Responsiv Solutions IBM App Connect Enterprise on Cloud
IBM App Connect Enterprise on Cloud offers full-fledged integration and ESB capabilities on the IBM Cloud platform. This fully managed solution allows you to deploy integrations on cloud to connect business systems.
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Features
- Full Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Capability
- Extended connectivity across Cloud Services, SaaS, cloud platforms, on-premises applications
- Highly-available and secure
- Graphical development environment
- Create, assemble, manage, secure, scale and socialize your APIs.
- Create microservices and exposing them as APIs in minutes
- Lightweight integration runtimes for cloud native and container- based deployment
- Includes IBM Integration Bus v11 and IBM App Connect Professional
- Build APIs through no-code approach managed through IBM API-Connect
- Rich library of prebuilt connectors for lots of applications
Benefits
- Move your existing integrations to the cloud
- Lowers the cost of maintenance over point to point interfaces.
- Reusable implementations
- Enterprise-grade
- A platform to develop loosely coupled architectures for SOA solutions
- Visual design and deployment of integrations
- Delivers faster time to value for multiple hybrid integrations
- Ability to expose integrations as Open Data Protocol (OData)
- Supports multiple integration styles including SOA/ESB, API, microservice-based
Pricing
£1,969.00 a unit a month
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 13
Service ID
7 8 1 9 8 7 2 5 0 2 6 9 6 8 3
Contact
Responsiv Solutions Ltd
Mike Axial
Telephone: +44 (0)1344 266 980
Email: sales@responsiv.co.uk
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- Service Level Agreement for IBM Integration Bus on Cloud is 99.5% availability
- System requirements
- https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/softwareReqsForProduct.html
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- The response goal is two business hours (8AM to 5PM Monday to Friday). For Severity 1 tickets (critical business impact) there is 24x7 support.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
-
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/731179
On-site support provided as a Time & Materials basis and will be scoped and agreed before attending site - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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1. Online tutorials - https://developer.ibm.com/integration/docs/integration-bus-on-cloud/
2. Knowledge Center - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKHH_10.0.0/com.ibm.iib.cloud.doc/cl00002_.htm
3. Proof of Technology – A free one day session with lectures & Labs on IBM Integration Bus
4. Formal Training – Paid for week long training courses for developers and administrators on IBM Integration Bus
Bespoke Training – Tailored training courses that meet the educational needs of the customer for the specific use cases that are needed. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Data cannot be exported from IBM App Connect Enterprise on Cloud. All data and configuration data will be deleted when the service ends
- End-of-contract process
- It is the responsibility of the customer to terminate the service in writing to IBM. This policy is set at the time of contracting. IBM will continue providing the service until either a product support ends creating a need to recontract for the service, or the client ceases payment
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- Yes
- Compatible operating systems
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- Linux or Unix
- MacOS
- Windows
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Description of service interface
- Flows and integration servers are represented by tiles on the App Connect dashboard. The tiles show summary information about the flow, API, or integration server, such as whether a flow is running or stopped, and if it produced an error. You can click the tick and exclamation point icons to see when the flow last ran successfully, or what errors were raised. Click the three dots Icon of three vertical dots opens a menu to start, stop, edit, or delete the flow to open a menu to start, stop, edit, or delete your resources.
- Accessibility standards
- None or don’t know
- Description of accessibility
- IBM Cloud includes the following major accessibility features: - Keyboard-only operation. - Operations that use a screen reader. IBM Cloud uses the latest W3C Standard, WAI-ARIA 1.0 to ensure compliance to US Section 508 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. To take advantage of accessibility features, use the latest release of your screen reader in combination with the latest Internet Explorer web browser that is supported by this product. The IBM Cloud online product documentation and the IBM Cloud user interface framework is enabled for accessibility.
- Accessibility testing
- https://www.ibm.com/able/product_accessibility/request?requestId=fdf2c94c8d2afea65e6e77b2ac888242
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
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IBM App Connect Enterprise on Cloud can expose both Restful and SOAP based APIs as part of the integrations deployed. Command line access to configure the connectivity between systems is also available.
Full details available on the IBM Knowledge Centre: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
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- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
-
IBM App Connect Enterprise on Cloud is a multi-tenanted service deployed on a public cloud. The SLA for IBM App Connect Enterprise on Cloud is 99.5% availability.
The architecture of IBM cloud services maintains logical separation of client data. Internal rules and measures separate data processing, such as inserting, modifying, deleting, and transferring data, according to the contracted purposes.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- IBM
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Encryption of all physical media
- Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Users can export their configuration through the web user interface on IBM App Connect Enterprise on Cloud. No data persits in the solution.
- Data export formats
- Other
- Other data export formats
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- Broker Archive File (Zip File)
- .Log
- Data import formats
- Other
- Other data import formats
- Broker Archive File (zip file)
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Other
- Other protection between networks
- IBM will encrypt content not intended for public or unauthenticated viewing when transferring content over public networks. Further, unless excluded by a TD, IBM will enable use of a cryptographic protocol, such as HTTPS, SFTP, and FTPS, for Client’s secure transfer of content to and from the Cloud Service over public networks.
