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IBM Active Middleware Technology™ in WebSphere Message Broker

IBM WebSphere Message Broker includes CEP detector nodes, which are used to detect complex situations. The situations that the nodes detect are configurable and are defined by applying a combination of logical, arithmetical, and temporal operators on messages and message attributes.

Incorporating a CEP detector nodes into IBM WebSphere Message Broker message flow harnesses the power of active behavior for the messaging application. The ability to issue reports on complex situations and to route messages according to detected situations, provides a powerful extension to messaging applications.

The capabilities of IBM's CEP detector nodes provide the added power needed to develop advanced solutions for the financial market, banking, and insurance sectors.

More on CEP detector nodes is available at:

The WebSphere Message Broker CEP detector nodes were announced as a product extension (Category 3 SupportPac) in June 2004. Ever since, the nodes have been included in multiple IBM offerings, RFP responses, and demos for customers. In fact, there are cases in which customers were interested in the Message Broker after learning of the functionality provided by the CEP nodes.

WBI Server Express

IBM Active Middleware Technology™ contributes to the improved business flexibility for managing business rules and events for WBI Server Express (SE).

IBM recently announced enhanced versions of its WebSphere Business Integration software to address the needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). WebSphere Business Integration Server Express 4.4 offers improved business flexibility using wizard-driven business rules, acceleration of business processes, simplified web-based remote deployment, configuration, and administration, and tools to create adapters for home grown and business applications. The business rules engine is based on the IBM Active Middleware Technology™ rule engine asset.

The integrated IBM Active Middleware Technology™ technology enables the use of wizards that guide the user in creating and modifying business rules. With these wizards, the user is able not only to monitor the business processes, but to add logic to the business process, based on the activity and data acquired by the business process itself.

IBM considers the SMB market to be one of the largest and fastest growing opportunities in the IT industry, in line with International Data Corporation projections that SMBs will spend $360 billion on IT in 2005. For more details, see:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/wbiserverexpress/enhancements.html

Syncron, IBM Business Partner

Syncron provides solutions for the manufacturing industry to address issues such as distributed order management, supply chain visibility, and distributed procurement management for large global companies with complex demand and/or supply chains.The Syncron solution includes a business rules engine and an operative data store that allows for complex process execution.

IBM Active Middleware Technology™ role in the system: IBM Active Middleware Technology™ complements and improves Syncron's capability to capture, detect, and notify the user of business situations, for situations that are composed of multiple events, have temporal conditions, or occur in 'no-event' situations. For example:

  • Three non-acks occurred during a working day
  • No ack is received within a given timeout
      "To summarize, the technical evaluation has gone very well. The proof of concept, which is based on a true customer situation, worked without any problem. We were basically able to do in a few hours something that took 80-100 hours when hardcoding the solution into Sync. The several new situations that we introduced during the workshop to test our ability to work with IBM Active Middleware Technology™ worked equally well.

      We are, therefore, very satisfied with the way that we are able to integrate IBM Active Middleware Technology™ with Sync Solutions, especially after development of the generic Sync adapter. We have also seen that IBM Active Middleware Technology™ is easy to use and are convinced that it meets our strategy of delivering out-of-the-box solutions to our customers without any or very little programming requirements. Therefore, with a little more training, and a more full scale test, we would feel comfortable to use it in a client situation integrated with Sync Solutions.

      Consequently, we feel very strongly that the combined offering will provide a very competitive Event Driven Architecture (EDA) including complex event processing."

    Leif Ottosson, Co-Founder and Deputy CEO, Syncron.

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