IBM Cloud Pak

for Integration
Automate integrations to
improve application speed
and quality

Businesses are on a break-neck journey to digital transformation. But Highlights

speed without the right approach will only get you to the wrong place faster.
Integrations built too quickly or without proper testing can cause significant – Generate new tests for
rework, costing time and money, as well as potentially impacting application API-led activity automati-
performance and ultimately, reputation. Effective integration is delivered not only cally based on comparison
quickly, but with quality. workload detected in
production environments
To integrate faster and better, every integration must be automated, leveraging versus test environments
best practices and built-in reuse; closed-loop, applying AI to real-world
operational data to identify issues and recommendations, driving continuous – Use built-in NLP and AI
improvement; and multi-style, bringing together the right combination of to gain custom mapping
integration capabilities as opposed to a one-style-fits-all approach. Achieve recommendations to
the optimal mix of existing and new system development by modernizing core accelerate the building
applications to be cloud-native and unlocking the value of your data while of integration flows
sunsetting other systems.
– Built-in automated work-
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is the solution to deliver both speed and quality, load scaling and balancing
improving your integrations and your applications by extending AI-powered helps to avoid production
automation across the integration lifecycle. With it, companies are able to speed and performance issues
their integration development by 300%, reduce costs of integration by over 33%
and increase overall operational efficiency while maintaining enhanced security, – Automate deployment,
governance and availability. scaling and self-healing
across systems
and update without
downtime, enhanced
with end-to-end tracing
Benefits

300%
Accelerate development through automation, powered by AI
Use built-in AI to accelerate integration development by 50% –
300%2. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration comes with everything your
developers need to speed delivery.Low-code/no-code integration
increase in integration
tooling leverages built-in natural language processing (NLP) and AI
speed with IBM Cloud Pak
to offer smarter mapping outcomes. Robotic Process Automation
for Integration
(RPA) connectivity to automate integrations with legacy apps,
automated API test generation, pre-built smart connectors, and a
common, shareable asset repository to enable reuse.

Improve integration quality with continuous feedback based

on real-world data. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration leverages
operational data specific to your company to train the embedded
33%
AI that automates integration work. This closed-loop approach reduction in integration
provides flow and field mapping recommendations, creates costs with IBM Cloud Pak
smarter API test cases and helps uncover inefficiencies in your for Integration
current environment.

Increase efficiency and reduce costs by employing multiple

integration styles and approaches.
To address increasing complexity and drive down costs in hybrid
IT environments, multiple styles of integration are needed. From
creating app integration flows and exposing the work for reuse via
an API to having continuous backend availability for updates using
business critical messaging, this multi-style integration is a key
feature of IBM Cloud Pak for integration. with the industry’s most
complete set of capabilities in a single platform, helping you avoid
the multiple licensing fees that accompany other vendor offerings.

Lower risk and improve workload and integration operations

with DMZ-deployable security.
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration provides proven DMZ and hybrid
cloud-ready security and performance with a gateway that hasn’t
been hacked in 15+ years. Delivers robust performance with over
30,000 transactions per second and includes resiliency and auto-
scaling to improve operations for integration admins. Companies
can demonstrate adherence to security and compliance policies
and identify deployment, operations and security issues as they
happen, providing data to feed AI for future best practices and
asset protection.

Improve workload and operational efficiency through AI-powered

automation while reducing risk with processing mining and robotic
process automation (RPA) capabilities, helping you discover
anomalies across integrations and extending integrations to
otherwise unreachable assets. With built-in automated workload
scaling, balancing and self-healing, you’ll also experience up to
five-nines application availability and throughput optimization.3

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration captures deployment, operation

and security issues as they happen, reducing the time taken to
identify the root cause and simplifying the steps that prevent
potential adherence to security and compliance policies across all
integration assets.

