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At a glance
IBM App Connect Enterprise V11 combines the existing, industry-trusted IBM
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Integration Bus (IIB) technology with new cloud native technologies of IBM App
Connect Professional. App Connect Enterprise delivers a platform that supports
a breadth of integration needs across a modern digital enterprise. It is ideal for
businesses that need to take advantage of API-driven architectures, connect cloud-
based applications, or quickly utilize artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to extend
the value and investment in their existing data and systems.
• New, simple tooling for all styles of user that works together to expose and
integrate enterprise systems
• Detection of business situations that require user engagement, with insightful
and actionable notifications
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App Connect Enterprise V11 is the official successor product for IIB clients. For more
information regarding migration of workloads from IIB to App Connect Enterprise,
see the Statement of Direction section.
This capability is only available to clients that have purchased IBM App Connect on
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IBM Cloud.
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Overview
App Connect Enterprise V11 delivers the premier integration platform that supports
an extensive range of data and application integration needs of enterprises that
capture digital opportunities by using cloud technologies. Simple tooling that is
optimized to the users' skillsets can enable users to be productive in a matter of
hours and achieve real results in a few days, while powerful underlying capabilities
move data quickly to support today's digital needs. The primary capabilities and
features of App Connect Enterprise include:
manage the data with those that have the context to apply it. Digital businesses
rely on data that is delivered in the right context, to the right client touch point,
at the required time. The tooling provides frictionless access to enterprise data
at the front line of the clients' business, whether those individuals are in IT or
citizen integrators in the line of business. Access can allow every system and
member of the clients' team to connect to the data they need and to act on it at
the right time.
• No-code RESTful integration services. App Connect supports building integration
flows through a no-code approach and exposes those flows as RESTful APIs
without having to be an API development expert. These APIs can be seamlessly
brought into API Connect to handle the management, securing, and socializing to
development teams. Whether building cloud scale, resilient applications from the
ground up or taking the opportunity to utilize existing technologies as part of a
serverless architecture, enterprises can rely on the rapid build and access to the
systems at the right time.
• Flexible integration patterns. Broad support in a single platform for API and
event-driven technologies to complement integrations supporting batch data
movement, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and service-oriented architecture
(SOA). This helps to ensure that existing investments in integration can be used
where they are optimal, while they support the rapid build of new use cases.
• Broad deployment options. Two form factors, software and a managed cloud
service, provide an extensive range of deployment options that include on
premise, either to private datacenters or to dedicated instances, on IBM Cloud
Private, to the IBM Cloud, which includes a fully-managed IBM Cloud service, and
on other cloud providers with the option to use containers. The decision of where
to run the integration can be optimized to the needs of the business.
The new capabilities that are delivered in App Connect Enterprise unify the
capabilities of IBM Integration Bus (IIB) with those of App Connect Professional in
a single offering to better serve the demands of clients who integrate applications
and data to compete in today's economy. App Connect Enterprise benefits from the
IIB runtime, trusted globally by large enterprises, which has been optimized in this
release for cloud native deployments. For more information regarding migration
of workloads from IIB to App Connect Enterprise, see the Statement of Direction
section.
This capability is only available to clients that have purchased IBM App Connect on
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IBM Cloud.
Key prerequisites
App Connect Enterprise V11.0 can be used on a variety of computer systems and
platforms.
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Description
App Connect Enterprise brings together the best of the existing, industry-trusted
IBM integration technology with the new IBM Cloud native technologies to deliver
a platform that supports a breadth of integration needs across a modern digital
enterprise. With a focus on simple tooling to suit a range of user skillsets, the
fast movement of data from any endpoint application to where it is needed, and
deployment options to suit the right balance between control and budget, App
Connect Enterprise provides the only integration platform an organization needs to
unlock its business data and deliver it to the right touch point, in multiple channels
across the business.
• For the core IT teams that manage the key systems and packaged applications,
there is a rich tooling experience 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, configuration-based "designer" tooling to connect
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• Integration specialists can choose to use the new web based tooling to build
simple things quickly, or utilize the full Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) toolkit to tackle more detailed and challenging requirements.
When utilized 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 experience benefit from accelerators, such as templates for common
integration and industry-specific-use cases.
services.
– Imbed AI capabilities into clients' integrations to perform sentiment analysis,
translation, or to pull out key aspects of a document narrative using rich
cognitive and natural language services.
