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Overview
Make every message count
Connect applications and microservices in private datacenters, across hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and at the edge of your enterprise.
Tap into the value of your existing mission-critical data to gain real-time insights. Only IBM® MQ protects your business from incorrect data and application errors with exactly-once message delivery.
Benefits
Insulate your business from risks
Unlike its competitors, IBM MQ will never lose a message or deliver a message more than once.
Simple multi-style messaging
Connect diverse systems with support for message queueing, events or PubSub, and transactions.
24x7x365 technical support
A dedicated IBM MQ team is available to help you, along with a large user community.
Market-leading messaging – everywhere
The same secure, proven, high-performance messaging solution however and wherever you deploy.
“Always-on” cloud native messaging
Minimal infrastructure and a light footprint make MQ perfect for cloud-native, highly available deployments.
Secure, enterprise-wide connectivity
Keep data safe with TLS secured communications, identity access management, message-level security, and more.
Connectivity features
Flexible deployment options
Deploy to public or private cloud in VMs or containers on Docker, Kubernetes/Cri-O or Red Hat® OpenShift®.
Uniform clusters
Automated and intelligent workload balancing so that you can design applications for scale.
High availability, designed to be easy
Keep your business going with high availability that’s simple to set up and rapid recovery times.
A way to unlock the value of existing data
Harness mission-critical data as it flows around the enterprise to power Analytics and AI.
Security by design
Protect data from threats with user access management, TLS-secured communications, and more.
Freedom to develop
Broad language, API, and messaging protocol support (including AMQP) and simple management tools.
Upgrade to IBM MQ Advanced
Strengthen security and compliance
End-to-end encryption protects your company and customers and supports compliance.
Collaborate with confidence
Safely exchange data with third parties and get native support for IBM® Blockchain integration.
Get enhanced container deployment
Expect certified containers for Red Hat® OpenShift® with one-click operator deploy.
AI-powered integrations
Discover IBM® Cloud Pak® for Integration
Automate
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration includes built-in AI and continuous feedback.
Integrate
Get API management, application integration, end-to-end security and more.
Modernize
Varied styles of integration with flexible deployment options using a modular pricing approach.
Connect. Protect. Simplify.
Simple universal connectivity
Simple universal connectivity
Deploy queue managers quickly and more easily. Connect your applications for reliable enterprise-wide data transfer.
360° views of your estate
360° views of your estate
View and manage all your queue managers from a single IBM MQ web console, no matter where managers are deployed.
Straightforward management
Straightforward management
Administer and monitor MQ in the way that best suits your skills. Use REST APIs, the web console, CLI and more.
Secure business data
Secure business data
Keep data safe with rigorous security mechanisms including access management, TLS certificates, and audit options.
Pricing to suit every budget
Pricing to suit every budget
Use your free Lite plan as long as you like and upgrade anytime to the deployment model that best suits your needs.
Deployment models
IBM MQ Advanced
IBM MQ Advanced
Get the core MQ functionality with additional File transfer, end-to-end encryption, high availability and more.
IBM MQ Appliance
IBM MQ Appliance
A high performing, MQ-dedicated appliance. Pre-configured for simplicity, and optimized for cost reduction.
IBM MQ for z/OS
IBM MQ for z/OS
IBM MQ for z/OS brings the strength and dependency of IBM MQ software to the mainframe.
IBM MQ on Cloud
IBM MQ on Cloud
Use MQ as a fully hosted and managed offering in IBM Cloud or AWS so you can focus on connecting your applications.
Testimonial
Financial institutions use MQ heavily, it’s very good at what it does.
Paul Hatcher
Head of Enterprise Messaging
The Bank of New York Mellon
Case studies
Grocery retailer
A grocery retailer effortlessly transfers 50 million messages across the country every day.
UMC Freiberg
Now it’s up to 95% faster to integrate a new application to UMC Freiberg’s back-end system.
The Professional Provident Society
An 80% drop in remedial actions as a result of audits and 90% of system code eliminated with IBM MQ Advanced.