TxMQ completes WebSphere MQ Environment Review

TxMQ has an awesome HealthCheck service. We look at it as an inspection of sorts. Just as you would take your car in for an inspection yearly, whether you’re hearing a clunking sound or not, we believe you should do the same thing with your systems and environment in your IT department.
Likely, your IT infrastructure is the backbone of your company. All important business functions tie back to your IT department and configuration. If it shuts down, how much money will your company lose per minute? How about per second? Have you ever evaluated that?
So, like getting your brakes checked on your car before they fail and you get into an accident, we think it’s a great idea to get your systems checked before they fail.
Recently, a large regional bank commissioned TxMQ consultants to come in and do just that. They requested from us an IBM® “WebSphere® MQ report card” of sorts of how their MQ applications were running compared to other organization of like size and functionality.
TxMQ has a great subject matter expert with extensive IBM® MQ experience who was able to go onsite at the bank and work interactively with members of the department to dig into their daily activities and diagnose weaknesses and strengths. This is the second such HealthCheck that TxMQ has completed for this bank, the prior being a CICS HealthCheck.
To see the results of the HealthCheck, please click here. If you’re interested in proactively heading off potential issues within your IT infrastructure, please contact Miles Roty at TxMQ today, [email protected]or call (415) 535-3960.
In most cases, a thorough HealthCheck is a 1-2 week engagement and will not interfere with your daily tasks. Each system HealthCheck is completely customizable based on your environment and we have a team of experts who can complete the task no matter how heterogeneous the applications are that your company is running.

Operating Environments for IBM Integration Bus V9

Before planning your implementation of IBM Integration Bus V9, formerly known as WebSphere Message Broker, take a look at the operating environment requirements. If you need help updating your operating system or assessing your environment pre-implementation, contact Miles Roty, Senior Account Manager at TxMQ ([email protected]) to assist you.

Specified operating environment

Hardware requirements – IBM Integration Bus V9.0

IBM AIX
64-bit IBM Power® systems only, capable of running the required level of a compatible operating system with enough storage to meet the requirements of IBM Integration Bus.
Any hardware capable of running other trademarked AIX systems from IBM or other vendors that have passed a set of certification tests for compliance with the IBM AIX application binary and programming interfaces.
HP-UX on Itanium™
Itanium systems: Any hardware that is explicitly compatible and fully capable of running the specified operating system, all the corresponding supporting software shown below, and any associated applications unmodified.
Linux on IBM Power
64-bit IBM Power processor-based systems only, capable of running the required level of a compatible operating system with enough storage to meet the requirements of IBM Integration Bus.
Linux on x86
x86 technology-compatible PC hardware, capable of running the required level of a compatible operating system with enough storage to meet the requirements of IBM Integration Bus.
Linux on x86-64
AMD64 and EM64T technology-compatible PC hardware, capable of running the required level of a compatible operating system with enough storage to meet the requirements of IBM Integration Bus.
Linux on System z®
Any server capable of running one of the Linux for System z releases listed in the software requirements topic below.
Solaris x86-64
AMD64, EM64T, and compatible processors: Any hardware that is explicitly compatible and fully capable of running the specified operating system, all the corresponding supporting software shown below, and any associated applications unmodified.
Solaris SPARC
Sun Microsystems SPARC processor machines.
Microsoft Windows™
Windows x86 technology-compatible PC hardware, capable of running the required level of a compatible operating system with enough storage to meet the requirements of IBM Integration Bus.
IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition for IBM AIX , V9.0

  • Any hardware that is explicitly compatible and fully capable of running PowerVM® , IBM AIX , IBM Integration Bus V9.0, and all corresponding supporting software
  • IBM Workload Deployer, with minimum firmware level V3.1

IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86, V9.0

  • Any hardware that is explicitly compatible and fully capable of running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, IBM Integration Bus V9.0, and all corresponding supporting software
  • IBM Workload Deployer, with minimum firmware level V3.1

Software requirements IBM Integration Bus V9.0

IBM AIX

  • IBM AIX 6.1 (Technology Level 5)
  • IBM AIX 7.1
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

HP-UX on Itanium

  • HP-UX 11i V3 (plus PHCO_38048, PHSS 42980, and PHSS 41496) for Itanium
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

Linux on IBM Power

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS V5.5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS V6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

Linux on x86

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS V5.5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS V6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

Linux on x86-64

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS V5.5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS V6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

Linux on System z

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS V5.5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS V6
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

