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Agency AI-era hybrid integration with IBM webMethods.

WebMethods hybrid integration

Today at IBM Think 2025, IBM introduced IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration, which reimagines integration for the AI era by offering a uniform experience across all integration situations.

Combining AI, APIs, apps, events, files, B2B/EDI, and mainframe data essential to today's businesses can boost productivity.

Even while AI helps them find new value, companies that connect their systems, data, people, and processes will have a technical edge. Integration is necessary for AI, which might enhance partners and clients. General release is mid-June 2025.

A coherent integration technique to boost production

Due to fast change, business imperatives to extract value from AI, the growth of APIs, Kafka, and integrations, and constant digital transformation, companies have greater tech stack requirements than ever before. Due to the complexity of these needs, most tech stacks cannot become AI-ready for innovation.

IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration creates, deploys, manages, and monitors integration patterns in on-premises and multicloud settings. Integrates IBM's top integration capabilities into one pane. It uses IBM Watsonx to leverage AI agents or mainframe data to speed B2B data exchange and connect current investments to next-generation integration technologies.

IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration uses a hybrid control plane and shared tools and assets to enable rapid response across distant settings. Centralised management speeds up operations and troubleshooting for overworked IT personnel.

By using several integration patterns and deployments, users may monitor their integration estate end-to-end. Centralising authentication, security, compliance, and governance may help customers increase productivity and establish a flexible company.

Using agentic AI for all corporate operations

To regard AI as a fundamental transformation in corporate integration at every level of the development lifecycle, not an addition. This version of IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration improves integration use cases and line-of-business and specialised user productivity using agentic AI. This also helps organisations prepare for AI faster by laying the framework for MCP and ACP.

Integration Agent

The Integration Agent integrates language-based SDKs, APIs, and events automatically using IBM Watsonx AI, boosting productivity. Agentic features let developers and non-technical people build, test, implement, and monitor complex integrations.

API Agent

Using advanced agentic AI, the API Agent can plan and execute API administration activities like these.

Finding pre-existing APIs using natural language input and removing duplication to speed development.

Writing API specs and backend code in natural language supports code-first and design-first techniques and helps with mistake correction and documentation.

Rulesets help API governance by validating specs and ensuring APIs follow policies and best practices.

Build and run test cases automatically to increase API quality.

AI Gateway

The AI Gateway tracks token consumption, sets quotas to avoid overspend, and caches replies to save tokens on recurring requests. It provides insight and control over AI services and a single place to conduct AI interactions. The AI Gateway's features can speed your AI journey:

Self-service registration speeds AI API developer deployment for internal teams.

Token-based rate limit and response caching rules.

Dashboards showing multiple provider and model use.

Fast, flexible B2B partner integration

Because trade partner ecosystems are crucial, IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration includes excellent B2B integration. Self-service management and onboarding streamlines partner involvement and often simplifies exchanges.

IBM Sterling B2B Integration VAN uses IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration to immediately link organisations to over 3.1 million trading partners. Automating critical activities and improving firm data exchange are possible. When combined with application integration, this strives for seamless process automation between internal and external systems.

Incorporated business agility into stack

Tomorrow's software stack will be built on intelligent, scalable, and dynamic integrations that rapidly adapt to business needs. Event-driven architecture and API-driven automation are vital in the "Now Economy," where organisations must respond to real-time data to improve consumer experiences and simplify operations to beat competitors. Modern integration methods require event-driven architecture to replace static routines. This enables real-time business across legacy and modern platforms.

Event Endpoint Management streamlines event integration by letting authorised users find and consume events and controlling event sources like APIs to reuse them across the company. It supports Kafka Protocol brokers and implementations.

API-driven composability lets architects develop flexible, reusable, and scalable integrations by stacking APIs like bricks. Asset reuse and modularity accelerate business requirements' time to market.

From mainframe to modern pricing and packaging, ROI optimisation

IBM has pioneered corporate integration, which changes continually, since its beginnings. It recognises the client's large mainframe and other technology investments and the rising desire for consumption-based pricing. IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration extends these investments to clients that wish to change their operational, pricing, and technology stacks.

Accessing mainframe data and services: IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration lets integration developers exploit mainframes' incredible data.

IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration offers transaction-based consumption pricing for cost control. Customers may pay for what they use and adjust their integration use according to their needs with predictable yet flexible pricing.

Prepare your AI foundation for the future

IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration supports enterprise integration by providing technology and a tactical edge to overcome modern integration difficulties, enhance agility, and inspire innovation.