IBM outlines three agile levers

Recently, IBM held a media conference on new products in Beijing to launch new product launches and technology upgrades for key areas such as cloud computing, SOA, and BPM. The new concept of agile leverage (agility levers) and next SOA, the IBM Group's vice president for WebSphere Development and portfolio management, has highlighted the continuing commitment and innovation of IBM WebSphere, To help customers achieve innovation, transformation and growth.

Three agile levers

According to the Global CEO survey conducted by IBM, the CEOs of many companies need to be very efficient and rapid in their transformation to meet the needs of complex markets in response to changing market demands and responding quickly. To help customers gain an edge in a changing era, IBM proposes the concept of agile leverage, which helps customers make business decisions better from the three aspects of decision, process, and technology. "Agile leverage refers to the consolidation of a range of competencies through which customers can easily change through it deployments to meet fast and efficient requirements in the business environment," says Beth Smith. The goal of agile leverage is to enable customers to derive greater value from their current IT investments and from service orientation. The

Agile leverage is divided into three parts, decisions, processes, and technologies. In business decision making, IBM has introduced new tools WebSphere Operational Decision mangement by enhancing business rules and business practices to help enterprises improve their business decision making capabilities. V7.5, the tool for short WODM, can accelerate agility for enterprises, respond to market demand, simple visualization, business decision management automation and ensure that the business system is the correctness of the transfer. Through the agile lever of decision making, the analysis tools and business rules are used to improve the enterprise's operational decision-making ability and to better cope with the change of market demand. In terms of business processes,

Business process management is based on SOA, leveraging agile leverage to help customers make business decisions faster, streamline processes, and better respond to challenges and changes in the business. IBM Business Process Manager V7.5 for z/OS is a new release of the mainframe operating system that integrates Zenterprise,cis, IMS, and DB2 to provide good content processing capabilities.

In terms of technology, customers face the Kendo challenge, Beth Smith told reporters, "the various development programs in the enterprise are developed based on different technologies, and the components are independent and decentralized when they are developed." Customers to create new services, efficient and fast implementationDevelopment, this requires the development of a multi-platform capability. With the agile lever, the application delivery can be implemented quickly, and the developer does not develop the service component in isolated way on the island. "IBM integrates exclude Option, rational, and other software into the WebSphere Creator server, providing customers with a large set of toolset to help them achieve rapid and efficient development." In a private cloud environment, developers can define configuration and application loads through IBM workload Deployer v3.1, which can be deployed and maintained at high speed and ease. In development deployments, agile leverage helps customers share information across multiple domains in the same infrastructure.

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Today's SOA architecture is more and more valued and accepted by enterprises, and SOA is widely deployed worldwide, but customers have higher hopes for SOA, and they want to link SOA to business needs more closely. Help organizations achieve more agile deployments, enabling the enterprise's IT infrastructure to be more flexible.

in an environment where SOA is steadily falling and cloud computing is highly regarded, business agility requires companies to adapt to external and internal changes and improve the system capabilities to create new businesses or change old business processes. Excellent it architecture, should be able to support the establishment of system capabilities and enhance information integration, decision support, Process reengineering, each of these is a big challenge to it technology.

Beth T. Smith presents the concept of next SOA, "next SOA is the integration of effective IT tools and services, and continues to be replicated." IT services are SOA-oriented, and customers need to leverage it tools and capabilities to cope with more and faster changes, based on existing assets and services. But on the basis of IT services to add business services, for example, such as the future of business processes, that is, the service added to the business process capability to achieve a higher level.

IBM promotes the availability of service processes through SOA, combines business requirements with it functionality, monitors all it technologies in a holistic way, and establishes a unified alarm and practice management platform for its usability, performance monitoring, And from the business point of view to an enterprise core business support platform, key business processes to monitor. WebSphere is committed to helping optimize the enterprise's IT architecture with the perfect technology integration and leading applications, providing it with integrated, scalable systems for superior performance, helping enterprises to enhance agility, build efficient business process management, and implement service delivery transformation in a cloud computing model, Create a new business model.