Business integration solutions
White paper
Connecting business-critical
applications across and beyond
your enterprise.
April 2004
Connecting business-critical applications across and beyond your enterprise.
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Introduction
IBM WebSphere® Business Integration Connect, a key product in the
WebSphere Business Integration portfolio of products from IBM, provides
an environment that allows businesses to connect to each other so they can
exchange data and share processes in a highly secure and auditable manner.
Built on IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Business Integration
Connect software integrates with IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server
and IBM WebSphere Portal Server, helping you connect processes, people,
applications and systems end-to-end across your enterprise.
IBM’s business integration portfolio gives you the breadth of function you
need to efficiently tackle virtually any integration challenge. The robust,
reliable products that make up the WebSphere Business Integration portfolio
deliver six key capabilities, shown in Figure 1, that can help you accelerate
your company’s transformation into an on demand business.
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Introduction
3 Connecting enterprises to increase
efficiency and business value
5 B2B diversity: supporting trading
partners and customers using
multiple standards
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Improve your interactions with
trading partners and customers
9 Deployment versatility to meet your
unique business requirements
11 Technology that lets you manage
your business processes
through a single point of access
16 Technology and architecture over-
view: WebSphere Business
Integration Connect Enterprise
Edition and WebSphere Business
Integration Connect Advanced
Edition
19 Technology and architecture
overview: WebSphere Business
Integration Connect - Express
21 Designed to address the integration
needs across a range of industries
28 Take advantage of leading-edge
community integration services
29 Summary
29 For more information
Contents
Figure 1. The six integration capab