WebSphere Guide
November, 2006 - IBM WebSphere® Voice Server is widely used by business to improve customer service. The technology applies natural language understanding capabilities to telephony or online services. Consider the following applications of the WebSphere® Voice technology: - create your telephone dialog; - directory-inquiry service that will offer options where to order a pizza and will make an order for you; - serve online transactions; - speech self-service; - enable your sites for people with visual disabilities; - routing solutions for call-centers. The list represents real solutions from IBM partners. It seams like new era of voice speaking machines comes with WebSphere® Voice technology.
October 27, 2006 - IBM Announces "Dot2Dot" Technology. It seems that IBM decided to replace its human analysts with computer tools. They made use of its long term experience in converting end customer’s idea into technical specifications to create a technology pretentiously announced as a translator from business to technical language. It is widely known that miscommunication between business and IT people is huge. The new technology developed in Silicon Valley should automate the information exchange within a decision chain and translate it between tools used by different collaborators. It looks like the specification would be easily converted to the programming code. There too little information of how this works and how it is integrated with WebSphere family. This sounds both amazing and unreal for outsourced providers who deal every day with unstructured and indefinite client requirements.
September 20, 2006 - IBM releases Workplace Web Content Management 6.0 This advanced content management tool is targeted at WebSphere Portal users to help them update the content on the portal within a minute. The new version is enhanced by new personalization and management tools, in-context editing directly on the portal and sophisticated security options.
June 15, 2006 – IBM announces a new PHP Integration Kit for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition. Now PHP application can be developed in service oriented architecture and have more capabilities in building dynamic functions and application front-end. The developers can continue to use PHP to build web applications easily and with less expense, and expose their applications to Web Services technology.
October 25, 2005 – IBM announces a free of charge WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 1.1. This is an open source J2EE applications server created for small and medium business that cannot afford full-fledged WebSphere solution and are looking for open-source solution from the trusted IT vendor. The server provides means of seamless migration to feature-rich WebSphere products and integration with middleware tools there is no doubt that this product should help IBM grow a number of WebSphere customers. Although the product uses WebSphere brand name, it’s a different product. The server is built on open-sourceApache Geronimo technology and uses Eclipse. It pre-integrates with Apache Tomcat and several of the most commonly used open source components, such as Web services, security, authentication, messaging and Web-tier clustering and IBM Cloudscape™ database. It is aimed at reducing the complexity of J2EE and built for customers who maintain simple web site and do not require advanced workload, failover or transaction management. Free of charge support is only available for 30 days and covers email-based replies in English, but various advanced support options are available too.
October 12, 2005 – IBM WebSphere Portal is ranked industry number one by IDC. IBM WebSphere Portal surpassed its nearest competitor in software license and maintenance revenue by 10%. IDC associates this success with IBM’s ability to sell Portal solution as an integral part of IBM Workplace in conjunction with other collaborative solutions.
September, 13 2005 – IBM announces quite and extensive offer of new software to deploy Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and allow the application better interoperate. The new portfolio is designed for business process management and includes the following tools:
IBM also reports better interoperability between its WebSphere, Rational and Tivoli software.
August 24, 2005 - IBM releases Workplace Designer 2.5 that helps developers to build composite applications for IBM Workplace Collaboration Services™ or IBM Workplace Services Express™. The developers can build reusable components based on SOA in minutes using this visual development environment. IBM also includes sample components for blogging, project management, contact management and forum. Workplace Designer supports Javascript, XML, HTML. The composite applications built within this IDE can be easily accessed by browsers, rich clients and even mobile devices.
August 18, 2005 – IBM releases version 8.0. of WebSphere DataStage . Designed to simplify data transformation between the applications regardless of the way the information is processed by each application, the new released version allows on-demand integration of business processes. WebSphere DataStage TX can be installed on top of WebSphere Message Broker - an enterprise service boos - and now provides even better usability.
August 11, 2005 - IBM announces an availability of WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.0. The software combines capabilities of autonomic and grid computing to effectively manage computer workload. The valuable feature is that you can prioritize data flows from business prospective to increase performance of critical functionality. WebSphere Extended Deployment produces grid-like software infrastructure with autonomic management facilities. The software enables heterogeneous business environments to efficiently support mixed workloads: batch, compute-intensive, and OLTP, as well as mixed application server types: WebSphere and non-WebSphere software.
July 27, 2005 – IBM was ranked industry number one in Application Deployment software with 37% market share. Among the IBM software products included in the application deployment software marketplace are WebSphere Application Server and related adapters, WebSphere integration software, WebSphere MQ message oriented middleware, CICS transaction server middleware, and related IBM software products.
June 23, 2005 – IBM announces Rational Data Architect and WebSphere Information Analyzer designed to help organizations access the critical information on demand without a need to look for it through the various application. The product enables development of structured information infrastructure with great search and text analytics capabilities. The software architects can now discover and map data throughout the information sources in the enterprise or within a separate system and model application integration on the data level.
April 21, 2005 – IBM announces new versions of its WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) Server Express software intended specificatlly for small and medium business.
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