IBM Integration Bus is a compatible evolution of WebSphere Message Broker that is designed to incorporate features that are found in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. IBM-Integration-Bus provides a universal integration capability that addresses a wide range of integration scenarios. These scenarios include web services such as SOAP and REST, physical devices, messaging, database, file, email, ERP systems, mobile, custom systems & more.
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For details of the new features in IBM IBus Version 10.0, see the following sections below.

• Simplicity and productivity
• Universal and independent
• Graphical-data-mapping
• Dynamic and intelligent
• Platforms & environments

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Simplicity and productivity

Simplified process for installation : The process to deploy and configure IBM Integration Bus so that an integration developer can use the IBM Integration Tool-kit to start creating applications is simplified and quicker to complete. The installation process includes the following improvements:

• The installation process is simplified. On Windows and Linux, there is a single installation process that deploys both the runtime environment and IBM Integration Toolkit. On Windows, you run the installer, accept the license, and (optionally) change the location for the installation. On Linux, the installation is a simple unpack of the code into an appropriate directory.
• On Linux and UNIX, the installation automatically includes the IBM Integration ODBC Database Extender code; you do not have to install this manually after you install IBM Integration Bus.
• A local integration node and integration server are automatically created the first time that you start the IBM Integration Tool-kit. There is no need to run the Default Configuration Wizard that is provided with previous versions of the IBM Integration Tool-kit.
• The local integration node and integration server are automatically started whenever the IBM Integration Tool-kit is started.
• Language packs for the IBM Integration Toolkit are available online and can be downloaded and installed separately; see Installing language packs for the IBM Integration Tool-kit.

Tutorials Gallery
The Tutorials Gallery is included with the IBM Integration Toolkit, and is accessible from the Welcome page and from the Help menu. The Tutorials Gallery provides access to a number of tutorials that are stored on a Git-Hub repository, and automatically displays new tutorials when they are added to the Git-Hub repository.
From the Tutorials Gallery you can download, deploy, and test sample integration solutions, and then explore the configuration of the solution components to learn how to develop integration solutions of your own.

Shared libraries
Shared libraries are introduced to share resources between multiple-applications. Libraries in previous versions of IBM-Integration-Bus are static libraries.

If you use a static library to contain resources, each application that references that static library is deployed with its own private copy of that library. If a static library is updated, each application that references it must be re-deployed with the updated static library. A shared library is deployed directly to an integration server. Any application can reference the resources in that deployed shared library. If that shared library is updated, the changes are immediately visible to all referencing applications.

Processing MQ Telemetry-Transport-messages
MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a lightweight publish or subscribe messaging protocol. You can now use IBM Integration Bus to connect to applications and devices that send and receive messages by using the MQTT messaging - protocol.
You can create message flows to receive an MQTT-message by using the MQTT-Subscribe node to subscribe to one or more topics on an MQTT server. You can send an MQTT message by using the MQTT-Publish node in your message flow to publish messages to a topic on an MQTT-server.

Removal of the WebSphere MQ prerequisite
WebSphere MQ is no longer a prerequisite for using IBM Integration Bus on distributed platforms, which means that you can develop and deploy applications independently of WebSphere MQ. You can also run and administer integration nodes without requiring the WebSphere MQ Explorer.

When you purchase a license for IBM Integration Bus, your license entitles you to install and use WebSphere MQ with IBM-Integration-Bus, enabling you to use the IBM IBus capabilities that require MQ functionality, such as the MQ nodes and event driven processing capabilities such as message aggregation and sequencing.

If you are not using WebSphere MQ with IBM Integration Bus, you can use the built-in MQTT pub/sub broker or an external MQTT server to publish integration node event messages. If you have installed WebSphere MQ, you can use the built-in MQTT-broker, an external MQTT-server, or a queue manager as your pub/sub broker.

Flexible interaction with WebSphere Message Queue.
On distributed systems, support for WebSphere-MQ has been extended, introducing greater flexibility in the interactions between IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere MQ. You can configure local or client connections to WebSphere MQ, enabling your integration nodes to get messages from or put messages to queues on any local or remote-queue manager. On z/OS, you can have MQ message flow nodes connect to different local queue managers, not just the queue manager that is specified on the integration node.

