- The product supports a wide range of protocols: WebSphere MQ, JMS 1.1 and 2.0, HTTP and HTTPS, web services (SOAP and REST), File, Enterprise Information Systems (including SAP and Siebel), and TCP/IP.

- It supports a broad range of data formats: binary formats (C and COBOL), XML, and industry standards (including SWIFT, EDI, and HIPAA). You can also define your own data formats.

- It supports many operations, including routing, transforming, filtering, enriching, monitoring, distribution, collection, correlation, and detection.

- Application development, test, and deployment

You can use one or more of the supplied options to program your applications:

- An extensive range of administration and systems management options for developed solutions.

- Support for a wide range of operating system and hardware platforms.

- A scalable, highly performing architecture, based on requirements from traditional transaction processing environments.

- Tight integration with software products, from IBM and other vendors, that provide related management and connectivity services.

More details on IBM Cloud products can be found at: www.ibm.com/cloud/products.

Watson Machine Learning provides a full range of tools and services so you can build, train, and deploy Machine Learning models. Choose from tools that fully automate the training process for rapid prototyping to tools that give you complete control to create a model that matches your needs.

This graphic illustrates a typical process for a machine learning model:

IBM Watson Studio tools

Watson Studio is a collaborative environment with graphical tools for designing, training, deploying, and managing models with your Watson Machine Learning services:

IBM App Connect Enterprise software combines the existing, industry-trusted technologies of IBM Integration Bus with IBM App Connect Professional and with cloud native technologies, to deliver a platform that supports the full breadth of integration needs across a modern digital enterprise.

Using the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit, you can develop integration solutions and deploy them to IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, the dedicated runtime of IBM App Connect Enterprise software, and to IBM App Connect Enterprise on IBM Cloud. You can use an extensive range of administration and systems management options to manage your integration solutions.

Using the capabilities of IBM App Connect Professional (bundled as part of IBM App Connect Enterprise), you can quickly connect hybrid environments that are comprised of public clouds, private clouds, 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. 

IBM App Connect Enterprise can also use an extensive range of SaaS connectors, which can run on premises using the bundled App Connect Professional software or on the cloud using IBM App Connect on IBM Cloud. 

You can use IBM App Connect Enterprise to connect applications together, regardless of the message formats or protocols that they support.

This connectivity means that your diverse applications can interact and exchange data with other applications in a flexible, dynamic, and extensible infrastructure. IBM App Connect Enterprise routes, transforms, and enriches messages from one location to any other location:

• The product supports a wide range of protocols: IBM MQ, JMS 1.1 and 2.0, HTTP and HTTPS, web services (SOAP and REST), File, Enterprise Information Systems (including SAP and Siebel), and TCP/IP.
• It supports a broad range of data formats: binary formats (C and COBOL), XML, and industry standards (including SWIFT, EDI, and HIPAA). You can also define your own data formats.
• It supports many operations, including routing, transforming, filtering, enriching, monitoring, distribution, collection, correlation, and detection.

Your interactions with IBM App Connect Enterprise can be considered in two broad categories:

• Application development, test, and deployment.You can choose from a range of tools optimized for the users' skillsets and the integration capabilities they want to exploit:
  • For core IT teams that manage the key systems and packaged applications, there are rich tools to support all styles of interaction, powerful mapping, parsing and transformation. A broad range of functions, which include built-in unit testing and the ability to perform pre-deploy validation, alongside linked browser-based tooling for the line-of-business teams, ensures both developers and non-technical users can rapidly build integration without the need for code.
  • Knowledge workers and citizen integrators in lines of business can take advantage of the simpler, no-coding, web-based App Connect Designer to connect applications in the cloud and with applications and resources in hybrid environments. Alternatively, they can innovate on-premises applications for themselves to automate information and process flows by using a no-coding approach while taking advantage of the multi-tenant, cloud runtime of IBM App Connect on IBM Cloud.2
  • Integration specialists can choose to use the web-based App Connect Designer to develop, test, and deploy general connections quickly, or use a full Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to tackle more-detailed and challenging integration requirements.
    • Using theIBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit to develop integration solutions to transform, enrich, route, and process your business messages and data. You can integrate client applications that use different protocols and message formats. The IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit is a natural and familiar tool for existing users who have experience with the IBM Integration Toolkit, helping them to easily switch to developing for IBM App Connect Enterprise, accelerate their development of new integration solutions, and preserving and exploiting their investment in IBM Integration Bus development skills.
    • Using the App Connect Studio (part of IBM App Connect Professional) to connect hybrid environments that are comprised of public clouds, private clouds, 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.

Users of all these tools and development experience benefit from accelerators, such as templates for common integration and industry-specific-use cases.

• Developing, testing, and deploying with the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit, you can use one or more of the supplied options to develop your applications:

  • Patterns provide reusable solutions that encapsulate a tested approach to solving a common architecture, design, or deployment task in a particular context. You can use them unchanged or modify them to suit your own requirements.
  • Message flows describe your application connectivity logic, which defines the exact path that your data takes in the integration node, and therefore the processing that is applied to it by the message nodes in that flow.
  • Message nodes encapsulate required integration logic, which operates on your data when it is processed through your integration node.
  • Message trees describe data in an efficient, format independent way. You can examine and modify the contents of message trees in many of the nodes that are provided, and you can supply additional nodes to your own design.
  • You can implement transformations by using graphical mapping, Java™, ESQL, and XSL, and can make your choice based on the skills of your workforce without having to provide retraining.
• Operational management and performance. IBM App Connect Enterprise includes the following features and functionality, which support the operation and performance of your deployment:
  • An extensive range of administration and systems management options for developed solutions, including the following:
    • The IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit.
    • The web user interface, which you can use to administer your integration nodes.
    • Applications that use the IBM Integration API.
    • A comprehensive set of commands, which you can run interactively or by using scripts.
    • The Representational State Transfer API (REST) allows development of administrative applications without the need to install client software and web browsers can administer integration nodes through a user interface.
  • Support for a wide range of operating system and hardware platforms.
  • A scalable, highly performing architecture, based on requirements from traditional transaction processing environments.
  • Tight integration with software products, from IBM and other vendors, that provide related management and connectivity services.