WebSphere Business Integration: An architectural overview
K. Bhaskaran, Michael T. Schmidt · IBM Systems Journal · 2004
Business integration is a set of capabilities that characterize service-oriented architectures for e-business solutions. These capabilities include the ability to integrate and manage business operation systems, enterprise information assets, business partners, and a collaborative network of decision makers to address specific business problems. WebSphere® Business Integration is an IBM software platform that embodies these capabilities to offer rapid time to value for delivering integrated e-business solutions. In this paper, we provide an overview of the WebSphere Business Integration platform—the architecture, programming model, tools, and runtime.