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Innovate at enterprise scale
Bluemix helps teams accelerate innovation and delivery, particularly when it comes to engaging users through new digital channels. However, doing that successfully, and at enterprise scale, also means being able to connect to and integrate with existing apps and data in simple, powerful and even self-service ways.
Connect and integrate
As systems and infrastructure becomes increasingly hybrid, Bluemix offers developers and IT teams the tools and services to securely connect between on and off-premises apps and data.
Re-host
With powerful infrastructure, workload automation and services like DB2 and WAS on Cloud, Bluemix makes it easy to bring appropriate apps and data directly from traditional IT into public, dedicated or on-premises cloud.
Re-factor
Some components of monolithic applications require more elasticity and development agility. With app and process centric runtimes, devops services and deployment models that include on-premises, Bluemix enables teams to re-factor monolithic applications into high-performance distributed systems.
Bluemix private catalog
The Bluemix Catalog includes IBM, 3rd party and private services. Private services are a mechanism to take your own apps and data and programmatically make them available to your own developers or partners in a self-service way.
Integration and APIs
Bluemix offers multiple ways to connect with existing apps and data. This includes everything from Direct Link technology that utilizes network connections that never go over the public internet, to the ability to use Gateways to securely connect to on-premises endpoints such as databases, and API Management technology to publish and manage enterprise APIs as private services in your Bluemix console.
Moving apps to the cloud
With Websphere Application Server on Cloud and cloud infrastructure services, companies can directly lift and shift existing applications into cloud for cost and performance benefits. However, for some applications, re-factoring the entire application — or portions of it — into a microservices architecture with IBM API Connect. Itcan unlock apps and data that you can use to anticipate customer needs and pre-empt market demands. With app centric compute models, integration services and deployment models that include on-premises, companies can begin to extend and enhance existing apps with increasingly modular, agile and scalable components.
Turn z Systems into a powerful cloud services provider
With Bluemix, companies can turn their mainframe into a powerful cloud service provider. With built in discovery for z/OS Connect functions in API Connect, developers building new apps and services on Bluemix can easily interact with core System z capabilities through simple REST calls.
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