all-ibm-cloud-architecture-icons-October2019.pptx

all-ibm-cloud-architecture-icons-October2019.pptx

1. IBM Cloud Architecture Center Diagram Template Using the Diagram Template This template is for use in creating a visual representation of your architecture. Create your diagram by copying the required icons into one of the frameworks provided on page 35 of this template. Use standard arrows to show the runtime flow. You may add numbers (which are provided on page 32) to the diagram to correspond to the runtime flow steps in your architecture. Steps for graying out icons that are not being used in the runtime flow can be found on page: 33 This template may be updated periodically with new icons. Get the latest version at developer.ibm.com/architecture/DiagramTemplate.pptx .

2. Table of Contents IBM Cloud Architecture Center May 2019 3………Blockchain Icons 5………User Icons 7………Application Icons 10………Infrastructure Icons 13……... Data Store Icons 15……... Management Icons 1 7……... DevOps Icons 19……... Security Icons 20……... Social Icons 21……... Analytics Icons 22……... Service Management Icons 24…....... Digital Business Automation 27……… Watson Icons 28……… Virtual Private Cloud Groups & Icons 32……… Runtime Numbers 33……… Gray out instructions 34……… IBM Cloud Service Icons 35……... Cloud Background Templates 43……… Diagram Design Standards

3. Block Chain Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center Mechanism enabling network members to approve proposed transactions, which in turn make changes to the ledger. Manages identity, certificates, and aspects of permissioned access. The service is part of the blockchain cloud service. Contains the current world state of the ledger and a blockchain of transaction invocations. The service is part of the blockchain cloud service. INDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT WALLET EVENT LISTNER MESSAGE BUS MEMBERSHIP CONSENSUS LEDGER EVENTS COMMUNICATION DATA STORE Publish/subscribe systems that send and receive messages, and that are reliable, scalable, and operate in near real time. Service that listens for and reacts to events emanating from a blockchain system or application. A cloud-based security service that provides lifecycle management for encryption keys that are used in IBM Cloud services or customer-built applications. Identifies (authenticates) and authorizes users, providing user-specific access to resources, services, and applications. NODE Network of blockchain nodes that collectively maintain the distributed ledger system. An IBM Cloud service captures alerts. A representation of a database or data source that is hosted on premises. A service within the blockchain application that receives messages from the message bus and invokes smart contracts in the blockchain network. TRANSACTION MANAGER

4. Block Chain Icons (Continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center Encapsulates business transactions in code. Transaction invocations result in gets and sets of ledger state. The smart contract, also known as chain code, is developed by the application owner and deployed in the network. Provides the ability to create, change, and monitor blockchain components. The services are part of the blockchain cloud service. BLOCKCHAIN Admin & Ops Services SMART CONTRACT DATA STORE OFF CHAIN Any data store outside the blockchain system that can hold data related to the blockchain system in some way. An example is a database that holds additional data related to transactions held on the ledger.

5. Users Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center USER A role that describes an enterprise user or third party user. A user or user agent. A customer who uses various channels to access the commerce solutions on the cloud provider platform or enterprise network. A user who has access to the commerce solutions on the enterprise network. If the business user is a merchant, supplier, or other third-party to the organization, their access might require VPN or some other secure, direct connection. Business user operates in a business network interacting with the blockchain using an application. Person or automated system that makes use of one or more user applications. A role that describes an enterprise user or third-party user. User connected to a web application or using a mobile application. Users of the cloud-hosted applications. A role that describes a service provider. END USER e-COMMERCE US ER BUSINESS USER BUSINESS USER CLOUD USER MOBILE USER APPLICATION USER USER DEVICE Contains sensors and/or actuators and firmware plus a network connection; may have a user interface. PHYSICAL ENTITY Real-world object that is of interest and subject to sensor measurements and/or actuator behavior. IoT USER

6. Users Icons (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center A role that describes an enterprise user or third party user. The browser runs web applications SERVICE PROVIDER A role that describes a service provider. BROWSER OFFLINE CAPABILITIES PEER CLOUD INTEGRATED DIGITAL EXPERIENCES Third-party cloud system that provides services to bring data and capabilities to the IoT platform. Aggregate applications and content into a single unified omnichannel experience. BUSINESS ARCHITECT Subject matter expert and domain expert who understands the data in depth and helps define the requirements and specifications of the overall solution. CLOUD DEVELOPER Cloud application developers, platform developers, and application publishers.

