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Overview

Everything you need to modernize your app portfolio

IBM Cloud Pak® for Applications helps you modernize existing applications, embed additional security, and develop new apps that unleash digital initiatives. It offers cloud-native development solutions that can quickly deliver value, along with flexible licensing that can be tailored to your specific needs.
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Benefits

Designed to run anywhere

On public clouds, on premises or on a private cloud — run your applications where and how they work best for your business. We’ll provide the tools to sync them to Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Cloud®, a unified Kubernetes platform built on open-source standards. We'll also support them no matter where they run.
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Use cases

Modernize traditional applications

Man working to modernize traditional applications in existing legacy systems

Modernize traditional applications

Moving to the cloud doesn't mean that you'll build everything from the ground up. Instead, you can modernize traditional applications to increase their flexibility and scalability.

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Build cloud native

Man building apps in a cloud native environment

Build cloud native

Apps that are built in the cloud are typically more scalable, easier to update and less costly to run. This can help you to respond to customer needs faster.

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Capabilities

A unified solution for all of your applications

Java EE platform

Incorporate your existing Java EE platform into your cloud strategy.

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Mobile apps

Reach your customers on the mobile platforms they use with mobile app development framework.

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Modernization and transformation

Get an analysis of your apps with recommendations for what to modernize first and how to transform.

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Accelerators

Build apps more efficiently with pre-built templates using accelerators for cloud-native development.

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IBM Cloud Digital Library

Live and on-demand videos about IBM Cloud Pak for Applications and other application solutions will help you on your journey—from modernizing existing infrastructure and applications to developing and deploying applications that run on any cloud.

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IBM Cloud Pak solutions

Get to know the complete, containerized IBM solutions to common business problems.

Developer webcast series

A weekly series of talks by developers. Learn about architecture, best practices and more.

Field guide

Learn why it's important to move to cloud and what benefits you can expect. (2.9 MB)

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