OSS Group's guide to IBM Cloud Pak for Integration

IBM API Connect

• Create and manage APIs with built-in security and governance. 
  • Creation: Create and write API definitions. Implement and test APIs
  • Run: Package and deploy APIs.
  • Manage: Lifecycle management and governance for APIs.
    • Customisable, self service portals for publishing APIs for discovery and use Integrated enterprise grade clustering, management, and security. 
    • API usage analytics for both API providers and consumers, with runtime and historical reporting on usage patterns and performance metrics
  • Secure: Access control over APIs for both API providers and consumers by using role-based permissions. 

IBM App Connect

Get an integrated solution with hundreds of built-in connectors. Supports a wide range of integration styles across batch and real-time patterns.

• Integrate apps and data: Automatically copy and synchronize data between on-premises and cloud-based applications, without worrying about mismatched sources, formats and standards.
• Build APIs: Access,  transform and combine data assets across all your enterprise applications, databases and systems and expose them as APIs.
• Act on events: Recognise when events occur in source applications across your ecosystem to immediately trigger the right business actions.

IBM Event Streams

• Host a fully managed Apache Kafka as a service for a scalable, high-performing, real-time messaging backbone.
  • Has a simple-to-use yet powerful UI that puts you in control of your Kafka infrastructure.
  • Supports Apache Avro schemas, enabling your Kafka applications to validate data structures and to encode and decode data.
  • Provides Kafka Connect source-and-sink connectors to common enterprise systems. 
  • Provides an enterprise-grade REST API that is particularly useful for connecting to appliances and critical systems that don’t support a Kafka-native client

IBM MQ on Cloud

• Simplify and accelerate the reliable and secure exchange of data with enterprise messaging. 
  • IBM MQ is an enterprise grade messaging middleware service which has been proving itself for over 25 years.
  • IBM MQ on Cloud service is a managed offering, therefore IBM will handle upgrades, patches and also many of the operational management tasks, allowing you to focus on the integration of MQ with your applications.

IBM Lift

• Makes it easy to quickly, securely and reliably migrate your database from on-premises data centers to an IBM cloud data property.
• It enables secure and rapid migration to the cloud with zero downtime captures incremental changes to your source database and replays them to your target database so applications using the source DB can run uninterrupted during database migration

IBM Aspera on Cloud

• Transfer, exchange and automate the delivery of your large data workloads across hybrid clouds at maximum speed.
• Achieve speeds up to hundreds of times faster than FTP and HTTP without saturating your network using the unique, patented IBM Aspera FASP protocol
• Protect your date with comprehensive built-in security, including encryption over-the-wire and, optionally, at rest.
• The intuitive interface enables collaborate with internal and external users through shared workspaces.

IBM DataPower

IBM DataPower Gateway is an appliance that provides security, control, integration and optimised access to a full range of mobile, web, application programming interface (API), service-oriented architecture (SOA), B2B and cloud workloads.

IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions

• Replicate the complete data centre environment of existing apps to ease migration to the cloud.
• Traditionally, migration is impossible without significant rework. With Skytap on IBM Cloud, you can migrate your traditional application without change.
• Make the most of your System i, AIX and Linux applications. Integrate with cloud-native services and move to the cloud without rewriting or refactoring.