– Alternatively, take advantage of the simple, rapid tooling to integrate data
directly with conversation services to quickly build out chat bots.
• Rapid orchestration of data and systems for API-driven architectures
The strength of an API relies heavily on how well it is composed to bring existing
sources of information together. App Connect Enterprise provides a range of
relatable tooling experiences that support users of multiple types and skills sets
to perform that composition, with everything from simple, graphical flow design
right through to deep programmatical controls. Users, whether business-focused
or technical, can create and expose innovative APIs from wherever data it is
located.
can be easily made available in API Connect to provide developer portals, self-
administered subscription, external lifecycle management, monetization and
much more, to bring their enterprise firmly into the API economy.
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• Lightweight integration runtime for cloud native deployment
App Connect Enterprise delivers revolutionary changes to the way that
integration assets are deployed to the integration runtime. This massively
reduces build pipelines and offers rapid deployment of new artefacts, fast start-
up times and elastic scaling, and availability configurations. The result is to
create a runtime that is more CPU and memory efficient, truly cloud-native and
aligns with the principles of microservices.
Users who deploy the software variant of App Connect Enterprise can take
advantage of simple file-system-based, dependency-free installation, and
deployment that is ideally suited to Docker images. The resultant images can
then be easily scaled and managed by using orchestration frameworks, such as
Kubernetes, alongside other components within a modern architecture. This is in
addition to a range of additional features suited to new-generation-use cases:
– Deploys processing and integration flow runtimes all under and coordinated by
a single, operating system process to simplify deployment models.
– Helps ensure the ease of cloning of integration server settings between
environments.
– Runs as a truly, cloud native application with tailored architecture for use
in container technologies, such as Docker that run under a Kubernetes
framework.
• Existing users who are familiar with the IIB tooling, changes are provided to the
following more specific capabilities and features:
– Run integration servers directly from a command line without any prior
creation step, and without any affiliation to an Integration Node.
-- Run integration servers directly from a BAR file's contents.
-- This feature removes the IIB V10 internal configuration stores and can
dramatically simplify the product's external administrative interfaces.
– No specific deploy step is required when running independent integration
servers that point to a pre-configured file system which adheres to the
structure of a BAR file.
– Simplified scoping of artifacts are deployed to an integration server.
– IIB V10 SalesforceRequest node is now included as part of App Connect
Enterprise, without needing to purchase IBM Application Integration Suite.
– Define App Connect Enterprise policies in the Eclipse-based Toolkit.
– Define settings that previously were only available in IIB V10 configurable
services as App Connect Enterprise policies.
– Add App Connect Enterprise policies to a Broker Archive file for deployment to
an integration server.
– Use App Connect Enterprise policies to define and control runtime behaviors
without the need to create a configurable service definition in the runtime
environment.
• Extension of a trusted platform
App Connect Enterprise builds upon the robust and proven IIB runtime that
is trusted by thousands of clients over the past 18 years or more to run their
mission-critical, application integration projects. During this period, the offering
continually grew to allow clients to embrace new technologies, such as Kafka
and Loopback bridge across cloud and on-premises architectures with a hybrid
runtime, and adopt open standards through the delivery of OpenAPI features.
The connectivity and tooling options extend the wide variety of data formats and
application that are supported and include standards-based formats, such as:
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-- The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
-- ISO8583
-- Custom formats
The new capabilities that are delivered in App Connect Enterprise unify and extend
the capabilities of the IIB family with those of App Connect Professional in a single
offering to better serve the demands of clients who are integrating applications and
data to compete in today's economy. App Connect Enterprise is the official successor
to the IIB family of offerings and is available as:
App Connect Enterprise clients can utilize an extensive range of SaaS connectors,
which can run on premise using the bundled App Connect Professional, or on
the cloud using the managed App Connect service on IBM Cloud. For more
information, see IBM Knowledge Center after March 30, 2018.
• App Connect Enterprise on IBM Cloud provides:
– An IBM hosted and managed cloud service for clients with entitlement to
deploy reserved-instance integration servers and multi-tenant integrations.
For more information see the App Connect Enterprise on IBM Cloud Service
Description.
Hybrid entitlement provides clients with the flexibility to use either App Connect
Enterprise software or App Connect Enterprise on IBM Cloud, or a combination of
both.