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Capabilities Deployment options
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is a complete hybrid integration Run your integration software more easily virtually
platform, including the optimal mix of traditional and modern anywhere—through containers supported by Red Hat®
integration styles and embeds AI and automation. OpenShift® software on IBM Cloud®, on essentially any
existing infrastructure on premises or through private and
API management public clouds. Use the capabilities you need with a fully
Unlock business data and assets as APIs. modular approach that’s designed to be easy to consume.

Application integration As a part of the IBM Automation platform, IBM Cloud Pak
Connect your cloud and on-premises applications. for Integration includes containerized IBM middleware and
common software services for development and manage-
Event streaming ment on top of a common integration layer.
Deliver real-time Kafka event interaction.

Enterprise messaging
Deliver messages reliably with enterprise-grade messaging.

High-speed data transfer

Drive faster data transport across essentially any cloud
in a security-rich environment.

End-to-end security
Control access to vital resources wherever they are.

Figure 1: IBM Cloud Pak for Integration marketecture

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Security and support Summary
Companies are more connected to the outside world than IBM Cloud Pak for Integration delivers a modern, agile
ever before. IBM Cloud Pak for Integration helps your approach to integration, extending AI-powered automation
organization reduce exposure to business and security risks across the integration lifecycle to improve both the speed and
while adhering to compliance policies. Using IBM proprietary quality of integration development. With it, we’ve seen com-
assessment tools and industry best practices, our technical panies speed their integration development by 300%, reduce
specialists help formulate an identity and access management their costs of integration by over 33% and increase their
(IAM) strategy based on your current and future business overall operational efficiency while maintaining enhanced
requirements. Take advantage of full software stack support security, governance and availability.2
and ongoing security, compliance and version compatibility.
Provide your employees with access to the data they need
to make better business decisions and drive new engagement
models and personalized omnichannel experiences for

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration your customers.

Features and benefits IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is part of IBM Automation, a set
of shared automation services that help you get insight into
how your processes run, visualize hotspots and bottlenecks,
Features Benefits and use financial impact information to prioritize which issues
to address first.
Low-code Increase productivity, reduce time
and no-code to market. Helps ensure that a wider set of
tooling roles has the ability to easily apply AI through
a no-code approach to create intelligent
business solutions.
For more information
AI mapping Integrate applications and data faster, To learn more about IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, please
assist more easily and with greater accuracy. contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner,
Uses semantic analysis and AI algorithms or visit ibm.com/cloud/cloud-pak-for-integration.
to suggest mappings, designed to make
the hardest part of integration simpler.

Connectors
catalog
Connect everything, virtually anywhere.
Prebuilt, security-rich intelligent connectors,
Why IBM?
including RPA, for scraping key details from
existing applications, enabling effective IBM Cloud offers the most open and secure public cloud
connectivity on premises or in the cloud. for business with a next-generation hybrid cloud platform,
advanced data and AI capabilities, and deep enterprise
Design Build and deploy reusable integrations. expertise across 20 industries.
and asset Reuse established and previously written
repository applications to speed development. We offer full stack cloud platforms with over 170 products and
services covering data, containers, AI, the Internet of Things
Security-rich Enforce security consistently (IoT) and blockchain. To learn more, visit ibm.com/cloud.
gateway without external security solutions.
Integrate, control and optimize delivery
of workloads across multiple channels
in a security-rich environment, including
mobile, API, web, service-oriented
architecture (SOA), B2B and cloud.

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1 “Organizational Agility and the CIO: Challenging Bureaucracy, Seeking Integration,”

Workday, 30 January 2020, blog.workday.com/en-us/2020/organizational-
agility-and-the-cio-challenging-bureaucracy-seeking-integration.html
2 “The Total Economic Impact Of An API Management Solution:
Cost Savings and ROI Enabled By IBM API Connect,” Forrester Total
Economic Impact Study Commissioned By IBM, February 2017,
vmark.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMPACTSTUDY_FORESTER.pdf
3 “The Holy Grail of five-nines reliability,” TechTarget, March 2005,
searchnetworking.techtarget.com/feature/The-Holy-Grail-of-five-nines-reliability

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