Features, advantages and benefits
| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamically mediates interactions between services and applications | Quickly onboard new services/applications or update existing ones without impacting other systems, regardless of communication protocol | Improve flexibility by eliminating point-to-point integration and tightly-coupled systems |
| Dynamically routes and transforms data | Enables smart interoperability of heterogeneous systems | Choose best-of-breed application that best support your business, or save costs by reusing your existing systems |
| Comprehensive support for Microsoft .net environments, including support for many of the languages supported by the Microsoft Common Language Runtime (CLR) | Enhanced connectivity and a new tightly integrated development tool with Microsoft Visual Studio. Users can easily invoke programs written in a wealth of languages including COM, JScript, Visual Basic, and C#. | Take advantage of existing Microsoft .NET skills and assets and open up a wealth of possibilities for connecting .NET applications using the proven scalability and availability of WebSphere Message Broker. |
| Industry leading performance, scalability, security and reliability. | Meet your Service Level Agreements with the industry’s best performance and reliability. Exploits all the capabilities of WebSphere MQ | Minimize hardware costs when scaling to meet your business needs. Eliminate costly security breach exposures and insures compliance through message & transaction integrity |
| Easy to install | Minutes to install tooling and runtime. No database required | Simplified product reduces implementation time and costs associated with ongoing maintenance efforts |
| Easy to use | Out-of-the box patterns for common transformations – or create your own | Reduce implementation time of common flows to just minutes and eliminates errors due to inconsistencies |
| Enhanced auditing and diagnostic capabilities via browser-based tooling | View, edit, record and replay data flowing through WMB from all sources for both troubleshooting and testing efforts | Reduces troubleshooting efforts and frustration when resolving time sensitive failed flows |
| Open standard-based parser and graphical data mapper | Build custom transforms with the DFDL-based parser for use in WMB or other applications. Use the WMB toolkit testing environment even if not deploying to a WMB instance | Improve efficiency of developing assets by reusing them in other applications that support this standard. |
| Expanded managed file transfer support with new direct connectivity to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct | Easily bridge between any file based networks and your messaging infrastructure. Quickly and securely convert batch records to or from WebSphere MQ messages. | Gain end-to-end visibility of file and message traffic across the entire business network. |
| Reliable communication with web services reliable messaging (WS-RM) | Assures delivery of SOAP messages without duplication or disruption to order of messages when connections or endpoints are temporarily unavailable | Minimize business disrupting ripple effects caused by network outages |
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Technical details
WebSphere Message Broker Resources
- RedBook:Connecting your business using Websphere Message Broker as an ESB
- Solution Brief: Synergies of WebSphere MQ and Message Broker
- Solution brief: Simplify progression from a point-to-point messaging infrastructure to full ESB capability with WebSphere Message Broker
- Brochure: Achieving business agility and cost optimization by reducing IT complexity
Demos and videos
- Video: WebSphere Message Broker product video
This video highlights the new features and benefits in WebSphere Message Broker.
- Video: Synergies of WebSphere MQ and Message Broker
In this video, earn how IBM ESB enrichment products,like WebSphere Message Broker, add value to your messaging solution such as WebSphere MQ.
- New Customer video: Mothercare Group PLC takes their ESB to the next level with WebSphere Message Broker