What's new in Version 13.0?
IBM® App Connect Enterprise 13.0 provides new functions that include a simplified user interface, artificial intelligence (AI), and other automation capabilities that increase time to value for your business.
Every new function of IBM App Connect Enterprise 13.0 is driven by customer feedback and requests for enhancements, as the voice of the customer represents a key pillar in the continuous innovation of IBM App Connect Enterprise. New functions are being delivered on a quarterly basis through the fix packs release to address customer needs in a timely manner.
This customer feedback-driven approach can be summarized under the following themes:
- Improve time to value through intelligent and optimized tools.
- Integrated and common user experience with API Management plus new tutorials and accelerators.
- Fast track the adoption of agile practices while mitigating risk.
- Test-driven development capability accelerates shift-left strategy.
- Simplify, enhance, and automate connected systems and applications.
- Addition of more than 100 connectors to the catalog.
- Achieve enriched operational visibility and control access across any deployment.
- Dashboard provides end-to-end transparency of the integration runtime across all environments.
The new functions in IBM App Connect Enterprise 13.0 cover one or more of these themes, and at a high level include:
Improved Toolkit UI
The upgraded IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit features a modernized look and feel that increases development productivity by simplifying the creation of message flows and message models from scratch.
Extended tutorials catalog
The tutorial interface includes over 100 tutorials to easily get started and rapidly familiarize with IBM App Connect Enterprise, reducing the onboarding time. This includes guides on how to create an integration server, message flows, unit tests, and many more.
New Patterns Gallery
Access patterns from the Patterns Gallery on the Welcome page of the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit. New patterns make it simpler and quicker to create the artifacts that are ready for you to deploy your solution.
New smart connectors
IBM App Connect Enterprise Designer makes it easier to connect your applications both on cloud and on premises by including pre-built smart connectors, with a total number of more than 100 connectors.
- Easier ways to get started
With over 100 tutorials in the newly-designed tutorial interface, and a new test-driven development feature, it is easy to get started developing your own integration solutions. See the following video for a demonstration of how to get started with IBM App Connect Enterprise: Getting started with IBM App Connect Enterprise.
- Test-driven development
The test-driven development feature facilitates the adoption of agile practices while mitigating risks, enabling developers to iteratively test as they develop and automating test authoring. See the following video for a demonstration of how to create and run a JUnit test for a message flow node: Creating and running a JUnit test for a message flow node in IBM App Connect Enterprise.
- IBM App Connect Enterprise Designer
IBM App Connect Enterprise Designer is a browser-based, graphical, no-code interface where business users with no technical expertise can create and test integrations quickly. It is a stand-alone off cloud authoring environment that you can use to create and test flows without using the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and without the need for any coding experience.
For more information, see IBM App Connect Enterprise Designer overview.
For details of the new functions in IBM App Connect Enterprise 13.0, see New function added in Version 13.0.1.
Your suggestions on how to improve our solutions are always welcome: please go to the Request for Enhancements (RFE) Community page for IBM App Connect Enterprise. You can collaborate on enhancements directly with IBM in this community. For more information, see Request enhancement.
Get started with your own installation of IBM App Connect Enterprise, or download IBM App Connect Enterprise for Developers for free, and choose how you want to get going from a variety of resources. For more information, see Get started with IBM App Connect Enterprise.