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An Introduction toIBM Cloud Pak for Integration

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undertaken by you will result in any specific sales, revenue growth or other results.

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countries in which IBM operates.

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Trademark acknowledgements

• Market Need

• Agile Integration Mindset

• IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

• Strategic Investments 2019-2020

• Q/A

Agenda

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Digital Transformation is a necessity

Application

modernizationAgile Integration

enabled by

1. Business Transformation

2. IT Transformation

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Market Need

Digital Transformation is a necessity!

Application


Cloud native

integration

Simple integration

experience for any

squad member

demands

enabled by



3. Technology Transformation

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Market Need

Digital Transformation is a necessity!

Application


Cloud Pak for Integration

Cloud native

integration

Simple integration

experience for any

squad member

demands

enabled by

resulted in designing



3. Technology Transformation

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Market Need

1. (Re)Invent with Data APIs, Events, Integration…

2. Scale and Flexibility Break the monolith

3. Speed and Agility Developer/Ops productivity

Agile Integration Mindset

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Agile Integration Mindset

People & Process

Decentralized ownership

Empower teams to build, re-use, and govern integrations and best practices

Agile Architecture

Fine grained, integrate where needed across clouds, SaaS, and on-premises

Hybrid Integration Platform

Rapidly build, manage and optimize integrations across applications, data, cloud services, APIs, events

Support an expanding range of integration styles

Open, hybrid cloud approach

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Concept Of A Cloud Pak

Complete yet simple

IBM certified

Run anywhere

IBM containerized software

Container platform

and operational servicesLogging, monitoring, security,

identity access management

IBM Cloud Private SystemsEdge

Integrated Software based on common use cases e.g. APIs, Security, App flows, Messaging and

Events, Files

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What is IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I)

• Create all types of Integrations quickly

using simple tools following modern

development practice

• Manage secure integration deployments

across any cloud leveraging cloud-native

practices & architecture, consistent

operational services.

• Re-use integration assets, skills to speed

up development and time-to-market

maintaining the right governance

IBM Cloud Pak for IntegrationMulti-Cloud, Secure, Enterprise-proven Platform

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• Cloud agnostic to run virtually

anywhere on Red Hat OpenShift.

• Unmatched scalability and resiliency

through container and microservices

based design

• Development and operations Agility

through consistent deployment onto

Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes

CP4I Cloud-Native Architecture

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CP4I product components

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API

LifecycleUnlock business data

and assets as APIs

Application

IntegrationConnect your cloud

and on-prem

applications

Data IntegrationUnderstand, cleanse,

transform and deliver

quality data

Secure AccessControl access

to vital resources

wherever

they are

High Speed

TransferSuper fast & secure

data transport across

any cloud

Messaging &

EventsDeliver msgs reliably

with enterprise-grade

messaging

Fast

Secure

Simple

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CP4I Integration and Platform Services

Logo/Picture

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• Asset Repository – Integration goldmine

to store all types of integration assets

for re-use of assets, skills across the

organization

• Logging – Common logging built-in the

platform for all components

• Metering – Platform wide metering of

products for licensing and audit

readiness

• Security – Identity and access

management service for common

onboarding of users / groups

• Flexibility of single license allowing to

deploy any or all capabilities such as

APIs, Events, Messaging, App

Integration, File transfer

• Grow with your use cases by

incrementally adding capabilities and

consuming what you use

• Re-use licenses to de-commission one

capability to provision another

• Deployment choice to deploy

capabilities within CP4I or outside in a

standalone environment

CP4I Flexible & Deployment-Friendly Licensing Model

CP4I includes no-charge entitlements to OpenShift for CP4I use cases

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Next Generation Hybrid Multicloud Platform

Foundation

Infrastructure

Advise Move Build Manage

Certified Offerings

Open Hybrid MulticloudPlatform

Common Services

OpenShift

Multi-cluster Management

RHEL

Cloud Paks

Applications Data Integration AutomationMulticloud

Management

Services

IBM CloudSystems

IBM Power & ZEdge

Private

Roadmap Subject to Change18

Asset re-use across

disciplines. Common

logging, monitoring,

troubleshooting, security.