7. Application Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center APPLICATION Domain specific or device specific application. ACTIONABLE INSIGHT Data collected, processed and stored in data repositories used by business applications to drive insights and actions. VISUALIZATION Lets users explore and interact with data from the data repositories and actionable insight or enterprise applications. APPLICATION LOGIC Workflow logic. Coordinates domain and infrastructure components according to the requirements of the application. Applications on cloud platform. WORKLOAD Actual work that your instance of a set of instances are going to perform. MANAGED SOLUTION PAYMENT MERCHANDISING SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT DIGITAL EXPERIENCE e-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS Acts as mediator between the e-commerce transaction and the payment processing service. Capability to manage end-to-end supply chain and logistics with complete business process automation and insights. Involves marketing the right merchandise or service at the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities, and at the right price with the goal of optimizing margins, gross revenue, or shelf life. Manages the presentation of product catalog, shopping cart, order placement functionality. Provides a scalable full-feature content management system for multisite and multidevice e-commerce solutions. IoT PLATFORM IoT Platform is a managed, cloud-hosted service designed to make it simple to derive value from your IoT devices.

8. Application Icons (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center CUSTOMER CARE MARKETING Manages marketing campaigns, offers, and targeting rules. Supports customer care across the entire transaction lifecycle and all commerce channels, where customer care personnel can see the behaviors of a customer in more than one channel. Includes CRM and loyalty management. Supports inventory, order processing, and order visibility. Enables efficient management of warehouse operations. Includes warehouse inventory management, inventory optimization, and inventory. Program or tool whose source code is openly published in order to use free of charge. OPEN SOURCE Able to block calls to services that are not working and to provide alternative actions. CONTAINERIZED APPS Containerized JEE application workload running in an elastic and resilient Kubernetes cluster. INGESTION APPLICATION Ingests data using discovery service APIs. DISCOVERY APPLICATIONS Responsible for receiving the call request from the user, invoking calls further downstream to access discovery search results, and invoking execution of analytical model. MICROSERVICES Running instance of your code inside of a container. CIRCUIT BREAKER Provides the environment to hide the underlying container and server layer and to allow developers to deploy code as event handlers to run in a managed fashion. SERVERLESS COMPUTING DISTRIBUTED ORDER MANAGEMENT WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT The output for application development is a container that can be built once and deployed on multiple platform environments. APPLICATION CONTAINER IMAGE

9. IBM Cloud Architecture Center Customized software-as-a-service applications, typically mobile and web applications. Tools that automate repetitive but necessary tasks in a formalized testing process, or that perform additional testing. Tool that permits a database to access secure services by passing the credentials. Server that is specialized to run certain applications; also known as runtime. SaaS APPLICATIONS AUTOMATION TOOLS SERVICE BROKER APP SERVER Application Icons (continued) A standard definition for the composition of a container image increases the developer's efficiency and ensures that operations are managed consistently. Project templates for a variety of frameworks and runtimes accelerate the time to create new microservice applications. ACCELERATORS OPINIONATED CONTAINER TEMPLATES

10. SERVICE DISCOVERY INTERSERVICE COMMUNICATION VPN MONITORING & LOGGING MOBILE PROVIDER NETWORK LOAD BALANCER BACKEND TRANSFORMATION & CONNECTIVITY EDGE SERVICES Infrastructure Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center Services needed to allow data to flow safely from the Internet. Connect securely between micro-services running in the cloud and data/applications running on-premise s or in other clouds. Provides foundational capabilities (e.g. mobile app logic, API implementation, operational analytics, push notifications, location services, application security, data synch). Manage load and availability across multiple microservices instances. Monitoring and logging across all microservices. Network constructed by public wires to connect to a private network, such as a company’s internal network. Synchronous and asynchronous (message bus) communication among microservices. Enables lookup of available microservices. Wireless service provider, carrier or cellular company. Provider of wireless communications. VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE Reflects the physical infrastructure with three different components: compute virtualization, storage virtualization, and network virtualization. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE Includes compute, storage, and network. The compute and storage areas are combined in the cluster architecture. INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT Manages compute, network, and storage virtual resources provided by the lower layer. It also provides consolidation services to the upper layers for operational services.