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
-
Availability during a contracted month = Compensation
(% of monthly subscription fee for contracted month that is the subject of a claim)
<99.9% = 2%
<99.0% =5%
<95.00% = 10.0%
IBM will make a rebate directly available to Client. Further details at
https://www.ibm.com/software/support/saas_support_overview.html - Approach to resilience
- Available on request
- Outage reporting
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Email alerts are sent if there is an outage.
System status updates can be found here - https://status.eu-gb.bluemix.net/
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- IBM maintains individual role-based authorization of privileged accounts that is subject to regular validation. A privileged account is a duly authorized IBM user identity with administrative access to a Cloud Service, including associated infrastructure, networks, systems, applications, databases and file systems.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 29 November 2021
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- https://www.ibm.com/cloud/compliance
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- Yes
- CSA STAR accreditation date
- 02/01/2020
- CSA STAR certification level
- Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
- What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
- The IBM CSA Star Self-Assessment can be viewed https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/star/registry/ibm-cloud/services/ibm-cloud-services/
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
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- https://www.ibm.com/trust
- https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/cloud/compliance
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- IBM has an Information Technology (IT) Security policy that establishes the requirements for the protection of IBM's worldwide IT systems and the information assets they contain, including networks and computing devices such as servers, workstations, host computers, application programs, web services, and telephone systems within the IBM infrastructure. IBM’s IT Security policy is supplemented by standards and guidelines, such as the Security Standards for IBM's Infrastructure, the Security and Use Standards for IBM Employees and the Security Guidelines for Outsourced Business Services. Such are reviewed by a cross-company team led by the IT Risk organization every six months. IBM has a dedicated Vice President of IT Security who leads a team responsible for IBM's own enterprise data security standards and practices. Responsibility and accountability for executing internal security programs is established through formal documented policies. IBM Services teams also have dedicated executives and teams who are responsible for information and physical security in the delivery of our client services.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
- IBM maintains policies and procedures to manage risks associated with the application of changes to its Cloud Services. Prior to implementation, all changes to a Cloud Service, including its systems, networks and underlying components, will be documented in a registered change request that includes a description and reason for the change, implementation details and schedule, a risk statement addressing impact to the Cloud Service and its clients, expected outcome, rollback plan, and documented approval by IBM management or its authorized delegate.
- Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
- With each Cloud Service, as applicable and commercially reasonable, IBM will a) perform penetration testing and vulnerability assessments before production release and routinely thereafter, b) enlist a qualified and reputable independent third-party to perform penetration testing and ethical hacking at least annually, c) perform automated management and routine verification of underlying components’ compliance with security configuration requirements, and d) remediate any identified vulnerability or noncompliance with its security configuration requirements based on associated risk, exploitability, and impact. IBM takes reasonable care to avoid Cloud Service disruption when performing its tests, assessments, scans, and execution of remediation activities.
- Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
- IBM maintains and follows policies requiring administrative access and activity in its Cloud Services’ computing environments to be logged and monitored, and the logs to be archived and retained in compliance with IBM’s worldwide records management plan. IBM monitors privileged account use and maintain security information and event management policies and measures designed to a) identify unauthorized administrative access and activity, b) facilitate a timely and appropriate response, and c) enable internal and independent third party audits of compliance with such policies. IBM systematically monitors the health and availability of production Cloud Service systems and infrastructure at all times.
- Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
- IBM: -maintains and follows incident response policies aligned with NIST guidelines for computer security incident handling, and will comply with data breach notification requirements under applicable law. -investigates security incidents, including unauthorised access or use of content or the Cloud Service, of which IBM becomes aware, and, if warranted, define and execute an appropriate response plan. -promptly notifies Client upon determining that a security incident known or reasonably suspected by IBM to affect Client has occurred. -provides Client with reasonably requested information about such security incident and status of applicable remediation and restoration activities performed or directed by IBM.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Tackling economic inequality
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Tackling economic inequality
Responsiv Solutions is a new business that employs both graduate and school leavers. We have approximately 40% non-native English speakers, and a gender balance of around 50% male. Our business works with smaller businesses to help them use technology to grow and prosper. We are bringing knowledge and expertise more commonly found in larger organisations to the masses. - Equal opportunity
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Equal opportunity
Responsiv prides itself in selecting our staff on their individual merits, and their ability to work with our customers as part of the Responsiv team. We do not single out particular groups by any measure and regard ourselves to be an equal opportunity employer.
Responsiv has signed up to the Disability Confident initiative as a Disability Confident Committed Employer. - Wellbeing
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Wellbeing
Responsiv provide our staff with wellbeing advice and private medical care that includes mental health and encourages good habits to promote healthy lifestyles. Many of our staff are keen sports people who participate in cycling and sporting events.
Pricing
- Price
- £1,969.00 a unit a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
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30 days free trial of 1 integration deployed running for 2 hours continuously
Developer version available Free of charge if used within the licence terms
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/app-connect/11.0.0?topic=sh-how-can-i-try-out-app-connect-enterprise - Link to free trial
- https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/app-connect