All in a consistent toolbox

Scalability and

flexibility via micro

service architecture &

containers managed

across any cloud

Multi-Cloud Fabric Integration & Platform

Services

Transformative Integration

Experience

Simplicity and speedy

integration development for

full stack squads.

Precision deployment using

CI/CD and declarative Ops

CP4I Strategic Investments in 2019-2020

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Asset re-use across

disciplines. Common




Scalability and



containers managed

across any cloud


Services


Experience



full stack squads.



Strategic Investments in 2019-2020

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• Simplified, rapid install of Cloud Pak on

OpenShift in IBM Cloud

• No download of Cloud Pak binaries on

local machine.

• Direct provisioning of cloud pak image

from within IBM Cloud

• Fully automated install on OpenShift on

IBM Cloud

• Built-in entitlement check with PPA for

validated provisioning

Easy Install on OpenShift on IBM CloudNew in v2019.3.2

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Multi-Cloud Manager with CP4I

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Integrate applications, data, cloud services,

and APIs

Cloud Pak forMulticloud Management

Multicloud visibility, governance, and

automation

IBM containerizedsoftware


Containerplatform andoperational services


Currently Available

• Automation of CP4I components

across multiple clusters in multiple

private and public clouds.

• Operational Visibility of CP4I components

• Governance of CP4I platform.

Roadmap

• Fine-grained automation visibility, governance & control for CP4I objects

• MQ Queues

• Event stream topics,

• API deployments

• OpenShift Entitlements included within

the Cloud Pak for Integration

• No additional charge for OpenShift to

deploy Cloud Pak for Integration

• Deploy Cloud Pak on any OpenShift

supported 3rd party cloud

• OpenShift v3.11 supported for

customer managed deployments

• Restricted use of OpenShift for CP4I

components only

CP4I Includes OpenShift Entitlements

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New in v2019.3.2

CP4I Cloud Native Deployment

• Cloud-native continuous availability by

underlying OpenShift and K8 platform

• Single availability zone (AZ) or multi-

AZs deployments in on-premise or

public cloud

• Fault tolerance driven by quorum-

based K8 requirements and

deployments i.e. node failure tolerance

of (N-1)/2 in a cluster

Source: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/garage/architectures/implementation/cloudpak-integration-resiliency24

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/garage/architectures/implementation/cloudpak-integration-resiliency

Asset re-use across

disciplines. Common




Scalability and



containers managed

across any cloud


Services


Experience



full stack squads.




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CP4I Integration & Platform Services

1. CP4I Integration ServicesAccelerate integration development & deployment

• Platform Navigator

• Asset Repository

• End to end tracing (*futures)

2. Cross Pak Common ServicesProvide consistency across cloud paks

• Logging, Monitoring, Metering

• Catalog & Helm chart deployment

• Identity and Access Management

• Multi-cluster management

*Futures: Roadmap Subject to Change26


Integrate applications, data, cloud services,

and APIs



Git Integration With Asset Repository

• First class integration of Git with Asset

repository

• Fine-grained granularity to select Git

branch, specific files into Asset

repository

• Flexibility to link up multiple Git repo

into Asset repository

• Auto-sync between Asset Repo and Git

keeping assets up to date

• Powerful search based on metadata

tagged in Asset repo for Git assets 27

New in v2019.3.2

Enhanced Monitoring Dashboard

• Consistent monitoring dashboards

across CP4I products

• Design-driven consistency of metrics

across CP4I products

• Simpler navigation to instance specific

monitoring dashboards (e.g. API

Connect, App Connect, MQ, Event

Stream, Aspera etc.)

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New in v2019.3.2

Asset re-use across

disciplines. Common




Scalability and



containers managed

across any cloud


Services


Experience



full stack squads.