Solaris on SPARC

  • Solaris 10
  • Solaris 11
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

Solaris on x86-64

  • Solaris 10
  • Solaris 11
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

Microsoft Windows x86

  • Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise (32bit and 64bit) Edition
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise Edition
  • Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate (32bit and 64bit) Edition
  • Windows 8 Basic, Professional and Enterprise Editions
  • Windows 2012, Standard Edition
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

Microsoft Windows x86-64

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise Edition
  • Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate Edition
  • Windows 8 Basic, Professional and Enterprise Editions
  • Windows 2012, Standard Edition
  • WebSphere MQ V7.5

IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition for IBM AIX , V9.0
PowerVM must be installed on the system targeted for deployment of IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition V9.0 for IBM AIX .
The IBM AIX V6.1 operating system is included in IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition IBM AIX , V9.0. However, clients must purchase the license for IBM AIX separately as part of their Power System hardware and PowerVM setup. All other required software is provided with IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition for IBM AIX , V9.0.
IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86, V9.0
VMware ESX must be installed on the system targeted for deployment of IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition for Red Hat Enterprise Linux . All other required software is provided with IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition V9.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux .

IBM WAS 6.1 End of Support

Are you still running IBM WebSphere® Application Server V6.1? It’s end of support date through IBM is September 30, 2013. That’s just a couple of months away, so it’s time to start thinking about either upgrading to a newer version or evaluating options for extended support.

WebSphere Application Server V8 Migration
 
It’s time to upgrade WAS 6.1! With the end of support quickly approaching, learn what new features WAS V8 has to offer. This webinar will provide the following information:
  • Why now is the best time to upgrade
  • Explain the upgrade process (best practices, pre-requisites, known migration issues)
  • How TxMQ can help
  • Options for staying on WAS 6.1

If you’re looking for more information on WebSphere Application Server V8, TxMQ’s subject matter experts can assist with your decision to upgrade or purchase extended support. Each environment is different and depending on your needs, we can develop a customized solution that will leave you feeling secure with your application no matter what you decide to do.
Contact Miles Roty, (415) 535-3960 or [email protected] to consult with a subject matter expert and plan an upgrade strategy today. Don’t get caught without WAS V6.1 support.
TxMQ is an IBM Premier Business Partner and we can help you either upgrade or create a support package as soon as you’d like. Contact us today!

Better Business Insight From IBM Integration Bus V9.0

The announcement of IBM® Integration Bus V9.0, previously known as IBM WebSphere® Message Broker, delivers enhancement that can be used across IT environments. Read more on the newest improvements.
Apply business insight to make near-real-time decisions to influence processing flow
Many organizations exploit business rules to improve the quality of transaction- and process-related decisions that are made repeatedly, determining the appropriate course of action for each customer, partner, and internal interaction. When business rules are combined with an integration solution, such decisions are able to influence data as it is being processed in near-real-time, helping to achieve an optimal business outcome.
IBM Integration Bus V9.0 provides built-in capabilities to invoke rules during processing in order to make intelligent routing, validation, and transformation decisions:

  • Integration developers can get started quickly and easily using simple rules created using intuitive editors within the IBM Integration Bus tooling. Existing or more powerful rules may also be imported from IBM Operational Decision Manager tooling.
  • Rules are packaged and deployed alongside the integration logic and executed in the same runtime container, minimizing the overhead associated with rule invocation.
  • Business users have visibility to rules and the ability to govern and change the business logic without requiring rework or redeployment of the integration logic.
  • IBM Decision Center may be used to manage rules running within IBM Integration Bus as part of a broader Decision Manager solution.

Existing clients transitioning to the built-in rules support from the “IAM9: WebSphere Decision Service Node” SupportPac will benefit from improvements in usability, installability, and deployment.
Rapidly create integration services to meet the needs of process designers
Business process management (BPM) enables organizations to automate, manage, measure, and continuously improve the processes that drive their business. For a given process, this involves choreographing a series of steps that may include human tasks, business rules, and integration services that trigger requests to underlying applications and systems.
IBM Integration Bus V9.0 simplifies and accelerates the creation of integration services in support of a BPM solution:

  • A prebuilt development pattern allows integration developers to rapidly build a new integration service to the exact specification supplied by a process designer. Alternatively, existing integration logic can be easily encapsulated as an integration service for reuse by BPM.
  • IBM BPM tooling allows process designers to discover an integration service implementation, select from the available operations, automatically map the input and output elements, and perform testing from within the BPM development environment.