You can specify a connection from an Message Queue node to a specific local or remote queue manager by using connection properties on the MQ-node, including the destination queue manager name, host name, port, and channel. Alternatively, you can specify a queue manager on the integration node to be used for MQ processing that is required by flows in the integration node; the queue manager that you specify is then used for all message flow nodes that do not have queue manager connections explicitly defined or policies attached.

You can also create message flows that contain multiple MQ-Input and MQ-Output nodes, each of which can access different queue managers as specified in the node; this enables you to adapt your message flows to your existing Web-Sphere MQ-topologies.

Flexible administration security
You can choose between two modes of authorization when you enable administration security on an integration node: file-based authorization (file mode) or queue-based authorization (mq mode). You can specify your chosen authorization mode by using the mqsi-change-auth-mode command. If you configure the integration node to use file mode, you can set file-based permissions for accessing integration nodes and resources. These permissions are set using the mqsichangefileauth command. Alternatively, if you have installed WebSphere MQ and specified a queue manager on the integration node, you can control access to the integration node and its resources by setting permissions on WebSphere-MQ authorization queues.

Secured connections to WebSphere Message Queue :
When you configure a connection from an MQ node to a WebSphere MQ queue manager, you can optionally configure the connection to use a security identity for authentication, SSL for confidentiality, or both. The security identity, which passes user name and password security credentials to the queue manager, can be used on connections to local or remote queue managers. For connections to remote queue managers, you can choose whether to use the SSL protocol to provide confidentiality on the client connection. IBM IBus supports a subset of the SSL functionality that is supported by WebSphere MQ.

mqsireportdbparms command
You can return a list of parameters that are set on an integration node. In addition, you can use the mqsireportdbparms to check if security credentials are set, or identify if you are using the correct password for an integration node.

Direct access to online help from the IBM Integration Tool-kit
By default, the IBM Integration Toolkit is now configured to use the online IBM-Knowledge-Center to provide context-sensitive help from the latest information that is available.

If you cannot access online product documentation, you can download and install a local source of product documentation. For information about local documentation options, see Adding documentation to the IBM Integration Tool-kit.

Additional administration tasks can be configured by using the web user interface
In addition to the administration tasks that were available in IBM Integration Bus Version 9.0, you can now perform the following tasks by using the web user interface:

• Create, rename, start, stop, and delete integration servers.
• Deploy integration solutions.
• Start, stop, manage, and delete deployed resources.
• View, create, edit, and delete configurable services.
• Create, retrieve, update, and delete operational policies.
• Collect and view resource statistics for your integration servers.

Test your message flows by using the Flow Exerciser
To check that a message flow is processing messages as expected, you can send messages to the flow, see the path that each message took, and view the structure and content of the logical message tree at any point in a message-flow.

Fixed naming for DataDirect ODBC database drivers
ODBC database drivers now have a fixed naming convention, which means that you do not have to update links to drivers and switch files after you update to a later version.

Develop integration solutions by using REST APIs
You can now use REST APIs to create your integration solutions.

Universal and independent
Connector framework : A connector is a type of user-defined extension that facilitates connection between IBM Integration Bus and an external system, or endpoint. You can use the connector framework to create a connector and a user-defined node that can be used in a message flow.

Integration service JavaScript client API
An integration service developer can generate a JavaScript client API from an existing integration service. The JavaScript client API provides operation functions that a JavaScript developer can call from a program that is running in a JavaScript environment.

Microsoft SQL Server support for recording and replaying data
You can configure a Microsoft-SQL-Server database to be used as a data store for recording and replaying data. When the database has been configured, you can select a data capture store that is configured to use an SQL Server database and view the recorded data.

Integrated security enhancements for HTTP and SOAP nodes
You can now configure the HTTP and SOAP nodes to use the transport-level security protocols NT Lan Manager (NTLM), Kerberos, and Simple and Protected Negotiation (SPNEGO). These protocols are collectively known as Integrated-Windows-Authentication (IWA).

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing support for integration server HTTP listeners (HTTP and SOAP nodes)
You can now configure the integration server HTTP listeners so that they respond to Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) requests. Enable this functionality if you want to permit client side JavaScript code running in a web browser to make HTTP-requests to HTTP services that you have deployed to IBM Integration-Bus.