11. Infrastructure Icons (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center Provides monitoring, patching, log consolidation, log analysis, disaster recovery, and backup services for the cloud management platform. PEER SERVICES IBM or third-party cloud system that provides services to bring data and capabilities to the social platform. An IBM Cloud service captures alerts. Provides network services. CLOUD MESSAGING NETWORK CLOUD & PARTNER SERVICES OPERATIONAL SERVICES IBM Cloud infrastructure provides bare metal, physical networking, and NFS storage. Additional options include the automation service that builds the design. BARE METAL SERVERS Infrastructure resources used to run workloads. COMPUTE NODE EVENT FEED Provides both the current state and the historical progression of the associated metrics. DASHBOARD MONITORING Cloud-based computing environment offerings that provide users with a cloud environment in which they can develop, manage, and deploy applications. SERVICES Any on-premises technologies, such as mainframes, databases, LDAP servers. EXISTING ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS Asynchronous communication among cloud applications and components. Cloud and business partner services that require highly available and secure access to your VMware workloads. Monitoring and logging tools are connected to managed solutions or enterprise applications to detect issues early. Alerts are sent to the event correlation tool and unified dashboard. Incident owners match the client reports to incidents.

12. Infrastructure Icons (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center Catalog that includes the Helm charts. CONTAINER CATALOG Platform and framework that allows for internal communication and network policies for monitoring, logging, and deploying containers. . MICROSERVICES MESH MESSAGE BUS EVENT LISTNER Service that listens for and reacts to events emanating from a blockchain system or application. Publish/subscribe systems that send and receive messages, and that are reliable, scalable, and operate in near real time. VISUALIZATION RUNTIME APPLICATION RUNTIME Supports application logic, which is part of an IoT solution built on the IoT platform in the data lake, external services and workflow as needed . Runtime for the IoT Solution user interface, which lets users explore and interact with data from the data repositories and actionable insight applications or enterprise applications. . Scalable, high-throughput event hub. It allows you to wire microservices together using open protocols and connect stream data to analytics to realize powerful insights. EVENT STREAMING Provides predictable, reliable, and secure delivery regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions across the WAN. . HIGH SPEED DATA TRANSFER

13. FILE REPOSITORY CACHES DATA SOURCES ENTERPRISE DATA DEVICE IDENTITY SERVICE DEVICE REGISTRY USER DIRECTORY DATA STORE Data Store Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center Repository for storing and managing collections of data. Provides storage and access to user info for authentication, authorization or profile data. Stores info about devices that the IoT system may read, communicate with, control, provision, or manage. Identifies the device services after the user registers a device. Systems of record and metadata about the data for enterprise applications. Includes different information sources that may contain data of interest. Stores recently used information so that it can be quickly accessed at a later time. Provides devices or applications that store info, data, and more in the form of files. CHANNEL Channel retail solutions aim to provide a seamless, personalized brand experience whether the customer shops on the web, over the phone, using a mobile device, or a connected IoT device. DATA SERVICE Provides the persistence layers to power the cloud app to store, collaborate, visualize, share, and gain insights from data. INTERNAL CHANNEL Provides an interactive customer experience whether the customer shops in the store, over the telephone with a customer service representative, or using a web-based call center, in order to improve revenues and customer service in all channels.

14. Data Store Icons (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center Platform-provided services from the service and software catalog. PLATFORM SERVICES PUBLIC DATA SOURCES Structured and unstructured data sources from the public Internet domain. COLLECTION A grouping of content within the environment. You must create at least one collection to be able to upload your content. CONTENT STORAGE Includes object and file based storage delivered as a service to store content that is moved from the enterprise network to cloud. Provides capability to encrypt the content that is moved to the cloud. The set of artifacts used to train the conversation API. GROUND TRUTH ANSWER STORAGE Stores answers to be provided to the user once the intent and entities have been understood. It also can include references or links to multimedia content. PUBLIC APIs Exposes information that is in other public clouds that can be accessed via API. EXTERNAL DATA SOURCES Information that is residing in public domain, including social, news, documentation, and more. CURATED DATA SORUCES Includes pre-built data feeds from news and social media. Mobile data synchronization and ability to have a persistent data storage. DATA SYNC MODEL REPOSITORY Mobile data synchronization and ability to have a persistent data storage.

