About webMethods Integration Platform

Introduction: 

webMethods is an integration platform and a collection of products from SoftwareAG. Basically it supports different types of integrations and products are on demand available for cloud based implementation & on premise based implementation as per business or users need.

Integration:

Integration can be achieved at different levels like Data level or application level. Data level integration is the one where the data can be transformed into different formats which is called Data Transformation. Application level integration is the one where different applications can transfer the data so that different applications can communicate each other.


Basic Integration Types:

1. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)  

2. Business to Business (B2B)

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI): Integration between the applications is limited to an Enterprise. For example, if an enterprise has different or multiple applications used across and on demand these can be integrated to achieve a different functionality.

Business to Business (B2B): Integration between the applications of business partners. For example, a business might have its partners and may use different applications for processing orders. These applications can be integrated and hence it is called as B2B integration.

webMethods Products: 

A waste variety of products are available to achieve integration and all are commercial. You can still download a trial version of latest product with limited features only. Few of the popular products are listed down below.

1. Integration Server (IS)

2. Broker 

3. My webMethods Server (MWS)

4. Deployer

5. Mediator

6. Centrasite
7. Designer
8. webMethods Trading Networks (TN)