Manage integration workload to prioritize resources and prevent outages
The scope of integration solutions is broadening to extend beyond enterprise boundaries, enabling an explosion of new endpoints (such as mobile applications, cloud applications, and sensors) to have access to enterprise applications and services. This enables a broad spectrum of new opportunities from increasing productivity and responsiveness to deeper customer engagement and loyalty. With these opportunities come the challenges of maintaining availability of business-critical systems in the face of increasing demand or spikes in activity, and effectively managing resources to reflect workload priorities.
IBM Integration Bus V9.0 provides new capabilities that allow operational awareness and control over processing traffic:

  • A policy-based approach to controlling the processing rate for integration flows. Policies are defined at design time and can be updated operationally.
  • Individual policies that define thresholds (in messages per second) along with actions to be triggered in order to maintain a desired processing rate. For example, the breaching of a threshold can be configured to trigger subsequent workload to be delayed or rejected in order to protect downstream systems.
  • The ability to send a notification to operational personnel as a threshold is breached.

Include application-to-application integration in centralized business activities
Application developers are increasingly required to connect applications they create with existing applications to deliver a new composite solution. To assist with this, they need a lightweight integration framework that allows them to quickly and easily enable applications for connectivity and configure common tasks without the need for deep integration skills.
IBM Integration Bus V9.0 and IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 deliver new capabilities and productivity aids that provide a simple way for an application developer to compose applications. Once in place, integration between applications can be instrumented, and events flowed to IBM Integration Bus for inclusion in centralized monitoring, audit, or analytics activities:

  • Simple connectivity tasks for application developers (such as service versioning) are supported by drag-and-drop graphical data mapping and pre-built developer patterns. This enables applications to connect to each other, as well as to external standard interfaces such as XML, REST, JSON, and web services.
  • Integration logic developed in the Application Server environment can emit events that can be captured by IBM Integration Bus. This data can then be flowed to business activity monitoring (BAM) solutions, stored in a system of record for audit purposes, or sent to a data warehouse for processing by business analytics engines.

Improve elasticity and response times by exploiting flexible caching capabilities
Caching is a fundamental technology that facilitates the building of scalable infrastructure to support growth in the demand for services. For an integration solution, a distributed cache provides a repository for data reuse and sharing across the network. This creates an elastic processing network able to respond to a request from any available node, and minimizes the amount of data retrieved from back-end systems.
IBM Integration Bus V9.0 includes an embedded IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale global cache, along with new options to connect securely to an external cache:

  • Out-of-the-box capabilities to use embedded cache to store state for integrations and maintain a predictable response time even as the number of clients increases.
  • Support for connecting securely over SSL to an external cache such as IBM WebSphere DataPower® XC10, enabling a single cache to be shared by multiple products.

Monitor and visualize performance statistics in real time
IBM Integration Bus V9.0 provides powerful new tools to graphically view operational performance statistics. This provides operational personnel with access to:

  • Highly configurable views of integration throughput rates in a line chart or tabular form.
  • The facility to drill down to an appropriate level of detail, scoping statistics to an execution group, a thread, or even an individual node.
  • Foundational BAM capabilities such as the ability to assign and view the business context of particular data, for example its value.

Exploit new patterns to rapidly integrate Microsoft applications
IBM Integration Bus V9.0 delivers additional productivity aids enabling Microsoft applications to be rapidly integrated as part of a heterogeneous integration solution. Prebuilt patterns for Microsoft Dynamics CRM allow transformation and synchronization of client data with another CRM application. This facilitates sharing of the state of business relationships and transactions consistently across an organization, while preserving data quality:

  • A prebuilt pattern assists with the integration of Microsoft Dynamics CRM with a SAP system. Updates to customer data from create, read, update, and delete operations via a SAP BAPI can be easily reflected in a matching Dynamics CRM Account Entity.
  • A second prebuilt pattern builds upon the first by allowing Microsoft Dynamics CRM application to be updated using a variety of other mechanisms, including WebSphere MQ messages, HTTP, or flat files.

Flexibly provision solutions across a range of physical and cloud environments
IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition offers flexible integration solution provisioning across a range of physical and cloud-based deployment options. Stable and tested configurations are available for use with IBM Workload Deployer and IBM PureApplication™ System. These offer particular benefits in deploying and managing an integration solution:

  • Workload Deployer allows the rapid deployment and simplified management of a large-scale deployment of IBM Integration Bus across your existing hardware infrastructure. Demands for newly deployed systems can be quickly satisfied, hardware utilization optimized, and maintenance costs reduced.
  • PureApplication System enables IBM Integration Bus to provide preconfigured integration capabilities as part of an optimized hardware and software private cloud platform. IBM Integration Bus provides the foundational integration capabilities with which PureApplication System patterns of expertise deliver complete software solutions.

