## 5.1 IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration  is a simple, complete solution to support a modern, multicloud-capable approach to integration. The Cloud Pak for Integration allows organizations to power their digital transformation initiatives. With IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, you can apply the appropriate organizational models and governance practices to support agile integration, simplify the management of your integration architecture, and help lower costs. 

Using a container-based approach, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration gives businesses complete choice and agility to deploy workloads on-premises and on private and public clouds to extend scale, flexibility, and security as needed. It provides the modularity and scalability that is required from a modern integration platform to provide the right integration pattern at the right time. 

The Cloud Pak for Integration contains the following critical integration capabilities: 

GLYPH<SM590000> API Lifecycle : Create, secure, manage, share, and monetize APIs across clouds while you maintain continuous availability. Take control of your API ecosystem and drive digital business with a robust API strategy that can meet the changing needs of your users. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Application and Data Integration : Integrate all of your business data and applications more quickly and easily across any cloud, from the simplest SaaS application to the most complex systems. You avoid concerns about mismatched sources, formats, or standards. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Enterprise Messaging : Simplify, accelerate, and facilitate the reliable exchange of data with a flexible and security-rich messaging solution that’s trusted by some of the world’s most successful enterprises. Ensure you receive the information you need, when you need it — and receive it only once. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Event Streaming : Use Apache Kafka to deliver messages more easily and reliably and to react to events in real time. Provide more-personalized customer experiences by responding to events before the moment passes. 

GLYPH<SM590000> High-Speed Data Transfer : Send, share, stream, and sync large files and data sets virtually anywhere, reliably and at maximum speed. Accelerate collaboration and meet the demands of complex global teams, without compromising performance or security. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Secure Gateway : Create persistent, security-rich connections between your on-premises and cloud environments. Quickly set up and manage gateways, control access on a per-resource basis, configure TLS encryption and mutual authentication, and monitor all of your traffic. 

## 5.1.1 One platform supported by common services 

The Cloud Pak for Integration is one of several Paks that IBM makes available ( https://www.ibm.com/cloud/paks ). Each Pak is built as an enterprise-ready, containerized software offering that leverages Red Hat OpenShift as the Kubernetes underlying platform. 

## 5.1.2 IBM Cloud Pak for Integration - benefits 

Beyond the key benefits IBM provides in all Cloud Paks, the integration platform further extends those benefits in four key areas: 

GLYPH<SM590000> Consumability : The Cloud Pak for Integration includes a platform navigator , which is a single entry-point for users. It allows users fast access to all of the integration capabilities. Through this unified experience, it is simple to navigate across any of the product 