15. MOBILE DEVICE AGENT MONITORING & LOGGING INFORMATION GOVERNANCE API MANAGEMENT PROCESS MANAGEMENT MOBILE BACKEND APPLICATION Management Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center Advertises available services endpoints (discovery and management). Enforces appropriate in-service lifespan for devices for non-disruptive and secure changeover as new systems are introduced. Monitoring and logging across all microservices. Collects statistics about user experience quality to enable the operator to act on service degradation. Manages device endpoint. Manages the process workflow. Provides foundational capabilities (e.g. mobile app logic, API implementation, operational analytics, push notification, location services, app security, data synch). Provides the primary interface for users to consume cloud services and for the orchestration engines to process requests. CLOUD MANAGEMENT SERVICES BUSINESS SERVICES Provides the service provider with analytics on IT financials, business management, and benchmarking aspects of the cloud. DEVICE MANAGEMENT PROVIDER CLOUD PORTAL SERVICE The service for the IBM Cloud console that people use to connect to blockchain service running on public IBM Cloud using a browser. Provides the ability to externalize configuration data from your applications. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT Management of container environments as a service. CONTAINER CLUSTER MANAGEMENT

16. Management Icons (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center The administration of the information technology systems in an enterprise data center. SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Launch features to mobile applications at speed and measure the impact by controlling the targeted audience. APP CONFIG Sends personalized and segmented real-time notifications to mobile and web applications. PUSH NOTIFICATION Develop simple and safe mobile cloud applications with a powerful mobile back-end infrastructure, powerful application management, and insights into application usage. APP LIFECYCLE Use the Alert Notification Service to ensure that the right people on the team or systems are notified when issues occur. ALERT NOTIFICATION The cloud container platform collects and reports on fine-grained usage measurements of running applications. The metering metrics can be used for chargebacks, detailed audits, and analysis. METERING Provides unified operations management of the platform and its components. Facilitates the organization and virtualization of software containers, automates the deployment, management, scaling, networking, and availability of container-based applications. COMMON MANAGEMENT SERVICES MANAGED CONTAINER PLATFORM

17. PROVISION CONTINUOUS RELEASE CONTINUOUS BUSINESS PLANNING CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK CONTINUOUS TESTING CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT DEVOPS DevOps Icons (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center Software development method to bring Development and Operations closer. Team members and stakeholders continually communicate plans, tasks, issues, and feedback. Automated deployment of apps, middleware, test data, and utilities to test and production environments on demand. Test cases are executed automatically and continuously after deployments have completed in production-like circumstances. App performance metrics and user experience data is continuously collected and used to make corrections and plan changes. Continually reviewing planned work and updating priorities. Apps are released into production on an as-needed basis or coordinated in a scheduled, planned release. Systems are provisioned using software defined environment templates and automated, self-service utilities. ( Icon utilized in Service Management to represent DEVOPS ) Detailed recording and updating of information that describes an enterprise’s hardware and software. DEVOPS Application migration analysis and automation tool. TRANSFORMATION ADVISOR Provides automating for deployment of multiple containers. CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION

18. DevOps Icons (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center Continuously building Docker images is required for development. Tools that automatically pull in dependencies during a build process. DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT A component of IBM Cloud Private that enables existing WebSphere Application Server applications to run in a private cloud as a virtual machine. WAS VM QUICKSTARTER The container platform automates the deployment of new application containers to upgrade the deployment while maintaining application availability. Kubernetes, as the container platform, orchestrates the deployment of pods containing the application container image. Kubernetes manages the execution of an application deployment and uses Helm charts and Operators to automate the deployment of the application containers as needed. . DEPLOYMENT AUTOMATION DEPLOYMENT ORCHESTRATION UPGRADE & ROLLBACK CONTINUOUS BUILD

