Getting started

Get up and running with IBM® App Connect Enterprise as a Service by taking advantage of templates, tutorials, and how-to guides.

Access your instance

When you provision your instance of App Connect Enterprise as a Service, you can click Access your instance to log in to your instance. You also receive an email that contains links to your App Connect instance and to the IBM SaaS console, where you can manage your instances and subscriptions. You can also access your App Connect instances from the IBM SaaS console. (For more information, see Getting started with the IBM SaaS console.)

Try a template

Templates are provided for typical integrations. See the gallery of templates on the Discover page The icon that represents the Discover page

The templates gallery has a search field where you can search for templates for a particular application or use case.

You can filter the list of templates by searching for a specific application, object, or action.

When you find a template that meets your criteria, click the tile to find out more about it and how to use it. You might want to copy the instructions or open them in a separate window to refer to when customizing your flow. You can then create an event-driven or API flow from the template. When the flow opens in App Connect Designer, you can connect to your applications and customize any of the mappings or actions. If you need help with connecting to your accounts, or want to find out more about how to work with an application in App Connect, try the how-to guides. As with all flows, when you're ready to run it against your applications, you can deploy it.

Check out the tutorials, how-to guides, and other documentation

You can find lots of tutorials and how-to guides in this documentation to get you started and to tackle some more complex integrations.

Documentation

The App Connect documentation introduces App Connect Enterprise as a Service and describes how to use it to create and deploy your integrations. You might find the following topics useful as you start to use App Connect.

For an introduction to some of the concepts and tools in App Connect, see IBM App Connect components and resources.
For an overview of the different ways that you can create a flow in App Connect Designer, see Creating flows in App Connect Designer.
To learn how to deploy integrations, see Deploying integrations.

Tutorials

The Tutorials take you step by step through some common tasks and scenarios in App Connect Designer like creating event-driven and API flows that address common integrations. You can also find tutorials that guide you through tasks like configuring polled events, retrieving items from your applications, and including toolbox utilities like parsers.

You might like to look at the following tutorials as you start your journey with App Connect.

How-to guides

The How-to guides describe how to connect App Connect to your applications. The guides also include any special prerequisites or considerations that applications might have, and they list any tutorials or templates that include the applications.