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• Improves customer service and reduces overall costs
• Opens up the information in IT systems to suppliers and customers
• Helps leverage the value chain to improve quality and accelerate responsiveness to
change
• Relieves the burden of modifying applications every time they are integrated, that is,
connected in new ways
• Transforms and routes data outside the application, without the need for valuable
programming and communications skills
Messages pass through a central connection point, the hub, that acts as the core for holding
enterprise intelligence. It is designed to handle any volume of traffic, no matter how heavy or
complex. The hub maintains two types of knowledge:
• Knowledge of the applications to enable transformation of message formats. If
packaged applications are involved, application templates enable a quick start to
integrating those applications with the rest of the enterprise.
• Knowledge of business rules and information requirements to enable intelligent routing
of information to where it is needed. Rules, whether complex or simple, can be defined
to tailor information flow.
Transformation
The knowledge of each application is stored just once in the hub and, while intelligent routing
(see below) decides where each message is to go. It is translated into the appropriate format.
Supplied with the information definition of each application, the transformation engine
supplies data in the right format to any receiving application, without the sending application
being modified.
Intelligent Routing
Intelligent routing encapsulates business knowledge of how information should be distributed
between message-sending and receiving applications throughout the enterprise. This
knowledge is stored in the hub as a set of rules that are applied to each message that passes
through the hub. Messages are distributed according to criteria applied to the values of fields
within the message.
Supported Platforms
MQSeries Integrator supports message exchange with other users of the MQSeries on over
35 IBM and non-IBM platforms. A complete list of supported platforms can be found on the
Web at:
http://www.software.ibm.com/ts/mqseries/platforms/#integrator
Additional information on MQSeries is available on the Web at:
http://www.software.ibm.com/ts/mqseries
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