19. FIREWALL GATEWAY SECURITY Security Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center Enable identity and access management and data and app protection. Provides actionable security intelligence across cloud and enterprise environments. Network point that acts as an entrance to another network. Network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication. REVERSE PROXY Brokers all access to API management platform components with a common SSO portal to orchestrate the authentication process. Acts as a proxy to all interactions between the users and the API platform components. Infrastructure security protects against network-level threats and attacks with intrusion prevention and detection, including those that tunnel through encrypted web transactions and web applications that are deployed within the system. INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY Continues to monitor assets and information for advanced threat. SECURITY MONITORING & INTELLIGENCE Manages user id lifecycle, authentication, and authorization to the cloud and to the applications hosted on it. INDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT Encrypts and decrypts sensitive data. IBM FILE ENCRYPTION SERVICE A cloud based security service to provide key life cycle management (key creation, usage, deletion) for encryption keys used in cloud services or customer-built applications, with root of trust" backed by a hardware security module (HSM)." KEY MANAGEMENT SERVICE Operators automate the packaging, installation, and lifecycle of the container image when it is deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. OPERATORS

20. S ocial Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center Social networking capabilities to find and discover connections between content and people. Ability to maintain and connect social profiles, form networks, share knowledge and insights; including status updates. Electronic mail (email) solution that enables users to access their email and calendaring with a browser, rich client, or mobile application. Provides tools to engage I n real-time with individuals, teams, or large groups. Includes web conferencing, audio/video, and various instant messaging services. Spaces used for community building, team collaboration, and collecting of knowledge repositories. COMMUNITIES NETWORKING MESSAGING LIVE COLLABORATION FILE SYNC Provides the capability to store, share, and distribute documents which can be owned by individuals or managed as collections. Includes ability to synch to various devices and perform live group editing.

21. DATA INTEGRATION STREAMING COMPUTING Analytics Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center Guides and automates data analysis, discovery, and visualization. Includes real-time capture of video streams. Copies and correlates information from disparate sources. BUSINESS PERFORMANCE Enables optimization of the shopper's journey and improves the sales and revenue for the business. Enables describing and understanding the alerts, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) that an organization uses to monitor day-to-day commerce activity. DATA CRAWLER Crawls data sources and ingests into discovery service collection. KNOWLEDGE STUDIO Domain-specific text and content analytics using machine learning and rules-based annotators. Gain insight into how your mobile applications are performing. Monitor trends and anomalies. DEVICE ANALYTICS SaaS or on-premises applications that are used to derive information from the data upon which an organization can take an action. Cognitive technology can be used here. ANALYTICS ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS COMMERCE A NALYTICS APPLICATION SCANNER ANNALYSIS & RECOMENDATIONS AUTOMATED MIGRATION Application migration analysis and automation tool that scans existing applications and middleware, provides analysis and recommendations, and automates migration and deployment to cloud platforms . Application migration analysis and automation tool that scans existing applications and middleware, provides analysis and recommendations, and automates migration and deployment to cloud platforms. Application migration analysis and automation tool that scans existing applications and middleware, provides analysis and recommendations, and automates migration and deployment to cloud platforms.

22. Service Management Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center The client or request fulfillment system reports an incident, requests a change, or seeks the status of an application. OPERATIONS INCIDENT MANAGEMENT REQUEST FULFILLMENT DASHBOARD COLLABORATION NOTIFICATION LOG MONITORING RUNBOOK SLACK Operations handles the integration, usage, and delivery of key services to business applications and the enterprise. ( Restores normal service operation as quickly as possible and minimizes the adverse effect on business operations. Knowing the current state of the services that are offered to users is a key requirement On the cloud, you can enhance collaboration by setting up tools to participate in the conversation. A notification system alerts on-call personnel based on notification rules for the triggered incidents. Script-based operational tasks are defined, built, orchestrated, automated, and managed as runbooks. With Slack, teams can integrate development and operations tools to post updates and alerts as new builds are completed and deployed and as performance is monitored. Log files are an important way to understand the status of applications and services. ALERT NOTIFICATION EVENT CORRELATION Notifies the right people on the team or systems when issues occur. An event-correlation tool can correlate events from monitoring sources. Ensures that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient handling of all changes. CHANGE MANAGEMENT

23. IBM Cloud Architecture Center MONITORING CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT Service Management Icons (continued) Monitoring and logging tools are connected to managed solutions or enterprise applications to detect issues early. If a configuration change is needed, the incident owner or client opens a change ticket in the change management system, which is eventually adopted in the configuration system. API Use APIs to collect status, key performance metrics, event information, configuration information, resource monitoring data, and more. PROBLEM MANAGEMENT After the service is restored, problem management investigates the root cause of the problem by using techniques such as 5 Whys". TICKETING & TRENDING Records incidents that are received, both resolved and unresolved, in the form of tickets Identifies the root cause of the problem. 5 WHY ANALYSIS Records analyzed known issues for history. KNOWN ERROR DATABASE Tools used to diagnose the problem. SERVICE MANAGEMENT TOOLING Incorporates change requests into the change management pipeline. BACKLOG/ CHANGE REQUEST Prioritizes list of problems for resolution. PRIORITIZATION

