The document discusses how IBM Z can participate in the API economy and hybrid cloud by exposing its assets as REST APIs and calling external REST APIs. It promotes modernizing IBM Z with new programming languages like Node.js and Swift to attract full stack developers and take advantage of their large ecosystem. This will help fuel digital transformation initiatives powered by APIs and the hybrid cloud model.
16. APIs in the enterprise…
So, we have APIs into IBM Z resources…
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Enterprise
Applications
Enterprise
Data
Enterprise
Transaction
Processing
CICS
IMS
Batch
WAS
Systems of Record
• Expose them?
• Rate-limit them?
• Socialise them?
• Secure them?
• Monitize them?
• Integrate them?
• ...
17. Building the solution
An enterprise solution for Develop,
Secure, Run and Manage APIs
An enterprise solution for securely
exposing IBM Z assets as REST APIs
19. Natural
Language
Classifier
Conversation Alchemy
Language
Text to SpeechSpeech to Text
Input data
Output data
Region :
§ Virtual Banking Advisor defined by :
§ A Chatbot (for communicating)
§ A Cognitive Engine (for thinking and making decisions)
Implementation
Customer on Vacation
Interacts with Cognitive
Engine
chatbot