Companies are successfully leveraging IBM's Smart SOA™ Approach based on IBM's experience of working with more than 6550 customers worldwide. Many of these companies rely on IBM WebSphere® Application Server (WAS) as the foundation for building, reusing, and running Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications and services to drive business agility. Faced with rising demands to deliver improved service levels for these mission-critical applications without increasing their IT budgets, more and more organizations are deploying IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to better manage the health of their WAS environments. IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise provides unsurpassed application health management, application edition management, and policy-based workload management capabilities for WAS environments to lower operational and energy costs and improve quality of service. In this webcast, you will learn how to:

• Improve application performance and deliver application response times to meet service level agreements
• Increase application availability and minimize administration costs
• Perform interruption-free application upgrades
• Reduce operational and energy costs by dramatically increasing application server utilization
• Increase flexibility and agility to quickly supply "capacity" for new applications or services
• Simplify and improve the management of IBM WebSphere Commerce, ESB, Portal, and Process Server
• The benefits gained by companies worldwide using WebSphere Virtual Enterprise