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IBM Consulting Advantage
We deliver up to 50% task productivity improvement so you realize value faster
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
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 empowers our experts with an evidence-based, scientific approach to consulting. By equipping our 160,000 expert consultants with role, industry and business domain-specific AI assistants, agents, and applications, powered by IBM Granite and other leading AI models, IBM Consulting Advantage helps enable deeper insights and improved efficiency compared to traditional consultancy approaches.
Worried about 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 can take you from idea to value more quickly and efficiently than you’ve experienced with any other consulting approach.
Use cases
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.
AI assistants, agents and applications 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.
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.
Specialized data modernization applications 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.
AI assets 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.
Map a faster, more cost-efficient hybrid cloud journey from experts enabled purpose-built cloud acceleration assets, including set of AI-enabled assistants and agents, automation tooling, and industry starter kits supporting advisory, migration, modernization, and new application creation.
Benefits
Teams experienced up to 50% improvements in multiple tasks across the software development lifecycles.2
Leveraging IBM Consulting Advantage with the IBM Garage engagement model means accelerate ways of work change with AI tools.3
Capabilities
Our people expertise is exponentially augmented by generative AI powered assistants and agents 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.
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.
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.
Real consultants. Creating real value.
Case studies
See how French telecommunications company, Bouygues Telecom, achieved rapid innovation by scaling AI on AWS.
See how IBM and Wimbledon continue their partnership of innovation to provide fans with AI-generated insights and world-class digital experiences.
See how German-based Wintershall Dea used IBM AI@Scale to use data science for faster insights and innovation.
Strategic partnerships
Unlock the value of data analytics and leverage AI to deliver real-time personalized experiences for your customers with Adobe Experience Platform.
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.
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.
Define and deliver digital transformation with SAP. Deploy AI-enabled workflows that automate essential processes.
Unlock innovation with Salesforce. Seamlessly integrate Salesforce Einstein and IBM Watson to deliver AI experiences across your business.
IBM Consulting has practitioners skilled in the watsonx enterprise-ready AI portfolio designed to multiply the impact of AI across your business.
Related solutions
IBM’s AI consulting services bring together our deep industry and domain expertise, along with AI technology to elevate, not replace, your team.
Rethink competencies, operations, designing and sequencing workflows across your business with IBM’s complete ecosystem of talent, IP and partnerships.
Envision, design and deliver smarter experiences across the customer lifecycle that earn loyalty and trust.
Footnotes
1 IBM Institute for Business Value - 6 hard truths CEOs must face- May 16 2024
2 IBM Introduces New Consulting Advantage https://nand-research.com/research-note-ibm-introduces-new-consulting-advantage/