Event Automation

Event Endpoint Management accelerates the development of event-driven and situational applications by making the events that power them easily accessible to everyone. It seamlessly integrates with any Kafka implementation or event broker that supports the Kafka Protocol.

Event Endpoint Management offers a unified experience, enabling event streams to be:

• Standardized using the AsyncAPI specification for clear and consistent descriptions
• Easily shared through a searchable, self-service catalog, with access governed by policies and enforced at the gateway level
• Optimized through a centralized governance control plane, managing all Kafka clusters or those compatible with the Kafka protocol

All of your business events are under one catalog so they are understandable and ready to consume. Anyone can use topic tags to easily search and find related topics. Subscribe to a topic with a few clicks to get a unique username and password for instant access.

To address security needs, event endpoint management provides application access only over TLS/SSL and allows only approved subscribers to access topics. It provides customizable audit to preferred regulatory requirements and the ability to have different front facing and back facing security models.

Event endpoint management or Event Automation provides cluster protection, consumer isolation, and interface versioning to decouple your systems and increase flexibility. The event gateway also rewrites and transforms requests going between applications and Kafka clusters, making it easier for admins to rework the underlying infrastructure.

Events should include a description, schema and sample message so that users can quickly understand what they are and how to consume them. Event endpoint management allows you to describe events in a standardized way according to the AsyncAPI specification. With its intuitive UI, it makes it easy to produce a valid AsyncAPI document for any Kafka cluster or system that adheres to the Kafka protocol.

Manage event sources like APIs to securely reuse them across the enterprise. Event endpoint management can integrate with IBM API Connect, allowing you to manage your events and APIs in one place. This provides wider lifecycle management (dev, test, prod) and follows a topic/plan/product design for all your synchronous and asynchronous endpoints.

Effortlessly integrate enterprise business applications, like SAP or Salesforce, across both on-premises and multi-cloud environments