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Seamless Integration for APIs and Application Flows

• Frictionless design-time experience in

App Connect to publish APIs in API

Connect

• Developer-oriented design to create

flows, expose and manage as APIs

• Without leaving App Connect, in just 5

steps, publish APIs from App Connect

into API Connect

• Increased developer productivity during

design time with no switching between

App Connect & API Connect consoles30

New in v2019.3.2

Efficient MQ Connectivity From App Connect

• Efficient MQ connectivity in App

Connect without deploying a queue

manager

• Flexibility install App Connect with just

MQ client image option with libraries to

connect to any queue manager

• Optimized install footprint, avoiding

deployment of local queue manager

and persistent volumes, in order to

have MQ client librariesDeploy ACE with MQ Client libraries

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New in v2019.3.2

Back Up

Cloud Pak forData


Cloud Pak forAutomation

Cloud Pak forMulticloud Management

Cloud Pak for Applications

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Cloud Paks – Pre-integrated for Use Cases

Developer Tools

ModernizationToolkit

Frameworks and Runtimes

Organize Analyze

Collect

API Lifecycle

Messaging and Events

App and Data Integration Workflow and Decisions

Operational Intelligence

App and Infrastructure

Muticluster

Security and ComplianceManagement

Content

Today, IBM offers clients the first five Cloud Paks…

IBM Cloud / July 2019 / © 2019 IBM Corporation






IBM Cloud SystemsEdge Private

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Cloud Pak – Speed to Market. Enterprise Grade

Containers AloneClient creates containers

or receives software as standalone

container(s)

IBM Cloud PaksComplete solutions certified for

enterprise use cases

Runs anywhere Yes Yes

Vulnerability scanned Yes Yes

Red Hat container certification Depends on product Yes

Complete solution w/ container platform No Yes

IBM certified/orchestrated for production

(Built for Kubernetes by experts; certified against 250+ criteria)No Yes

Multicloud validation No Yes

Integrated deployment experience No Yes

Full stack support by IBM

(Base OS, software, and container platform)No Yes

License metering integration No Yes

Scalable and resilient No Yes

Encrypted secrets / limited privileges Do it yourself Yes

Management and operations Build your own Yes

Lifecycle Management Manage it yourself Yes

Cloud PaksContainerized

software alone

Application & Data Integration

IBM App Connect delivers breadth of application integration needs across a modern digital business.

Messaging & Events

IBM MQ is the proven and trusted market leader.

IBM Event Streams delivers real-time Kafka event interaction.

API Lifecycle

IBM API Connect is industry’s first multicloud API solution delivering high scalability & performance.

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

Brings together industry-leading integration capabilities to form the industry's most complete hybrid integration platform (HIP)

Supports the scale, security, and economics required for all integration and digital transformation initiatives

High Speed Data Transfer

IBM Aspera to send, share, stream and sync large files and data sets more securely, reliably and at maximum speed over global IP networks.

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API Connect & DataPower Gateways

What’s New 3Q19


IBM’s statements regarding its plans, directions and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice

at IBM’s sole discretion. Information regarding potential future products is intended to outline our general

product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information mentioned

regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material,

code or functionality. Information about potential future products may not be incorporated into any contract.

The development, release, and timing of any future features or functionality described for our products

remains at our sole discretion


• IBM Confidential. Unless specifically advised otherwise, you should assume that all the information in this presentation

(whether given in writing or orally) is IBM Confidential and restrict access to this information in accordance with the

confidentiality terms in place between your organization and IBM.

• Content Authority. The workshops, sessions and materials have been prepared by IBM or the session speakers and

reflect their own views. They are provided for informational purposes only, and are neither intended to, nor shall have the

effect of being, legal or other guidance or advice to any participant. While efforts were made to verify the completeness

and accuracy of the information contained in this presentation, it is provided AS-IS without warranty of any kind, express or

implied. IBM shall not be responsible for any damages arising out of the use of, or otherwise related to, this presentation

or any other materials. Nothing contained in this presentation is intended to, nor shall have the effect of, creating any

warranties or representations from IBM or its suppliers or licensors, or altering the terms and conditions of the applicable

license agreement governing the use of IBM software.

• Performance. Performance is based on measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks in a controlled

environment. The actual throughput or performance that any user will experience will vary depending upon many factors,

including considerations such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user’s job stream, the I/O configuration, the

storage configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will

achieve results similar to those stated here.

• Customer Examples. Any customer examples described are presented as illustrations of how those customers have

used IBM products and the results they may have achieved. Actual environmental costs and performance characteristics

may vary by customer. Nothing contained in these materials is intended to, nor shall have the effect of, stating or implying

that any activities undertaken by you will result in any specific sales, revenue growth or other results.

