Uptime isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. With recent IDC research demonstrating the average cost of a critical application failure at between $500K and $1M, the need to keep downtime at bay is clear. Unfortunately, the average number of deployments is expected to double over the next two years putting additional pressure on keeping application running.

This Battlecard looks at how DevOps-led project not only accelerate delivery and deployment, but also can have a positive, serious impact on application quality and uptime. It demonstrates how IBM DevOps tools enhance security and compliance, and what businesses should do today to eliminate downtime as part of a continuous application delivery process.

In our “There’s an app for that” economy, the need to develop and deploy new code rapidly can be a real competitive differentiator. As businesses adopt agile and DevOps strategies, what can they do to accelerate the speed of deploying new apps?

This Battlecard provides buyers with the information on how IBM UrbanCode helps speed deployment of applications in DevOps environments and thus drives deployment costs down. Organizations have seen development cycle increases ranging from 15% to 75%, delivering increased productivity, time-to-market savings and reduction in the risk of failed deployments thanks to standardization, increased transparency into the release process. 

In today’s increasingly mobile environments, business users require new apps – or new features for existing apps – at an accelerated pace. Not only are there more projects, users demand new code is up and running faster than ever.

This Battlecard presents the key information about the ways IBM BlueMix enables enterprises of all sizes to accelerate the development process by eliminating overhead previously required to spin up development environments. The resulting faster time to value delivers real bottom-line benefits.

Technology Adoption Analyst whitepaper by Forrester. This IBM-commissioned profile of IT operations decision-makers at enterprise companies in the US, UK and Germany evaluates IT operations analytics adoption, benefits, and challenges based on Forrester’s own market data and a custom study of the same audience.

IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by migrating from open source Java EE application servers to WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of a WAS Liberty migration on their organizations.

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The pace of business is accelerating. Mobile and social trends have influenced client engagement models, driving customers to expect new and better application services delivered faster. IBM cloud technology is helping businesses respond to these drivers by changing the status quo, enabling business leaders to fast-track innovation and advance key priorities.

To achieve these results, organizations need to rapidly exploit cloud capabilities across a hybrid environment that includes both on-premises and off-premises options. The IBM PureApplication solution portfolio helps deliver these capabilities quickly and easily.

From the information provided in the interviews, Forrester has constructed a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) framework for those organizations considering deploying IBM PureApplication System. The objective of the framework is to identify the cost, benefit, flexibility, and risk factors that affect the investment decision.

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Today’s leading enterprises are undergoing a digital transformation. They are diving into the API economy, in which businesses provide services—and the services of partners—when and where customers want them. They are connecting existing enterprise applications, data and services to new channels of personalized customer engagement. These transformations are driven by:

• Consumers’ thirst for compelling, omni-channel brand experiences
• Enterprise leaders’ desire to connect internal groups of developers across lines of businesses to increase reuse of digital assets and accelerate time to innovation
• Incumbent businesses’ need to compete against new entrants that are offering enhanced experiences—in today’s markets, if you’re not disrupting, you’re being disrupted

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In this IBM limited-edition Dummies book, you’ll learn what operational decision management (ODM) is and how it can benefit your organization by helping to:

• Enable faster and more agile change so your business can react more quickly to opportunities and threats
• Automatically capture knowledge so it can be reused to make better business decisions
• Manage compliance better by providing a clear record of the rules that govern business operations
• Make operational decisions more predictable and repeatable while also allowing you to model, measure, collaborate on and refine these decisions as your business needs change
• Improve customer service with more consistent and accurate rules-based decisions, as well as by personalizing the user experience

Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, shows you what BPM is and how it can help your organization. You see how the BPM solutions from IBM help you gain many benefits from higher customer satisfaction to greater agility in adapting to changing market conditions.

This IBM limited edition e-book helps you learn the basics of application programming interfaces (APIs), including:

• What an API is—and what it’s not
• What it means to manage an API
• How to recognize good API design
• The primary business and IT agendas that lead to API adoption
• How APIs fit into integration middleware