Regulatory Compliance

The more regulations you face — and the more you have to worry about the risks of re-keying errors, duplicate transactions or losing data as it flows across the enterprise — the more you really appreciate a reliable, secure application integration solution.

IBM WebSphere MQ Version 6.0 makes it easy to connect to virtually all of your applications and data, so you can reliably manage and track the exchange and sharing of data — and make sure that you have visibility and transparency of that data as it moves, first time and every time. Which means you can have confidence to trust that applications across your enterprise are sharing important information with integrity, in real time. And you are now in a position to demonstrate it.

• Assuredness - Even though applications and services may not be always available, WebSphere MQ Version 6.0 works to assure the delivery of data once and once only.
• Trust - Thousands of businesses around the world rely on the WebSphere MQ, winner of multiple industry awards, to reliably move information between applications, without losing messages.
• Security - Integrated SSL security and the option of using WebSphere MQ Extended Security Edition help reduce the possibility of uncontrolled access to information.
• Consistency - Applications are connected by a simple, consistent interface — integrating services and eliminating the need for data e-entry.

IBM WebSphere MQ can enable you to reduce and manage the risk involved when you move information between IT systems. So that they can have confidence that the integrity of the business is preserved. And that financial reports derived from that information can be verified as trustworthy and deemed accurate. IBM WebSphere MQ helps address fundamental challenges and problems that can prevent businesses from meeting compliance obligations, and helps accelerate speed of addressing the risks that business information is exposed to in transit. It is designed to support highly secure, highly scalable automated operations with reduced risk of loss or tampering.

With WebSphere MQ it is easy to automate information movement by connecting applications and Web Services via interfaces that are consistent across the wide range of over 80 operating system configurations. WebSphere MQ provides a choice of its de facto standard interface as well as the industry standard interface, Java Message Service (JMS). By automating exchange of data between IT systems WebSphere MQ can help eliminate errors introduced by re-keying information across multiple systems.

Next, WebSphere MQ helps reduce the risk of business transactions being lost, duplicated or misplaced. Making innovative use of the principles of two-phase commit that are popular in database systems, WebSphere MQ provides a high degree of assurance that the integrity of information and the integrity of the IT systems exchanging it remain intact. Whereas many techniques can only provide a level of assurance where two IT systems are exchanging information, WebSphere MQ provides a foundational layer of technology that enables you to preserve the transactionality of information end-to-end across a messaging bus, whatever kind of network topology your business has.

Ensuring that IT systems that exchange information remain reconciled also means ensuring that transactions aren't needlessly duplicated. While WebSphere MQ treats each message it transports as distinct, it can also insure that those it does transport are not duplicated. Engineering this kind of resilience logic into distributed systems that may exchange data across multiple points in a network is non-trivial. That's one reason why over 120 patents have been filed for innovations in WebSphere MQ.

Other sources of risk to information arise from security concerns. WebSphere MQ helps you to reduce the risk of security breaches when you transport business information. Out of the box it enables you to use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. WebSphere MQ Extended Security Edition expands the security services further, enabling you to implement an end-to-end, application-level data protection model and to perform enterprise-wide, remote management of security policies of the application integration network.

With logging and trace features provided by the product, and enhanced and extended by our IBM Business Partners, you can establish audit trails of information.

If your business must comply with governmental regulations, transparency of information flow is vital. IBM WebSphere MQ is the most trusted solution for application integration in the market today. Partner with the leader — partner with IBM.