IBM Garage for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds adds three new service offerings for IBM Cloud to third-party cloud environments and hybrid or on-premises cloud environments

IBM United States Software Announcement 221-097
March 30, 2021

Table of contents

	Overview		Technical information
	Key requirements		Ordering information
	Planned availability date		Terms and conditions
	Description		Prices
	Program number		Order now
	Publications

Overview

IBM Garage™ for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds provides three new IBM Cloud® services to help organizations modernize and realize benefits, based on existing IBM Garage standard offerings, to assist them with their journey to the cloud. These services can help organizations assess their technical architecture, third-party cloud software, and achieve a solution that uses IBM Cloud services.

IBM Garage Design Thinking Workshop for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds

This service assesses the client's business problem and use cases through a design thinking workshop. This enables clients to consider building an application that leverages IBM Cloud services and other IBM® or third-party cloud solutions, including on-premises licensed software. IBM Design Thinking takes the best industry-recognized design methods, adds three core practices, and applies knowledge gained from real use cases at IBM Garage locations worldwide. These core practices include:

Hills
Sponsor users,
Playbacks

The outcome of the workshop is an agreed-upon hypothesis and a minimum viable product (MVP) project definition.

IBM Garage Architectural Consultancy for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds

With this service, an IBM Garage Architect provides architectural consulting, thought leadership, advice, and guidance about the structure, high-level principles, and best working practices associated with the deployment of IBM Cloud, third-party software as a service (SaaS), or on-premises licensed software at an IBM Garage or other IBM location.

IBM Garage MVP Build for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds

With this service, an IBM Garage project execution team of five or more expert consultants help an organization agree on a prioritized list of user stories to refine the scope of an MVP application. The team codevelops application artifacts that implement those user stories resulting in an MVP. The Garage MVP build deliverable is a mutually agreed-upon set of user stories and application artifacts delivered on IBM technologies. The sessions take place at an IBM Garage location or other suitable location and include the following IBM Garage team members:

One IBM Garage technical lead
Two Garage developers
One or more IBM Cloud, third-party SaaS, or on-premises licensed software development product consultants
One or more IBM Garage designers

Key requirements

None

Planned availability date

March 30, 2021

Description

IBM Garage is a consultancy practice that works with organizations of all sizes to use IBM Cloud to rapidly identify, design, prove, and build innovative and scalable applications that match the needs of their target market. To deliver innovative solutions faster, the IBM Garage methodology combines industry best practices that include:

Design thinking
Lean startup
Agile development
Extreme programming
DevOps

IBM Garage Design Thinking Workshop for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds

This workshop helps clients fully evaluate the problem space and define an MVP for applications. It uses the IBM Design Thinking practices that are recognized practices by the industry. The workshop, which applies the knowledge gained from real-life development cases at IBM Garage locations worldwide, includes the following activities:

Identify user pain points
Define user personas
Brainstorm solutions
Define MVP
Identify hypothesis and experiments
Explore technical viability of deployment of IBM Cloud services and other IBM or third-party cloud solutions, including on-premises licensed software on IBM Cloud

IBM Garage Architectural Consultancy for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds

This service provides a Garage Architect for one week, with up to a maximum of 40 person-hours of architectural advisory consulting in support with the deployment of IBM Cloud, third-party SaaS, or on-premises licensed software at an IBM Garage or other IBM location. The IBM Garage Architect will provide thought leadership, advice, and guidance as to the structure and high-level principles and good working practices associated with the deployment of IBM Cloud in enterprise hybrid environments.

IBM Garage MVP Build for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds

This workshop enables an organization to quickly learn, and test hypotheses, and then iterate results, improvements, or recommendations during delivery. The IBM Garage project execution team assists organizations in rapidly developing an MVP application using the IBM Garage Methodology, and then deploy the MVP so that the organization can provide feedback and hypothesis testing. The IBM Garage project execution team includes:

Two IBM Garage Developers, working as programmers paired with client developers or with themselves for up to a maximum of 80 person-hours, who provide IBM Cloud, third-party SaaS, or on-premises licensed software development consultancy.
One IBM Garage Technical Lead, working for up to a maximum of 24 person-hours, who provides senior IBM Cloud, third-party SaaS, or on-premises licensed software development product consultancy.
One or more IBM Garage Designers, working for up to a maximum of 32 person-hours, who provide user experience design and visual design consultancy. This service has a mandatory dependency for each client project.
The IBM Garage Services Design Thinking service must be completed before the start of each project engagement.

Reference information

For more information about IBM Garage offerings, see:

Software Announcement 220-265, dated August 11, 2020
Software Announcement 220-075, dated February 18, 2020
Software Announcement 218-526, dated November 13, 2018
Software Announcement 218-088, dated September 11, 2018
Software Announcement 218-143, dated April 17, 2018
Software Announcement 218-063, dated February 27, 2018

Program number

Program number	VRM	Program name
5900-AHK	Cloud Service	IBM Garage for Non-SaaS Solutions

Publications

None

Services

Software Services

IBM Garage is a consultancy practice that helps companies design, deploy, and build smarter applications. IBM Garage brings together IBM Design Thinking, lean startup, agile DevOps, and extreme programming to help clients transform their industries. Using IBM Garage, clients can learn how to create personas and user stories to understand pain points, prioritize backlogs to deliver the minimum viable product, and build user-experience prototypes. Clients also learn how to deliver incremental value and validate it with sponsor users.

