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Why IBM Cloud IBM Cloud is the enterprise cloud for even the most mission critical workloads. With over 230+ public cloud solutions, our platform is helping clients increase time to value, while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). It is AI-ready, secure, and hybrid by design, delivering a highly resilient, performant, secure and compliant cloud.
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Differentiated service proposition for enterprise clients

“Most reliable cloud we’ve ever used globally”  - Robert Green, CEO of Dizzion

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Hybrid by Design

Optimize your workload landing zone across x86, Power and IBM SaaS via IBM Cloud

90% cost savings for IBM’s own CIO Hybrid Cloud platform hosting containerized workloads versus legacy hosting

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Purpose Built

Enterprise cloud AI ready with built-in security and compliance to deliver performance and resilience at scale

2.7M datapoints in seconds - Fans get insights instantly and securely at Wimbledon

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Flexible Commercials

Move workloads wherever needed without need for large contracts to get favorable costs

No large commitments - With lower commitment tiers and higher standard discounts

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As an ISV, fintech, SaaS provider or managed service provider, innovate, extend and elevate your solution on IBM Cloud.
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Streamline and accelerate delivery with a network of experts.
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A partnership that grows with you. IBM Partner Plus focuses on expertise, scale and impactful benefits to simplify how we work together. A clear line of sight into what you earn is your roadmap to expanding your business.
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Get step-by-step guidance on how to sell your software, services, or deployable architectures on IBM Cloud.
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Let’s build security-rich cloud solutions for the financial services industry. Expand access to financial institutions, address institutions’ most critical concerns about cloud deployments and accelerate your time to revenue.
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IBM Cloud Catalog is a digital sales channel to seamlessly deliver and sell your solutions to IBM Cloud clients worldwide.

Consolidated Billing

Become the partner of choice for enterprise clients with IBM Cloud contracts, via a single billing system.
Accelerate Time to Market

4 weeks time to onboard and publish your paid Anything-as-Service (XaaS) products.
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Grow your business leveraging IBM Ecosystem of sellers, distributors, system integrators and established clients.
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Benefits of working with IBM: Your business. Your clients. Our priority. Becoming an IBM Business Partner for cloud solutions opens a world of opportunities that can jump-start and enhance your business—helping you and your clients succeed. IBM Cloud® credits

Earn IBM Cloud credits for trials with your employees or your clients.

 Special discount rates for clients

Use special discount rates to create end-to-end solutions for resell to your clients.

 Market development funds

Secure market development funds (MDF) to use for go-to-market activities.

 Joint account planning

Gain access to joint account planning sessions for new IBM Cloud opportunities.

 Training support and certification discounts

Build from your team’s current experience and access training-certification discounts for your employees.

 Roadmap and strategic discussions

Get access to roadmap previews and strategic discussions of new products and features.

 Tailored support options

Enjoy advantageous support options for your clients, which dovetail with customer engagement agreements (SLA/OLA).

 Professional services credits

Collaborate with the IBM Garage™ and IBM Cloud services lab for your clients' proofs of concept (POC) and evaluations.

 Documentation and guidance

Receive access to detailed documentation and guidance for all IBM Cloud services.
Feature Offers and Incentives

USD 1000 VPC Credit

Apply code VPC1000 at provisioning to get USD 1000 to use toward your compute, storage and networking resources.

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USD 500 Credit

USD 500 Credit for new users of IBM Cloud Code Engine and MongoDB.

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USD 500 Credit

USD 500 Credit for all new IBM Cloud Object Storage users.

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USD 200 Credit

Get credit for your first USD 200 of apps and services on us. Try any IBM Cloud product with this credit, available for 30 days.

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Key offerings IBM Cloud for Financial Services™

See why IBM Cloud for Financial Services is the choice for more than 100 Business Partners, including Bank of America and BNP Paribas.¹

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Choosing IBM Cloud® for your GPU requirements gives you direct access to one of the most flexible server-selection processes in the industry.

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Seamlessly move and manage workloads across both cloud and on-premises environments.

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Designed for faster and non-disruptive move to RISE with SAP

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Learn more about performance intensive cloud capabilities like HPC and how to modernize with OpenShift on IBM Cloud.

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