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Jeff Tennenbaum, Office of the IBM Federal CTOMobile IT Architecttennenjl@us.ibm.com

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Coffee company goes digital, builds $1.6B

payments business, drives 21% of transactions

Enterprise Health Mgmt., access to patient data

sandbox via VistA APIs. New Apps for Vets.

Digital disruption fueled by API’s

What do the Following Have in Common?

NASA spurs innovation by offering hackathons,

IBM supports via Bluemix APIs

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Organizations are seeking an API Strategy to securely unlock enterprise value from legacy IT assets

Existing Enterprise IT Investments

Exposed as APIs

Self Service Consumed by Developers

To Develop Innovative Apps

Delivering Measurable

Customer Value

Hybrid Integration

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Speed & Agility

Integration & Scale

Core Enterprise

Digital Ecosystem

Fast Speed

But organizations are grappling with Multi-Speed IT

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What’s wrong with this picture?

• These Microservices are exposed to the open web!

• What if getOrderById() sees a huge spike in traffic? It could bring down the SoR’s, preventing order taking, shipping, etc!

Product data

Microservice: getOrderById

Runtime (Node.js, WAS, etc.)

Orders data

Integration Tier

Firewall

Microservice: getProductDetailByID

Runtime (Node.js, WAS, etc.) Systems of

Record

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Firewall

A Better Way: APIs

API

API

API Management & Gateway(rate limiting, security, monitoring,

permissions, version management, etc)

• You need:• Rate limiting• Security• Monitoring

• …API Management!Product

data

Microservice: getOrderById

Runtime (Node.js, WAS, etc.)

Orders data

Integration Tier

Microservice: getProductDetailByID

Systems of Record

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IBM API Connect — Simplified & Comprehensive API foundationWhat is API Connect?• An integrated creation, runtime, management, and security foundation for

enterprise grade API’s and Microservices to power modern digital applications

What does API Connect provide?• Automated, visual and coding options for creating APIs

• Lifecycle and governance for APIs, Products and Plans

• Node.js and Java support for creating Microservices

• Integrated enterprise grade clustering, management and security for Node.js and Java

• Access control over API’s, API Plans and API Products

• Advanced API usage analytics

• Customizable, self service developer portal for publishing APIs

• Policy enforcement, security and control

Create Run

ManageSecure

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Modern Infrastructure is API driven:Your environment is just a REST Call away!

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Spectrum Virtualize

Spectrum Accelerate

Spectrum Scale

CleverSafe

DS8886

Spectrum Protect

PowerVC CMA

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Learn More

• LEVERAGE Complimentary Offer - Digital Transformation Workshop —Mastering the API Economy: http://ibm.co/1Lk2VMb

• COMPLIMENTARY APIs for Dummies: http://ibm.co/1OlWNHz

• VISIT API Connect Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMAPIManagement

• CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION — JOIN ME at the DESIGN roundtable:

“APIs”

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