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Selecting the right ESBs for your needs

then using them in an integrated SOA.

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Making the ESB connection

Laying a solid foundation foryour SOA

Tying together the heterogeneousenvironment

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One ESB or manyeverythingworks together

Making the ESB connectionOne o the most appealing promises o service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the ability to share inor-

mation across applications, even across platorms. Think how making use o this shared inormation

across your organization can help provide the agility, adaptability and exibility your organization needs.

How are you going to make this sharing happen? The answer is easy with an enterprise service bus

(ESB). But now youre acing a second question that takes a bit more considerationhow do you select

the right ESB to meet the unique needs o your project as well as your organization?

A key goal o an SOA and the ESBs that enable it is to link people, processes and inormation

with a rapid and smooth ow o inormation, providing better alignment between IT and business

goals. Organizations worldwide are working to achieve these benefts. Gartner reports that in 2007,

the adoption rate o ESBs soared by 89 percent.1 But dierent companies adopt ESBs or dierent

reasons. Some are just beginning to implement an SOA. Others have already deployed a ull-blown

SOA-based inrastructure. Some need to ocus on greater scalability or better system management.

Others need enhanced governance or improved security.

ESB solutions rom IBM make connections that can help meet all these needs.

On the ollowing pages, you can learn more about our ESB solutions and our clients experiences.

You even can link to IBM proo-o-technology events, where you can take a deep technical test drive

or download one o our ESB products so you can try it today in your own environment.

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Laying a solid foundation for your SOAI youre one o a growing number o organizations rolling out Web services solutions using IBM

WebSphere Application Server sotware and youre looking or a way to link those services or

better sharing and use o inormation, IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus sotware supports the

powerul and exible connectivity you need. It delivers standards-based connectivity and integration

that can streamline business. Control application maintenance costs. Enhance system and services

management. And provide the core capabilities you need or building an SOA.

Whats more, because WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus sotware builds on the oundation o your

SOA, its ready to grow with your business needs. Whether your initial deployment is or a single

department or your entire enterprise, this sotware can help address your entire services lie cycle. It

extends easily with WebSphere adapters so you can connect with additional business applications

including hundreds rom IBM Business Partners. It reconfgures dynamically to meet changing

processing loads.

And the newest version provides policy-driven connectivity with increased exibility to confg-ure service mediations through policies. WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus sets the stage or a

ederated ESB model, giving you the increased business agility and exibility that todays market-

place demands.

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ESBs in the real worldView a video that shows how Sears Canada built the oundation or an SOA that would help over-

come integration issues o its legacy applications.

Get proofFind out about the benefts and capabilities that WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus sotware can

provide or an SOA environment.

To learn more about or enroll in a proo-o-technology event, please contact your IBM sotware

sales representative.

The WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus contributed to a better product,

greater exibility, and shorter time to market.

Miki E. Vhlyarik, architect, Sears Canada Inc.

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Tying together the heterogeneous environmentMany legacy applications were developed and deployed or specifc purposes. Some continue

to live in silos according to their unctions or business units. But todays demands or exible and

agile business operations require that legacy applications play a larger role in your heterogeneous

enterprise environment. These single-purpose, sometimes proprietary and typically very valuable

applications now must share inormation with one another, with packaged applications and with

Web services.

IBM WebSphere Message Broker sotware is an ESB designed to make this sharing a reality. This

platorm-independent solution replaces hard-coded point-to-point links to provide connectivity or

applications and services in practically any ormat, including the ormats o your legacy applications,

within your SOA.

Built on top o IBM WebSphere MQ sotware, which provides an SOA messaging backbone or con-

necting any new and existing applications and Web services, WebSphere Message Broker sotware

adds transormation, intelligent routing and inormation ow modeling to distribute inormation anddata practically rom anything to anything else people, applications and devices throughout the

enterprise and beyond to business partners, customers or suppliers outside your frewall.

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ESBs in the real worldView a video that shows how Blue Cross/Blue Shield o Kansas City used WebSphere Message

Broker sotware to get products and services to the marketplace ast by enabling the move to

realtime processing.

Get proofParticipate in a hands-on experience with WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere MQ sotware,

as well as complementary products.



We saw WebSphere Message Broker as being advantageous because we were able to

use it to speed up development o key process rather than doing hardcoding.

Erik Brokaw, architect, BlueCross BlueShield o Kansas Cit y

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Getting to workthen doing the workfastBusiness today is not just about what you do, its about how ast you do it. The same can be true

or your use o technology. You need to deploy critical solutions aster. And use them to work aster.

Otherwise you may have difculty addressing the accelerating and unrelenting change and competi-

tion your organization aces every day.

The IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 device can help you achieve the rapid

implementation and enhanced productivity you need. Its a purpose-built hardware ESB implementedin hardware, designed to deliver simplifed deployment and hardened security eatures in a drop-in,

confgurable solution.

Heres an innovative approach to leveraging your existing application, security and networking

investments while harnessing the power o a messaging-based SOA running WebSphere MQ sot-

ware. Simply plug the appliance into your network integration is quick and easy. The appliance

then integrates applications and services at wire speed. Even Web services and XML messages,

which traditionally have a heavy impact on application server perormance, are accelerated throughthe environment by the appliance. It can help speed the rest o your environment, toowith CPU-

intensive workloads perormed by the appliance, your servers and applications are reed or other

tasks, and greater speed.

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ESBs in the real worldView a video that shows how Sprint used the WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50

device to provide security-rich, high-perormance services to users outside the enterprise.

Get proofBecome amiliar with the use and value o the WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance.



The consumability o appliance technology, like IBMs WebSphere DataPower technology,

is vital to enabling the necessary unifcation by increasing the speed and efciency o how

IT delivers value to the business.

Dick LeFave, CIO, Sprint

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One ESB or manyeverything works togetherMany organizations have or need more than one ESB. In many cases, they add them gradually

as their SOA grows. Oten dierent projects may need the key unctionality delivered with dierent

types o ESB the oundation o WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, the universality o WebSphere

Message Broker, the speed and simplicity o WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances. Now how do

you get them to work more closely together to enhance the business?

IBM provides the components or governance, service management and security eatures you needto take that next step to creating a ederated model or eectively managing messages and service

ows across your multiple ESBs and SOA domains.

IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository software provides an integrated service

repository to govern services and manage the service lie cycle across multiple ESBs.

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager software propagates identity across services and eder-

ates across domains to reduce business risk by controlling changes in security inormation.

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA software delivers a comprehensive man-agement solution designed to ensure that key business applications are eectively governed

and are meeting agreed-upon service levels.

Now each part o the organization can choose the ESB it requiresand build an SOA at its own

pacewhile working with other ederated ESBs to build comprehensive and eective connectivity

to share and use inormation across the enterprise.

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Get proofOver a two-day event, receive the inormation you need to develop an SOA strategy that includes

ederated ESBs.



The ESB provides a exible inrastructure or investment banking. Our businessis changing very ast, and the ESB enables us to support upcoming businessopportunities immediately by connecting new marketplaces and new dealingsystems to our existing system landscape. The ESB accelerates the adoptiono new business processes and the launch o new products and services.

Head o business development, European bank

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For more informationFor more inormation about enterprise service bus solutions rom IBM, contact your IBM sales

representative or your IBM Business Partner, or visit:

ibm.com/software/websphere/products/appintegration/esb

1 Gartner, Predicts 2008: The Platform and Integration Middleware Market Is Changing and Growing, January 7, 2008.

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