IBM PoV: #6 Build for Cloud
Co-create next generation digital capabilities with clients, to help transform their application portfolio and reimagine businesses using Cloud, Data and AI
Industry Setting and Problem
1. Blurring industry lines, new entrants and disruptors are forcing clients to re-imagine business
models by integrating composable “born in the cloud” best of breed industry solutions,
processes and API ecosystems
2. Drive agility and cost effectiveness in application transformation using cloud to help clients enter new
markets, introduce new channels, and stay competitive by responding to evolving business needs
3. Accelerate adoption of newer technologies (AI, BlockChain, IOT) by consuming cloud platform
services and architectures
4. Enable actionable insights for business agility and decisions by combining proprietary client data
and external data sources (social / unstructured and structured etc.) using cloud centric big data platforms
5. Facilitate multi-speed enterprise transformation of the IT portfolio by optimizing, enriching and
modernizing existing applications, supporting the build of new cloud native digital capabilities, and securely
integrating the the old and the new
6. Assist clients in designing and developing cloud applications that are open, portable, secure,
compliant and resilient regardless of cloud platform and technology choices
7. Create agile cloud enterprises by transforming clients culturally relative to software development and
olutions Insights | Audience Roles and Objectives
operations
CxO, Line of Business Executives, Directors (Development / Delivery / Operations)
1.Continuously modernize IT portfolio using Cloud technologies
2.Shifting from reactive to proactive to prescriptive DevSecOps based on cloud native approach, achieve
standardization and repeatability using industry best practices
3.Leveraging Multicloud components and services (for e.g. containers, functions, platform, database)
4.Exposing internal functions as “services” , API economy for an ecosystem play
5.Modernize workforce, shift culture and operating models to continue supporting applications for cost and
speed optimization
6.Leverage Open Source technologies and platforms like OpenShift for further cost optimization and
innovation
hortcomings of Current Approaches & Learnings
1. Proliferation of multiple “similar” offerings, and methodologies for cloud not applied/used consistently
resulting in non-standard solutions & delivery excellence issues
2. IBM Services “Seams” visible to customers & collective capability is not always leveraged well
3. Solutions with multiple building blocks (IoT, Data Insights/Analytics etc.) suboptimal and require longer
turn-around time due to x-BU/ Service line silos with redundant staffing, multiple layers of governance and
higher costs
4. Multicloud aspects (e.g. deployment) across multiple form factors (VM, Containers, functions), “as a
service models” not mature and available as standard offerings
5. Limited focus and expertise relative to external cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP etc.)
6. Integrated Service Management & DevSecOps often applied as an “after thought”
7. Limited capabilities for Open source solutions and CaaS/PaaS models like RedHat
Preliminary -- for Internal Use Only
The New Approach
• Single offering to provide unified solution & delivery for multiple solution building blocks including API,
Microservices, IoT , Analytics & Hybrid Cloud Integration ; consistent usage of IBM Garage method for Cloud
• Multi pronged approach for continuous and incremental transformation
• Solutioning & Delivery guidance for hybrid, Multicloud environments, including RedHat enabled open-source
technologies & platforms
• Multicloud Platform Engineering to support diverse form-factors including VM, containers, functions as well
as XaaS models (e.g. Platform, Database, integration)
• DevSecOps & Integrated Operations Management “baked-in” during solutioning as well as delivery
• Standard/ common tool foundation complemented with cloud platform specific tools for complete
“DevSecOps"
• Assets with upfront definition of tangible value in terms of productivity, quality and cost
• Solutioning Guidance co-created with X-BU and Service lines with optimizations, ensuring ease of
consumption and delivery
• Upfront definition of Delivery Ownership and accountability across X-BU / Service lines to provide a seamless
delivery experience for IBM and customer teams
• IBM differentiators
• Unified, industry leading end to end method for full lifecycle transformation with embedded IBM
Design Thinking and Garage method, engineering practices, cloud security framework and tools
• Cloud Security Foundation with DevSecOps
• Toolkit and assets such as IBM DevOps Commander and DataOps toolchain templates
• XX# Certified cloud practitioners in Multicloud discipline.
• Built-in support for Open-source based cloud-native applications & increased portability through
containers, kubernetes & platforms like RedHat Openshift
• Combination of existing domain skills combined with industry best practices
Benefits and Proof Points
 Improved time for solutioning & well-defined RACI between X-BU / Service lines bringing in increased
accountability & optimal solutions
 Improved quality of solutions due to crisper guidance . Enhanced delivery quality due to method guidance,
improved governance & control through tools / automation
 Improved time to market, increase in customer loyalty & base due to context-sensitive, insight enabled
user experience
 Reduce cost of IT by 20% by establishing repeatability, standardization and a centralized ownership across
the hybrid Multicloud landscape
 Enhance development staff productivity by 20%
 Improved Portability across hybrid, Multicloud landscape for e.g. through industry grade frameworks like
kubernetes & container based PaaS like RedHat Openshift
 Newer Revenue channels due to unlocked value from legacy applications
Customer examples: American Airlines, Metlife, ATT, Barclays, SBI are all examples where customers have
successful implemented enterprise wide transformation
Critical Success Factors
 Strategic Alignment to Enterprise Transformation and Business Objectives
 Engagement and Commitment from key stakeholders and influencers
 Industry specific & foundational, Multicloud ready assets that can be “composed” quickly for demonstrated
outcome aligned with IBM PoV
 Reference Architecture for Application & Platforms as foundation for multiple solution patterns