Leading the way in technology support
To help you make decisions on your Technology Support strategy and provide some help in making your business a Technology Support Leader.
One call for IT support
Managing the enterprise IT estate keeps getting more complex. IT leaders worldwide race to move apps and data to private and public clouds. Integrating legacy systems with those environments can cause delays. And requests persist to lower maintenance costs.
IBM Technology Support Services simplifies the experience by integrating and maintaining hardware and software from virtually every vendor. That means with end-to-end IT support from IBM, you get a single, cost-effective source for keeping your entire IT environment running at peak performance. Problems are resolved before they become failures.
Outages are less frequent.
IT staff gets more time to focus on solutions that move your business—and the world—forward.
Benefits of single-source IT support
Save money
up to 25% cost savings on IT support management
Save time
up to 20% less time spent on hardware support and managing vendors
Solve problems
94% first-call hardware success rate
How we provide IT support
IBM helps clients unlock actionable insights and quickly resolve IT support issues. Innovative solutions we apply to IT support include:
- Advanced analytics to uncover valuable performance insights
- Artificial intelligence (cognitive) solutions to enhance support coverage
- Augmented reality to enhance field staff capabilities
- Automation to help manage basic, repetitive tasks
Featured IT support services
Open source software support
Unlock the full value of your open source ecosystem, including:
- Commercial open source software like Red Hat and SUSE
- Community-based (PDF, 199 KB) open source software
- Individual packages
- Complex software stacks
Networking and security capabilities
Working with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) (such as Juniper, Riverbed, Cisco, etc.), IBM:
- Offers a one-stop shop maintenance service for network products
- Uses tried, tested and trusted maintenance services in partnership with the original manufacturer
- Offers single-point access to key OEM updates, patches and equipment
Additional IT support services
IBM Services and Tech Support for Zebra Products
In a complex multi-vendor environment, finding a simplified end-to-end solution to support high availability at reduced costs can be a tall order. IBM supports complex solutions for multi-vendor environments which contain Zebra hardware, and also provides life cycle maintenance services.
Managed Maintenance Solutions for Cisco Products
By using Cisco’s deep knowledge base, IBM's intelligent network support (INS) delivers a unique proactive support model which helps you identify problems before they occur and affect business operations. INS accurately pinpoints multiple exposures using a combination of proprietary algorithm methods, analytics and intelligence. It gives you well-structured output in the form of a device-detailed report, a dashboard, and a holistic overview of the state of your network — including remedial actions.
IBM Hardware and Software Support
Hardware and software support services from IBM can help you prevent and resolve issues quickly. Our integrated, around-the-clock hardware and software services are backed by IBM's product expertise, global support infrastructure, thousands of highly trained employees worldwide and Watson™ cognitive computing capabilities.
Deeper insights
Webcast: Real examples of integrating the data center and cloud
IBM Services executives who specialize in enterprise technology support and cloud relay how their clients have accelerated cloud initiatives by enlisting the right IT support partner.
How data center challenges may hinder digital transformation
In this Frost & Sullivan report we take a look at the top data center challenges reported by IT leaders as standing in the way of digital transformation, and how engaging with an expert, vendor‑agnostic IT services partner can help facilitate the journey.
Unlock open source technology’s full value
Open source use has skyrocketed among enterprise software developers. According to a commisioned research study recently conducted by Forrester Consulting, the results were clear: enterprises need help unlocking the full potential of large-scale open source software adoption.
Connect with Technology Support Services experts
Camilla Sharpe
Business Line Executive, Multivendor Software Support
- Open source software support
- Linux ecosystem support
Daniel Witteveen
Vice President, Technology Support Services
- Simplifying IT support management
- Analytics on demand
- Predictive maintenance
David Subia
Executive, Multivendor Solutions
- Single point of contact support
- Integrated lifecycle maintenance
- Predictive analytics and IoT
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