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Automation and App Connect Enterprise for Integration

1IBM Integration / © 2020 IBM Corporation

Wayne Swales, Application Integration Offering Management

IBM Cloud Integration | 2020 | © IBM

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REST Ahead to accelerate innovation using modern protocols like events, streaming

Decentralization of businesses is forcing newer models of integration

Hyper automation of the integration and APIlifecycle will require modern tools and accelerators for Agile Integration

Machine learning and Integration will improve productivity and faster time-to-value

Multi-cloud architecture, Hybrid deployment is the new normal

Cloud native architecture and its interaction will require deeper integration into service mesh


Developers, architects, integrators, operations .. have been providing automated services for decades: Enabling applications across business units and external systems to communicate to enable a

seamless automated experience for end users … needs integration

Business processes (BPM)Workflow modelled automated business processes … needs integration

Publish Subscribe Early adoption of event driven networks … needs integration

IoTautomation of sensor data collection … needs integration

Mobile automation of many applications from handheld devices.Buying/Selling applicationsBooking applications.. Endless list … needs integration

Integrated systems and applicationsAccount opening, Stock changes, ATM’s, analytics .. Endless list. … needs integration

Reality of Automation

What is App Connect

… An integration engineConnects any application & system

Out of the box protocol connectors provided as well as SaaS and BYO

Connect & route

Out of the box parsers provided as well as BYO

Format, encode, transform, enrich

Scale integration

Configuration to scale to many 1000’s of integrations a second

Multiple processes, multiple threads, scale up, scale out

Highly optimised C based engine for performance and optimisation

Deploy where needed

On-prem and/or Clouds for hybrid and managed requirements, ESB, Micro-services

Flexible deployment options with a Hybrid Management WebUI

Industry Packs

Other IBM solutions built on top for healthcare, manufacturing, finance and more

Entitlements & Free Developer Edition

MQ Advanced

All SaaS Connectors – Not charged separately

There are many integration solutions

▪ Open Source

▪ Coding

▪ Out of the box experiences

When choosing a solution

▪ Best not to choose on a single project

▪ Ensure the solution has all the capabilities

needed out of the box for future projects

▪ If not can be customised, extensible

▪ Choose a vendor with a long term strategy

▪ Integration is infrastructure

▪ 24X7

▪ Ensure the solution meets performance

requirements

▪ Are there 3rd Party requirements

▪ Hidden costs – Connectors, support, updates

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App Connect investmentIBM has invested in development, design teams, supporting teams, field skills across IBM and Business Partners for 2 decades and continues to innovate and invest in the integration space.

.. We have a new release coming this year, currently in open beta.

Other IBM products and some 3rd party offerings are built on-top of IBM’s integration and many other technologies rely on IBM integration, such as IBM Financial Transaction Manager, Maximo, Safer Payments, Industry 4.0 solutions, Healthcare solutions, Stirling and many others.

IBM Integration is used for its reliability, performance on low spec hardware, comprehensive out-of-the-box capabilities and wide range of deployment options from on-prem, clouds, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, mainframes both z/OS zCX containers and IBM z/Linux & LinuxOne. Providing customers with a comprehensive range of deployment options across Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Micro-services container deployments, managed containers Cloud Paks and Public Clouds

With the addition of App Connect Professional connectors for simple SaaS connectivity with App Connect Enterprise integration all part of the same licence, IBM Integration provides a very extensible solution for all industries

The open beta driver(s) can be downloaded from the following URL(s): https://ibm.biz/eXp-appcon-open-beta or https://bit.ly/eXp-appcon-open-beta ..

https://ibm.biz/eXp-appcon-open-beta

https://bit.ly/eXp-appcon-open-beta

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Powering Enterprises for past 20 years

Continuous innovation and investment

Undisputed market leader in the integration space for the past 20 years in a row!

Given the size and relevancy in the market, we continue to invest aggressively to build on our strong heritage as a consistent leader.

Evolving rapidly over 20 years, delivering new features every quarter in each successive release.

