Secure, Accelerate, and Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Workloads with IBM DataPower Gateway.
Unlock top-tier security and seamless integration for your critical applications.
Overview of the Product
IBM DataPower Gateway is an industry-leading, high-security application gateway designed for modern, traditional, and hybrid cloud workloads. With its enterprise-grade security and seamless integration capabilities, IBM DataPower ensures businesses can protect critical applications, accelerate digital transformation, and reduce costs while optimizing performance. Supporting both modern and legacy protocols, IBM DataPower allows businesses to securely navigate across various cloud environments. Whether you are deploying IBM DataPower for application integration or protection, it provides unmatched security for your cloud-based workloads.
Why Choose IBM DataPower Gateway?
Protect your business with IBM DataPower’s highest assurance certification, ensuring robust security for your applications.
Speed up your business transformation with IBM DataPower’s high-speed message transformation and transport protocol bridging.
With a single gateway, reduce complexity, cost, and risk while simplifying your IT infrastructure using IBM DataPower.
Gain near-real-time visibility of transactions with IBM DataPower for faster problem resolution and reduced downtime.
Easily connect modern and traditional applications with IBM DataPower’s extensive transport and data protocol support.
Cut operational costs with IBM DataPower’s unified gateway, reducing both capital and operational expenses.
What the Numbers say?
Features
Enforce security across messaging protocols with IBM DataPower’s DMZ-ready gateway.
Bridge modern and traditional application standards for seamless communication with IBM DataPower.
Ensure application performance with IBM DataPower’s consistent traffic management and routing capabilities.
Integrate with OAuth and LDAP for comprehensive access control and decision-making using IBM DataPower.
Inspect full transaction details with IBM DataPower, including payload and metadata, for troubleshooting and analysis.
Simplify configuration and speed up deployment with a flexible, configuration-driven experience in IBM DataPower.
Key Facts
IBM DataPower offers both physical appliances for high-performance needs and virtual appliances for cloud flexibility.
IBM DataPower ensures secure storage of private key material with hardware security modules (HSM).
Available as virtual containers, physical appliances, or in hybrid cloud environments, IBM DataPower is designed to meet varying business requirements.
Case Studies
Accelerating Insurance Claims Processing with IBM Automation and Cloud Services
A leading insurance provider transformed its claims management operations using IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation and IBM Cloud Services, achieving faster response times, improved accuracy, and enhanced agility in a highly regulated environment. The solution enabled the insurer to process claims in hours instead of weeks, strengthening competitiveness and customer satisfaction.
Business challenge
The company managed millions of insurance claims across multiple products but relied heavily on manual verification, data entry, and outdated workflows. These inefficiencies slowed claims resolution, increased operational costs, and limited scalability.
The insurer needed to:
- Automate manual workflows to improve turnaround time.
- Integrate core systems for seamless data exchange and reporting.
- Improve customer experience through faster, transparent claim handling.
- Build a scalable digital foundation to support future product launches.
Solution
Partnering with Nexright, the insurer implemented IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation and IBM Cloud Services to automate workflows, digitize claims processing, and integrate back-office systems into a single platform.
Using AI-driven decision automation, the platform rapidly categorized claims, verified data, and routed cases to the right teams in real time. With cloud-native microservices, the insurer could scale operations on demand and adapt quickly to new regulatory or business requirements.
Solution Highlights:
- Automated claims verification using AI and workflow orchestration.
- Integrated policy, billing, and customer data across platforms.
- Enabled cloud scalability for high-volume transactions.
- Delivered faster deployment of new insurance products.
Solution components
- IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation
- IBM Cloud Services
- IBM Business Automation Workflow
- IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Smart Workflow Automation
Integrated claims and policy systems, allowing rapid validation and processing through automated decisioning.
Real-Time Claims Routing
Used AI-powered classification to direct claims to the correct handler instantly, reducing manual errors and bottlenecks.
Scalable Cloud Infrastructure
Leveraged IBM Cloud to scale operations dynamically, ensuring high availability and business continuity during claim surges.
Result
- 85% faster response time for claim submissions.
- 50% reduction in manual processing effort.
- Claims resolution time improved from weeks to hours.
- Enabled addition of new insurance products within hours.
- Strengthened customer satisfaction and compliance reporting.
