IBM® and Microsoft—the 2 largest world IT firms—are working collectively.
Whereas many might even see IBM and Microsoft as opponents, we’re significantly better companions bringing the most effective of each firms collectively to speed up influence and affect at scale. We offer present and new purchasers the distinctive alternative to reap the benefits of the mixed worth from our expertise, cloud, and consulting providers alongside our ecosystem of companions to satisfy ever-evolving enterprise wants.
We’ve got a confirmed monitor report of delivering significant innovation and business firsts by means of the mix of our aligned expertise portfolios and consulting providers. We boast a sturdy accomplice community of hybrid multicloud, AI and safety professionals and groups which might be vertical good and multicloud adept.
Firms can have interaction one in every of IBM and Microsoft’s distinguished roster of high worldwide world techniques integrator (GSI) companions, akin to IBM Consulting™. With IBM Consulting and expertise, Microsoft Cloud, and Azure Purple Hat® OpenShift® (ARO), firms can simplify utility modernization and pace cloud adoption with flexibility and safety. In consequence, firms can break down silos and open closed techniques to extend operational effectivity and drive actual enterprise transformation.
Offering joint options
For IBM and Microsoft, it’s not only a platform dialogue. It’s about offering joint options firms search to enhance prices, productiveness and resilience by accelerating their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. Why? As a result of we all know a hybrid cloud method brings a median of 2.5 times higher ROI versus public cloud alone. And trailblazers investing in AI are seeing a income uplift of three to fifteen % and a gross sales ROI uplift of 10 to twenty %.
By means of our devoted IBM Consulting Microsoft practice we now have co-funded and co-developed key options with Microsoft and have invested in coaching our consultants on Microsoft Cloud whereas increasing our bench of consultants and capabilities by means of acquisitions like Neudesic. We’re the #1 Red Hat GSI specialised in ARO. This dedication has helped us turn out to be acknowledged in 13 classes for this yr’s Microsoft’s Partner of the Year Awards, together with Microsoft’s U.S. Partner of the Year Winner for GSI Growth Champion.
Leveraging our deep expertise in managing large SAP environments, we’re working tightly collectively on quite a few modernization initiatives just like the one led for worldwide oil and fuel firm OMV Aktiengesellschaft to drive digital transformation.
Many firms nonetheless see unbelievable worth of their on-premise expertise: 71% of executives say mainframe-based functions are central to their enterprise technique. That is why our expertise groups co-developed key patterns to speed up mainframe application modernization, enabling firms to leverage each IBM Z and Microsoft Cloud capabilities to shortly develop and lengthen the place greatest to satisfy enterprise wants.
We’re additionally working collectively to drive extra sustainable, resilient operations by means of IBM Maximo Application Suite the top-rated clever enterprise asset administration software program mixed with Microsoft Azure, now certified for Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing. This energy duo has helped remodel how purchasers like Sund & Baelt method enterprise outcomes and drive accelerated deployment, minimized prices, and ensured compliance.
By means of our notable expertise efforts, IBM has been designated as an official Microsoft independent software vendor (ISV) partner. This designation distinguishes the accomplice answer’s interoperability, particular capabilities, business market transactability, and demonstrated monitor report of buyer success. This helps purchasers higher determine confirmed software program options which might be best-suited for his or her enterprise wants and gives IBM enhanced advantages from Microsoft to higher ship for our purchasers.
Energy of the Microsoft Azure Market
Digital marketplaces are disrupting the best way purchasers purchase software program. Forrester projects a shift of $2 trillion away from conventional direct gross sales to digital marketplaces.
We’re seeing this with our purchasers who’re asking to deploy extra IBM software program on the Microsoft Azure Market. With 4 million active visitors each month throughout 140+ geographies and ranked as one of the vital favored cloud service suppliers, the Azure Market is essential for the IBM and Microsoft partnership and our ecosystem companions.
To that finish, IBM has deployed over 35 software offerings on the Azure Marketplace, together with the next SaaS merchandise on Azure: IBM® Netezza® Performance Server, IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management, IBM Aspera® on Cloud and SingleStoreDB as a Service with IBM. We plan to ship extra choices on the Market, along with the lately launched IBM watsonx. With a strategic roadmap to be out there on Azure, watsonx permits companies to harness the ability of foundational fashions and generative AI by means of an distinctive SaaS expertise.[1] Extra choices imply extra worth for our purchasers, serving to them expend their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments (MACC). And in help, Microsoft acknowledges Market purchases as Azure Consumption Income (ACR) for our wider accomplice ecosystem.
Trying forward
Underlying the energy of the rising IBM and Microsoft partnership is nice alignment and a shared dedication to ongoing co-development, co-investments, and co-delivery for our joint purchasers. This implies increasing our devoted crew and portfolio of choices, and increasing and constructing our total ecosystem of companions which might be essential to our joint purchasers’ development and success. We’re actively working with Microsoft engineering groups to discover areas of integrations and complementary choices in hybrid cloud and AI and are excited for the important thing launches and bulletins within the yr forward.
Learn more about the IBM and Microsoft partnership
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[1] This assertion is predicated on IBM’s present product plans and technique and will change at any time at IBM’s sole discretion primarily based on market alternatives or different components. It isn’t a dedication by IBM to future product or function availability.