Take advantage of secure, reliable, and exactly-once message delivery across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, enabling seamless integration and operational continuity
Overview
Every message counts
Connect applications dynamically, securely and reliably across your messaging network, so your business can build message-driven and event-driven applications at scale.
Features
Get the message across
Coordinate across multiple resources and decouple applications using local messaging. Automatically manage cross-network communication to guarantee consistency and reliability.
Build messaging networks that span platforms across your hybrid multi-cloud landscape. Enable secure and efficient managed file transfers for large data payloads.
Use advanced messaging security with integrity checks to safeguard data in flight and at rest. Meet stringent compliance requirements to maintain trust.
Ensure robust 24x7 service and message access with high availability, and both horizontal and vertical scalability. Enable asynchronous cross-region replication for disaster recovery and planned failover.
Use cases
Banking and finance
Government and federal
Travel and transportation
Automotive and manufacturing
Put IBM MQ to work
Modern organizations depend on fast, reliable data flow to run critical operations without interruption. IBM MQ keeps transactions accurate, systems in sync, and services running smoothly where reliability, security, and real-time coordination matter most.
Process real‑time or batch transactions with consistent data. IBM MQ ensures assured delivery, connects systems, and provides complete data for fraud detection.
Securely exchange data inside or outside your organization. IBM MQ efficiently connects systems and helps governments deliver seamless services across departments.
Manage real‑time travel transactions and updates. IBM MQ ensures reliable processing of fare payments and travel data across transit, airlines, hotels and loyalty systems.
Enable real‑time communication between equipment and inventory systems. IBM MQ provides fault‑tolerant messaging with up‑to‑date inventory and machine status to keep orders on track.
Case studies
Real clients. Real Results.
The Professional Provident Society
The Professional Provident Society (PPS), a leading South African provider of specialized insurance services for professionals, dramatically improved its speed to market by changing its IT architecture and business processes to a degree unheard of in its local market.
90%
of system code eliminated
Pricing
Different plans to fit your business needs
The standard offering providing the essential capabilities to securely and reliably connect message and event driven applications at scale and empower teams to innovate and deliver outstanding customer experiences.
Everything that is available in the standard offering plus additional capabilities providing state of the art data resiliency, broader connectivity options and advanced security for end to end encryption and audit compliance.
A fully managed multi-tenant IBM MQ Advanced offering. IBM will handle upgrades, patches and many of the operational management tasks of IBM MQ.
A fully managed single-tenant IBM MQ Advanced offering increased isolation, deployment automation and the ability to deploy highly-available queue managers.
Starting Instance Capacity
1 VPC or 70 PVUs
1 VPC or 70 PVUs
Free tier (Lite plan) available (limit of 10000 messages per month)
OR
1 VPC (paid)
1 Capacity Unit (equivalent to 5 VPC)
Metric Unit
Available as:
Processor Value Unit (PVU),(perpetual) – a unit of measure used to differentiate licensing of software on distributed processor technologies.
Virtual Processor Core (VPC), (monthly) – a physical processor core, provided that the server is not partitioned for virtual machines, or a virtual core assigned to a virtual machine.
Available as:
Processor Value Unit (PVU),(perpetual) – a unit of measure used to differentiate licensing of software on distributed processor technologies.
Virtual Processor Core (VPC), (monthly) – a physical processor core, provided that the server is not partitioned for virtual machines, or a virtual core assigned to a virtual machine.
Available as:
Virtual Processor Core (VPC), (monthly) – a physical processor core, provided that the server is not partitioned for virtual machines, or a virtual core assigned to a virtual machine.
Same VPC metric is available on hourly basis (thru IBM Cloud platform).
Available as:
Capacity Unit, (monthly) – is a selected Cloud Services capacity type that will be multiplied by the specified number of required capacity units for such capacity type
Public Cloud
YES
YES
IBM Cloud® and AWS
IBM Cloud® and AWS
IBM MQ Internet Pass-Thru (unlimited installs)
YES
YES
YES
YES
IBM MQ on z/OS
Combine the stability and reliability of the mainframe with IBM MQ.
IBM MQ Appliance
Messaging firmware precisely tuned by experts—running on dedicated hardware to enable impressive performance.
*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.