SmartPath Inc., a provider of marketing resource management (MRM) software applications, has announced that its comprehensive MRM solution, SmartPath MMS 5.0, is available for companies on the IBM WebSphere 5.0 Application Server platform.

MQSoftware, Inc., has announced management and monitoring support for WebSphere MQ for z/Linux for Q Pasa!, the company's flagship real-time middleware monitoring solution.

(May 28, 2003) - Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has licensed MQSoftware's Q Pasa!® middleware management solution to monitor and manage their WebSphere Business Integration and CrossWorlds implementation. The Q Pasa! investment will allow the IT staff to accelerate deployment of the WebSphere implementation and monitor the technologies and applications more closely.

(May 8, 2003) - Gartner Dataquest has just issued their latest yearly marketshare numbers,which show an unprecedented triple sweep for IBM in application servers (with IBM overtaking BEA for the first time), integration software (where IBM now leads over Tibco), and business portals (IBM over SAP).

(May 8, 2003) - MQSoftware, Inc. now supports WebSphere MQ Everyplace™, (WMQE) with Q Pasa!™ Version 3. WMQE is part of IBM’s WebSphere family of products that supports secure wireless and pervasive device solutions. MQSoftware’s support for the extended enterprise will give users more powerful monitoring capabilities across more WebSphere products that utilize mobile devices.

(May 13, 2003) - Netegrity, Inc. has expanded its support for IBM WebSphere-based applications. With this expanded support, Netegrity leverages IBM’s Trust Association Interceptor (TAI) to enable companies to incorporate their IBM WebSphere environments, including IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal, into a unified and centrally managed security infrastructure. This integration provides companies with centralized management and single sign-on across WebSphere resources, as well as other applications across the enterprise; eliminating the need for companies to create and manage multiple security policies and user profiles.

(May 14, 2003) - Bowstreet and IBM signed a reseller agreement today, in which IBM will resell Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere to accelerate the development of customized J2EE portlets for WebSphere Portal. 'While Bowstreet has enjoyed a close partnership with IBM over the years, our new relationship dramatically expands the sales opportunities for Bowstreet, and provides IBM with a greater competitive advantage in the portal market,' said Michael George, CEO, Bowstreet.

(May 14, 2003) - LogicLibrary's new Logidex 2.0, the industry's only model-based software development asset (SDA) mapping and discovery engine, has just been released. For the first time, Logidex 2.0 features seamless integration with IBM WebSphere Studio. Further additions include a software development kit (SDK) that enables automated asset loading, improved enterprise-scale performance capabilities, access to J2EE Core Patterns and RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIPs), and enhanced reporting features.

(May 15, 2003) - MQSoftware, Inc., a provider of middleware and EAI technology solutions for the IBM WebSphere family of products, has been named as the number one market leader in application integration (AI) system management, according to a new market research report published by WinterGreen Research, Inc.

(May 20, 2003) - IBM has released its new DB2 Information Integrator software to help customers instantly access, integrate, manage, and analyze all forms of information - stored on any platform - across and beyond the enterprise. IBM's new software helps businesses increase efficiencies, better service customers and suppliers, and reach new markets by enabling them to centrally manage data, text, images, photos, video, and audio files stored in a variety of databases.

(May 21, 2003) - MQSoftware, Inc. has introduced a new strategic product initiative, Q Nami!™, a business transaction monitoring solution that gives enterprise users real-time visibility and proactive management of business lines, processes, and associated technologies. Q Nami! is designed to help customers make more informed business decisions based on end-to-end real-time transaction flow across application servers as well as back-office systems.

(May 19, 2003) - Instantiations, Inc. today announced CodePro Express, the newest member in a family of professional software tools for Java development. CodePro Express enhances the development tools contained in IBM WebSphere Application Server-Express and the Eclipse platform. CodePro Express ensures that software developers in small and midsize companies can create high quality applications in record time and at reduced cost.

(May 20, 2003) - IBM announced new industry and Business Partner support for its portfolio of WebSphere Business Integration software. IBM's software is designed to enable an enterprise to adapt quickly and respond to market demands dynamically with increasing speed by integrating the applications and business processes specific to its industry.

(April 8, 2003) - MQSoftware, Inc. offers a new real-time business dashboard capability in Q Pasa!® Version 3. The Q Pasa! Business Dashboard™ gives business management and IT staff the ability to see real-time performance and availability information from IT business systems in a dashboard view. The Q Pasa! Business Dashboard also includes integrated alerting, allowing users to be notified of business issues via the dashboard, e-mail, or pager.