Should your integration requirements develop or change, you have the freedom to nondisruptively transition between these options irrespective of the initial selection.
IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition can serve as a basis for the provisioning of IBM Integration Bus on public cloud environments using bring-your-own licensing.
Import and convert existing integration assets from WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
IBM Integration Bus represents IBM’s strategic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) offering and is the successor product for existing clients of both WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere ESB.
IBM Integration Bus provides tooling that facilitates the conversion of existing WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus assets so they can run on IBM Integration Bus. The tooling enables:

  • WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Project Interchange files to be imported and viewed
  • Common flow primitives to be converted automatically whilst maintaining the flow structure
  • An understanding of remaining manual tasks via a task list
  • Resulting flows to be modified and deployed

The conversion tooling is built upon an extensible framework, enabling further enhancements that reduce the number of manual tasks required.
WebSphere MQ
WebSphere MQ V7.5 is provided with IBM Integration Bus.
WebSphere Adapters
WebSphere Adapters V7.5 for SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards are provided with IBM Integration Bus. The adapters enable connectivity to these commonly used package applications. These adapters are available for both development and production usage.
Modes of operation
IBM Integration Bus offers a number of modes of operation to licensed clients. The mode of operation may be selected at any time, subject to the purchase of license entitlement. Existing clients may select any mode of operation at deployment time and are not required to reinstall their existing IBM Integration Bus media.

  • Express® Edition provides an entry-level starting point to deploy an integration solution with the option to grow to full function and performance. It has restricted features and is limited to one process.
  • Standard Edition offers the choice of a full-feature mode of operation, which is limited to one process, or a restricted mode of operation without capacity restrictions. This intermediate edition offers the flexibility to fulfill either broad-capability or high-performance scenarios.
  • Advanced Edition is the full-feature edition of IBM Integration Bus with no function or capability restrictions imposed. It is the default mode of operation.

Hypervisor Editions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM AIX
The Hypervisor Editions offer a combination of IBM Integration Bus, WebSphere MQ, and the operating system compatible with the supported hypervisor, optimized to run in server virtualization environments.
Remote Adapter Deployment (RAD) Edition
The RAD Edition enables deployment of adapters for connecting to applications and other data sources, including databases.
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Transfer License
The IBM Integration Bus WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus Transfer License provides comparable capabilities and performance to those available in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. It offers a restricted mode of operation without capacity restrictions.
Maximizing the value of your IBM software investment
IBM Software Subscription and Support is one of the most cost-effective ways for your business to ensure that your users have access to the latest technology. Whether you choose to upgrade and how you choose to upgrade are always up to you. You manage your upgrade cycles in the way that works best for your business. A comprehensive product upgrade and Technical Support solution, IBM Software Subscription and Support, available through IBM Passport Advantage® and Passport Advantage Express , delivers:

  • Product upgrades
  • New releases and new versions
  • Phone and technical support

For information on the benefits of migrating to IBM Integration Bus, contact TxMQ by emailing Chuck Fried, [email protected].
For more information and the complete announcement, please click here.

IBM Integration Bus V9 Delivers Key Enhancements

IBM® Integration Bus V9, previously known as IBM WebSphere® Message Broker, delivers a comprehensive integration solution, In addition to connecting together a wide range of applications, services, and systems across heterogeneous IT environments, it provides the visibility and control capabilities needed to support critical business activities such as monitoring, auditing, process management, and analytics.
New enhancements allow clients to:

  • Rapidly enable business insight to be applied to in-flight data
  • Accelerate the creation of integration services for business process management (BPM)
  • Increase operational awareness and control over workload
  • Gain visibility and insight of integration in application environments

The new capabilities naturally extend the powerful productivity features of IBM Integration Bus to develop and manage integration solution deployments and extend its industry-leading performance and scalability.
Integration Bus V9.0 delivers key enhancements that enable greater visibility and insight of data as it flows through the bus. This allows you to:

