IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances is a family of pre-built, pre-configured rack-mountable network devices that can help accelerate XML and Web Services deployments while extending SOA infrastructure. Originally these devices were created by DataPower Technology Inc., which was acquired by IBM in October 2005, DataPower is considered one of the most popular tools ever used in enterprise companies that care about privacy, confidentiality and security , at the same time reliability and stability, starting from the banking sector to the health through the airlines sector, you cannot find a company working in this field without finding DataPower on the scene, so knowing even a little about this tool will give you an edge in interviews and master it will make you a competitor in the IT sector.

After completing this course, you will be able to develop and operate DataPower with a kind of confidence, starting from understanding the different parts of DataPower to building a Proxy service exploring options for transformation and manipulating data and changing its format, to various security options starting with HTTPS , AAA policy , passing through the encryption and decryption , singe and verify signature,  we will also discuss the debug tools, Logging using Log Targets , error handling, crypto tools, profiles . Then we will see how to use the troubleshooting tools, we will see how we will deploy services on the production environment using Export and import settings.