Business Integration & Optimization

Application Integration & Connectivity

Application Integration and Connectivity middleware reduces the complexity of connecting applications to applications. It sits between applications and allows them to make requests to the middleware (instead of directly to other applications) by passing messages that are acted on by the middleware. The term 'Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)' is used to describe this middleware function, particularly for Service Oriented Architectures. Examples: WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere ESB.

Business Rules & Optimization

The business rule management and optimization category is a collection of ILOG technologies that together with IBM usher in a new type of intelligence driving smarter decision making and the ability to quickly translate insight into action, whether its discovering the right way to exceed customer expectations or finding the right balance between reducing costs and limiting carbon footprint. This is addressed through business rule management, optimization and visualization technologies as well as supply chain management applications and services. Examples: WebSphere ILOG JRules, WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server, WebSphere ILOG Decision Validation Services, WebSphere ILOG Rule Solutions for Office, ILOG ODM Enterprise Developer Edition.