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AI-powered delivery platform to accelerate value creation at scale
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Introducing IBM Consulting® Advantage

The promise of AI for business is huge, but unrealized.  72% of top-performing CEOs—agree that competitive advantage depends on who has the most advanced generative AI. but only 38% say their organization has the in-house expertise to adopt gen AI for innovation.1

Now imagine having a powerful ally that combines the depth of human expertise with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to tackle your toughest business challenges faster and more efficiently—that’s exactly what IBM consultants empowered by the IBM Consulting Advantage platform offer. Understanding the immense pressures faced by business and technology leaders today, particularly those feeling stretched thin with limited resources, IBM Consulting Advantage steps forward as the game changer for an evidence-based, scientific approach to consulting. By equipping our 160,000 expert consultants worldwide with role and domain-specific AI assistants, IBM Consulting Advantage helps enable deeper insights and improved efficiency compared to traditional consultancy approaches.

86% of consulting buyers say they’re actively looking for services that incorporate AI and technology assets. Leveraging pre-built industry and domain-specific tech assets from IBM and industry leading partners we help accelerate time to value through innovative solutions that make an impact. Worried about meeting the time pressures and results demanded by the current market, but don’t feel like you have the resources or insight to do it? IBM Consultants armed with IBM Consulting Advantage are ready to take you from idea to artifact more quickly and efficiently than you’ve experience with any other consulting approach.

IBM Head of Consulting Mohamad Ali: Consultants Use Many Digital Assistants
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IBM Introduces Granite 3.0: High performing AI models built for business

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IBM introduces new ‘IBM Consulting Advantage’ offering

Benefits Accelerating value creation at scale through a new way of delivering expertise 50% Task productivity improvement

Teams experienced up to 50% improvements in multiple tasks across the software development lifecycle.2

108% Return on investment with IBM Garage 

Leveraging IBM Consulting Advantage with the IBM Garage engagement model means accelerate ways of work change with AI tools.3

IBM has an offering this side of the horizon with IBM Consulting Advantage that is the first of its kind. IDC Report IBM Consulting Advantage — The GenAI-Powered Platform to Turbocharge IBM Consulting Services
Capabilities
Agents and assistants Supercharging consulting expertise with AI

Our people expertise is exponentially augmented by generative AI powered agents and assistants built with integrations across the partner ecosystem with multi-assistant, multi-modal, multi-model capabilities. Whether creating more robust personas, building more accurate business cases, or going from user story to code in minutes instead of days - connecting human and digital workers means more value, delivered more quickly.

Applications Unlocking domain and industry value faster and at scale

IBM Consulting Advantage includes ready-to-deploy AI applications that support the entire innovation cycle including advisory, building and integrating technologies, and business operations (managed or client-owned). Pre-built industry and domain specific technology assets on a global platform enable IBM consultants to build and deliver complex solutions faster and at scale.

Partners Driving innovation through an open ecosystem

Designed to easily integrate with leading-edge technologies and models from IBM and strategic partners, Consulting Advantage makes it easy to maximize ROI while enabling innovation through a robust ecosystem.

Use cases How IBM Consulting Advantage can help you most important business domains.  Finance and procurement

Whether in operations we manage for clients or transforming processes they maintain, we bring AI-enabled assets that help improve cash flow and reduce cost by gaining more insight or accelerating critical financial processes, including source-to-pay and collections. 

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Marketing

AI assistants and assets help quickly create hyper-personalized content in your brand voice and tone and cut down mundane work to free up creative teams to do more of what they love.  AI assistants are even trained to work with partners systems, like Adobe Experience Manager, including recommending SEO metadata, automating content authoring, and streamlining testing and deployment processes. 

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IT

Realize greater efficiency, resiliency and agility of your technology footprint.  AI Assistants and ready-to-deploy code assets help us speed time to value across the entire IT landscape – from optimizing ticket analysis, triage, and resolution, to migrating legacy platforms faster, to modernizing applications and processes.  

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Data transformation

Specialized modern data accelerators get your data ready for AI faster by streamlining the migration of complex analytical systems from legacy to modern platforms.  We use these tools to quickly address the complex challenges of data discovery, code conversion automation, and intelligent assistance throughout the whole data migration process so you can realize the value of AI across your enterprise.

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Cybersecurity

AI tools help us build a more secure environment with you, including managing the threat detection capabilities in complex hybrid multi-cloud environments by analyzing logic in SIEM, EDR and firewalls to make improvement recommendations.

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Hybrid cloud

Map a faster, more cost-efficient hybrid cloud journey from experts enabled with a purpose-built cloud acceleration tool set of AI-enabled software, assistants and agents, automation, and industry starter kits supporting advisory, migration, modernization, and the creation of new applications.

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Unlocking value from Consulting Advantage

Explore how real consultants are putting IBM Consulting Advantage to work for clients every day.

Finding client value with IBM Consulting Advantage Ghillian Bell, IBM iX senior consultant, uses IBM Consulting Advantage to transform her workflow, streamlining daily tasks like value tree creation, and unlocking new levels of creativity and productivity.
Building better personas and journeys with IBM Consulting Advantage Tess Rock, Global Client Success Leader, uses IBM Consulting Advantage to gain a deeper understanding of client challenges, enabling her to focus on strategic and analytical problem-solving.
Accelerating code with IBM Consulting Advantage Marco Altea, Senior Digital Architect, uses IBM Consulting Advantage to write code more efficiently in various programming languages.

Everyday Time-Saving with IBM Consulting Advantage For Othul Hock, Business Transformation Consultant, IBM Consulting Advantage helps him get time back during every stage of a project, freeing him to focus on collaboration and brainstorming innovative solutions.

Case studies
AI for everyone

See how French telecommunications company, Bouygues Telecom, achieved rapid innovation by scaling AI on AWS.

Transforming insights and client experiences with AI

See how IBM and Wimbledon continue their partnership of innovation to provide fans with AI-generated insights and world-class digital experiences.

Transforming the oil and gas industry with data

See how German-based Wintershall Dea used IBM AI@Scale to use data science for faster insights and innovation.

Strategic partnerships   Adobe

Unlock the value of data analytics and leverage AI to deliver real-time personalized experiences for your customers with Adobe Experience Platform.

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AWS Cloud

As a premier AWS consulting partner, IBM helps modernize and scale contact centers powered by Amazon Connect platform and integrate AI, ML and automation solutions on AWS Cloud.

 

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Microsoft Azure

IBM provides the expertise, framework and toolkits to create a roadmap for adoption of AI, analytics and machine learning at scale and to also reinvent businesses processes with intelligent workflows—all built on Microsoft Azure.

Learn more Read the Reckitt group case study
SAP

Define and deliver digital transformation with SAP. Deploy AI-enabled workflows that automate essential processes.

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Salesforce

Unlock innovation with Salesforce. Seamlessly integrate Salesforce Einstein and IBM Watson to deliver AI experiences across your business. 

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watsonx

IBM Consulting has practitioners skilled in the watsonx enterprise-ready AI and data platform designed to multiply the impact of AI across your business.

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When it comes to AI for business, IBM Consulting has the expertise and partnerships to help you think big, move fast and innovate responsibly—so you can navigate the future of AI with confidence.  Reach out today and let's create new ways for business to do business.

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