Expert-led cloud transformation
IBM Consulting® uses IBM Txture® as a core asset to deliver cloud and AI transformation. Together, they combine platform intelligence with expert-led execution to help organizations move from portfolio complexity to a defensible, continuously updated modernization strategy.
Built into the IBM Consulting agentic method for application migration and modernization, IBM Txture helps deliver portfolio intelligence, 6R planning and business case outputs. IBM Txture delivers directly within the consulting workflow, supporting faster assessment, clearer prioritization and more confident transformation planning. This gives teams a structured way to move from discovery and assessment to modernization planning with data-driven guidance at each step.
Capabilities
Turning application insight into transformation action
IBM Consulting delivers five capabilities powered by IBM Txture, from portfolio intelligence and 6R migration planning to business case development, AI readiness assessment and cloud-native modernization.
Application portfolio intelligence
IBM Consulting leverages IBM Txture to build a unified, continuously updated view of your application landscape by ingesting CMDB, cloud API and hypervisor data. Applications can be classified by technology, business value, technical debt and redundancy to support faster, more defensible portfolio decisions.
Hybrid cloud transformation planning
Powered by IBM Txture’s 6R recommendations, dependency-aware wave plans and workload-to-cloud mapping, IBM Consulting delivers structured migration planning across complex hybrid cloud estates. Planning can include cost projections across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Red Hat® for IaaS, PaaS and CaaS migrations, helping teams move from assessment to execution with greater speed and confidence.
AI transformation management
IBM Consulting applies IBM Txture’s 5A framework to assess applications for AI value, data readiness, architecture, automation potential and available skills. This method helps prioritize AI opportunities, support AI business case development and identify modernization targets with stronger business alignment.
Cloud-native modernization
IBM Txture helps IBM Consulting track technology signals, end-of-life risks and cloud standardization opportunities across the application estate. These insights help map technical debt, evaluate application fitness for containers, Kubernetes and PaaS targets, and recommend modernization paths from lift-and-shift to cloud-native architectures.
Data-driven cloud business cases
Using IBM Txture cost and economics modeling, IBM Consulting builds business cases designed to support executive decision-making. Platform-generated TCO comparisons, scenario modeling across providers, hybrid placement analysis and near-real-time pricing help strengthen cloud investment planning.
Use cases
- Cloud modernization
- AI readiness
- Business case
- Data center exit
- Cloud migration
- Portfolio rationalization
- Technical debt
- Technological standardization
Unlock value from cloud-hosted applications
Many enterprises are in the cloud but still running legacy architectures; costs climbing, benefits unrealized. IBM Consulting, through IBM Txture, maps technical debt, identifies modernization pathways from IaaS to containers and PaaS and applies the value realization framework to turn a costly cloud estate into a competitive one.
Identify where AI can deliver measurable return
IBM Consulting uses IBM Txture's 5A framework to pinpoint specific business processes where AI investment will deliver measurable ROI. The framework scores applications at capability level and embeds results into the cloud assessment, so modernization and AI transformation plans are designed together, not sequentially.
Build the business case for cloud
Before committing to cloud, executives need data, not estimates. IBM Txture ingests infrastructure data from CMDBs and hypervisors, producing a multicloud TCO comparison in 3–5 weeks. The TCO comparison includes scenario modelling across providers, hybrid placement options and a board-ready business case.
Exit your data center with a clear plan
IBM Consulting uses IBM Txture to turn a complex data center exit into a structured, defensible program. IBM Txture ingests existing infrastructure data, generating 6R recommendations for every application and producing dependency-aware wave plans with multicloud cost forecasts.
Cloud migration planning at scale
Embedded in IBM Consulting’s agentic method for application migration and modernization, IBM Txture supports assessment across large application portfolios. The assessment generates 6R recommendations, dependency-aware wave plans and target architectures across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Red Hat to help teams plan migrations with greater speed and confidence.
Rationalize IT portfolios after M&A
Post-acquisition IT estates accumulate duplicates and unclear ownership. IBM Consulting and IBM Txture map every application to business capabilities, surface functional overlap across merged entities and generate consolidation recommendations with cost-impact modelling. This method gives integration teams the data to act before complexity compounds.
Surface and reduce technical debt across large estates
IBM Consulting uses IBM Txture to surface and track technical debt across application portfolios—identifying modernization blockers, dependency risk and long-term sustainability challenges so teams can prioritize remediation and reduce compounding risk.
Reduce cost and complexity by rationalizing your technology stack
Running many different technologies and platforms is expensive in ways that don't always show up in a single budget line. IBM Consulting and IBM Txture map the full technology diversity of your portfolio, identify consolidation candidates and model the financial impact of moving to standard platforms. Your teams can focus on improving the platforms they know, not maintaining the sprawl they have inherited.
Strategic partnerships
Google Cloud
IBM Consulting's GCP partnership and certified delivery practice bring enterprise-scale cloud transformation and AI modernization expertise to Google Cloud engagements. With IBM Txture providing the application portfolio intelligence, 6R planning and GCP-specific solution architecture generation and cost modeling, teams can build faster, more defensible migration plans.
Associate Partner, IBM Txture Go-to-Market
Enterprise cloud strategy and AI transformation planning, underpinned by the hybrid by design framework and IBM Consulting advisory expertise.
Agent-based discovery, runbooks and migration delivery—the automated data source for IBM Txture portfolio assessments.