IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) is a comprehensive integration platform designed to help businesses seamlessly connect applications, data, and systems across both on-premises and cloud environments. It enables users to automate workflows and orchestrate complex business processes using a low-code, visual development interface, supported by AI-assisted data mapping. With a "configure, not code" approach, developers and business users alike can rapidly build integrations using pre-built templates, reusable assets, and a wide library of connectors for popular enterprise applications and services. IBM ACE supports a range of integration styles—including APIs, events, and traditional messaging—making it suitable for modern microservices architectures as well as legacy systems. This flexibility allows organizations to accelerate digital transformation, reduce integration complexity, and improve operational efficiency at scale.

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.

IBM App Connect Enterprise software can be installed directly on a physical machine running in your own Data Center, in a VMWare virtual machine, in a Docker image, as part of an IBM Cloud Private installation, or installed by you into a public cloud such as IBM Cloud, AWS, or Microsoft Azure. The Docker images can be easily scaled and managed by using orchestration frameworks, such as Kubernetes, alongside other components within a modern architecture.

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.

When used in partnership, these tooling experiences truly unlock the value of enterprise data. IT teams can curate data from complex packaged applications or systems of record and expose it to line-of-business users for final mile integration using the designer tooling, dynamically and without difficulty. This perfect pairing supports collaboration between the IT teams that manage the data and the users with the context of where it is needed.

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.

Benefits

Simple multi-style messaging

24x7x365 technical support

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“Always-on” cloud native messaging

Secure, enterprise-wide connectivity

Built on open source Apache Kafka, IBM® Event Streams is an event-streaming platform that helps you build smart apps that can react to events as they happen. Event Streams is based on years of IBM operational expertise gained from running Apache Kafka event streams for enterprises. This makes Event Streams ideal for mission-critical workloads.

Benefits

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• Create adaptive solutions
• Use streams of data to build responsive, engaging user experiences.
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• Facilitate machine learning
• Use events to move from batch processing to real-time and predictive analytics.

Features

• Connectivity to enterprise systems
• With connectors to a wide range of core systems and a scalable REST API, you can extend the reach of your existing enterprise assets.
• Enterprise-grade deployment and operations
• Rich security and geo-replication aids disaster recovery. Take advantage of IBM productivity tools and use the CLI to ensure best practices.
• Event-driven architecture expertise
• IBM Support is available for deep technical expertise whenever you need it.

With fast file transfer and streaming solutions, IBM® Aspera software moves data of any size across any distance! 

Securely transfer your data anywhere

Big data transport and sync
Transfer, distribute and sync huge files and data sets, globally.

Large-file sharing

Accelerate collaboration with teams around the world on big data and large files.

Transfer management
Automate, monitor and control data transfers and workflows.

Any bit-rate streaming
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Hybrid cloud workflows
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Secure asset exchange
Use blockchain technology to add additional security to digital asset movement.

How it's used

Benefits

Mitigate vulnerabilities

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IBM Turbonomic is an Application Resource Management (ARM) platform designed to ensure application performance while minimizing infrastructure costs across hybrid and multicloud environments. It continuously analyzes application demand and automatically allocates resources-compute, storage, and network in real time to meet performance requirements without overprovisioning.

With IBM Turbonomic, you can:

• Optimize VM and container workloads dynamically across on-premises, private, and public clouds

• Automate resource scaling, placement, and rightsizing to reduce waste and improve efficiency

• Integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and major cloud providers

• Visualize full-stack performance from applications to infrastructure for smarter decision-making

Turbonomic is built to simplify operations and accelerate digital transformation by bridging the gap between application performance and infrastructure efficiency. Its AI-powered automation helps organizations modernize IT operations, reduce cloud spend, and support sustainable, scalable growth

IBM Maximo is a powerful enterprise asset management (EAM) platform that enables organizations to monitor, manage, and optimize the performance of their physical assets throughout their entire lifecycle. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for asset tracking, work order management, preventive and predictive maintenance, inventory control, and regulatory compliance. By integrating AI-powered analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) data, Maximo provides actionable insights that help organizations move from reactive to proactive maintenance strategies—reducing unplanned downtime, extending asset life, and improving safety. Its flexible architecture supports deployment on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, making it adaptable to diverse operational needs. Widely used in asset-intensive industries such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, and utilities, IBM Maximo helps organizations maximize asset performance, ensure compliance, and lower total cost of ownership.

