SAN FRANCISCO and ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 9,
2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and
MuleSoft today announced a global relationship. MuleSoft plans
to extend its Anypoint Runtime Fabric, a container service for
multi-cloud and hybrid deployments, to run on Red Hat OpenShift,
the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. IBM and
MuleSoft plan to deliver increased integrations and solutions
around the IBM Z product family to support financial services and
other mutual customers. In addition, IBM plans to significantly
expand its overall investment in integration software and industry
expertise, including increasing the number of MuleSoft-certified
professionals in its consulting services organization.
According to the latest State of Salesforce report from IBM and
Oxford Economics, nearly 30% of innovation activities and
ecosystem, workforce, and customer engagement will be virtualized
by 2023. The shift to digital-first customer and employee
experiences has created more data from more systems than ever
before – and delivering these connected digital experiences will
require seamless integration of data, potentially across multiple
siloed systems.
Empowering companies to deliver seamless digital experiences,
faster
IBM and MuleSoft plan to make it easier to securely connect,
compose, and automate business processes and modernize applications
at scale:
- In collaboration with Red Hat, MuleSoft will extend Anypoint
Runtime Fabric to Red Hat OpenShift as a certified OpenShift
application, unlocking increased flexibility for companies to
deploy APIs, integrations, and automations across public and
private clouds.
- Today, 85 of the world's top 100 banks run on IBM Z. MuleSoft
supports IBM Z Digital Integration Hub, making it easier for joint
financial services customers to integrate core business
applications and share real-time, industry relevant information
with MuleSoft.
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- IBM Z Digital Integration Hub creates flexible, efficient
real-time information flow multiple systems of record on z/OS and
cloud environments while also optimizing costs.
- MuleSoft complements IBM Z Digital Integration Hub by allowing
customers to securely share current information stored in the Z
Digital Integration Hub via reusable APIs and easily integrate it
to external applications with clicks, not code. To provide even
more options for clients, MuleSoft also provides a CICS connector
via the IBM CICS Transaction Gateway.
- Together, IBM and MuleSoft plan to accelerate integration with
core systems and faster development of hybrid cloud applications,
as well as support for governance, risk and compliance
requirements.
- As a part of the IBM Z and Cloud ModernizationCenter, a digital
front door to a vast array of tools, training, resources and
ecosystem partners, MuleSoft will help joint customers accelerate
the modernization of their applications, data and processes in an
open hybrid cloud architecture.
- As part of the commitment to its longstanding Salesforce
practice, IBM Consulting is also significantly increasing the
number of MuleSoft-certified professionals to support intelligent
workflows, automation, and industry-focused use cases that
accelerate digital transformation. IBM Consulting, a global
Salesforce partner, harnesses the industry expertise of certified
Salesforce and MuleSoft practitioners to help companies deliver key
business outcomes and scale innovation faster.
Comments on the news:
- Meir Amiel, chief product officer, MuleSoft: "The move to
digitalization has accelerated, requiring companies to evolve and
adapt to increasing customer needs and new technologies. With
Anypoint Runtime Fabric, IT can be agile and flexible when change
happens by easily deploying in any environment. MuleSoft is pleased
to collaborate with IBM to help our joint customers securely
integrate, automate, and manage their workflows across environments
to respond to the needs of the market at scale."
- Bob Lord, senior vice president,
IBM Worldwide Ecosystems: "As companies modernize their hybrid
cloud strategy, they need the flexibility to run and manage their
most critical workloads in any cloud environment or on premise.
With this relationship and Red Hat OpenShift technologies, we're
further helping customers accelerate and automate their
integrations with core systems which can lead to faster development
of hybrid cloud applications."
Additional information:
- MuleSoft Runtime Fabric has planned availability to deploy on
Red Hat OpenShift in 2022.
- To learn more how organizations can benefit from the MuleSoft
and IBM Z integration, please visit:
https://ibm.biz/zDIH-MS-blog
- To learn more about IBM Consulting services for Salesforce,
please visit: https://www.ibm.com/services/salesforce
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About IBM
IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud
and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in
more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data,
streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the
competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government
and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as
financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's
hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital
transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's
breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing,
industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver
open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is
backed by IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency,
responsibility, inclusivity and service.
Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are
subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals
and objectives only.
About MuleSoft, a Salesforce company
MuleSoft,
provider of the world's #1 trusted integration and API platform,
empowers any company to quickly unlock and integrate their apps and
data to create seamless experiences, faster. For more information,
visit: https://www.mulesoft.com.
About Salesforce
Salesforce, the global CRM leader,
empowers companies of every size and industry to digitally
transform and create a 360° view of their customers. For more
information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit:
www.salesforce.com.
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