Graphical data mapping
Support for user-defined elements to define dynamically in your message map structured data for which you do not have the XML schema
A user-defined element is an element that you can add directly into a message map to define extension points in any of the following message assembly components:

• The local environment tree variables folder
• The message body
• xsd:any elements in your message body
• The Environment tree
• The transport headers that include extension points such as MQRFH2

You can also use user-defined elements to define a JSON message, and a SOAP or XML message that has an xsd:any.
You can add, reuse, rename, transform, and delete a user-defined element directly into your message map during the development-phase.

Using the Environment tree as input data to your transformations
In a message map, you can update, delete, or create data in the environment tree Variables folder. You can use the environment tree as input data to your transformations.

Graphical-data mapping of JSON Messages
You can use the Graphical-Data-Mapping editor to create a JSON message, or to transform a JSON message.

Creating a message map programmatically
You can use the Graphical-Data-Map Specification Language to create a message map programmatically.

Dynamic and intelligent
Operational policy : Use operational policies to control the operational behavior of certain MQ and MQTT message flow nodes within message flows, without the need to redeploy your resources. A policy can be attached to one or more nodes in a message flow to control the values of a specific set of message-flow node properties, such as connection credentials at run time.

Re-Sequence failure mode
Re-sequence message processing now contains a retry mechanism to control how to handle downstream failures.

Informatica Power Center Data Integration Process
Use the PowerCenter Express client applications to complete your data integration solutions. Use the Developer tool to create connections, import metadata, run profiles, create mappings, and run mappings as part of workflows. Then, use the Administrator tool to monitor workflow progress.
 
Step 1. Create connections
Create connections to access data from relational databases, third-party web services, or social media web sites. Create a connection to create data objects, preview data, run profiles, and run mappings. The Developer tool uses the connection when you import a data object. The Data Integration Service uses the connection when you preview data, run profiles, and run mappings.

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Step 2. Import metadata to create data objects
Import metadata to create data objects for sources and targets that you want to use in a mapping. When you develop a mapping, you can use data objects to define the input and output of the mapping.
 
Step 3. Run a profile
Run a profile to analyze the structure and content of your data, and to determine the quality of your data. When you run a profile, the Data Integration Service applies the profiling rules and runs the profile.
 
Step 4. Develop mappings
Develop mappings to implement data integration tasks. A mapping is a set of inputs and outputs that represent the data flow between sources and targets. Link the sources and targets with transformation objects that define the rules for data transformation. The Data Integration Service uses the instructions configured in the mapping to read, transform, and write data. You can add a mapping as a task in a workflow.
 
Step 5. Create and run workflows
Create a workflow to define a sequence of events, tasks, and decisions based on a business process. Then, deploy the workflow to the Data Integration Service and run the workflow. The Data Integration Service uses the instructions configured in the workflow to run the objects.
 
Step 6. Monitor workflows
Monitor the workflow instance run on the Monitoring tab of the Administrator tool. The Monitoring tab shows the status of running workflow and workflow object instances. You can abort or cancel a running workflow instance in the Monitoring tool. You can also use the Monitoring tool to view logs for workflow instances and to view workflow reports.

IBM IBUS (Integration Bus) is a compatible evolution of WebSphere Message Broker that is designed to incorporate features that are found in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. IBM Integration Bus provides a universal integration capability that addresses a wide range of integration scenarios. These scenarios include web services such as SOAP and REST, messaging, database, file, ERP systems, mobile, physical devices, email, custom systems and more.
For details of the new features in IBM Integration Bus Version 10.0, see the following sections.

• Simplicity and productivity
• Universal and independent
• Graphical data mapping
• Dynamic and intelligent
• Platforms and environments

Master data management (MDM) is a methodology that identifies the most critical information within an organization—and creates a single source of its truth to power business processes.
MDM involves a number of technology solutions, including data integration, data quality, and business process management (BPM). It  delivers:

• A single view of the data—Creating a single, authoritative view of business-critical data from disparate, duplicate, and conflicting information lets you see, for instance, that Rob Barnes and Robert Barnes are the same person.
• A 360-degree view of the relationships—Business rules let you identify the relationships among the data, so you can combine data showing Robert Barnes owns a Razor scooter with data showing he bought it at a Target store.
• A complete view of all interactions--Integrating the transactions and social interactions that have occurred with that product, customer, channel partner, or other data element gives you a complete view of that customer.

