Integration Discussions and Vendor Strategies

In the May 2019 release of Mule they have included a new function called flow designer templates. These caught my eye as they are very similar to IBM’s APP Connect Designer flows and show how integration is becoming more accessible to the Line-of-Business.

One of IBM's best-known secrets is that they have two solutions that can act as API Management microgateways. This is a short post to highlight the various ways that you can expose APIs using IBM products and, in particular, the App Connect Enterprise (formerly IIB) Microgateway functionality.

Having worked in the MQ labs at IBM Hursley for many years I was always struck by how complex MQ appeared. As time has gone by little has changed my mind on this. Recently I was asked to create a solution for the customer that required repetitive creation of an MQ environment. We chose to create a tool using JSON as a configuration language. I'll describe the tool here and welcome feedback on it.

A lot of my customers are currently deciding which API Manager to use in their estate. With so many of them to choose from and a confusion of terminology this is not an easy task. I see RFP with long lists of criteria but I often think that the choice should be based on some other, softer, questions. I'll outline here some of how I help my customers choose which API Manager is right for them.