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IBM App Connect allows you to simply connect applications and data across all of your environments. By supporting a wide range of integration styles from traditional SOA to modern event, API, and microservices-based, IBM App Connect provides a single integration tool for your entire business. The award-winning designer experience gives you the option of leveraging hundreds of secure pre-built connectors and robust integration features to satisfy even the most complex enterprise requirements. With the ability to be deployed in any cloud or on-premises system, you have the flexibility to run an integration solution close to your applications wherever you need.

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	IBM App Connect Enterprise 12 Application Development III The earner of this badge understands how to use IBM App Connect Enterprise 12 to design an IBM App Connect vault for storing encrypted credentials, which can be used to access secured resources. They understand how to use IBM App Connect Enterprise to configure message flows to emit events, which can then be used by other applications for transaction monitoring and auditing. They can construct a business transaction definition with the IBM App Connect web user interface. >Earn this badge
	IBM App Connect Enterprise as a Service Essentials This badge earner demonstrates essential understanding of IBM App Connect Enterprise as a Service and is able to articulate the key use cases as well as the value proposition of integration solutions and IBM App Connect. They have gained practical skills by building integrations between SaaS applications in the cloud and to integrate SaaS applications with an on-premises API. The individual can apply this knowledge to how App Connect can help them achieve their own integration use cases. >Earn this badge
	IBM App Connect Enterprise 12 Application Development I The earner of this badge understands how to use IBM App Connect Enterprise 12 to develop, deploy, and test message flow applications. They can use the IBM App Connect Enterprise web user interface to monitor an integration server and a message flow. They can process file data in message flows. They can develop and test REST APIs. They can also test message flows by using the message flow debugger. >Earn this badge
	IBM App Connect Enterprise 12 Application Development II The earner of this badge can use IBM App Connect Enterprise 12 to build a message flow that manages workload distributions between two integration nodes. They can design a message flow that reads from and writes to a Java Messaging Service destination. They can design a message flow that contains Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) connections. >Earn this badge
	IBM App Connect Enterprise 11 Application Development This badge earner demonstrates a basic understanding of the product and is able to articulate the key use cases as well as the value proposition. They have gained practical skills by building an integration requiring the bulk movement of data and an API in App Connect. The individual can apply this knowledge to how App Connect can help them achieve their own integration use cases. >Earn this badge

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