To learn more about IBM Garage, contact your Garage Principal or Garage Delivery Leader.

Technical information

Specified operating environment

Software requirements

None

Planning information

Packaging

These offerings are remotely delivered services. There is no physical media or electronic deliverable.

Ordering information

For ordering information, consult your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or go to the Passport Advantage® website.

This program is only available through Passport Advantage.

These products may only be sold directly by IBM or by IBM Business Partners.

To locate IBM Business Partners in your geography, see the Find a Business Partner page.

Passport Advantage

IBM Garage for Non-SaaS Solutions (5900-AHK)

Program name/Description	Part number
IBM Garage Design Thinking Workshop for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds Engagement Remotely Delivered Garage Services	D05K1ZX
IBM Garage Architectural Consultancy for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds Engagement Remotely Delivered Garage Services	D05K0ZX
IBM Garage MVP Build for On-Premises and Third-party Clouds Engagement Remotely Delivered Garage Services	D05K2ZX

Charge metric

The charge metrics for these cloud services can be found in the following Service Description documents:

Program identifier	Service Description document title	Service Description document number
5900-AHK	IBM Garage for On-Premises and Third-party Cloudsfor Third-party Clouds	8996-01

Select your language of choice and scroll down to the Charge Metrics section. Follow-on releases, if any, may have updated terms. See the Cloud Services terms website and search using the four-digit base Service Description number.

Terms and conditions

The information provided in this announcement letter is for reference and convenience purposes only. The terms and conditions that govern any transaction for the acquisition of Cloud Services from IBM consist of either the IBM Cloud Services Agreement and the applicable offering Service Description or the IBM International Passport Advantage® Agreement or the International Passport Advantage Express Agreement and the IBM Terms of Use - General Terms for Cloud Offerings and the applicable offering Service Description.

Technical support

Technical support is provided for Cloud Services and enabling software, as applicable, during the subscription period. Any enhancements, updates, and other materials provided by IBM as part of any such technical support are considered to be part of the Cloud Service, as applicable, and therefore governed by the applicable agreement as defined in Client's quote or transaction document. Technical support is included with the Cloud Service and is not available as a separate offering.

Additional technical support information for this Cloud Service offering may be found in the IBM Support Guide or in service-specific documentation.

Service Description

The following Service Description documents apply to the offerings in this announcement.

Program identifier	Service Description document title	Service Description document number
5900-AHK	IBM Garage for On-Premises and Third-party Cloudsfor Third-party Clouds	8996-01

Follow-on levels of these cloud services, if any, may have updated terms. See the Cloud Services terms website and search using the four-digit base Service Description number.

Limited warranty

See the warranty defined in the applicable agreement governing client's acquisition for this offering.

Money-back guarantee

Volume orders (IVO)

Passport Advantage applies

Yes, information is available on the Passport Advantage® and Passport Advantage Express website.

Usage restrictions

Yes

For any usage restrictions, see the Service Description document listed in this Terms and conditions section.

Educational allowance available

Statement of good security practices

IT system security involves protecting systems and information through intrusion prevention, detection, and response to improper access from within and outside your enterprise. Improper access can result in information being altered, destroyed, or misappropriated or can result in misuse of your systems to attack others. Without a comprehensive approach to security, no IT system or product should be considered completely secure and no single product or security measure can be completely effective in preventing improper access. IBM systems and products are designed to be part of a regulatory compliant, comprehensive security approach, which will necessarily involve additional operational procedures, and may require other systems, products, or services to be most effective.

Important: IBM does not warrant that any systems, products, or services are immune from, or will make your enterprise immune from, the malicious or illegal conduct of any party.

Prices

For additional information and current prices, contact your local IBM representative or IBM Business Partner.

Business Partner information

If you are an IBM Business Partner acquiring products from IBM, you may link to Passport Advantage Online for resellers where you can obtain Business Partner pricing information. An IBMid and password are required to access the IBM Passport Advantage or IBM PartnerWorld® website.

Passport Advantage

For Passport Advantage information and charges, contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner. Additional information is also available on the Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express website.

IBM Global Financing

IBM Global Financing offers competitive financing to credit-qualified clients to assist them in acquiring IT solutions. Offerings include financing for IT acquisition, including hardware, software, and services, from both IBM and other manufacturers or vendors. Offerings (for all client segments: small, medium, and large enterprise), rates, terms, and availability can vary by country. Contact your local IBM Global Financing organization or go to the IBM Global Financing website for more information.

IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit LLC in the United States, and other IBM subsidiaries and divisions worldwide to qualified commercial and government clients. Rates are based on a client's credit rating, financing terms, offering type, equipment type, and options, and may vary by country. Other restrictions may apply. Rates and offerings are subject to change, extension, or withdrawal without notice.

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