IBM® Integration Bus Advanced formerly known as WebSphere® Message Broker is an enterprise service bus (ESB) providing connectivity and universal data transformation for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and non-SOA environments. Now businesses of any size can eliminate point-to-point connections and batch processing regardless of platform, protocol or data format.

Help your entire organization make smarter business decisions

• Provides connectivity and universal data transformation for both standard- and non-standards-based applications.
• Allows you to capture information for immediate analysis as it flows through your business.
• Allows you to define rules and apply them to the data or events flowing through WebSphere Message Broker.
• Enables you to send information to other applications to compare near real-time data to key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Allows you to securely store data for offline analysis or audit logging without requiring changes to business applications.

Connect throughout an array of heterogeneous applications

• Dynamically routes and transforms data, allowing interoperability of heterogeneous systems. • Dynamically mediates interactions between services and applications, allowing you to onboard new services or applications. • Provides integrated nodes and developer aids for connecting to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct®. • Allows you to connect virtually any application or service over multiple protocols including SOAP, HTTP, Java Message Service (JMS) and more. • Allows security-rich data storage for offline analysis or audit logging without requiring changes to business applications.

Provide extensive support for Microsoft .NET environments

• Allows you to integrate new or existing Microsoft .NET applications directly within WebSphere Message Broker flows. • Provides direct support for many of the languages supported by Microsoft Common Language Runtime (CLR). • Provides a tightly integrated development tooling experience with Microsoft Visual Studio. • Connects Microsoft .NET applications to make the most of the scalability and availability provided by WebSphere Message Broker.

Deliver a standardized, simplified and flexible integration foundation

• Scales to meet your business needs for small or large systems. • Does not require a database. Tooling and runtime can be installed in minutes. • Includes patterns for common transformations that can help minimize errors and reduce implementation time. • Provides enhanced auditing and diagnostics using a browser. • Offers a Data Format Description Language (DFDL)-based parser for use in WebSphere Message Broker or other platforms.

Support reliable communication

• Can support delivery of SOAP messages without duplication, and when connections or endpoints are temporarily unavailable. • Allows WS-RM to be configured on a WebSphere Message Broker flow. • Allows customization of WS-RM behavior using an enhanced policy setter.