  • Apply business insight to make near real-time decisions to influence processing flow
  • Rapidly create integration workload to prioritize resources and prevent outages
  • Manage integration workload to prioritize resources and prevent outages
  • Include application-to-application integration in centralized business activities
  • Improve elasticity and response time by exploiting flexible caching capabilities
  • Monitor and visualize performance statistics in real time
  • Exploit new patterns to rapidly integrate Microsoft™ applications
  • Flexibly provision solutions across a range of physical and cloud environments
  • Import and convert existing integration assets from IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

Availability Dates:
June 14, 2013

  • IBM Integration Bus V9 – Electronic distribution
  • IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition for IBM AIX®, V9 – Electronic distribution only
  • IBM Integration Bus Hypervisor Edition for Red Hat Enterpise Linux™ Server for x86, V9.0 – Electronic distribution only

July 5, 2013

  • IBM Integration Bus V9.0 – Media Pack

For the full announcement, please click here.

What is BIG DATA???

Big Data.
We are seeing the term tossed around today the way ‘e-commerce’ was tossed around in the late 90’s.  So what is Big Data, and what’s all the fuss about.  Some history is in order to set the stage.
Statistics evolved as a science based upon using samplings of data to derive conclusions about the larger, or ‘total’ sample.  As an example, one might survey a group of people shopping in a mall on a given day to ask what they are buying, or find out how long they planned to be in the mall, or what brought them out that day.  The survey company would have decided that they needed to obtain answers from some ‘sample size’ equal to some percentage of what they thought the total foot traffic in the mall was likely to be that day.  From that ‘sample’ one could extrapolate what the answers would be if they had theoretically polled 100% of all mall shoppers.
For most of history, this was the only way to look at data.  Looking at ever larger sample sizes wasn’t feasible given the tabulating ability, or later, the computational ability of the systems of the day.
 

Enter Big Data

 
Big Data is simply a data set where the sample size (n) = all.   There is NO sampling.  All, or nearly all of the data is analyzed.   What we find is remarkable.  In addition to far more detailed information, correlations where none would have been visible in the past appear.
In one interesting example of this, WalMart looked at some purchase data a few years ago.
Wal Mart has captured and stored 100% of their customer transactions forever.  In a study looking at what products people purchased leading up to major projected storms (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc), they found the usual items one would expect.  Water, batteries, etc.  What they also found, unexpectedly, was Pop Tarts.   There was an unreasonably high expectation that purchasers of storm related items would also buy Pop Tarts!
There is no effort made to study the ‘why’ of this data point.  Just the what. Big Data can’t tell us why something is, just that it is.  Wal Mart began reconfiguring their stores in storm paths to butt end caps of Pop Tarts near the other supplies, in addition to adding to their stock of these items, and sales soared.
Coming up next…the truth is in the noise…working with messy data.
TxMQ has a Business Intelligence practice helping companies work with and manage large data sets to derive actionable information from them.   Contact an account executive, or [email protected] today for a free initial consultation.
Chuck
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Contact us today for more information or assistance on getting your business on the right track with IBM® Cognos®.


Application Optimization w/WebSphere DataPower…

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…and  SOA Appliances.

 
TxMQ looks at building successful SOA solutions  as requiring an in-depth knowledge of how our customers make use of their web services and SOA to achieve their strategic goals.
DataPower is a component to the broad WebSphere Smart SOA portfolio. Customers who use DataPower span a variety of industries, including finance, healthcare, insurance, retail, telecom, government and more.
DataPower is field-proven to deliver an all-in-one security management and performance SOA solution.
The DataPower family of appliances is built to integrate seamlessly with existing XML and Web Services infrastructure through WSDL, UDDI, SOAP SNMP and other standards.
The appliances interoperate with the following security standards:

  • WS-Security
  • WS-Security Policy
  • WS-Policy
  • SSL
  • TLS
  • SAML
  • Kerberos
  • XML-Enc
  • XML-Dsig,
  • X.509 certificates (DER, PEM, PKCS #8, #12)
  • CRL’s
  • OCSP
  • LDAP

  • CSR
  • PKCS #7 S/MIME
  • and more

DataPower’s Web GUI and interoperability with WebSphere Registry and Repository (WSRR) make it easy to implement sophisticated management and security policies without utilizing custom code.

Get Improved Utilization and Robustness in SOA

Operational excellence in distributed applications requires real time feedback with incoming traffic mapping to resource availability. DataPower Appliances’ option for Application Optimization (AO) is designed to provide dynamic load balancing functions for the most demanding use cases. AO enhances uptime, user visible responsiveness, and capital utilization.
Learn more about how the option for Application Optimization provides intelligent load management that enhances business responsiveness, saves capital and boosts uptime.
Call Miles Roty, Certified WebSphere Sales Account Manager at TxMQ (716)636-0070 (228) for more information or email [email protected].

