IBM ACE (App Connect Enterprise)

Agentless IBM® ACE Monitoring & Administration with Infrared360®

Streamlined, Secure, and Efficient

Infrared360 transforms IBM ACE (formerly IBM Integration Bus) administration and monitoring into an effortless experience. This secure, agentless, cloud-native platform streamlines operations, reduces costs, and accelerates response times. Benefit from advanced IBM ACE administration featuring real-time monitoring, customizable alerts, and insights tailored to modern IT requirements.

Benefits of Infrared360 for IBM ACE

Tailored to Meet Diverse Organizational Needs

Organizational Benefits

Scalability: Infrared360 is adept at handling growth in IBM ACE environments, ensuring seamless administration and monitoring as organizational demands increase. This scalability is crucial for adapting to changing business landscapes without extensive system modifications.

Customization: Users can extensively customize Infrared360 to meet specific IBM ACE operational needs. This adaptability allows it to fit into diverse IT environments, aligning with unique organizational processes and objectives.

User-Friendly Interface: The intuitive design of Infrared360 simplifies navigation and reduces the learning curve, enhancing user productivity and minimizing training requirements.

Advanced Analytics: The platform offers sophisticated analytics for IBM ACE, providing valuable insights into integration and enterprise operations. These tools aid in strategic decision-making and help identify areas for improvement.

Benefits by Role for Infrared360 in IBM ACE Environments

  • Detailed Message Flow Reporting & More: Streamline your IBM ACE reporting by integrating detailed insights into message flows, performance metrics, and statistical analysis into a unified reporting framework. Enjoy access to real-time analytics, historical data trends, and customizable reports in formats such as HTML, PDF, XLS, and more. This approach not only prioritizes crucial insights into your message flows but also ensures a comprehensive overview of your IBM ACE environments, enabling informed decision-making and optimal performance management.
  • Agentless Management: Simplifies operations with no need for deployments on managed servers, reducing system complexity and security risks.
  • Proactive Monitoring: Offers True Real-Time™ monitoring, enabling quick identification and resolution of issues in IBM ACE environments.
  • Dynamic Alert Response: Automates responses to alerts, improving efficiency and ensuring immediate action on critical issues
  • Visibility to Applications & Flows: Status of applications & flows all the time. 
  • Collaboration on Integrated Middleware Technologies: Facilitates teamwork across technologies like IBM ACE, MQ, Kafka, and more, enhancing productivity.
  • Synthetic Transactions: Enables the validation of message flows, queues, and applications using real data, aiding in thorough testing and optimization.
  • User Rights Configuration: Allows customization of user rights, enhancing security and control over the development environment.
  • Automation: Synthetic Testing Suite provides consistent, reliable testing using real world data.

Observability: 

  • Visibility to Applications & Flows: Status of applications & flows all the time.
  • Strategic Oversight: You can see the functioning of your business flows. 
  • Collaboration with other Stakeholders: Empowers teamwork with Developers & Admins to expedite problem resolution.
  • Monitoring in Non-Prod Environments: Supports monitoring across development and operations, aiding in pre-production validation.
  • Business Alignment: Ensures middleware operations are in line with broader business strategies.
  • Innovative Solutions: Provides advanced features for modern and forward-thinking IBM ACE management.

Features of Infrared360 for IBM ACE Monitoring & Management

True Real-Time™ Monitoring in Infrared360 for IBM ACE

True Real-Time™ Monitoring within Infrared360 provides several key benefits for managing and monitoring IBM ACE environments:

Immediate Insights

Infrared360’s True Real-Time™ monitoring capability surpasses other solutions by providing immediate, direct insights. Unlike systems that rely on log averages, this feature ensures quick alerts and up-to-the-second information. This is crucial for maintaining optimal performance in IBM ACE environments, including applications, execution groups, & message flows.

Proactive Issue Resolution

With its capability for instant data access, Infrared360 enables the proactive identification and resolution of issues in IBM ACE environments. This immediate responsiveness effectively minimizes downtime and ensures smooth operations across your integration and enterprise connectivity platforms.

Enhanced Alerting

The platform allows for the setting up of complex, condition-based alerts covering various aspects of the IBM ACE environment. These can include the status of applications, execution groups, & message flows. The ability to communicate these alerts through multiple channels ensures timely notifications and rapid response to potential issues.

