The IBM® WebSphere® Business
Services Fabric software is a platform for modeling, assembling, deploying,
managing, and governing business services. They include optional industry
content packs containing prebuilt service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets
that accelerate the development of industry-specific service-oriented applications.
The WebSphere Business Services Fabric application suite enables personalized
business service to adapt and deliver through multiple communication channels
such as, Web, business-to-business, and interactive voice response. It also
helps automate the provisioning of service subscriptions and entitlements
to role-based service consumers.
Key features
The WebSphere business
services are industry content packs that consist of prebuilt industry assets
that include industry-common services and industry SOA models. The WebSphere
business services :
- Extend and enhance IBM SOA foundation products including the WebSphere
Process Server, WebSphere Integration Developer, and the WebSphere
Service Registry and Repository.
- Use, reuse, and meter tools that interoperate with external monitoring
systems.
- Govern across the product lifecycle, including creation of versions and
migration across environments.
The WebSphere business services are also:
- Highly scalable dynamic assemblers that enable business service adaptation
and delivery based on content, context, and contract.
- End-to-end platform to source, assemble, deliver, and manage business
services for SOA applications.
- Extension and enhancement for IBM SOA foundation products including WebSphere
Process Server, WebSphere Integration Developer, and WebSphere Service Registry
and Repository.
- Standard-based business metadata repository, to store and manage business
services, policies, and business service entitlements.
- Eclipse-based and Web-based tools to enable collaborative assembly and
management of business services for SOA applications.
- Visual assembly environment for creating and managing industry-specific
business service metadata models and policies.