The ability to assure that messages between applications reach their destinations is still a complex challenge for even the most seasoned IT professionals. Add to this environment emerging initiatives such as service oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise data management, and Web 2.0, and it’s clear that pressure is growing on organizations in all industry categories to be able to support integration across platforms and applications in a cost-effective standardized way.

To help organizations meet such challenges, IBM offers the WebSphere MQ family of products, central to which is WebSphere MQ itself. WebSphere MQ serves as an enterprise messaging backbone, enabling messages – from both service-oriented and traditional applications – to be sent between applications, independent of vendor, platform, state, or version.