IBM WebSphere MQ – Integrated Messaging to Connect your Enterprises

In order to improve today’s futuristic IT environments, there must first be an understanding of the issues which are becoming more difficult as systems connect and grow.

Every business already has dozens, if not hundreds or even thousands of applications. These applications are deployed on many different IT environments—whether predominantly deployed in a data center, or scattered through many branch offices, warehouses or throughout multiple countries. Some of these systems will be connected together. Others will run in isolation or will be connected to some subset of other applications.

Business leaders are likely to be evaluating not just how to connect new applications to address new business opportunities, but also whether the connections between existing applications and systems are meeting today’s challenges and are ready for tomorrow’s.

IBM WebSphere MQ is a messaging-based middleware, enabling integration between applications, systems, and services. The principle behind it is that instead of connecting and directly exchanging information with each other applications send information over an indirect middleware layer. This layer packages the information that is to be exchanged as a message and moves the message through a queuing system to the receiving application.