Enterprise collaboration with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

About SOA

Enterprise hub

SOA values

SOA products

A rich set of SOA enabling products

A rich set of SOA-compliant products introduces service orented offering and new process management capabilities to the enterprise-class mainframe customer. For example, WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer helps identify modules for reuse. Rational Developer for System z helps create Web service interfaces, rich new Web user interfaces and service flows for existing CICS and IMS applications. And the latest versions of CICS, IMS, DB2 and MQ are enabled for SOA to deliver legendary mainframe availability, security, and recoverability to an SOA solution.

It's about having an integrated platform for Business Process Management. Other System z products featured in the announcement include: enhancements to the WebSphere Business Modeler (a simple to use process modeling for the business analyst); a new WebSphere Integration Developer (replacing WebSphere Application Developer Integrated Edition) that gives easy-to-use integration to simplify and speed the assembly of composite applications; a new WebSphere Process Server (replacing WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation) for flexible deployment of business processes; and an enhanced WebSphere Business Monitor for real-time visibility into process performance enabling process intervention and continuous improvement. All of these elements are connected through the new WebSphere ESB, which provides connectivity infrastructure for integrating applications and services to power your SOA.

Business process elements are connected through new products that provide a connectivity infrastructure for integrating applications and services to power your SOA. WebSphere ESB delivers an Enterprise Service Bus that connects applications with standards-based interfaces. Our new version of WebSphere Message Broker delivers an advanced Enterprise Service Bus, providing universal connectivity along with advanced message routing, transformation, and enrichment. WebSphere Message Broker is unmatched in its ability to integrate virtually the entire enterprise whether they are standards-based or not!