MQSeries Integrator

WebSphereMQ Systems Integrator

WebSphereBusiness Integration

Message Broker

WebSphere Message Broker

IBM Integration Bus

IBM App Connect

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If automation has already been around for years

… So what’s new

… Before that let’s first take a look

at the key component for automation

27.1 billion networked devices and connections by 2021

2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily

75 billion IoTdevices by 2025… 1/4 for Smart Cities

830 million connected wearable devicesby 2020

3.5 billion cellularIoT connectionsby 2023

45 billion cameras by 2022

By 2020, 1.7 MB of data will be generated for each person on Earth every second

Data

Time

Available Data

Understood Data

Enterprise

Amnesia

Automation & Integration

Automation means many things in many different scenarios. BPM, RPA, AI, ML, Events, Integration. All play a part in automating and optimizing businesses, from automating development processes to business applications

Data is the key component to a business, automation with integration can make that data of more value

This is where integration

with better automation can

assist customers in getting

higher value from their data

Businesses know they have

a lot of data, but sometimes

forget they have the

potential to get higher value

from the data

Quote from Garter - Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020: Hyperautomation, March 2020

“Business executives are demanding a path to digital operational excellence.

The net result is tremendous pent-up demand for speed…of automation and integration. ”

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Organizations need to rethinktheir integration strategy

- Automated

- Closed-loop

- Multi-style

Every integration must be:


With AI, informed by real world operational data, to continuously improve integrations

To integrate faster and intelligently


Lack of operational

visibility to improve

integrations

Traditional

approach of using

only one integration

style

Manual tasks

requiring expert

integration skills

Automated integrations, powered by AI, leveraging best practices and built-in reuse to eliminate the skills barrier

Closed-loop integration lifecycle that uses real-world, company specific, operational data using AI to identify issues and recommendations

Multi-style integration streamlines using different styles of integration together to deliver faster and better than a one-style-fits-all approach

Successful enterprises utilize AI and operational data to integrate faster and better…


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Automation & Integration

• Allows users to implement completely automated tasks

and semi-automated tasks that require human monitoring

and actions

• Perform complex event processing such that event

condition or situation is detected across multiple instances

of flow run

• Users can implement flows that can correlate and

orchestrate events

• Users can implement actions that can send key

information and updates to directly users as smart

notifications

• Some of these notifications may have follow-on actions

for users to perform, which will trigger another set of

actions


AI powered Mapping Assist

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Greatly increase the productivity of your team with AI that simplifies the integration process

• Ready to use - AI/ML algorithm is pre-trained to start working as soon as you do and continues to improve suggestions over time as it acquires behavioral knowledge from you

• Comprehensive - Mapping Assist considers all applications in a flow when offering mapping suggestions, and not just the prior node in a flow

• AI - Mapping Assist’s algorithm can provide suggestions not just for flat structures, but also for nested complex objects, arrays, and custom objects

• Private and secure - The AI model is deployed where your integrations run, IBM will never view or request to share any of your data

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If automation has already been around for years

… So what’s new & coming


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The next phase of accelerating productivity by automating how apps are added to the flow

• Metadata rich - static and dynamically discovered metadata about your apps which includes relationships across various objects in those systems

• Assisted decisions - App Connect performs additional exploration in the connected systems to find recommendations what could help augment the flow design with needed information

• Automating flow build - Flow Assist recommendations then automate adding the required connector objects, action, transformation nodes, and patterns

Given we know that the user is taking data from MS Dynamics…

…we offer suggestions from other objects in the source system that are not yet on the canvas

AI powered Flow AssistOn Roadmap


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WHY: “I have to integrate with legacy apps that don’t have APIs or source code”

WHAT: Add an RPA Connector allowing the Integration Cartridge to interact with legacy application that do not have APIs

HOW: RPA to scrape key details from the legacy application and provide new metadata to enable effective connectivity

RPA bots, chatbots and automation

App Connect action invokes a WDG automation WDG automation invokes App Connect integration flow

App Connect to offer native automation connector Build consumable microservices in App Connect

On Roadmap


Hybrid Dashboard

Manage on-premise, cloud, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud

Single unified dashboard to monitor, manage and control cross all deployment targets

Manage all types of integrations and assets

Single control plane to deploy, manage, monitor, logs, alerts, health check, status, etc.

