Introduction
Tackle modernization and cloudification with IBM
When faced with upgrading your application estate, you run into a lot of questions. Which technologies do you adopt? How can you reduce technical debt? What apps do you build new in the cloud? How can you be sure you’ll keep pace with industry changes? And how do you do it all fast? Working with IBM, you’ll have an experienced partner that can guide you.
What was projected to be a 68 months delivery timescale turned out to be just 15 weeks
Kavita Iyer
Technology and Innovation Portfolio Manager,
Etihad Airways
IBM approach
Be part of the process with an end-to-end partner
IBM works with you through your entire application transformation—from the modernization of existing infrastructure and applications to the development and deployment of applications that run on any cloud platform. Together, we’ll start small, develop an ROI-based strategy aligned to your goals and harness quick wins. Then we’ll show you how to begin to change your culture, scale across your business and make your journey to the cloud a success. Using DevOps tools, accelerators and AI-driven automation, we’ve helped clients change how they operate. We'll do the same for you.
We have decided to select IBM as the vendor that can provide us with what we want now and in the coming 4 years and more.
Basem Zaben
Head of IT Architecture,
Saudi Investment Bank
IBM can be your end-to-end partner
Strategy
Develop a strategy that delivers
Do you need to optimize and modernize? Should you rehost, replatform or redesign? Through thousands of client engagements across 20 industries, we’ve learned what works and what doesn’t. Each application estate is unique and requires a custom solution. Our assessment starts with AI-driven insights and visualizations of your applications, middleware and databases. You’ll come away with a complete ROI-driven roadmap. From there, you can implement it yourself using our software, IBM can implement it for you or IBM can manage all of it for you on an ongoing basis.
Modernization
Reduce application costs
Yes, you can reduce your technical debt. According to a recent Forrester TEI study, IBM has helped clients optimize applications and migrate to the cloud fast, with measurable impact, including reduced compliance risk and migration cost, and improved deployment speed. Our skills, methods and tooling also go beyond modernization, helping you align your IT with business requirements, reduce your operating costs to free up innovation capital and enhance your overall application security.
Cloud native
Adopt modern dev tools and methods
IBM provides environments, tools and methods to help you deliver applications that run anywhere — on premises or on any cloud — faster and securely. You’ll be able to build containerized applications, optimized for scale and performance, that take advantage of continuous delivery and DevSecOps principles to reduce time to market.
Integration
Ensure access to data and application services
Traditional integration architectures can’t collect the kinds of actionable business insights that come from real-time access to data and applications. To do this, they must modernize. IBM helps you build an architecture that’s cloud-native in design, API-led and event-driven — with fine-grain deployment through containers. This modern integration architecture empowers your teams to build the integrations they need to meet demands while lowering costs.
Deployment
Quickly deploy and manage apps at scale across clouds
Wherever your workloads run, we can help you deploy and manage your applications securely across environments, clouds, including IBM Cloud and specialized hardware. Some problems may benefit from the portability that comes from containerization and Red Hat® OpenShift®. Other problems are better solved with a single control plane across clouds that has built-in support for security and compliance management. In other cases, it might make sense to have IBM manage your estate for you. Regardless of the approach, IBM can help you reduce costs while increasing operational efficiency and visibility.
Culture change
Evolve your culture with IBM Garage
In IBM Garage™, we work side-by-side with you, even if it that means virtual, to uncover new ways of working that help you drive transformational change. We bring together the depth of experience and proven methodology of IBM and use enterprise design thinking to draw on your team’s wisdom and creativity. With the right people, useful data, applied technology and dedicated spaces, we can co-create with you to build cloud-native applications in as little as six to eight weeks.
Project Financing
IBM Project Financing™ for IT can help mitigate the risk of delayed projects and reduce contract scope to accelerate implementation