Overview of IBM Application Integration Suite

IBM® Application Integration Suite is an on-premises solution that enables you to connect your cloud and on-premises applications, build microservices, and expose and manage APIs. It helps you to create a hybrid integration environment that compliments agile development and supports your business in its digital transformation journey.

IBM Application Integration Suite is composed of the following best in breed offerings that IBM already has for on-premises integration, cloud integration, and API management and creation:

IBM Integration Bus Advanced

IBM Integration Bus Advanced is the market-leading, enterprise service bus solution. It offers a fast and simple way for systems and applications to communicate with each other by providing you with universal connectivity and transformation in any IT environment. It delivers the capabilities that are needed to build solutions to address diverse, integration requirements.

A rich set of connectors provide broad connectivity to a wide range of data sources, which include packaged applications, files, mobile devices, messaging systems, and databases. This connectivity includes processing messages for WebSphere MQ, HTTP, web services, JMS, MQTT, TCP/IP, email; connecting to Enterprise Information Systems such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards; connecting to external WebSphere eXtreme Scale grids; working with databases, IMS™, CORBA, CICS® Transaction Server, Salesforce, and more.

Built-in interoperability between Integration Bus Advanced and API Connect Professional lets you to easily create an API in Integration Bus Advanced and rapidly expose this to the API Management catalogue, without the need to code. This allows you to take full advantage of the API Economy.

To learn more about IBM Integration Bus, see IBM Integration Bus overview.

WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Enterprise Edition

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration solutions help you quickly connect hybrid environments that are comprised of public clouds, private clouds, and and on-premises applications. You can develop integrations by using a "configuration, not coding" approach, with premade integration templates, and rich connectors to speed development time.

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration offerings come with built-in connectivity to hundreds of cloud, packaged, and proprietary on-premises applications, which include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), databases, web services, and flat files. This connectivity includes Database, Box.com, Coupa, Domino®, Dropbox, MS Dynamics, MS Office, NetSuite, Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, QuickBooks, Salesforce, SAP, Siebel, SugarCRM, Workday, Zuora, and more.

WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Enterprise Edition is a virtual appliance that can be installed on your existing servers using virtualization technology. Virtual appliances allow better utilization of hardware and faster response to demands for newly deployed systems in contrast to deployment on real appliances, thus helping to reduce the costs of both hardware and software operation and maintenance. Deploying virtual images may help businesses reduce the potential for errors and enable the rapid deployment of working systems for development, test, or production because virtual images are built with known, stable, and tested configurations.

To learn more about WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Enterprise Edition, see WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Enterprise Edition.

API Connect Professional

API Connect Professional empowers API developers to rapidly design APIs with essential security policies and share APIs across organizational boundaries, while providing deep insight into API usage. API Connect Professional is a complete solution that offers critical features that include the ability to:
  • Create APIs and build microservices:
    • Create Microservices and APIs rapidly by using Node.js Loopback and Express® frameworks
    • Model-driven approach to API creation
    • Map models to backends by using available connectors
    • Ability to discover models from the database
    • Ability to build, debug, profile, scale, and monitor Node.js applications
  • Engage with application developers through API portals that provide:
    • API exploration
    • Self-service sign up for rapid onboarding
    • Interactive API testing
    • Application and key management
    • Rate limit notification
    • API usage analytics
  • Define, publish, and analyze REST and SOAP APIs with:
    • API discovery
    • API security management
    • API lifecycle management
  • Establish API rate limits, publish to developer portal and users, gain business insight through API analytics.
  • Provide runtime policy enforcement by using a built-in gateway.

To learn more about API Connect Professional, see IBM API Connect overview.

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