnectivity.

White paper: Increasing IT flexibility with IBM WebSphere ESB software
With WebSphere ESB, you can develop and deploy an ESB that enables you to add new services faster and change services more easily, while reusing your existing assets.