n the fourth session of our CROZ IBM Webinar Series, Vid Romac, guided us through the world of IBM webMethods. A powerful integration and API management platform designed to tame the complexity of modern hybrid IT landscapes.
Vid shared his decade of integration experience to demonstrate how organizations can leverage webMethods to connect diverse systems, automate processes, expose valuable business capabilities through APIs, and manage integrations at scale.
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Highlights from the Webinar
We started by addressing why integration is critical today. Modern organizations rely on a mix of legacy systems, cloud services, APIs and event streams, and the real value comes from connecting them securely and consistently. Vid highlighted typical challenges such as duplicated data, unclear ownership and limited visibility into who uses which interfaces.
Using Jeff Bezos’ API principles as context, Vid underlined that internal capabilities should be exposed as reusable services that are easy to discover, govern and reuse across teams.
He then presented IBM webMethods as a platform that helps automate business processes, integrate heterogeneous systems and manage APIs from a central place. It supports event-driven workflows, provides real-time visibility into integrations and allows organizations to expose their existing capabilities as well-documented and controlled APIs.
Vid also explained how webMethods is built around a rich connector library, low-code development and a centralized view of integrations. This combination helps teams prototype quickly, connect legacy and cloud systems, orchestrate and transform data, and keep track of usage and errors across the entire integration landscape.
The section concluded with concrete examples, including modernizing SOA and service bus scenarios, bridging old and new systems, improving monitoring and error handling, and using centralized API governance to gain better control over access, documentation and usage reporting.
The webinar ended with Q&A session.
