ARMONK,
N.Y., July 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
(NYSE: IBM) today announced it
has completed its acquisition of StreamSets and
webMethods from Software AG after receiving all required regulatory
approvals. The acquisition brings together leading capabilities in
integration, API management and data ingestion.
The acquisition builds on IBM's extensive
software portfolio, with StreamSets adding new data ingestion
capabilities to IBM's AI and data
platform, and webMethods bringing Integration Platform
as a Service (iPaas) capabilities to IBM's Automation
solutions. IBM's clients and partners will now have
access to one of the most modern and comprehensive application and
data integration platforms in the industry to drive innovation and
prepare business for AI.
Organizations are facing an explosion of apps, APIs,
events and data spread across hybrid cloud environments worldwide.
In fact, IDC estimates that 1 billion new applications are expected
by 2028 due to the rapid emergence of generative
AI1. As organizations continue their
digital transformation journeys, application and data integration
solutions are critical for application modernization and
effectively deploying AI across the enterprise.
StreamSets and webMethods currently serve more than 1,500
companies across the globe and will provide additional integration
technologies for next-generation AI applications that require data
and connectivity to everything, everywhere. And, the industry is
continuing to grow, with IDC predicting the worldwide integration
software market to exceed $18.0
billion in 20272.
"This is an important acquisition for IBM as we help our
clients turn complexities into competitive advantage," said
Dinesh Nirmal, Senior Vice
President, Products, IBM Software. "StreamSets and
webMethods bring new capabilities to our clients to
embrace data and AI to better manage the growth and
complexity of applications. We will empower integrators,
developers, and line of business IT to build and manage
integrations at an even greater and more impactful
scale."
StreamSets adds cloud-based, real-time data ingestion
capabilities for various types of data to watsonx, IBM's AI and
data platform. Data ingestion helps move massive amounts of
data from multiple sources to a centralized storage center where it
can then be utilized by other systems/applications. When that data
moves between sources and targets, streaming tools like StreamSets
provide updated data in real-time to target destinations. This
hybrid and multi-cloud ready product, which IBM plans to embed as a
premium feature in watsonx.data, makes it easier for users to
ingest, enrich, and harness the potential of streaming data enabled
through features like offset handling and delivery
guarantees.
StreamSets will also further extend the breadth and depth
of IBM's Data Fabric and Data Integration capabilities through
enabling the design of streaming data pipelines. It will complement
IBM DataStage and Databand into a deeply integrated offering for
data engineers, catering to multiple patterns of data integrated,
infused with data observability capabilities. IBM plans to make
StreamSets available across all major hyperscalers, including GCP
(current) and Azure/AWS (in-progress), as well as
on-premises.
webMethods helps organizations manage the tangled web of
systems, applications and data silos within business
environments. The webMethods Integration Platform as a
Service (iPaaS) enables users to deploy and execute integrations
anywhere, while still including outputs in unified integration
flows. This helps global organizations meet local data sovereignty
requirements while driving enterprise-wide innovation and taking
advantage of centralized management.
IBM plans to extend the webMethods iPaaS to support the
IBM integration products, giving current customers a path to
multi-cloud hybrid integration. By supporting
various patterns of integration, including
applications, APIs, events, and B2B, IBM will help enable users to
compose modern, unified, and seamless applications and
services.
For more information on StreamSets, click
here. For more information on webMethods,
click here.
Media Contact:
Hanna Scalzo
IBM Media
Relations
203-512-5497
smigala@us.ibm.com
1 Source: IDC.
1 Billion New Logical Applications: More
Background, Apr
2024,
US51953724
2 Source: IDC.
Worldwide Integration and API Management Software Forecast,
2023–2027, July 2023, US51053823
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