Introduction
IBM Garage™ is an end-to-end model for accelerating digital transformation. It helps you generate innovative ideas and equips you with the experts, practices and technologies to rapidly turn those ideas into business value.
When you work with IBM Garage, you bring customer pain points into focus. You empower your team to take manageable risks. You adopt leading technologies, speed up product development and measure the value of everything you do.
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The IBM Garage experience
Co-innovation
A proven approach
IBM Garage charts your transformation journey with an iterative framework that guides you from ideation, to build, to scale.
Co-create defines your vision. Co-execute proves the value of your vision. Co-operate scales your solution and your team's capabilities.
Methodology
Practices that accelerate
The IBM Garage Methodology guides how you work by bringing together an open, seamless set of practices with a human-centric, outcome-first approach. By applying design thinking, agile development and DevOps tools and techniques, you'll learn new skills and master new ways of working.
Technology
Technology with a purpose
IBM Garage opens the door to IBM and partner technologies, and helps ensure your solution has the right architecture to build security-rich, resilient and scalable infrastructure and applications. IBM Garage is fluent in hybrid cloud and AI, with deep expertise in application modernization, data science, automation, security, blockchain, IoT, edge computing and more.
Speed
Speed to value
IBM Garage equips you with exclusive solution accelerators. Beyond our methodology, these include reference architectures, code pattern and design libraries, our value orchestration framework, innovations from IBM Research, and rigorous insight into emerging technologies and industry trends. This enables you to benefit from best practices and maximize speed to value.
Scale
Enterprise scale
The difference between innovation and transformation is scale. IBM Garage solutions are designed to handle enterprise-grade workloads, thrive in multicloud environments and protect against increasingly complex external threats.
IBM Garage also advances workforce modernization, helping you scale new ways of working throughout your organization and grow the skills of your team.
Expertise
Multidisciplinary expertise
Your IBM Garage team is populated with designers, architects, developers, data scientists, business strategists and industry thought leaders. Working with IBM Garage means you have flexible access to the experts you need, anywhere you need them.
Partnership
We work with you — not for you
IBM Garage is not conventional consulting. It is a collaborative exchange of ideas, knowledge, experimentation and support. As a true partner, IBM Garage is dedicated to making sure that your business is more robust and your team is more capable, just for having worked with us.
Impact
The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Garage
Examine the cost savings, business benefits and structured innovation that are enabled by IBM Garage™ to meet today’s demands for modernization, transformation and growth.
The IBM Garage Total Economic Impact Calculator
This interactive calculator quantifies time-to-market, release rate, efficiency, capacity, culture change and more. Apply IBM Garage to scenarios you define to see estimated business impact, all validated by the findings of The Forrester Total Economic Impact of IBM Garage study.
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IBM Garage for Sustainability
IBM Garage helps businesses break the world's biggest challenges into rapidly delivered MVPs. Your team, working closely with ours, can be the heart of your sustainability transformation.
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Client stories
People of the Garage
Jason Calalang
Jason Calalang, Full-stack Developer
"In the Garage, we apply test driven development that gives us the confidence to make improvements in our code base while keeping it clean, simple and consistent. Pair programming also helps us work closely with our client's developers to not only co-create and brainstorm ideas in writing code but to share our practices as well."
David Cleveland
David Cleveland, UX Designer
"With IBM Garage, the user's pain points are brought to the forefront and together, IBM Garage and the customer solve those pain points."
Andrew Ferrier
Andrew Ferrier, Cloud Architect
"One of the things that excites me most about architecture in the Garage is how practical it is. We focus on real, practical solutions to real-world problems."
Amber Howe
Amber Howe, Design Lead
"When you can't see the wood for the trees, our approach reveals the true nature of an opportunity and unveils a vision to get you there."
Cathy Reese
Cathy Reese, Advanced Analytics & ML Leader
"The IBM Garage is the right delivery model for our clients. It really does allow us to show up with the best and brightest talent to help our clients innovate and transform."
Mathew Wendell
Mathew Wendell, IBM Garage for Sustainability Leader
"Sustainability is an active conversation among executives and built into their business strategies. With the IBM Garage, we're able to explore and build solutions that embed sustainability at the heart of your innovation agenda. My focus is to help you do well for your business, and do good for the planet."
Resources
Become an expert
Courses and assets
IBM Garage Essentials course
Learn more about IBM Garage methodology, practices, assets and platforms, and earn your first IBM Garage badge.
IBM Garage Practitioner course
Become a credentialed member of an IBM Garage squad by learning the full set of IBM Garage practices in this course.
IBM Cloud Architecture Center
Get solution-based reference architectures, executable code for popular functions, and technical tutorials.
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¹ “The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Garage”, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, October 2020