• Availability. References in this presentation to IBM products, programs, or services do not imply that they will be

available in all countries in which IBM operates

Trademark Acknowledgements

• IBM, IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower Gateway are trademarks of International Business Machines

Corporation, registered in many jurisdictions

• Other company, product and service names may be trademarks, registered marks or service marks of

their respective owners. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the web at "Copyright and

trademark information" ibm.com/legal/copytrade.html

• The Market Point of View & Trends

• Your Feedback. Our Investments 2019

• Tell Me What’s New & Cool

• Let’s Watch Some Live Action

Agenda

25 minutes

15 minutes

Winner of the 2019 iF Design Award

Winner of iF Design Award 2019

Significant investment in 2018 driving user

research, design sessions, stake holder workshops

with non-IBM and IBM clients

Persona-based based brand new design catering

to various organizations focusing on developer, API

product manager, API admin

Simplified concepts for specific personas e.g. a

developer can create & publish APIs in less than 5

clicks while IT/Ops can design availability zones

across various clouds to deploy APIs anywhere

Obsessive Focus on User Experience & Simplicity

https://medium.com/design-ibm/ibm-api-connect-wins-the-2019-if-design-award-8e9e2d3249a

IBM API Connect: Ranked #1 in API Management

Ranked #1 in market share with

nearly double the share of the

next closest vendor (IDC June

2018)

Trusted by enterprises of all sizes

across industries and geographies

Learn more

https://developer.ibm.com/apiconnect/2018/08/08/ibms-api-management-undisputed-1-market-share/

Leader in Forrester & Gartner 2018 Reports

2018 Forrester Wave API Management

Magic Quadrant:

• IBM API Connect is clearly in the

Leaders Quadrant again!

2018 Gartner API Management Magic

Quadrant:

• IBM API Connect in Leaders Quadrant

with several vendors

• Did not take into account IBM’s v2018

release plans as Gartner focuses on GA

versions only

API Integration Market Trends

API back ends are distributed across multiple on-

premises and off-premises clouds

API volume explosion requires performance,

without sacrificing security

API Integration is becoming a core IT function,

requiring ease of operations for developers and

admins alike

Modern integration architectures with API,

Application, Messaging, Events and Fast File

Transfer are being adopted

Security-hardened and

highly performant API

Gateway service laying

the foundation for growing

API projects and volumes

What’s New in 2019

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Scalability, flexibility &

IBM managed options

through a Microservices

and Cloud native

architecture across any

cloud

Multi-Cloud Fabric Performant & Secure Agile Operations

Simple and easy

operations for developers

and administrators with

automation and reduced

overhead

Multi-Cloud Fabric

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• Built Into IBM Cloud Integration Platform for an integrated UX

across integration styles

• New & Simpler UX on IBM Cloud API Connect Reserved

Instance

• Multi-Cloud deployment flexibility with microservices &

Kubernetes-based API Connect

• Improved Transaction Latency thorough co-location of API

Gateway & Analytics with Systems of Records

• Handle SLAs & Usage Spikes by auto-scaling components

(i.e. API Gateway)

• Improved Resiliency through autonomic API Gateway cluster

management

IBM Cloud Integration Platform

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Most powerful integration platform on the

