Stability in times of change – IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

There are times where it seems that all we experience is stormy weather. This might be in our lives, or in business, or even the world around us. And at times like these it is useful to have something to anchor onto. Something to depend upon.

Maybe your business is experiencing unprecedented change at the moment? Are you looking at hunkering down to keep going? Then you need something to depend on?

Or maybe you see the best strategy of trying to make new connections, and to leverage your business strengths by connecting to and working with other businesses to leverage their strengths too. In which case you certainly want to be sure to make use of something that will adapt to new circumstances but also will do the job you need it to do.

What you need is IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.

Cloud Pak for Integration is rapidly becoming the choice of many enterprises across the globe as the ideal way to combine seamless access to leading integration tools and middleware with an agile and modern approach to application connectivity, integration, deployment and maintenance.

Taking advantage of new ways to create, build and deploy applications and integrate them across the business, Cloud Pak for Integration offers a powerful, yet simple interface to provide access to a comprehensive and complete set of integration features and capabilities, easily configured and deployed through a single, tailored user interface.

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration is built to provide a modern container-based integration platform including IBM’s leading integration offerings and capabilities which can be used either as an integrated part of this container deployment environment or deployed standalone as they are today. This is supported through a flexible licensing approach. Existing integration clients can bring their current investments in IBM’s integration offerings into this licensing model, and all clients can buy new licensing entitlements offering complete flexibility, not just in how you choose to deploy integration features, but with the power to change these integration choices as frequently as you want.

The Cloud Pak for Integration includes these market-leading integration offerings:

IBM App Connect

IBM API Connect

IBM Aspera High Speed Transfer Server

IBM DataPower Gateway Virtual Edition

IBM Event Streams

IBM MQ

The Cloud Pak for Integration is further enhanced with additional features such as an Asset Repository and an Operations Dashboard.

The Cloud Pak for Integration is typically updated and enhanced every quarter and I am pleased to announce the latest release of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration. This release, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 2020.1.1 became generally available on March 31^st 2020. In this latest update there are a number of key new features.

• The addition of App Connect Designer tooling. This tooling, now available for use as an on-premises tool (previously only available as a cloud-based service) enables customers to achieve faster time to market and improve their developer efficiency by creating APIs in minutes, without having to code.
• Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3
• Improved integration between App Connect and the Cloud Pak for Integration Asset Repository. This will help to encourage reuse across the organization as developers can now share assets from App Connect across the wider Cloud Pak for Integration platform and access those assets directly within the user interface.

 

Clients acquiring Cloud Pak for Integration entitlements can buy licenses in a number of ways. The offering is sold by VPC, and is available as perpetual VPC entitlement, by monthly VPC or through a Committed Term License VPC agreement.

A version of this blog post is also available on the IBM Middleware Community site here

Tags: API Connect, App Connect, Aspera, Asset Repository, CP4I 2020.1.1, DataPower, Event Streams, IBM Cloud Pak, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, IBM MQ, OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat, Red Hat OpenShift, VPC