IBM hybrid iPaaS
Your cloud SaaS and your data center systems belong on the same map. One control plane designs, deploys, monitors and governs integrations across both, from a single studio.
IBM Silver Business Partner · webMethods · Cloud Pak · App Connect
Architecture overview · 5 layers
IBM hybrid iPaaS architecture
Cloud above, on-premise below, and a single control plane in the middle that governs both the same way.
Cloud ecosystem
A record changes in Salesforce, or an event lands on a Kafka topic. Something in your data center needs to know about it.
Secure hybrid connectivity
It crosses the boundary over a private link or a tunnel, never the open internet, with credentials pulled from a vault rather than a config file.
Unified control plane
The flow that handles it was designed in one studio, and runs wherever it was told to, cloud or data center, without being rebuilt for either.
On-premise agents
An agent inside your network picks the work up. Your firewall opens outbound only, so nothing on the inside becomes reachable from outside.
On-premise & legacy systems
SAP takes the update, the mainframe posts the transaction, and the same monitoring covers them as covers everything running in cloud.
Key capabilities
What the control plane gives you
Hybrid architecture
Runtime topology across IBM Cloud, AWS or Azure for SaaS, and edge runtimes or on-prem agents for ERP, databases, legacy and IoT.
Unified design & deploy
One webMethods studio deploying to any runtime, with CI/CD, versioning and rollback, so promoting a flow from test to production is a pipeline rather than a handover.
Connector library
Over 200 pre-built connectors spanning CRM, SaaS, BI, HCM, payments, event streams, ERP, databases, mainframe, MQ, MFT and SCADA, so most new endpoints are configuration.
Connectivity & security
VPN, Private Link, TLS and mTLS, secure tunnels, DMZ proxies and encryption at rest, with credentials held in a vault rather than inside an integration.
On-premise & legacy
SAP, Oracle EBS, AS400, mainframe, MSSQL, DB2, MQ, AMQP, JMS, SFTP, EDI, SOAP and SCADA, reached without exposing them to the internet.
Monitoring & operations
Monitoring, logging, alerting and health checks across every runtime, so a flow failing on-premise reaches the same dashboard as one failing in cloud.
Data residency & compliance
Control where data and processes run to meet residency and regulatory rules, with governance and audit enforced the same way everywhere.
Infrastructure & platform
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm and GitOps, monitored through Prometheus, Grafana and ELK, so environments rebuild from code rather than memory.
Technology stack
The IBM stack, and what runs it
We hold IBM Silver Business Partner status and keep certified engineers on staff across this stack.
IBM integration stack
Platform and infrastructure
Use case · Banking
Legacy middleware to Cloud Pak, mainframe intact
An enterprise bank moved its legacy middleware to IBM Cloud Pak for Integration while keeping live connectivity to on-premise mainframe systems throughout the migration.
Read the case studies →Frequently asked questions
Most enterprises run cloud SaaS alongside on-premise systems that cannot move, whether for technical, regulatory or cost reasons. A hybrid iPaaS gives you one control plane to design, deploy, monitor and govern integrations across both, instead of two toolchains and two sets of habits.
Bring both sides under one control plane
Send us the systems you run on-premise and the SaaS they need to reach. We will come back with an approach and a realistic shape for the work.