24. IBM Cloud Architecture Center Digital Business Automation Icons Supports a governed change process for business workflows, including authoring, testing, and deployment activities. The process of sharing content to an external entity for review, comments, and updates. The entity can also upload content. Any content that exists in the form of paper or digital documents. Enables users to access, manage, and use enterprise content from nearly any device, at any time, and from anywhere across the enterprise. Uses business decisions to support routing or calculations within a business process. Capability to capture documents and information from various input sources. Provides the application interfaces, APIs, and web services to access the capture functional components. User process that determines whether captured data complies with the data integrity rules defined by the capture process or application. The process or step in the capture workflow in which specified fields from the document are converted into character-based data. Methods for page identification, which is also known as document classification. PROCESS AUTHORING EXTERNAL COLLABORATION PAPER & DIGITAL CONTENT WORKFLOW USER INTERFACE MULTICHANNEL CAPTURE CAPTURE SERVICES VALIDATION DATA EXTRACTION DOCUMENT RECOGNITION Supports the design, development, testing, and administration of the capture application in which documents are classified and data extraction rules are applied. DESIGN STUDIO A background processing engine to monitor the job queue and start the designated background tasks automatically, where batches are pending. CAPTURE RULES

25. IBM Cloud Architecture Center Digital Business Automation Icons (continued) Provides the capability to define and run test suites that are collections of test scenarios to validate the implementation of decision operations. Provides the capability to evaluate a decision operation against user-defined metrics on a number of scenario in order to compute key performance indicators KPIs) Supports a governed change process for business decisions, including authoring, testing, and deployment activities. Supports the design and instrumentation of the object model where the business rules are applied, the definition of the decision operation, and the orchestration of the rule execution. Centralized repository where business rule artifacts are organized into manageable, versioned decision service projects and persisted in a database. Automates decisions by capturing and executing business rules or complex event processing. Enables you to model, automate, change, monitor, and optimize core business processes to improve consistency across tasks and processes. Automates highly repetitive tasks normally performed by humans with robotic software agents, allowing employees to focus on higher value knowledge work. The digital business automation (DBA) products all provide a model-driven approach with tools that allow both developers and users to interact on artifacts managed in repositories. Extracts data from unstructured documents such as scanned forms, faxes, or images, usually by optical character recognition. Provides highly secure and compliant management of most types of content. Automates repetitive tasks such as manual entries in user interfaces by using programmable robots, or robotic process automation DECISION TESTING DECISION SIMULATION DECISION MODELING & MANAGEMENT DECISION REPOSITORY DECISION DESIGN DECISION SERVICE WORKFLOW APPLICATION ROBOT GOVERNANCE DATA CAPTURE CONTENT MANAGEMENT TASK AUTOMATION

26. IBM Cloud Architecture Center Digital Business Automation Icons (continued) Each digital business automation (DBA) product provides artifacts that the business can visualize or modify. Each digital business automation (DBA) product offers the ability to connect to enterprise directories to ensure proper authentication of users across the whole lifecycle Collects events and data from the execution of your business operations in order to build management dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) Executes the logic of the agents, identifying situations defined as complex event occurrence combinations and reacting to these situations by emitting new events. Supports the design of the entity and the event models, as well as the agents associated with these entities and that process these events. BUSINESS MODELING ENTERPRISE USER MANAGEMENT OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SITUATIONAL DECISION DESIGN SITUATIONAL PROCESSING SERVICE Supports the design of robot templates, in particular by allowing the capture of keystrokes and mouse clicks you want the robot to replicate. Provide version management for robot templates and scheduling capability for robot runner. Executes the sequence of actions prescribed by a robot template. ROBOT DESIGNER ROBOT CONTROLLER ROBOT RUNNER

