New WebLayers Governors for IBM WebSphere MQ

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I'm pretty excited about our news today regarding the new WebLayers Center governors for IBM's WebSphere MQ.

While we've had a pretty big policy library specific to WebSphere MQ, these new governors will help customers more easily adhere to IT policies as well as security and regulatory compliance mandates.  Using WebLayers Center and WebSphere MQ, customers will be able to decrease the amount of potential software development policy violations.  This helps curb the incidents that result in those erroneous data transactions that make headlines on a regular basis in the form of software glitches.

You know -- the type of software glitches that deposit funds in the wrong accounts or report inaccurate balances.  With a more comprehensive view of the way that messages are routed through WebSphere MQ using WebLayers IT governance software, customers will have greater transparency which leads to better productivity and improved compliance.

To better put this in perspective, let me give you a real world example.  Let's say that you're a financial services company. As you know, there are millions of transactions that are routed to various points in the infrastructure before they reach their final destination.  Now let's imagine that your company is using WebSphere MQ to ensure the secure delivery of those millions of messages per day including trades, holds and transfers.  And now one of your brokers is executing a trade between the US and Europe.  There are many 'hops' that the message the broker sends must take along the journey from the US to Europe to execute that trade.  Those hops obviously go beyond the walls of the original financial services company and requires security and compliance on all the parties involved in executing the trade.  From the financial services company's perspective, WebSphere MQ will make sure that message is delivered in tact to the recipient.

This is one example where WebLayers Center comes in to complement WebSphere MQ. While WebSphere MQ ensures once and only once delivery of those messages, the WebLayers governors make sure that the message queues, or 'passage ways' so to speak are able to securely and accurately move those messages along.  Think of WebLayers as the personal tour guide for the messages that prevents them from going down dark alleys, one way streets or dead ends.

Of course, this isn't limited to just the financial services sector as you can easily imagine many other scenarios where there are thousands or millions of transactions that need to securely reach their destination without causing bottlenecks or putting a company at risk for not adhering to compliance regulations. 

For the WebSphere MQ enthusiasts -- and there are a lot of you out there -- this adds another layer of assurance that policies are being followed and messages are being delivered.  For the business folks out there, what this means is that you'll rest a bit easier through an increase in quality and security of the transactions coming to and from your company.