(April 24, 2003) - IBM has the world's strongest and most influential patent portfolio, according to the '2003 Patent Scorecard,' published by MIT Technology Review and CHI Research. The ranking rates IBM's patent technology strength as more than double than the next closest computer company (Hewlett-Packard). IBM also outpaced the combined portfolio scores of HP, Sun, Microsoft, EMC, Dell, and Oracle.

(May 1, 2003) - New IBM WebSphere software will help companies get more value from their existing IT resources by allowing them to automatically manage multiple applications running on multiple clusters of servers as a single environment. IBM WebSphere becomes the first application server to offer this grid capability built in.

(May 2, 2003) - A new IBM WebSphere software solution with Akamai Technologies, Inc. will speed up response time to business opportunities, provide fast, global access to Web applications, and lower the cost of running an IT infrastructure. The new solution, Akamai EdgeComputing Powered by WebSphere, will enable companies to supplement their existing IT infrastructure with virtualized Internet computing capacity on demand on a 'pay-as-you-go' basis.<

(May 7, 2003) - To help customers extend their e-infrastructure through pervasive computing, IBM has introduced the Mobile Office Entry Jumpstart. This new solution includes IBM e-servers, WebSphere software, and IBM services to help enterprises pilot and test run WebSphere software with Palm Tungsten handheld computers supporting up to 50 clients. It offers customers the flexibility to start small and grow to enterprise scale, helping companies extend applications to devices to support Sales Force Automation (SFA) and Field Force Automation (FFA).

(April 24, 2003) - Candle Corporation's PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ solution expands the protection of sensitive information across the WebSphere MQ middleware environment. This recently released security solution helps organizations meet security requirements for the financial services, healthcare, and other industries. Securing enterprise middleware is critical as organizations rely on Web-based transactions such as online banking for daily business operations. This solution is designed to help users implement additional application security features to minimize risk of exposure.

(April 24, 2003) - At its annual developer conference, IBM announced the first WebSphere Studio development tool for BEA's WebLogic. With the free plug-in available on IBM's developerWorks site, developers can use WebSphere Studio to test and deploy J2EE applications for BEA WebLogic in addition to WebSphere. The move reflects IBM open approach and its commitment to helping customers with heterogeneous environments.

(March 5, 2003) - IBM's latest additions to its WebSphere Business Integration portfolio provide businesses with a broad set of functions necessary to integrate, manage, and monitor business processes across an enterprise and with trading partners. IBM's new WebSphere Business Integration software enables customers to simulate how business processes will flow across a value chain; to integrate those processes across 'silos' of custom and packaged applications found in many businesses today; to connect these processes with suppliers and customers; to monitor the processes, and to manage business performance.

(March 11, 2003) - THOUGHT Inc.'s new release of CocoBase® Enterprise O/R version 4.5 Service Release 1 is integrated with Version 5 of WebSphere Application Server from IBM. Developers can now use CocoBase to build and manage database access when creating applications to run on the WebSphere 5 Application Server. As a result, developers can easily persist the full range of data needs, including complex object graphs and entire database schemas using CMP and BMP Entity Beans, Session Beans, and Distributed Dynamic Transparent Persistence™.

(March 20, 200) - MQSoftware, Inc., has released an integrated version of its flagship Q Pasa! middleware management system with IBM's Tivoli System Management solution. This new offering delivers tighter integration between Q Pasa! and Tivoli management software that will allow businesses to manage more detailed information for IBM WebSphere MQ via the specialized application capabilities of Q Pasa! The Tivoli integration enhancement is immediately available in the latest release of Q Pasa! Version 3.

(March 20, 2003) - IBM has recently announced the availability of the IBM Branch Transformation Toolkit V4.3 for WebSphere Studio (Branch Transformation Toolkit). Formerly known as WebSphere Business Components Composer, the Branch Transformation Toolkit is a set of Java development tools and components that accelerate the construction of high-speed, high-volume transactional applications that access legacy systems.

(February 19, 2003) - IBM plans to implement extensions to the existing IBM Rapid IP Services for e-business Solution (WebSphere Everyplace Subscription Manager, WebSphere Business Integration for Telecommunications, DB2, and WebSphere Portal) to address service provider needs in delivering public wireless LANs. These extensions will provide authentication and management integration with access controllers and prepaid options like credit cards, vouchers and scratch card support with business partners.

(February 26, 2003) - More companies have recently chosen IBM's WebSphere Internet infrastructure software to solve their e-business challenges. IBM WebSphere is used by tens of thousands of customers worldwide. WebSphere's license revenue grew 21percent year-to-year in 2002, far outgrowing the competition.

