Cloud and Technology Strategy

The right strategy boosts enterprise technology journeys with holistic IT, talent and operating model transformations

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IBM acquires Txture for hybrid cloud migration and modernization

IBM announces the acquisition of Txture GmbH, a company whose software assets help businesses migrate, modernize, and optimize their hybrid cloud estates.

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Technology strategy charts and coordinates your enterprise business journey

In today’s dynamic technology landscape, a strategic approach is essential. Organizations must optimize agility, innovation and growth given considerations or constraints around costs, security and control.

IBM Consulting’s Cloud and Technology Strategy services address these and other technology adoption and optimization challenges. Using IBM’s expertise in cloud architecture design, a customized strategy integrates infrastructure, platform strategy and security. This strategy reduces risks by creating efficient pipelines across resilient cloud platforms and streamlining recovery processes. It also incorporates the latest cloud-native capabilities like self-service orchestration and automation.

A hybrid cloud strategy goes beyond technology. It fosters adaptability and collaboration to drive business outcomes. With a clear roadmap, your enterprise can transform its infrastructure and expedite digital transformation, delivering incremental value while achieving business goals.

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AI alignment with business and technology

Organizations struggle to turn AI ambitions into outcomes due to misaligned strategies. IBM Consulting co-creates a gen AI roadmap with tailored platform strategy, MVP development and agile models—aligning goals, by using innovative techniques and delivering measurable, continuous value.

Cloud spend optimization and management

Using FinOps and technology business management, IBM Consulting helps clients align cloud spending with core business objectives by applying an enterprise-level approach combining systems, best practices and culture. This approach empowers organizations to better understand cloud costs, make smarter decisions and act to realize the full potential of cloud investments for greater budgetary control and ROI.

Establish CoE to optimize business and IT processes

We apply proven constructs like Centers of Excellence and leverage advanced analytics, industry benchmarking and our operating model frameworks. This approach helps clients drive decision-making as governed strategy execution, ensuring seamless alignment with goals and the delivery of measurable outcomes.

Enterprise technology strategy

IBM Consulting helps clients embrace open innovation and enables enterprises to keep up with cloud advancements and technology evolution supported by robust value-adoption frameworks. Leveraging plug-and-play architecture and robust co-creation, organizations are better able to release new products and functionality quickly to meet changing market needs.

Operating model transformation

IBM Consulting helps organizations to unlock enterprise agility with a future-ready operating model fostering talent transformation, streamlined processes and enhanced collaboration across teams. Our comprehensive framework enables clients to incubate, pilot and scale the capabilities required to successfully operate a hybrid cloud enterprise.

Accelerate your transformation with advisory frameworks

 

Our frameworks—such as hybrid by design—are proven to help organizations achieve accelerated, secure innovation and transformation while driving business value, productivity and cost reduction.

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Leader in Public Cloud IT Transformation Services

Learn why IBM is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services.

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Maximize hybrid cloud value in the gen AI era

Challenges faced by enterprises adopting generative AI can be overcome with a well-defined hybrid cloud strategy and scaling AI with a hybrid by design approach.

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The great tech reset

Hybrid by design is the opportunity to rethink technology estates to make the most of the gen AI opportunity, but also the emerging technologies that follow it.

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Meet our expert

James Stevenson

James is a Partner and Global Leader in IBM’s Cloud Advisory practice with many years of hands-on experience helping clients achieve business outcome driven digital, cloud and technology portfolio transformations.

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