IBM Consulting Delivery Curator (ICDC)

A large enterprise was facing increasing complexity within its application portfolio, with hundreds of applications accumulated over years of growth, acquisitions, and evolving business needs. Many applications had overlapping functionalities, high maintenance costs, outdated technologies, and unclear business relevance.

ICDC leverages AI‑based insights to analyze application portfolios and classify them based on business value, technical health, risk, and cost. It supports rationalization decisions such as retain, retire, modernize, consolidate, or replace, while directly linking recommendations to modernization and migration plans.

Value delivered:

• Reduced application sprawl and technical debt.
• Lower run and maintenance costs.
• Clear, data‑driven justification for modernization investments.

A global enterprise undertaking large-scale modernization and cloud transformation initiatives faced significant challenges in designing consistent and scalable target-state architectures. Architecture teams were spending excessive time manually creating migration strategies, modernization blueprints, and technical design documents for multiple programs across the organization.

ICDC uses generative AI to automatically produce target-state architectures, migration designs, and modernization blueprints. Architects and delivery teams can interact using natural language to create standardized, reusable design patterns across programs.

Value delivered:

• Accelerated architecture and design cycles.
• Consistent, standardized design outcomes.
• Reduced dependency on scarce senior architects.

ICDC enables factory‑based delivery models by orchestrating repeatable workflows, automation, and execution tracking for large‑scale migration programs. It supports continuous waves of migrations with centralized governance, dashboards, and AI‑assisted execution.

Value delivered:

• Increased migration throughput and delivery velocity.
• Predictable, repeatable execution across waves.
• Improved quality, governance, and program transparency.

During a Migration and Modernization program that spans multiple cloud providers and on-premises environments faced growing challenges in maintaining governance, visibility, and operational consistency across its transformation programs.

ICDC provides a unified control and governance layer across multiple cloud providers and on Prem environments. It monitors progress, dependencies, risks, and compliance while ensuring consistent delivery standards across diverse platforms.

Value delivered:

• Strong governance without restricting cloud choice.
• Reduced operational and compliance risks.
• End‑to‑end visibility across hybrid and multi‑cloud programs.

Zero Touch Migration Assistant within IBM Consulting Delivery Curator (ICDC) enables end‑to‑end automation of application and workload migrations with minimal to no human intervention. Leveraging AI‑driven discovery, dependency mapping, migration runbook generation, and automated execution, it orchestrates the full migration lifecycle—from assessment and planning to cutover and validation. Integrated with factory pipelines, cloud landing zones, and governance controls, it supports high‑volume migrations while enforcing consistency, compliance, and quality across environments.

Value delivered:

• Reduced manual effort and migration cost through autonomous assessment, planning, and execution.
• Accelerated time to migrate with zero‑touch pipelines and automated cutover validation.
• Consistent, error‑free migrations using standardized AI‑generated runbooks and policy enforcement.
• Improved scalability to support large‑scale, multi‑wave migration programs.
• Enhanced operational resilience with automated rollback, validation, and post‑migration optimization.