market

• NEW offering incorporating traditional and

modern integration including APIs, App

Integration, Message queuing, Event

streams and Fast file transfer

Deploy wherever needed

• Supports deployment on-premises or in any

cloud

Enterprise grade

• Secure, scalable modern architecture

Businesses can save 𝟏

𝟑of their integration

cost, gaining 3x the speed

IBM CloudIntegration

Modern User Experience on API Connect Reserved

Reserved Instance with improved experience

delivering productivity enhancements with

v2018+ as SaaS

Bring your own gateway to securely expose

APIs on-premise or in third-party Clouds

Active-active high availability with new APIC

Reserved Instance High Availability add-on

Unlimited API Gateway licenses for customer

managed use at no additional charge in APIC

Reserved Instance deployment

API Gateway

API

API Gateway

API

API Gateway

API

API Gateway

API

API Connect Reserved

Instance in IBM Cloud

IBM Managed

API Connect

API Gateway

API

Customer Managed

API Gateway

On-Premises

Multi-Cloud Deployment Flexibility

Flexibility to deploy on cloud using

Standard Kubernetes, IBM Cloud Private,

Red Hat OpenShift & VMWare

Performant, reliable and low latency

architecture with co-located gateway

deployed with analytics

Enhanced operational efficiency with

hybrid deployment topology with

components on any cloud

Hybrid licensing for IBM and Customer

managed deployments with a unified API

call volume based business model

Runtime Scale for Usage Spikes

Scale API gateway clusters to adhere to

SLAs and handle volume spikes

Autonomous gateway management,

deploy gateways on multiple clouds

without any operational impact

Self-healing gateways optimizing scaling

for usage spikes to improve runtime

resiliency

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API

Gateway

Primary

Secondary..2

Secondary..N

API

Gateway

API

Gateway

Add to

cluster

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• Istio Integration for improved performance & security by

passing API header and tokens into Istio

• Open API V3 support to meet security industry standards (i.e.

PSD2) & improve reuse

• OpenBanking & PSD2 Compliant including flexible JWT and

OAuth features

• 10X Improved Performance with cloud-native API-centric

Gateway Service

• Fast Time to Value through Out of the Box policies for API

Gateway Service

• Enterprise Specific Security Support through OAuth flow

customization

• Expanded Security with OIDC, CAPTCHA, Perimeter, DNS

check on Portal, etc.

Performant and Secure

Istio ready architecture to complement

capabilities of API management and

microservices management

End to end security by combining ingress

security (i.e. OAuth) with microservices

security (i.e. JWT validation) without writing

any code

First & only API management platform to

propagate API security and rate limit claims

from the API Gateway into Istio to enable

microservices to provide unique client

experiences (i.e. Gold vs. Silver users)

Extending API Security into Istio Service Mesh

Microservice

Messaging

Microservice

Microservice

REST

RESTMicroservice

API Gateway

JWT

JWT

JWT

JWT

Open API V3 support of Berlin Group

NextGenPSD2 framework through CLI

Accelerate your PSD2 adoption with set of Open

Banking specifications for exposing banking

information securely

Manage and enforce other OAI3 APIs within the

same constructs

Open API V3 support for Open Banking / PSD2

Protect your Client with Advanced Security

Accelerates market delivery of APIs by

delivering support for OpenID Connect to

provide Single-Sign-On (SSO) and identity

validation using JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

Granularity to Revoke OAuth access token

using enhanced token management

Advanced OAuth Consent with Dynamic scope

enforcement during API Invocation

Up to 10X increased performance with natively built

API Gateway using purpose-built technology for

native OpenAPI/Swagger REST and SOAP APIs

Multi-cloud scalability and extensibility to help meet

SLAs and improve client user experience

Optimized drag & drop built-in policies for security,

traffic control and mediation including flexible OAuth,

enhanced JSON & XML threat protection

Secure to the core with self-contained signed &

encrypted image to minimize risk, plus proven

security policies to quickly protect APIs

Continued support for Multiprotocol Gateway Service

to ease migrations

Before: DP Multi protocol

Gateway Service

API call Backend

New: Native API

Gateway Service

API call Backend

Cloud-Native API Gateway Service in DataPower

API GW service

Policies for Enforcement on API Gateway Service

Gateway Script and XSLT policy support

provides flexible message mediation &

dynamic security enforcement

Dynamic Routing support through

Conditional Policy

Enforce strong security through Parse,

JSON and XML Schema Validation policy

OpenID Connect support to enable banks to

meet PSD2 / Open Banking regulations

OAuth Token revocation to enable self-

service token management

Foundational Security Mediation

Invoke API Key Map

Activity Log JWT Validate JSON-XML

Rate Limit JWT Generate Gateway Script

Throw OAuth Policy XSLT

Set Variable Parse

(Threat Detection)

Conditional Validate

User Security

OpenID Connect

Built-in policies for new API Gateway Service

Policies for Enforcement on API Gateway Service

Gateway Script and XSLT policy support

provides flexible message mediation &

dynamic security enforcement

Dynamic Routing support through

Conditional Policy

Enforce strong security through Parse,

JSON and XML Schema Validation policy

OpenID Connect support to enable banks to

meet PSD2 / Open Banking regulations

OAuth Token revocation to enable self-

service token management

Foundational Security Mediation

Invoke API Key Map

Activity Log JWT Validate JSON-XML

Rate Limit JWT Generate Gateway Script

Throw OAuth Policy XSLT

Set Variable Parse

(Threat Detection)