Why Informatica?Informatica Master Data Management is the only MDM solution that is both easy to deploy and flexible enough to solve your unique business challenges.

• Agility—Our solution can be deployed rapidly and easily, and includes the full assortment of data integrity, data quality, and BPM capabilities required to successfully complete any MDM project.
• Business user-focused—We deliver value directly to your business users by immediately improving business processes and helping them discover relationships in the data that gives them powerful insights.
• Focused on customer success—A dedicated group within Informatica’s MDM division, our customer success team was created with the sole purpose of ensuring customer satisfaction. As a result, Informatica has been named number one for customer loyalty nine years in a row by independent research firm TNS.

Informatica MDM empowers companies to improve operations with business-user access to consolidated and reliable business-critical data, even when it’s scattered across the enterprise. The product delivers true multi-domain master data management, empowering you with limitless opportunities to start with any type of business-critical data and add as many different domains as you like. Widely recognized for bestof-breed performance, Informatica MDM provides comprehensive support for MDM requirements on a single platform, including data integration, profiling, and data quality.
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With Informatica MDM, We can:
• Address your unique MDM business requirements, using the flexible business model–driven approach
• Empower customer-facing sales and marketing teams with better customer segmentation, targeting, and campaign ROI
• Improve critical decisions by executives with clean, consistent, and connected data about their customers
• Enhance business processes such as order to cash, procure to pay, and customer and supplier onboarding
• Drive sales and business growth through effective business and channel partner management
• Meet regulatory compliances and avoid penalties by filing reports in a timely manner with accurate data
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Leading organizations in financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, healthcare, government, energy, and other fields rely on Informatica MDM software to cut costs and drive revenue by improving operations and making more informed decisions across the enterprise. It empowers companies like yours to acquire and retain more customers, deliver better products and services, and accelerate time to value from acquisitions

IBM TSM provides centralized, automated data protection that helps to reduce data loss and manage compliance with data retention and availability requirements.

Tivoli Storage Manager data protection components
The data protection solutions that Tivoli Storage Manager provides consist of Tivoli Storage Manager server, client systems and applications, and storage media. Tivoli Storage Manager provides management interfaces for monitoring and reporting the data protection status.
Tivoli Storage Manager services for data protection
Tivoli Storage Manager provides services to store and recover data from various types of clients. The data protection services are implemented through policies that are defined on the Tivoli Storage Manager server. You can use client scheduling to automate the data protection services.
Processes for managing data protection with Tivoli Storage Manager
Tivoli Storage Manager server inventory has a key role in the processes for data protection. You define policies that the server uses to manage data storage.
User interfaces for the Tivoli Storage Manager environment
For monitoring and configuration tasks, Tivoli Storage Manager provides various interfaces, including the Operations Center, a command-line interface, and an SQL administrative interface

IBM BPM V8.5.6 is a comprehensive platform that offers enhanced visibility and management of your business processes. It includes tooling and run time for process design and execution, along with capabilities for monitoring and optimizing work that is executed within the platform. It is specifically designed to enable process owners and business users to engage directly in the improvement of their business processes. This collaboration between business and IT enables superior time to value and improved user productivity as compared to traditional methods of development.
A highly integrated environment that scales smoothly and easily from initial project to enterprise-wide program, IBM BPM V8.5.6 is designed for easy deployment and ready to use immediately or as an easily customizable configuration.

Improved interoperability between IBM BPM and ECM allows you to use an external ECM to store case-related content. New APIs provide the ability to link cases to obtain a 360 degree view of a case.

IBM BPM offers a PureApplication System pattern configuration that is optimized to help accelerate the setup and management of complex, highly available, business process environments. Previously available as a separate product, the pattern configuration for IBM BPM is now available as an additional download for IBM BPM V8.5.6 Advanced clients.


If you are using multiple process servers within your production environment to help scale, migrate, and manage platform stability, you can now take advantage of the new BPM federation capability to access distributed task data from a single source. This facilitates the ability to build a single user interface for business users to access and execute all their tasks without needing to be aware of either the task implementation or origin. You can leave existing processes to run on earlier IBM BPM levels while you migrate to the latest IBM BPM level or migrate them over an extended period of time. Processes can be isolated by deploying them to different process servers and production environments can massively scale by adding additional process servers.