We can now launch new products and process insurance claims in a matter of hours — what used to take weeks. IBM’s automation and cloud solutions have completely transformed how we serve our customers.
— Chief Information Officer, Leading Insurance Provider
Modernizing Core Banking with IBM WebSphere and Open Integration
A leading European financial institution partnered with us and an implementation partner to modernize its core banking environment using IBM WebSphere® Application Server and IBM MQ®. The initiative helped the bank meet new compliance regulations, accelerate service delivery, and enable open banking capabilities that improved customer experience across digital channels.
Business challenge
As new financial regulations and compliance mandates emerged, the bank faced pressure to modernize its legacy core banking systems to support interoperability, transparency, and faster product innovation.
Key challenges included:
- Integrating legacy infrastructure with new regulatory frameworks.
- Enabling real-time communication between core systems and third-party apps.
- Meeting compliance deadlines under strict operational constraints.
- Enhancing scalability and reliability for high-volume financial transactions.
Solution
Working with Nexright certified technology partners, the bank deployed IBM WebSphere® Application Server and IBM MQ® to create an open, reliable, and compliant integration platform.
This new architecture enabled the institution to modernize transaction processing, simplify workflows, and ensure interoperability with fintech partners and regulatory systems — all within aggressive compliance timelines.
Solution Highlights:
- Migrated legacy middleware to IBM WebSphere Application Server.
- Deployed IBM MQ to streamline real-time data exchange between core systems.
- Built open APIs to support PSD2 and other EU regulatory requirements.
- Ensured business continuity during modernization with minimal downtime.
Solution components
- IBM WebSphere® Application Server
- IBM MQ®
- IBM Cloud Integration Services
- IBM Business Partner Implementation Support
Regulatory Compliance Readiness
The solution ensured adherence to European banking regulations by providing secure, transparent data exchange with regulators and third-party applications.
Scalable Open Banking Architecture
Enabled interoperability with fintech partners, mobile banking platforms, and customer-facing APIs while maintaining data security and privacy.
Rapid Deployment
Delivered full platform modernization within tight deadlines — ensuring uninterrupted operations and zero customer disruption.
Result
- 100% regulatory compliance achieved within required timelines.
- Enhanced system interoperability with modern banking APIs.
- Accelerated onboarding of digital banking services.
- Reduced time-to-market for new financial products.
- Improved transparency and system resilience.
Nexright provided the reliability and open architecture we needed to transform our core banking systems quickly and securely. The modernization helped us stay compliant while enabling true digital innovation for the future.
— Chief Technology Officer, Leading European Financial Institution
What The Users Say
Transitioned to IBM Cloud Pak for Integration with IBM DataPower for enterprise-wide integration and optimization.
Q8 Petroleum Italia
Enables rapid, cost-effective integration using IBM DataPower to enhance API platform connectivity.
1LINK
Created an API banking system that integrates seamlessly with partner organizations using IBM DataPower for security and scalability.
Federal Bank
FAQ's
IBM DataPower Gateway is a purpose-built security and integration appliance designed to protect, optimize, and mediate access to APIs, web services, and cloud workloads. It acts as a centralized gateway for enforcing enterprise security policies.
DataPower supports WS-Security, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, mutual TLS, and rate limiting. Its built-in security features allow enterprises to create consistent, high-performance gateways for internal and external APIs.
No. While originally available as a hardware appliance, IBM DataPower is now also offered as a virtual edition and Docker container, enabling deployment on-premise, in the cloud, or within Kubernetes clusters.
DataPower provides protocol transformation (e.g., REST to SOAP), content-based routing, message transformation (e.g., XML to JSON), and policy enforcement at wire-speed—all without requiring custom code.
Yes. IBM API Connect uses DataPower as its default API gateway. Together, they provide complete API lifecycle management, traffic management, and enterprise-grade security at the edge.
DataPower supports clustering, failover configurations, and load balancing to ensure zero-downtime API traffic handling and seamless recovery in enterprise deployments.
It provides real-time dashboards, syslog integration, SNMP traps, and integration with IBM Instana and other observability platforms for performance monitoring, alerting, and compliance tracking.
Nexright assists with planning, deployment, security policy configuration, API traffic optimization, and integration with enterprise systems—ensuring your DataPower Gateway infrastructure is robust, secure, and scalable.
