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Subscription and Support

Innovate, secure, support and
modernize your core applications to
accelerate your journey to cloud

You know that IBM Software Subscription and Support (S&S) provides access to updates, fixes and technical support.

But did you know that S&S can help you modernize and accelerate your journey to cloud when you are ready?

Software updates

With hundreds of new releases annually--each more powerful, robust and secure than the previous --many infused with AI, built-in security and cloud-ready capabilities--all protected by 24 x 7 technical support, S&S delivers enormous value when you upgrade.

We asked IBMers to record their thoughts on the value software updates deliver. Here are just a couple of examples of what they submitted.

John Frank, IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software, WW S&S Sales Leader talks Db2 for AI, faster queries, virtualization and complex relationship modeling- on premise or in IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Walt Noffsinger, IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software, Director - Websphere and Cloud Pak for Apps talks upgrades and Cloud Pak tradeups to right size your business for the future.

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See what’s new and available for download

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See what’s approaching end of support and upgrade

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Use your S&S benefits to upgrade. Learn how

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IBM Support

At IBM, Support goes beyond just fixing issues. With deep technical and industry knowledge, armed with award-winning AI technology, IBM Support collaborate across our entire company of researchers, offering managers, and engineers to help you and your business succeed.

Subscription and Support includes IBM Enterprise Support, which allows you to:

  • Get answers to all your installation, deployment, migration, usage and code-related technical support questions
  • Resolve critical issues 24x7, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year
  • Engage our experts using our award-winning support website, live chat, or phone
  • Build your skills through IBM Knowledge Centers, technical documents, communities, and training
  • Earn additional reward points by completing special challenges offered by IBM Support

Few support providers can compare with the breadth and depth of skills, technology, experience and commitment that IBM Support brings to you. Whether you run a startup or a large enterprise, you have the strength of IBM behind you. This is the IBM Support Advantage.

Learn about the IBM Support Advantage.

“IBM is the support organization that we measure other vendors against.”

- Dave Wiseman, VP of Solutions Architecture at Connectria

Listen to these stories from our team to hear how we’ve helped clients like you:

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IBM Software Support

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Ryan Greenberg
IBM Cloud Support

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IBM Systems Support

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Using your feedback as our guide, IBM is continually investing in the improvement of our tools, processes, and training. Learn how IBM is transforming your support experience.

Expand your IBM Enterprise Support with our premium support offerings from IBM Preferred Care: add dedicated professionals, expedited access to experts, and proactive business planning to help optimize your system performance, minimize the risk of downtime, and maximize the return on your investment. Explore the flexible and cost-effective IBM Preferred Care options that are available to you, including Expertise Connect and the Accelerated Value Program (AVP).

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S&S is your on-ramp to Cloud

IBM Software Subscription and Support is central to ensuring the currency, security and performance of your software. It's value doesn't stop there.

Did you know, for example, that you can use your IBM Software Subscription and Support to accelerate your journey to Cloud with Cloud Paks.

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IBM Cloud Paks - containerized, open source, enterprise-ready software solutions let you

  • easily modernize existing applications to support cloud environments – with open, portable containers to improve time to value and avoid lock-in
  • deploy on-premises, in the cloud, or with pre-integrated systems to quickly bring workloads to production by leveraging Kubernetes as the management framework supporting production-level qualities of service and end-to-end lifecycle management
  • move core applications when you are ready to any cloud faster and deploy middleware in a consistent manner across multiple clouds

Cloud Paks offer

  • capabilities for deployment, lifecycle management and production quality of service – logging, monitoring, version upgrade and roll-back, vulnerability assessment and testing
  • certification by IBM to run on Red Hat OpenShift, providing full software stack support
  • regular security, compliance and version compatibility updates

See how Cloud Paks work and how you can make them work for you

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IBM and Red Hat address your journey to cloud with IBM Cloud Paks

Leif Davidsen, IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software, Program Director, Offering Management - Cloud Pak for Integration talks taking your S&S investment to the next level with IBM Cloud Pak tradeups.

If your strategy is to move to cloud, S&S can help get you there with Cloud Paks

Reach out to your IBM rep or Business Partner to learn how.

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