Get started with IBM App Connect Enterprise

You can get started without prior knowledge of IBM® App Connect Enterprise or integration, and can choose how you want to get going from a variety of resources.

Not got App Connect Enterprise?

If you want to get started with integration solutions in your own installation of IBM App Connect Enterprise, you can download IBM App Connect Enterprise for Developers (also known as Developer Edition) without charge: download and then install the software, and then create and deploy your first integration solution, all in a few steps, in minutes.

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Want to get hands on quickly, to try your first enterprise integration solution?

Use a tutorial in the App Connect Enterprise Toolkit (the App Connect Toolkit) to create and deploy your first integration solution, all in a few steps, in minutes. Start simple, or try any of the tutorials. Discover concepts and techniques as you go.

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Create an integration solution from a tutorial in the App Connect Toolkit, then deploy and test it in an integration server.

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Try tutorials in the App Connect Toolkit

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Use the Tutorials Gallery to download, deploy, and test sample integration solutions, and then explore the configuration of the solution components to learn how to develop integration solutions of your own.

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Want to get going quickly but still be guided?

Take the IBM App Connect Enterprise Essentials course.

This course provides guided learning about the essential features of App Connect Enterprise software, and how to build a hybrid integration solution with the App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and Designer. This course includes exercises with event-driven flows in App Connect Enterprise as a Service in the hybrid integration solution that is based on callable flows between App Connect Enterprise as a Service and on-premises message flows.

You can find two versions of the course in the IBM Skills Gateway, both with lab exercises. One course is free and is based on downloading App Connect Enterprise for Developers, and the other course has a cost that includes a VM image for labs.

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Want to learn more?

If you prefer to learn more before getting hands on, or if want to move on from getting started, see the other pages in this documentation, including these sections.

  • Product overview

    Learn more about capabilities, concepts, and other introductory information to help you learn about IBM App Connect Enterprise.

  • Configuring IBM App Connect Enterprise

    Learn more about configuring your application development environment to create, test, and deploy message flows and associated resources, and about configuring runtime environments on premises or in containers.

  • Developing integration solutions

    Learn more about the general subjects and techniques for developing integration solutions to run in IBM App Connect Enterprise.

  • Tutorials available on GitHub

    This page provides links to the IBM App Connect Enterprise 11.0 tutorials that are available on GitHub. If you want to explore the tutorials without using the toolkit, you can use these links to read the details and steps.