IBM Support Insights delivers actionable indicators for preventive maintenance that are designed to reduce gaps in support coverage, improve your IT management, and lower your IT risk across IBM and other OEM systems.
Discovers and manages IT assets from various vendors, giving a comprehensive overview of the IT landscape, enhancing visibility, and simplifying management.
Proactive Insights and Recommendations
Identifies potential security vulnerabilities and recommended updates and patches, helping avoid outages, and service denials due to expired contracts, unsupported assets, or software levels
Simplification of IT asset management
Identifies gaps in support coverage, making it easier to reconcile contracts and ensure the necessary coverage without unnecessary costs. This reduces the risk of service disruptions when products are no longer supported.
Features
Inventory management
Inventory management
Risks and recommendations
Risks and recommendations
Case metrics
Case metrics
Inventory management
Standard:
Reduce time spent on inventory management with automated multivendor infrastructure asset discovery, customized inventory views and exports, and support coverage and change analysis.
Pro:
Recommended OS and firmware levels.
Risks and recommendations
Standard:
Get ahead of potential security exposures with alerts for security vulnerabilities, IT environment risk scores and prescriptive recommendations for how to remediate potential issues.
Pro:
Prioritized security and lifecycle insights and open-source CVE analysis.
Case metrics
Standard:
Leverage support case history (3 months) to identify patterns and hotspots impacting system availability.
Pro:
Case analysis across multiple configurable dimension and access to full case history.
Inventory management
Standard:
Reduce time spent on inventory management with automated multivendor infrastructure asset discovery, customized inventory views and exports, and support coverage and change analysis.
Pro:
Recommended OS and firmware levels.
Risks and recommendations
Standard:
Get ahead of potential security exposures with alerts for security vulnerabilities, IT environment risk scores and prescriptive recommendations for how to remediate potential issues.
Pro:
Prioritized security and lifecycle insights and open-source CVE analysis.
Case metrics
Standard:
Leverage support case history (3 months) to identify patterns and hotspots impacting system availability.
Pro:
Case analysis across multiple configurable dimension and access to full case history.
"The IBM team has brought forth tremendous value with IBM Support Insights Pro and their deep expertise within the network space which previously required us to allocate a resource or be charged a fee to create a BoM. The ongoing collaboration and relationship between Cisco and IBM assures that we maintain a strong support strategy, but also enables deeper insights into the future of networking infrastructure. The IBM team has been instrumental in allowing us to see the future state of the City."
Get the full story
Resources
Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025
Download the 2025 report and learn to fight back against data breaches.
Frequently asked questions
Your top questions about Support Insights addressed here.
Documentation
See the IBM Support Insights documentation for topics, resources and What's new.
Take the next step
IBM Support Insights helps you proactively manage your inventory, identify contract and security exposures, and avoid downtime to better manage the device health and growing costs of your IT estate.