Linux

Windows

AIX

zLinux

LinuxOne zCX

Any Cloud

On Roadmap

View and manage integrations

across any hybrid cloud

deployment

IBM Automation platformThe most complete set of business and IT Automation services, powered by AI

Use cases Customer experience

Business operations

Workforce management

Outage avoidance

Application risk management

DevSecOps visibility

Hybrid cloud integration

Real-time analytics

Transactional integrity

Site deployment automation

4G/5G telco cloud platform

NFV lifecycle management

IBM Cloud Paks

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation

⎻ Incident resolution

⎻ Hybrid application management

⎻ Observability

⎻ Application integration

⎻ API management

⎻ Messaging and events

⎻ Workflow and decisions

⎻ Content services

⎻ Operational intelligence

⎻ Intent-driven orchestration

⎻ Closed-loop operations

⎻ Network optimization

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Automation foundation

⎻ Robotic Process Automation

⎻ Event detection ⎻ 3rd Partyintegrations

⎻ Natural language interactions

⎻ Machine learning ⎻ Operational models⎻ Process and task mining

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IBM Cloud AWS MicrosoftAzure

GoogleCloud

End pointsPrivate IBM ZIBM LinuxOneIBM Power Systems

VMware


Thank You

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App Connect Enterprise Event Scenario


What are Events, business events and tech events

Applications &

Apps

Transactions

A call to a help deskA sale is madeA Stock item changedA pin number is changedA delivery is madeAn inquiry is made on a productA customer’s address is changedAn ATM event happens

Almost anything

App ConnectApplication Integration

EventData

MQ

API’s

Kafka

DataPower

Events emitted from source applications.IBM App Connect receives the event data, formats it to a destination format and protocol used by a target system.The target can be any destination, in containers, Outside of containers, Clouds, Systems, ApplicationsDatabases, Files, Analytics, Audit logs etc.Request/Reply, Fire Forget all patterns supportedSecurity, Scale, Reliability, Agility, Transactions

Any system

Files, DBs

Any to Any

ACE on Cloud, Containers, ESB etc

SaaSAppsIBM Cloud Pak for

IntegrationCP4i


Why we win - Six Key IBM Differentiators

Leading architecture for hybrid/multi-cloud deployment across any public or private cloud

Critical for multinational businesses as well as hybrid IT ops

Key productivity features for the full compliment of personas – with specific leadership in App and API Integration

Achieve faster, higher quality outcomes and democratize integration initiatives

Strongest enterprise-grade, industry-proven integration features complimented with end-to-end security features and capabilities

Protect and secure critical business data and systems

Lean and fastest-performing integration runtimes that handles aggressive workload demands by optimized performance within a horizontally scalable architecture

Help IT keep pace with the demands of the business optimized to run on small IT footprint

Native support for kubernetes and leading investments in OpenShift

Simplifies modern dev-ops to standardize software & benefit TCO

Best of breed, market leading App/API integration, Messaging, Events, High Speed File Transfer and Security in a single unified integration platform

Enables higher productivity across the entire integration solution space

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Callable Flows

Toolkit

Toolkit

- SaaS Connectors Can be

used to call and be called by

App Connect Toolkit flows.

- Provides secure easy Cloud

to Cloud, On-Prem to Cloud

and Cloud to On-Prem

integration

- IIB and ACE can invoke each

other as well as cloud

instances

- Secure encrypted channels

via provided “switch server”

SaaSDesigner

The z15 single frame system requires 75 percent less floor

space than x86 servers

190 configurable cores and up to 40 TB

memory

Secure container / Kubernetes based

solutions on IBM Z or LinuxONE private and

hybrid clouds

Small/Medium/Large z15

Small/Medium/LargeLinuxONE II/III

ACE fully supported on z/Linux and LinuxONE offers unparallel Vertical Scaling, Workload consolidation, removes server farms and adds high levels of security

zCX Supported at ACE 11.0.0.8

Containers on z/OS

ACE enhancements Sept 18th 2020

JCL to manage

SMP/E install option

ACE bip messages sent to the MVS

console

/p stop, /s start /f modify

New redbook

Value

Integration close to z/OS sub-systems

Security, consolidation, scale up

In-Memory networking using high-speed

TCP communications between partitions

(Hiper-sockets, iQDIO)

z/OS Workload manager policies

Customers rely on z/OS and directions ahead

IIB z/OS 10.x (SoD)• Let’s make it easy for customers on Systems Z• Deliver IIB 10.x on z/OS• Update binaries and pre-req levels• Extend support to 2030 and beyond• Simple migration, less disruption

1 trillion secure web transactions per day

2M+ containers tested

Scale with up to 2.4M containers on a single

system

Achieve unparalleled performance on System Z & LinuxONEFull range to suit every business size

ACE additional entitlementsFor every VPC of ACE purchased, get 500K iPaaS flows per month to connect SaaS

systems to your mainframes. Up to a maximum of 10M flow runs per month for free.

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