(April 24, 2003) - MQSoftware, Inc has signed an agreement with Willow Technology, Inc., that significantly expands its Q Pasa! platform support for WebSphere MQ. Willow Technology specializes in operating system and middleware support for heterogeneous operating environments, and is an independent software provider of fully conformant WebSphere MQ platform solutions.

(April 24, 2003) - 'As computing extends more and more from PCs and laptops into the multi-platform device arena, developers need to run their applications on a range of different operating systems - especially embedded Linux,' observes Michael Karasick, director of Embedded Development, IBM Pervasive Computing Division. To help meet this need, MontaVista Software Inc. has announced IBM WebSphere Studio Device Developer 5.0 for MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.0.

(March 5, 2003) - Preregister now for Candle's March 26 webinar on best practices for WebSphere application development. You'll learn from industry experts with real-world success: Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal, and Lloyd Hagemo, senior director of Candle Corporation's Application Infrastructure Management group. To register,click here.

(March 11, 2003) - Deloitte Consulting, soon to be Braxton, will offer RealTime™ Powered by WebSphere® and Deloitte Consulting's Collaborative Commerce Solution to allow companies to execute finely tuned value chains, leading to higher profits and revenue growth.

(March 20, 2003) - This week, Cirque du Soleil announced a three-year partnership with IBM, which designates the company as its worldwide information technology sponsor through 2005. IBM will consult with Cirque du Soleil to develop and introduce innovative and creative technology solutions to assist this organization with the management and infrastructure of its overall business, which spans the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe.

(March 20, 2003) - WebSphere Voice Server V3.1.1, announced this week by IBM, includes all the capability of WebSphere Voice Server V3.1, and offers more natural sounding synthesized speech and additional customer-focused enhancements:

(February 6, 2003) - THOUGHT Inc., has announced the tight integration of CocoBase Enterprise O/R version 4.5 with the IBM WebSphere Studio and Eclipse Development Environments. Developers now have access to enterprise-level Dynamic Object to Relational Mapping for writing Java and EJB applications. THOUGHT Inc. estimates that CocoBase cuts the cost of database access development by up to 85%.

(February 19, 2003) - Versata, Inc.'s new Versata Business Logic Designer is a free plug-in for WebSphere Studio that provides a business logic perspective for building adaptable and re-configurable business logic services that drive distributed enterprise applications. The Business Logic Designer is downloadable from Versata's Web site or IBM's Plug-In Central Web site, and offers an additional development option for creating the business logic services executed within Versata's flagship product, the Versata Logic Server.

(April 4, 2003) - On April 10th at developerWorks Live in New Orleans, IBM will announce the expansion of the WebSphere Business Integration Accelerators for Business Partners program to include support for the development of business processes. This announcement is targeted toward Systems Integrators (SIs) and Solution Providers (SPs) interested in modeling, building and deploying business processes through WebSphere Business Integration.

(April 7, 2003) – Altaworks Corporation and H&W Computer Systems have formed a multi-faceted partnership. Under terms of the agreement, H&W will license Altaworks Panorama™ technology to manage the application performance of enterprises with data centers built around IBM platforms. Through the partnership, Altaworks also will license H&W-developed IBM mainframe components that will expand the breadth of the application environments supported by Altaworks’ key technologies, including support for products such as WebSphere, DB2, and CICS deployed on OS/390 and z/series mainframe systems.

(January 7, 2003) - Businesses taking advantage of the Eclipse open-source ecosystem have recently met with great success in utilizing IBM WebSphere to facilitate their Web services. The case studies below demonstrate how three firms increased efficiency and reduced costs with Web services and WebSphere.

(February 6, 2003) - New capabilities in IBM's WebSphere Portal software will enable users to more easily find, communicate, and work with colleagues. The capabilities take advantage of IBM Lotus software to extend WebSphere Portal's existing collaborative functions. They allow users to interact with multiple collaboration applications - corporate white pages, organizational charts, instant messages, team workplaces, and virtual meetings - to increase productivity.

February 6, 2003) - Parasoft has received Ready for WebSphere Studio Software validation from IBM, for integrating Parasoft WebKing with WebSphere Studio and Eclipse. Parasoft provides customers with an error prevention solution that complements the WebSphere Studio family to accelerate next-generation Web development.

February 6, 2003) - IBM Corp. and Siebel Systems, Inc. are expanding their long-term alliance to provide enterprise customers with the next generation of integrated industry solutions based on open industry standards. Customers will more quickly and efficiently deliver value to their businesses by building on the combined industry solution strength of Siebel Systems' CRM software and the IBM WebSphere software platform Based on deep industry expertise, these joint solutions embrace CRM applications, standards-based technology, compelling service offerings, and best practices.