WebSphere refers to a brand of proprietary IBM software products, although the term also popularly refers to one specific product: WebSphere Application Server (WAS). WebSphere helped define the middleware software category and is designed to set up, operate and integrate e-business applications across multiple computing platforms using Web technologies. It includes both the run-time components (like WAS) and the tools to develop applications that will run on WAS. Image File history File links Websphere_logo. ... A brand is a collection of images and ideas representing an economic producer; more specifically, it refers to the concrete symbols such as a name, logo, slogan, and design scheme. ... Proprietary software is software that has restrictions on using and copying it, usually enforced by a proprietor. ... now. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Electronic business is any information system or application that empowers business processes. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a global, read-write information space. ...

WebSphere Runtime Products (partial)

• IBM CICS Transaction Server
• IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
• IBM WebSphere Business Integration Connect
• IBM WebSphere Business Integration InterChange Server (ICS)
• IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation
• IBM WebSphere Business Monitor
• IBM WebSphere Commerce
• IBM WebSphere Commerce Enhancements for Version 6.0
• IBM WebSphere Customer Center
• IBM WebSphere Data Interchange
• IBM WebSphere Developer for zSeries (WDz)
• IBM WebSphere Edge Server
• IBM WebSphere ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
• IBM WebSphere Everyplace Connection Manager
• IBM WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services (HATS)
• IBM WebSphere Information Integrator (formerly Ascential software)
• IBM WebSphere Message Broker
• IBM WebSphere MQ (formerly MQSeries)
• IBM WebSphere Partner GateWay
• IBM WebSphere Portal
• IBM WebSphere Process Server (WPS)
• IBM WebSphere Product Center
• IBM WebSphere RFID Premises Server
• IBM WebSphere Studio Application Monitor (WSAM)
• IBM WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer (WSAA)
• IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (formerly Datastage TX / Mercator)
• IBM WebSphere Voice Response for AIX
• IBM WebSphere Voice Server (WVS), speech recognition and Text-To-Speech (TTS) software
• IBM WebSphere Web Services Gateway

CICS® (Customer Information Control System) is a transaction server that runs primarily on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS or z/VSE. CICS is available for other operating systems, notably i5/OS, OS/2, and as the closely related IBM TXSeries software on AIX, Windows, and Linux, among others. ... IBM WebSphere Application Server is built using open standards such as the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), XML and Web Services. ... Since December, 2001, IBM designates all its mainframes with the name eServer zSeries, with the e depicted in IBMs well-known red trademarked symbol. ... WebSphere Edge Server (now renamed WebSphere Edge Components) is a set of web server/application server components that are intended to improve the performance of web-based systems. ... In computing, an enterprise service bus (ESB) refers to a software architecture construct, implemented by technologies found in a category of middleware infrastructure products usually based on standards, that provides foundational services for more complex architectures via an event-driven and standards-based messaging engine (the bus). ... WebSphere Message Broker is an IBMs information broker from the WebSphere product family that allows business data and information in the form of messages to flow between disparate applications across multiple hardware and software platforms. ... IBM WebSphere MQ is a network communication technology launched by IBM in March 1992. ... WebSphere Process Server is the runtime engine for artifacts produced in a business-driven development process. ... DataStage (IBM WebSphere DataStage) is an ETL tool of Ascential. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

WebSphere Development Tools (partial)

• IBM WebSphere Studio Site Developer 5.x (WSSD)
• IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.x (WSAD)
• IBM WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer 5.x (WSED)
• IBM Rational Web Developer 6.0 (RWD)
• IBM Rational Application Developer 6.0 (RAD)
• IBM Rational Software Architect 6.0 (RSA)
• IBM WebSphere Integration Developer 6.0 (WID)
• IBM WebSphere Business Modeler 6.0
• IBM WebSphere Developer Studio Client for System i 6.x (WDSC)