27. Watson Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center DISCOVERY SERVICES Ingests, parses, indexes, and annotates content using cognitive functions. TONE ANALYZER Leverages cognitive linguistic analysis to identify a variety of tones at both the sentence and document level. TEXT TO SPEECH The Text to Speech service processes text and natural language to generate synthesized audio WATSON ASSISTANT Add a natural language interface to your application to automate interactions with your end users SPEECH TO TEXT The Speech to Text service converts the human voice into the written word EXTEND Components that add value to the cognitive applications. Applies cognitive computing techniques to return the best matching classes for a sentence or phrase. NATURAL LANGUAGE CLASSIFIER Unlock hidden value in data to find answers, monitor trends and surface patterns with the world’s most advanced cloud-native insight engine. DISCOVERY SERVICES

28. VPC Groups IBM Cloud Architecture Center IBM Cloud VPC Cloud Universe Region Zone Group representing components in IBM Cloud. Group representing virtual network tied to customer account that provides security and scalability with fine-grain control over infrastructure and segmenting network traffic. Group representing geographical locations within IBM Cloud. Group representing one of the multiple datacenters with independent fault domains within a region. VPC Top-level group with multiple sections showing architecture across networks that can include public network, cloud network, enterprise network, etc. IBM Cloud Public Enterprise IBM Cloud Region Zone

29. VPC Groups (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center Security Group Group representing a virtual firewall that controls traffic for one or more instances and can span subnets and zones with the VPC. Subnet Group representing an IP address range bound to a single zone. ACL is associated with one or more subnets and manages inbound and outbound traffic for the subnet. Security Group Classic Infrastructure Classic Infrastructure Group representing classic infrastructure (non-VPC). Other Group Other Group Miscellaneous group (services, networks, etc). Subnet ACL

30. VPC Icons IBM Cloud Architecture Center Enables instances to communicate outbound to the public internet. Distribute network traffic across instances to improve performance and HA within same region as the VPC. Site-to-site private tunnel connection between VPC and on-premise private network or another VPC. Virtual server instance. Public IP addresses that are reachable to and from the public internet. Private access from on-premise to cloud. Persistent iSCSI based storage. PUBLIC GATEWAY LOAD BALANCER FLOATING IP BLOCK STORAGE INSTANCE Gateway for site-to-site private tunnel connections. VPN GATEWAY VPN CONNECTION Cloud storage for unstructured data. Provides DNS, GLB, DDoS protection, WAF, TLS, and Caching. CLOUD INTERNET SERVICES OBJECT STORAGE DIRECT LINK Network bridge. Network router. ROUTER BRIDGE

31. VPC Icons (continued) IBM Cloud Architecture Center Designation of a ruleset for ACLs and Security Groups. RULES OS image used to provision instances. SSH key used with OS image. VPN POLICY Policy for site-to-site private tunnel connections. LOAD BALANCER POOL LOAD BALANCER LISTENER Load balancer back-end pool attached to back-end application server instances. Load balancer front-end listener (application ports) mapped to respective back-end pools. KEY SERVICE IMAGE SERVICE IBM CLOUD TAG VPC TAG REGION TAG ZONE TAG SUBNET TAG CLASSIC INFRASTRUCTURE TAG ENTERPRISE TAG CLOUD SERVICES Cloud-based service offerings/endpoints. PUBLIC TAG INTERNET ENTERPRISE DATACENTER

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33. Gray Icons and Arrows for Background IBM Cloud Architecture Center Select icon and ungroup. Select the icon background and change the fill color to R221, G221, B221. This is a standard color. See the picture. Change the text to the same color. Regroup the icon. Change background arrows to the same color. OFFLINE CAPABILITIES

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35. Architecture Background Example Template IBM Cloud Architecture Center The following backgrounds are for creating architectural backgrounds. The cross boundary box on the bottom is for components like Security, Governance and DevOps that support multiple tiers. October 22 nd 2019 PAGE 36 Microservices Data & Analytics DevOps Mobile e-Commerce PAGE 37 - Private Cloud PAGE 38 Cognitive APIs Blockchain PAGE 39 - Mobile PAGE 40 - Resilience PAGE 41 - IoT PAGE 42 - Hybrid

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43. Diagram Design Standards IBM Cloud Architecture Center July 15th 2017 Group Borders 1 pt width Connecting Lines 2 pt width Object Text Calibri 8 pt Blue 4376BB 67,120,187 Red FF0000 255,0,0 Green 00882B 0,136,43 Yellow EDC11C 237,193,28 COLORS SIZES