Our Understanding of Your Goals

We understand the challenges you face in aligning IT investments with you strategic business goals. Market dynamics are driving the need for business flexibility. Across every industry, the business environment is becoming more complex, fast-paced, and unpredictable. Market forces and new technology, including developing world markets, new integration technologies, and new business models, are having a greater impact on businesses. Business success and even survival depends on access to real-time information and your ability to respond up and down the value chain to changing conditions.

Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals

As part of its continuing effort to enable businesses to meet the increasing demand for flexible solutions, IBM has recently introduced WebSphere Application Server V6.1. This new version is built for better delivery of the secure, scalable, and resilient application infrastructure needed for Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). More specifically, V6.1 brings new functionality that:

• Significantly improves the efficiency of development and deployment
• Enhances the level of security and eases the task of implementing security mechanisms
• Provides greater performance due to new J2SE V5.0 support and improvements to the Web services engine and messaging infrastructure
• Improves service reusability and accessibility through new communication services
• Reduces the resources and costs associated with management and maintenance tasks through enhanced application management functionality
  

With this latest announcement, IBM further bolsters its already strong position as a vendor who is able to deliver a platform and infrastructure that helps its customers fully exploit the business flexibility of SOAs.

Solution Overview

As the foundation of the IBM WebSphere software platform, WebSphere Application Server V6.1:

• Delivers the secure, scalable, resilient application infrastructure you need for an SOA

• Leverages the industry's premier Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) V1.4 and Web services application platform to help build, run, integrate, and manage dynamic, on demand business applications

• Builds and deploys reusable application services quickly and easily, with a simple set of tools and interfaces

• Runs services in a reliable, scalable, highly available, environment to ensure business opportunities are not lost due to application downtime

• Secures applications and data with a resilient, standards-based security infrastructure that will remove vulnerable threats while maximizing developer productivity
  

Why IBM?

Success with SOA starts with a flexible, robust infrastructure; WebSphere Application Server used in conjunction with your existing infrastructure; and IT assets to create more business value. You also need industry-specific knowledge and best practices to implement your SOA — as well as, an IT partner who can provide leading-edge skills, assistance, and best practices in SOA.
IBM is uniquely positioned to deliver these important assets to you because we understand service orientation and your business. We are ready to help you:

• Strike the right balance with education, workshops, software, and services that simplify getting started with WebSphere Application Server and speed implementation

• Attain unparalleled support for open standards through our extensive "patent commons'" for development and innovation

• Access a thriving ecosystem of Business Partners (ISVs, SIs, Resellers)

• Gain governance and thought leadership via our participation in 120 collaborative projects that contributed to the open source community