WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration

Only IBM provides a complete set of capabilities for managing an API economy in one cloud based solution with the ability to create APIs from a single or multiple endpoints, through a simplified “configuration, not coding” interface. This rapid, secure and simplified approach delivers:

• Connectivity: WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration products provide connectivity to hundreds of cloud and on-premise applications, databases, web services, messaging systems and many other end-points.

• Transformation: WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration enables you to transform data from source to target applications using a graphical, drag-and-drop interface.

• Business Logic: With WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration, you can graphically define the flow of data between source and target applications and setup business logic rules with a ‘configuration, not coding’ approach

• Management: WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration provides a Web-based console to monitor integration transactions, handle exceptions and provide proactive alerting for data and connectivity errors.

• Web API Services : provides a secure environment with capabilities to easily and rapidly assemble and publish compelling APIs-- with added business analytics functionality to adapt or grow applications to meet the needs of developer community and consumption models

• Mobile data access: enhanced scenarios to rapidly access and integrate applications for mobile app development that scale to any consumption model across devices

The benefits of this simplified cloud integration experience enables both midsize and large companies to:

• Integrate in days — Companies can connect their hybrid world of private clouds, public clouds and on-premise applications in days due to the simple “configuration, not coding” approach. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration also offers a comprehensive set of pre-configured Template Integration Processes (TIPs) for the most common integration scenarios between popular cloud and on-premise applications. These TIPs eliminate the need to build integrations from scratch and further accelerate their implementation times.

• Save as much as 80% — The configuration-based approach and TIPs help companies reduce integration costs by much as 80% compared to custom code. Built-in connectivity to common applications reduces maintenance costs of hand-coding changes as the application providers update their APIs; built-in exception handling and error notifications significantly reduce monitoring and management costs. In addition, companies can also sometimes reduce licensing costs to back-office applications for cloud users by providing real-time access to this information in the cloud.

• Free up scarce resources — The visual UI and the simplified configuration experience reduce the need to use expert resources for cloud ‘plumbing’ projects and allows companies to reallocate these expert resources on more strategic innovation-oriented integration projects.

• Maximize cloud user productivity — With WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration, cloud users no longer have to waste precious time logging on or searching within multiple applications to access critical business information. Instead, they get real-time visibility of data in the cloud and maximize their productivity. This productivity enhancement enables increases user adoption and enables companies to maximize the value of their investments in cloud applications.