WebSphere Application Server

Intelligently manages your application environment and delivers rich user experiences faster.

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Overview

WebSphere Application Server provides the flexibility, efficiency and intelligent management that an agile, cost-effective business requires

Speed the delivery of applications and services, operate efficiently and reliably and ensure security and control with IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Reduce costs through high performance to consolidate workloads, infrastructure and administrative tasks
Improve end-user experiences through rapid delivery of innovative applications
Utilize diverse developer skills using comprehensive open standards-based programming models, including Java EE 6, OSGi Applications, Web 2.0 and Mobile, Java Batch, XML, Service Component Architecture (SCA), Communications Enabled Applications (CEA), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Dynamic Scripting
Achieve higher application security with flexible and granular control
Manage geographically dispersed applications centrally to cut the cost of administration
Maintain transaction integrity, overall reliability and scalability, and reduce downtime with industry leading quality of service
Reduce downtime with enhanced Web server load balancing and failover
Optimize costs with a variety of pricing alternatives including availability of optional socket-based pricing (US)
Maximize developer productivity with unique backwards compatibility features that eliminate recoding and through separately available integrated IBM Rational Application Developer tooling
Reuse and extend legacy and packaged applications to reduce costs, which can be further accelerated using the optionally available IBM WebSphere Adapters V7.5

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