Conditional Validate

User Security

OpenID Connect

Built-in policies for new API Gateway Service

Rapid OAuth policy creation to quickly create

OAuth provider security without deep security

expertise

Improved governance capabilities on managing

OAuth providers with flexible administrative

access control to enforce enterprise standards

Ability to meet every new business demands

with customizable OAuth assembly

New User Security policy to enforce

authentication & authorization in API assembly,

adapting to unique enterprise security needs

Meeting Security Needs through New Flexible OAuth Provider

Hardened Portal Security

Supports OpenID Connect for

accelerated developer on-boarding and

social login

Enable PSD2/ Open Banking compliance

to programmatically onboard consumers

using REST Management APIs and

OpenID Connect

Enhanced spam protection against spam

bots with CAPTCHA and honeypot

Detect and prevent malicious attacks

with perimeter and DNS check

Agile Operations

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• No-Code Automated API Testing & Monitoring for Developer

productivity

• Local API Test & Monitor App to speed adoption

• Granular Migration to transform current topology into a

modern topology

• Line of Business Autonomy with OOTB API updates for

Blue/Green deployments

• Integrated Security with ODIC for Enterprise identity

providers governing API developer and admin user access

• Auto-Generated GraphQL APIs via LoopBack for Developer

productivity

• Reduced TCO with DataPower Operations Dashboard plugin

for Splunk

• Cloud-Native operational resiliency with Istio integration

API Connect Test and Monitor

No code necessary, visual composer to create

tests in < 1 minute

Automated testing and monitoring to

understand API performance and behavior

Collaborate and win as a team by sharing tests

and detect errors earlier

No charge as a standalone offering via Cloud

and native Desktop application

Bundled with IBM products to become

ubiquitous within enterprises

Deep engagement with Developer community

to win together

Run a Lightweight API Connect on Your Desktop!

Rapidly create and test APIs with an improved

developer experience

Improved developer productivity by removing

requirement to connect to APIC Cloud

Host a light weight API Manager and gateway

service for testing APIs locally

Operate independently as a developer to

design and test APIs on laptop/desktop

Developers have the ability to connect to localhost or to connect to their APIC Cloud(s)

Granular Migration to Future-Proof Deployment

Automated migration to modern v2018

architecture in few simple steps

Flexible and granular solution lets you easily

choose what to migrate through human-readable

(YAML) and structured representation of data

Run current APIs as-is on modern v2018

architecture

Faster time to market with dry-run migration

capability to validate migration success before

executing

Continued support in-line with IBM Support

lifecycle for v5

Flexible Publishing Control

Near zero-downtime and rollback

capabilities via Blue/Green deployments

Simplified Blue/Green deployment

support out of the box for new API updates

with ease

Granular control to selectively publish

APIs to specific gateways providing

flexibility for multiple line of business

operation

Enhanced Troubleshooting with DataPower Operations Dashboard

Powerful API diagnostics with detailed views

across latency, version, policy, and consumer

Non-intrusive tracking of transactions across

multiple gateways without any manual policy

instrumentation

Supercharged performance for demanding

workloads via new distributed, federated server

architecture

Reduce Splunk licensing cost with DPOD plug-

in for Splunk, empowering Splunk admins unique

operational insight collected from DPOD

LoopBack

OASGraph

REST

EndpointGraphQL

Endpoint

Learn more

GraphQL Support via LoopBack OASGraph

Rapidly translate existing REST interfaces

to auto-create GraphQL interface

Simplified user experience through open-

source LoopBack tooling

Support for Open API V3 to meet industry

standards

CLI for CI/CD automation to generate

GraphQL schema with LoopBack module to

support dynamic enforcement

http://v4.loopback.io/oasgraph.html

Cloud-Native Operational Resiliency with Istio Integration

New cloud-native patterns enabled

through Istio, API Connect and

DataPower integration

Increased operational resiliency,

leveraging Istio capabilities such as

circuit breaker and A/B deployment

patterns

Intelligent and dynamic routing based

on business logic via meta-data

injected into the mesh provided by API

Connect

Microservice

Messaging

Microservice

Microservice

REST

RESTMicroservice

API Gateway

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