Our Commitment to You
IBM Support is committed to help you become successful with your IBM products and services – across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid cloud platforms. Our team of experts helps ensure your success by consistently providing positive outcomes to your support experience and needs.
Cognitive- We employ predictive, Watson-infused learning features into our support tools to maximize efficiency and continually improve.
- We connect across boundaries and streamline communication to provide you with a seamless support experience.
- We enable problem avoidance by arming you with the information you need, when you need it.
- We provide enterprise support solutions at the speed your business requires.
IBM Enterprise Support and Preferred Care
Whether you are running a solution with IBM Cloud services, on-premises software, systems, appliances, hybrid environments, or non-IBM products, IBM Support is enterprise-ready and flexible - available around the clock and around the world - to help you keep your cognitive businesses running smoothly. Our support options are categorized into IBM Enterprise and Preferred Care:
IBM Support Site
IBM Support site is the cognitive foundation where our support offerings are built on. It is available for use by all clients.
IBM Support site features
- Quickly find what you need with intuitive and cognitive methods
- Learn and share experiences with expert networks
- Engage with our support professionals with innovative tools
- Embedded into our innovative search and chat tools to give you faster and more effective results to find the answers you need.
- Infused into our case management tools to ensure issues get opened with the right information, and routed to the right skills to resolve your complex issues.
- Evolving every day
Note: You may require IBM Enterprise Support and Preferred Care agreements to access certain content and features.
IBM Enterprise Support
IBM Enterprise Support offerings provide the foundation for production workloads. They focus on four key areas to help make you successful:
- Preventive support: unlock the business value of our products through comprehensive fixes and innovative product updates
- Production support: solve your business problems by accessing the right skills quickly and efficiently, and collaborating with our deeply skilled support professionals 24x7
- Cognitive support: optimize your support experience with the next-generation AI abilities of IBM Watson
- Omni-channel support: simplify your experience by choosing your desired support medium
- IBM Support site with integrated web, chat and forum options, or
- Phone – particularly for critical incidents
IBM Preferred Care
IBM Preferred Care expands on your Enterprise Support experience, by introducing premium offerings focused on delivering:
- Personalized care: build a specialized, trusted network with our designated advisors who establish personal relationships with you and your team to focus on your needs
- Mission-critical care: minimize your downtime and reduce the disruption of your business with expedited access to our support professionals, and proactive engagement from assigned experts
- Business care: gain time to concentrate on your business goals with continual proactive and adaptive planning
Comparing IBM Enterprise Support and Preferred Care
Let's help you make the right choice
| IBM Support Site | IBM Enterprise Support | IBM Preferred Care | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web and Self-Help Support
Access to the IBM Support site |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cognitive Support
Next-generation support experience with IBM Watson |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Knowledge Base
Technical and support articles |
Yes* | Yes* | Yes |
| Community of Experts
Community engagements in discussion forums |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Preventive Support
Fixes and product updates |
- | Yes | Yes |
| Production Support
24/7 collaboration with support professionals |
- | Yes | Yes |
| Phone Support
Access to phone support |
- | Yes | Yes |
| Mission-critical Care
Expedited access to support professionals and engagement from experts |
- | - | Yes |
| Personalized Care
Designated advisors |
- | - | Yes |
| Business Care
Continual proactive and adaptive planning |
- | - | Yes |
Discover the support options that are available to you
Select a product area to find out which support offerings are available to you, and who to contact if you would like to learn more or to make a purchase:
Support for Developers
The IBM Developer site provides code samples and content for developers.
You can join the IBM Developer community to:
- Grow your skills and reputation
- Get help from peer developers
- Explore guided learning paths
If you need dedicated assistance from IBM developers and experts to help you code your applications or build solutions, check out our On Demand Consulting offerings for options.
If you are an IBM Business Partner looking to develop IBM solutions (or would like to become one), visit IBM Partnerworld . Learn more in the Support for Partners section below.
Additional resources:
Support for Business Partners
“We pay about $2,500 annually for the Value Package, and we were able to close a $500,000 deal because of it — that's a pretty amazing ROI from just one deal.”
Tom Hughes, Alliance Manager, Ciber (view case study)
Support for your solutions
Create solutions and reach new clients by joining our ecosystem of partners, experts and digital marketplaces at IBM Partnerworld – developed for any business that wants to partner with IBM. Our Business Partners come from companies small and large; from those that sell IBM to those that use it; from traditional resellers to new, born-on-the-cloud companies; from solutions architects to deployment experts. We make the partnership about you — first and always.
Support for your customers
For enterprise-class, post-sales technical support for your customers, see IBM Support as a Service . We will manage your remote technical support, field services and parts logistics so you can focus on product development and growth. Support as a Service uses IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence, which makes smart recommendations by understanding and analyzing large volumes of complex technical information, enabling extraction of fast and accurate insights to make quality, cost and client experience improvements.
With the IBM Value Package and the IBM Software Access Option, you have access to exclusive resources to help you reach new customers and meet new goals.
IBM Value Package
All IBM Business Partners are eligible to purchase support via the IBM Value Package , which includes:
- Unlimited pre-sales guidance from experts at IBM.
- Remote technical support during commercial solution development.
- Developer support for applications with select IBM Cloud, Systems or Software.
- Reimbursements for training and achieving credentials through You Pass, We Pay.
- Exclusive access to select SaaS services.
- IBM Software Access Catalog with over 16,000 downloadable solutions.
Software Access Option
If you simply want access to solutions without the support, then the Software Access Option is for you.
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