Trusted Spaces™ in Infrared360 for IBM ACE

Empowering Role-Based Management and Security

Avada Software’s Trusted Spaces™ feature in Infrared360 offers an array of benefits for managing IBM ACE environments:

  • Role-Based Access: Trusted Spaces™ in Infrared360 significantly enhances data security and operational efficiency by enabling role-based access control across DevOps, Admins, Application teams.
  • Facilitating Cross-Team Collaboration: By defining clear roles and responsibilities, Trusted Spaces™ encourages more seamless interaction among various IT roles, such as administrators, engineers, and developers. This fosters a collaborative environment where each team can work more cohesively while respecting the boundaries of their defined roles.
  • Customized Alerts: The feature allows for the customization of alert settings based on individual responsibilities and roles within the IBM ACE environment. This ensures that each team member receives relevant alerts, preventing information overload and allowing for a more focused response to issues.
  • Enhanced Security: By limiting access to sensitive information and functionalities based on roles, Trusted Spaces™ effectively heightens security measures. This is particularly beneficial for organizations needing to comply with stringent regulatory requirements, as it reduces the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access.
  • Operational Efficiency: The ability to streamline workflows and focus on role-specific information greatly enhances operational efficiency. Team members are not bogged down by irrelevant data, enabling them to respond more quickly and effectively to the aspects of the IBM ACE environment under their purview.
  • Providing Comprehensive, Role-Focused Insights: This feature offers insights tailored to the specific roles of team members. Such role-focused analytics aid in making informed, data-driven decisions, ensuring that strategies and actions are aligned with the specific needs and objectives of each role within the IBM ACE management framework.
Colleagues Collaborating on How To Improve Operational Efficiency

Case Study: See How Parker Hannifin Improved Efficiencies Across Their Business Units with Infrared360 and Trusted Spaces™.

Synthetic Transactions Suite in Infrared360 for IBM ACE
Advanced Real-World Testing for Integration and Enterprise Environments

Infrared360’s Synthetic Transactions Suite provides a sophisticated solution for automated testing within IBM ACE environments. This suite excels in emulating real-world scenarios, allowing for the validation of message flows, queues, triggers, and applications using real data. Its capability to thoroughly test broker nodes and verify message routing logic is essential for ensuring robust performance in complex integration environments.

The suite’s design is focused on reusability and regression testing, enabling efficient and repeated testing processes. This is particularly beneficial for continuous improvement and validation of new system elements, offering an advanced level of testing that goes beyond basic methods. With the Synthetic Transactions Suite, organizations can confidently test and optimize their IBM ACE environments, ensuring reliability and efficiency in their integration and enterprise connectivity solutions.

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Infrared360 for IBM ACE Integrates with External Services

Infrared360 offers a range of integration features that allows you to integrate with external services like SNOW & Splunk to enhance the management of IBM ACE environments:

  • Automatic IBM ACE Object Detection: This feature streamlines the management process by automatically detecting and importing ACE and IIB objects into the Infrared360 environment. This significantly reduces manual efforts and potential errors associated with manual entry

  • Ticketing System Compatibility: Infrared360 seamlessly integrates with popular ticketing systems, facilitating automated ticket generation for efficient issue tracking and resolution in IBM ACE environments. This ensures that issue management is streamlined and well-documented.

  • Robust Security Protocols: The platform aligns with existing security measures to ensure secure management of IBM ACE environments. This includes adherence to industry-standard security protocols, providing peace of mind regarding the safety of sensitive data.

  • 3rd-Party Service Integration: The platform is compatible with a variety of external services, further enhancing its monitoring and management capabilities. This allows for a more comprehensive approach to managing IBM ACE environments by leveraging external tools and services.

  • REST & SOAP API Support: Infrared360® provides flexible integration options through REST and SOAP APIs, catering to specific organizational needs and allowing for custom integration with other systems and applications. This enhances the platform’s adaptability and utility in diverse IT landscapes.

By offering these integration features, Infrared360 simplifies not just IBM ACE monitoring but also the connection with third-party services, fitting effortlessly into your existing IT ecosystem.

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Testimonials: What Our Clients Are Saying About Infrared360

These testimonials highlight various capabilities, ease of use, and seamless integration features of Infrared360. We have garnered praise across various industries and our commitment to excellence is reflected in the positive feedback from our diverse clientele.

“Great MQ administration tool”

“Avada’s IR360 is a great tool because they’ve built their extensive knowledge of MQ into it. They understand what information and abilities are necessary to administer MQ and IR360 simply delivers. And the support of the product is excellent.

MQ Administrator, Government

“Great product for both MQ administration and MQ monitoring/alerting”

“As an MQ administrator, I estimate that IR360 provides an order of magnitude reduction in the time normally required to perform MQ administration tasks using competing products. I’ve used many monitoring/administration tools, and IR360 shines in comparison”

IBM MQ Administrator, Banking: 1B - 3B USD

“Fast Implementation, Direct Support From The Company, Quick Updates.”

“Use case: Within a large environment of a distributed solution running in 4 operating centers for approx 20 tenants, we use approx. 200 queue managers (IBM MQ). The need was to monitor those queues and give access to select personal with different access rights (such as seeing everything is up and running, or reading contents, or even change them, always depending on their role). We evaluated and decided for Infrared360. Experiences: our various stakeholders use Infrared360 frequently. They have access to “their” queues as needed. Our operations department manages the whole with just one part time person.”

ICT Architect, Miscellaneous

“Avadasoftware IR360 Support Is A+”

“Support with Avada Software is incredible. They are responsive, personal and every part of the process is “white gloved.” I’ve even taken issues to their support not related directly to the their product that they’ve been able to help troubleshoot just because they care about their customer.”

Manager Infrastructure Support, Finance: 1B - 3B USD

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