Systems Optimization Review – Worth Your Time & Money?

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So, you have some great technology in place. Maybe it’s all working perfectly. Chances are it’s not. Does that mean it’s not functioning? No. Does it mean that you are one glitch away from a disaster? Not necessarily. But it does mean that it can be better.
My car is running fine. Could it use a tune-up? Probably. Optimizing the performance of the vehicle can give me better gas mileage, better pick-up, and better overall performance. In the long run, keeping the vehicle running at its peak will save me money (and headache).
Keeping your corporate technology running at optimal performance is really no different. Depending on the size of your organization – your IT investment will range from tens of thousands to many millions of dollars each year. Drawing the most from that investment is the responsibility of every Executive across the enterprise – especially those in IT.
In all likelihood, you are already keeping a pretty close eye on your operations, your network traffic, your system availability and uptime. Are you thorough? Sure. Are you current? Perhaps. Is it worth having experts outside of the organization have a look at your systems? You bet.
I am drawing these obvious comparisons to corporate technology to prove a point. In the modern world of highly competitive business, and increased scrutiny on performance and bottom line; routine systems analysis and review by third party experts is a low cost, unobtrusive means to responsibly protect and improve upon your IT investment.
At TxMQ, we call it our Systems HealthCheck. It’s customizable, and typically takes no more than a week or two. It includes Systems Analysis and Evaluation, Data Collection, Recommendations, and a Whitepaper. Most of our engagements revolve around WebSphere including Application Server, MQ and Broker. We review and document the WebSphere infrastructure paying attention to:

  •      WebSphere Infrastructure Architecture
  •      WebSphere Infrastructure Management
  •      Enterprise future goals: How do we get to where we want to be?

WebSphere is basically an IT integration platform, where various technologies merge to advance the business functions of the Enterprise. We find that too many organizations treat WebSphere as an isolated application platform within the network/environment. This leads to inefficiencies of usage, performance, and management.
A System HealthCheck can insure that you are doing the right things, on the right platforms, with the right management tools and procedures to optimize OS, Hardware and WebSphere costs…and you can cut back on headaches, too.
Is a System Health Check from TxMQ worth your time & money? Absolutely. Contact Miles Roty today for more information about scheduling a Systems HealthCheck for your company.

Online Invoicing Company Requests HealthCheck

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Take some time out of your day to check out our newest case study.
You don’t skip your yearly physical, do you? Well don’t let your company miss it’s checkup, either.
Many companies approach TxMQ when something is broken in their production environment and they need a quick fix. We fondly refer to ourselves as “firefighters” a lot of the time. While we don’t mind this type of work, it allows us to get our hands dirty, we’re always especially impressed with our clients who approach us to complete a TxMQ HealthCheck of their systems before they experience any significant delays or outages.
If you know your company is growing and you’re worried about how you applications are going to integrate or how your systems are going to handle the added load of your expected growth, contact us today. Our subject matter experts can schedule a HealthCheck engagement and check your systems, soup to nuts, to ensure that everything is working accordingly and your business is built to scale with increasing demand.
Isn’t it time to take that step today? In most cases a HealthCheck is no more than a week long, sometimes only a day or two, depending on the scope of your environment and the number of applications you’re running.
Should you want more information on our HealthCheck services, you can click here or contact Miles Roty (716) 636-0070 or [email protected].
Don’t wait until you’re battling a fire to call in the firefighters. It can get out of control quickly. Contact us today and be proactive about your business growth.

TxMQ Customer Events

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We’re excited.

A long time ago, one of TxMQ’s main missions was to provide training, webinars, seminars, and more to our prospects and clients. Well, we’re revisiting our roots!
TxMQ is planning a very nifty series of webinar events surrounding IBM®, DataPower, Cognos®, and WebSphere®.

We are looking for topics that we can present as a Live Webinar, Live Seminar, Lunch & Learn, e-Learning Module, or Info-Share Session.
 
We are also looking for speakers willing to share their knowledge in upcoming events.

If there is a certain topic you’re interested in learning more about, leave a comment below or send us an e-mail. If you are a technical person and you would like to share your expertise at an event, contact us!
 

Click here for our event listing page!

 
Contact us today if you’re interested in obtaining advance notification of our webinars or you’d like to attend a webinar on a specific topic.