Business Challenges

If you are like most IT organizations, you may be facing significant pressure to use IT to support business innovation. This new found focus on IT as a key enabler to achieving competitive advantage and growing the business has shed light on the challenges that are keeping IT from being able to deliver greater value to the business. Most of these challenges are centered around:

• Management of data that is growing exponentially
• The ability to coordinate IT with business objectives
• Applications that are disconnected from business processes.
• Maintaining cost while enforcing compliance with numerous regulatory agencies

All of these challenges have middleware in common. Located between your business processes and the infrastructure needed to execute them is the middleware layer. This is where everything - people, processes, information - can come together to create a seamless flow of information and insight across the enterprise.

By enabling seamless integration of the application layer with the infrastructure layer, we can help you optimize your IT environment, generate higher returns on IT investments, and yield greater business value and innovation from IT.

Middleware Services from Strongback Consulting

Middleware Performance Tuning

Tuning middelware servers can be complex and if not done correctly, can seriously degrade the performance of your systems further. Strongback offers performance tuning of multiple servers including Lotus Domino, WebSphere, JBoss, Geronimo, and Apache Tomcat. Tunig the JVM is often considered a black art. Let us do the hard work so you can get back to business.

Enterprise Data Integration

We can help your company integrate your business processes into a services oriented architecture (SOA). Silo-like applications such as your CRM, billing systems, and even legacy 3270 or 5250 assets can be integrated together to improve business productivity.

WebSphere Portal Implementation

Provides a composite application or business mashup framework and the advanced tooling needed to build flexible, SOA-based solutions, as well as the unmatched scalability required by any size organization. Strongback has implmented Portal solutions for educational organizations, state and local governments, and large insurance companies.

IBM WebSphere Application Server Deployment, Management, and Outsourcing

As the foundation of the IBM WebSphere software platform, WebSphere Application Server delivers the secure, scalable, resilient application infrastructure you need for applications. Strongback offers outsourced management and maintenance of WAS, including WAS Express, WAS ND, as well as the new intelligent management offering WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition.

IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment, Management, and Outsourcing

A suite of three powerful application infrastructure products that can be bought separately or as a package: WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, and Compute Grid. These products extend the functionality of WebSphere Application Server, can control mulitple vendor's application server products under one console, and better utilize your hardware infrastructure by better workload management and dynamic clustering. Do you have lots of open source servers in your environment? Keep then all and bring them under the centralized management of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise.

Cloud Computing Offerings

Take advantage of cloud technolgies with Cloudburst. IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is a new hardware appliance that provides access to WebSphere virtual images and patterns for easily, quickly and repeatedly creating application environments that can be securely deployed and managed in a private cloud.