Welcome to Smart SOA Application Foundation from IBM WebSphere – an application development and integration platform that can have a significant financial impact on your overall application development strategy, helping your organisation boost Return on Investment.
This secure solution is as dynamic as today’s business climate, driving efficiency and innovation while delivering a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than competitive Open Source application servers.
90% of Fortune’s Global 100 businesses today run on WebSphere Application Server Family, a key offering of Smart SOA Application Foundation that has been an industry-leading product for over 11 years.
Migrating to Application Foundation from IBM WebShpere makes absolute business sense. Here’s why:
Optimisation of Finances
Application Foundation achieves cost savings by running the same number of workloads on fewer servers, and by leveraging advanced clustering for higher availability and scalability.
Cuts maintenance costs on existing applications by up to 70%.
Reduces development and management costs with “no charge developers’ licenses”.
Centralised management provides a single view across multiple locations,decreasing costs and streamlining operations.
Innovation for Higher Customer Satisfaction
Application Foundation enables the easy creation of cutting-edge applications that provide customers access to real-time information and technologies.
Advanced clustering and workload distribution result in faster response times, avoiding long waiting periods for customers.
Security domains deliver flexible control, preventing costly security breaches.
Efficient Deployment and Development
Application Foundation can be deployed in a matter of minutes, as opposed to other solutions that take weeks, at best.
Meets the conflicting needs of developers and operations personnel by providing the former simple and lightweight capabilities, and the latter stability and cost-effectiveness.

