WebSphere Remote Server

• Provide enhancements to the functionality delivered with the former WebSphere Remote Server Starter Edition, with a new name tailored for the retail industry.
• Include the latest versions of IBM WebSphere Application Server (V7), WebSphere MQ (V7), and depending on the bundle selected, either IBM DB2 Workgroup Server Edition (V9.5) or Informix Dynamic Server (V11.5).
• Include a new product, WebSphere sMash, enabling customers and IBM Business Partners to quickly and simply build agile Web-based applications as well as providing lightweight messaging for store applications.
• Provide enhanced tools and documentation for installation and management procedures.
  -Include in every bundle the functionality of systems management accelerators that optimize and automate the installation and configuration of the retail store servers.
• IBM WebSphere® Remote Server V6.2 is a leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform for remotely managed distributed environments designed specifically to integrate and provide support for store-level devices and applications - past, present, and future. As the core component for Retail Integration Framework, WebSphere Remote Server provides the foundation for innovation in store environments where customer-facing and self-service technologies are in high demand as a way of delivering a differentiated experience for the consumer. WebSphere Remote Server provides a platform to build, assemble, deploy, and manage these next generation solutions supporting industry standards, as well as protecting existing solutions, delivering a true plug-and-play platform leveraging J2EE middleware technologies.
• V6.2 of WebSphere Remote Server provides product release updates, simplified packaging, and enhanced installation and management.
• IBM WebSphere Remote Server:
• Provides a platform to build, assemble, deploy and manage these next generation solutions supporting the latest industry standards, as well as protecting existing solutions, delivering a true plug and play platform leveraging the latest J2EE middleware technologies available.
  Provides a robust middleware platform with a J2EE application server, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, integrated with the following:
  - WebSphere MQ for an assured message delivery component
  - DB2 Workgroup Server Edition as a relational database management system
  - WebSphere System Management Accelerators Tivoli Systems management and monitoring (in the standard and advanced editions).
• Serves today's distributed infrastructure needs and positions you for future implementations, such as the rollout of RFID technology and mobile shopping devices.
• Offers capabilities with systems management accelerators to help remote installation and management of the distributed infrastructure.
• Provides centrally located communication with the remote environments through WebSphere Central Site Server, which combines strategic middleware from WebSphere, DB2, and Tivoli with systems management accelerators.

WebSphere® Remote Server’s IBM Retail Store Server Editions deliver a fully integrated platform to help manage remote environments. This infrastructure offering extends the IBM Enterprise Business Integration technology to distributed locations, enabling integration from the enterprise to the edge of your business.

WebSphere Remote Server and its IBM Retail Store Server Editions, are a core component of the IBM Retail Industry Framework. The IBM Retail Store Servers Editions are a pre-integrated, pre-tested package of IBM software products designed specifically to support the store of the future.

WebSphere Remote Server Editions integrates diverse systems in the distributed environment, such as existing IBM Point-of-Sale (POS) applications and new POS solutions provided by IBM Business Partners, with the infrastructure to quickly deploy and manage new solutions built around the IBM Retail Store Server Editions. It links each remote node and the enterprise to help customers determine whether they have the right goods and services, in the right location, at the right price, and with the level of service and the unique shopping experience that consumers demand. Also available is the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Provisioning Add On for IBM Retail Store Server which provides remote functionality to manage and maintain the store infrastructure. For complex store environments, two store enterprise service buses are available: IBM WebSphere Message Broker Retail Store Edition and IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Retail Store Edition.

Key benefits

IBM Retail Store Server Editions provides a standards-based platform for running distributed operations, designed to be implemented across hundreds of locations while managing the remote IT aspects centrally. By leveraging the robust, scalable, and secure middleware already used across enterprise implementations, this middleware can be used immediately by clients. It allows for future growth via new technologies that are radically changing the consumer service experience. The time to develop and deploy solutions can be reduced. By working with leading clients and software Business Partners, this offering is designed to integrate customer and employee touchpoints as well as enterprise processes and data warehouses.

- Using IBM Retail Store Server Editions, IBM Business Partners can leverage a standards-based platform for building, deploying, and managing partner solutions. This helps in meeting customer requirements faster and meeting J2EE and industry-specific standards. They can easily roll out applications to hundreds, or even thousands of distributed locations.

- WebSphere Central Site Server provides a single convenient package of middleware components at the same level as provided by IBM Retail Store Server Editions for use at the enterprise with no processor or memory restrictions.

The IBM Retail Store Server Editions and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Provisioning for IBM Retail Store Server streamline remote operations to cost effectively integrate existing and new technologies such as:

Manages distributed environment middleware

- Step-by-step approach to distributed environment efficiently transforming operations to efficiently transform stores

- Platform for distributed environment innovation to differentiate your customers' shopping experience

- Robust, standards-based platform for future expansion to help you more effectively compete in your market

These are the minimum system requirements for IBM WebSphere Remote Server Editions.
Note: Hardware requirements will vary based on applications and extensions added.

Supporting software for WRS 7.1.2

IBM WebSphere Remote Server V7.1 (All IBM Retail Store Server Editions)

These system requirements relate to the bundled products installed with the IBM Retail Store Server Systems Accelerators, for individual product hardware and software platforms, please refer to this technote.

IBM WebSphere Message Broker Retail Store Edition V7
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IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Retail Store Edition V7
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IBM WebSphere Central Site Server V7.1

WebSphere Central Site Server
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IBM WebSphere Remote Server V7 (All IBM Retail Store Server Editions)

These system requirements relate to the bundled products installed with the IBM Retail Store Server Systems Accelerators, for individual product hardware and software platforms, please refer to this technote.

IBM WebSphere Remote Server 6.2

These system requirements relate to the bundled products installed with the IBM Retail Store Server Systems Accelerators, for individual product hardware and software platforms, please refer to this technote.

IBM WebSphere Message Broker Retail Store Edition V6.2
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IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Retail Store Edition V6.2
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IBM WebSphere Central Site Server V6.2