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Few new applications today are stand-alone applications. For the most part, they require data and functions from other applications or enterprises. They require integrations.

In this tutorial, you learn how to create a fully integrated application using IBM App Connect. IBM App Connect, which is a key component of the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration platform (and available for free on IBM Cloud as a SaaS offering), showcases the agility of integrating applications on the cloud.

Prerequisites

An IBM Cloud account

Estimated time

Completing this tutorial should take about 30 minutes.

Steps

Set up the IBM Cloud services
Create an event-driven flow
Create an API flow
Create an integration by using a template and the Slack connector

Step 1: Set up the IBM Cloud services

Follow the steps in the Getting Started section of my workshop to create these three IBM Cloud services:

App Connect
Cloudant
Event Streams

Step 2: Create an event-driven flow

Event-driven flows enable you to identify an event that can occur in your first application (the source application) and actions that can be performed in one or more target applications.

In this lab, you'll create a simple event-driven flow that uses a scheduler to initiate a response from an HTTP response (the source application) to send data into a Cloudant database (the target application).

Follow the steps in the event-driven flow lab of my workshop.

Step 3: Create an API flow

A flow for an API contains a request, one or more target application actions, and a response.

In this lab, you'll create an API to create a database on Cloudant and also create an API to retrieve a list of databases created.

Follow the steps in the API flow lab of my workshop.

Step 4: Create an integration by using a template and the Slack connector

Templates help you quickly create integration flows by using connectors.

In this lab, you'll create the Slack translation bot using a template.

Follow the steps in the Templates lab of my workshop.

Summary and next steps

In this workshop, you learned how to build integrations using IBM App Connect.

Now that you have learned how to build event-driven flows, flows for APIs, and have worked with templates, perhaps you're ready to take on the challenge of building an enterprise-connected virtual assistant with no code.

Building integrations with event-driven flows or flows for APIs

Building integrations with event-driven flows or flows for APIs