Hybrid Cloud is a flexible computing environment that combines on-premises infrastructure with public and private cloud services. It enables businesses to run workloads across multiple environments while maintaining consistency, security, and compliance. Leveraging technologies like Red Hat OpenShift, IBM’s hybrid cloud supports containerization and seamless app development and deployment.

IBM Watsonx is an AI and data platform with a set of AI assistants designed to help you scale and accelerate the impact of AI with trusted data across your business. The core components include: a studio for new foundation models, generative AI and machine learning; a fit-for-purpose data store built on an open data lakehouse architecture; and a toolkit, to accelerate AI workflows that are built with responsibility, transparency and explainability. The Watsonx AI assistants empower individuals in organization to do work without expert knowledge across a variety of business processes and applications while automating key workflows in departments.

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Create competitive advantage. Foundation models make it possible to fine tune AI to an enterprise’s unique data and domain knowledge with a specificity that was previously impossible.

Scale AI across your business. Make use of all your data, wherever it resides. Tap into a hybrid cloud architecture that provides the data foundation for extending AI deep into your business.

Advance trustworthy AI. Improve data access, apply governance, cut costs, and get quality models into production faster.

IBM Storage Protect is a comprehensive data backup and recovery solution designed to support a wide range of cloud-native, edge, and on-premises workloads at scale. It enables data resilience and is part of the IBM Storage portfolio. The solution provides a combination of automatic daily backups, on-demand backups and comprehensive restore capabilities to keep your business moving forward. Backing up data to the cloud with IBM Storage Protect lets your organization optimize data availability and resilience with data integrity reinforced through restoration of clean backup data in the event of a virus, user error or ransomware attack.

Key Benefits:

• Lower Data Management Costs: Consolidate enterprise data protection at scale, helping to minimize overhead and reduce data storage expenses.
• Elevate Security Visibility and Accelerate Recovery: Unify threat detection and recovery operations under a single management platform, providing extensibility and a multilayered security architecture.
• Improve RTO/RPO to Meet Business SLAs: Recover data faster with fully hydrated snapshots, continuous data protection, and flexibility to exceed service level agreements.

Notable Features:

• Immutable Snapshots: Store backed-up data in a secured file system with immutable snapshots that cannot be directly accessed or mounted from outside the cluster.
• API-First Extensibility: Streamline operations and easily integrate on-premises and cloud environments with pre-built automated workflows and API integrations.
• Single Management Platform: Unify operations with integrated solutions into a single scalable environment, eliminating silos while reducing data protection costs.

Discover how IBM Storage Defender Data Protect can help safeguard your valuable business data and ensure business continuity.

Datacap is a complete solution for document and data capture. Datacap scans, classifies, recognizes, validates, verifies, and exports data and document images quickly, accurately and cost effectively. 

DataCap is a key feature of the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation. It streamlines the capture, recognition and classification of business documents. Its natural language processing, text analytics and machine learning technologies identify, classify and extract content from unstructured or variable paper documents.

Datacap contains various software components. Each component runs or supports a defined set of functions. When you run the installation program to install Datacap, you can select individual installation features. These features might contain one or more subfeatures. It acquires documents, extracts useful information from them, and feeds them into other business processes downstream. Its strength is its ability to complete these tasks with a high degree of automation, flexibility, and accuracy.

At a high level, Datacap functions can be organized into three areas:

1. Acquisition of documents from several sources
2. Processing of documents to extract useful information
3. Delivery of content and data to back-end systems

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:

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Benefits of IBM Instana 

Automate observability

Gain full infrastructure monitoring and observability in dynamic environments with modern application monitoring tools.

Get data in context

See visualizations and get a real-time understanding of component impact.

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Understand all factors to remove bottlenecks, resolve issues faster and improve the end-user experience.

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