This capability is only available to clients that have purchased IBM App Connect on
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IBM Cloud.
Product positioning
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extensive data transformation, and visibility of the flow of business information,
regardless of platform, protocol, or data format. It supports the clients' choice of
developer skills and tools, from knowledge workers requiring no-code integration to
Integration specialists in central IT.
App Connect Enterprise software is the next version of IIB, and adds:
• New capabilities for cloud application connectivity
• Simplified, web design interface
• A whole new suite of accelerators that is designed to increase user productivity
are needed right now are transferred fast and securely so only the intended
recipients access the users' key business data.
The focus of the initial release of App Connect Enterprise V11 is on the ability to
create, deploy, and administer integration servers that are optimized for container-
based, cloud native deployment. Unlike previous releases of IBM Integration Bus, an
integration server will not require a managing integration node.
Following the initial release of App Connect Enterprise in March, 2018, IBM intends
to deliver support for integration servers to be managed by integration nodes. For
clients that do not wish to run their existing workloads in independent integration
servers, the introduction of support for the managing integration nodes will provide
an alternative migration path that will enable clients to migrate and retain their
existing deployment topology. Information on the latest status on this feature
delivery and frequently asked questions will be available after March 30, 2018, on
the IBM Integration website.
App Connect Enterprise V11.0 initially delivers 64-bit operating systems support
on Linux on x86-64 and Microsoft Windows as described in the Technical
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information section.
IBM intends to add future support for App Connect Enterprise software for the
following platforms:
• IBM AIX
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• IBM Z Systems
• Linux on IBM Z
• Linux on IBM Power
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Reference information
For information about Application Integration Suite and Application Integration Suite
on Cloud, see Software Announcement ZP17-0076, dated March 14, 2017.
For information about IIB V10.0, see Software Announcement ZP15-0093, dated
February 17, 2015.
For information about App Connect Professional V7.5.2, see Software Announcement
ZP16-0424, dated September 13, 2016.
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Offering Information
Publications
Effective March 30, 2018, documentation for App Connect Enterprise will be
available in IBM Knowledge Center.
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Services
Contact your IBM representative for the list of selected services available in your
country, either as standard or customized offerings for the efficient installation,
implementation, or integration of this product.
Technical information
Hardware requirements
App Connect Enterprise V11.0 requires the following hardware on the specified, 64-
bit operating systems:
• Linux on x86-64
AMD64 and EM64T technology-compatible PC hardware is capable of running the
required level of a compatible operating system with enough storage to meet the
requirements of App Connect Enterprise.
• Microsoft Windows x86-64
Technology-compatible PC hardware is capable of running the required level of a
compatible operating system with enough storage to meet the requirements of
App Connect Enterprise.
The latest hardware information will be available on March 30, 2018, on the IBM
Software Product Compatibility Reports website.
Software requirements
App Connect Enterprise V11.0 requires the following 64-bit operating systems:
• Linux on x86-64
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS V7.2
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12
– Ubuntu 16.04
• Windows x86-64
– Windows 8.1 Basic, Professional, and Enterprise Editions
– Windows 2012 R2, Datacenter and Standard Edition
– Windows 10 Basic, Professional, and Enterprise Editions
– Windows 2016
The latest software information will be available on March 30, 2018, on the IBM
Software Product Compatibility Reports website.
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IBM App Connect Enterprise V11 (5724-J05)
Program name/Description Part number
IBM App Connect Enterprise Processor D56P3LL
Value Unit (PVU) License + SW
Subscription & Support 12 Months
IBM App Connect Enterprise PVU Annual E02AULL
SW Subscription & Support Renewal
IBM App Connect Enterprise PVU SW D56P4LL
Subscription & Support Reinstatement 12
Months
IBM App Connect Enterprise Virtual D1Q4HLL
Processor Core Monthly License
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Program name/Description Part number
IBM App Connect Enterprise for non- D1WVHLL
production PVU License + SW Subscription
& Support 12 Months
IBM App Connect Enterprise for non- E0P73LL
production PVU Annual SW Subscription &
Support Renewal 12 Months
IBM App Connect Enterprise for non- D1WVILL
production PVU SW Subscription &
Support Reinstatement 12 Months
IBM App Connect Enterprise for non- D1WVGLL
production Virtual Processor Core Monthly
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