There are numerous quality improvements in this release that result in improved operations and user experience. This includes new features and performance improvements for both web-inspector and snapshot installation. Advanced integration service deployment are simplified. System downtime can be reduced or avoided by allowing operations to monitor system health, identify potential issues before they occur, and isolate issues more easily. New migration capabilities allow you to upgrade to the next major BPM release more easily.

New mobile capabilities are introduced:

• Plug-in adaptors for MobileFirst IDE make it easier to build mobile applications that access IBM BPM by using secure REST APIs. -
• Technical demonstrations of Responsive Federated Portal, Responsive Coach Toolkit are available as samples on IBM BPM Developer Center for customers to exploit the federation and mobile capabilities provided by IBM BPM V8.5.6.
• Generate a MobileFirst mobile application directly from a coach.

IBM  Business Monitor V8.5.6

Business Monitor V8.5.6 delivers comprehensive, operational intelligence capabilities that offer business users and managers visibility into real-time, end-to-end business operations, transactions, and processes to help increase revenue, lower costs, and improve service. The monitoring capabilities of Business Monitor, which complement those of IBM BPM, enhance the ability to have visibility into key business transactions that execute in multiple systems across the enterprise.
Business Monitor provides customizable dashboards that calculate and display key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics that are derived from business transactions, processes, business activity data, and business events. Business users can view dashboards through lightweight web interfaces, mobile devices, and corporate portals. They can also drill into specific transaction and process instances.

Business Monitor V8.5.6 also offers a pattern configuration of Business Monitor that is optimized to run on the PureApplication System. The pattern configuration is optimized to help accelerate the setup and management of complex, highly available, business monitor environments. It enables you to focus your critical resources on value-add activities instead of installation and configuration.

Decision management is a business discipline that empowers organizations to automate,optimize, and govern repeatable business decisions. It is an extension of the decisions business people would make if they had unlimited time to make those decisions.Decision management technology provides the means for these decisions to be automated and called in real time by processes, applications, and other business solutions.To realize this automation, the technology must also make it possible to capture, change, and govern the important decision logic in a controlled, scalable, and rapid manner. It is only by effectively managing the decision logic that the wanted business agility can be delivered.
In both cases, the business processes and Applications make calls to the Decision Services that encapsulate the behavior of the decision being automated. In analytical decision management, the history of decisions is analyzed to build a model that can be used to predict the best decision response for the future. In operational decision management, policy, best practices, and business experience is used to write rules that describe how to make those decisions or identify situations that need to be reacted to. In many cases, the models that result from analytical decision management can also be used in the operational decision management automation.There are situations where all the decision automation needed for a solution can initially be provided by one of these forms of decision management. However, as decision making become more complex, the need for synergistic use of both forms of technology becomes greater. When starting from analytical decision management, the models that define best practices or probability can be encapsulated and applied in a broader systems context through operational decision management. When starting from operational decision management, the decision logic that defines best practices can benefit from the data mining, segmentation, and insight provided by analytical decision management.

In both cases, there needs to be some measure of how good the decisions are. These key performance indicators (KPIs) relate to the overall goals of the business and, when used with Scenario Analysis and Simulation, allow for a real-world method of assessing how decision changes affect the behavior of business systems.

IBM Business Process Manager is a comprehensive business process management platform. It provides a robust set of tools to author, test, and deploy business processes, as well as full visibility and insight to managing those business processes.
The components of IBM Business Process Manager provide a unified BPM repository to manage the business processes and their associated artifacts, tools for authors, administrators, and users, and a runtime platform.
There are three editions of the product to support various levels of complexity and involvement with business process management.

IBM BPM on Cloud administrative capability is expanded to include new Operator role and new Account Admin role capabilities.

If you are assigned the IBM BPM on Cloud Account Admin role, you can monitor the number and types of users over the periods that you specify. From the Admin tab, click Reports to create a graphical report of user activity.

If you are assigned the IBM BPM on Cloud Operator role, you can use new capabilities to monitor and manage performance of the IBM BPM on Cloud environment. You can monitor and manage your IBM BPM on Cloud environment in the following ways:

• Retrieve log files and monitor Java database connectivity (JDBC).
  
• Create a data source to securely connect to relational databases.
  
• Import certificates to securely connect to service providers.