IBM Cloud Business Partners

Overview

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IBM Business Partners of all types can leverage cloud technology, training, development resources, and people to help clients make the right workload placement decisions and derive sustained benefits—based on security, compliance, reliance, performance, and cost.

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Up your game with Cloud Masterclass for partners

Empower your clients to faster innovation with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

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Growing cloud consumption with Desktop as a Service (DaaS)

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Wazi as a service: z/OS Development and Test in IBM Cloud

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New capabilities to modernize Power workload without re-platforming

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IBM Cloud Satellite: Public cloud services, anywhere you need them

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IBM Cloud Cyber Recovery Veeam

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Accelerate SAP ERP modernization with IBM Cloud for SAP

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Leverage the Growth of Unstructured Data with IBM Cloud Object Storage

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Speed time to insight with IBM Cloud HPC

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Why IBM Cloud for your client

Platform for the enterprise

IBM Cloud® provides for your enterprise growth—with confidential computing, quantum computing, ISV certifications (for example, SAP), industry compliance, AI, IoT, cloud native and more.

Control and security

IBM Cloud has the security needed for your enterprise—from keep-your-own-key (KYOK) encryption with FIPS 140-2 Level 4 to IBM Security and Compliance Center for proactively scanning your systems and everything in between.

Benefits of working with IBM: Your business. Your clients. Our priority.

Becoming an IBM Business Partner for cloud solutions opens a world of opportunities that can jump-start and enhance your business—helping you and your clients succeed.

IBM Cloud® credits

Earn IBM Cloud credits for trials with your employees or your clients.

Special discount rates for clients

Use special discount rates to create end-to-end solutions for resell to your clients.

Market development funds

Secure market development funds (MDF) to use for go-to-market activities.

Joint account planning

Gain access to joint account planning sessions for new IBM Cloud opportunities.

Training support and certification discounts

Build from your team’s current experience and access training-certification discounts for your employees.

Roadmap and strategic discussions

Get access to roadmap previews and strategic discussions of new products and features.

Tailored support options

Enjoy advantageous support options for your clients, which dovetail with customer engagement agreements (SLA/OLA).

Professional services credits

Collaborate with the IBM Garage™ and IBM Cloud services lab for your clients' proofs of concept (POC) and evaluations.

Documentation and guidance

Receive access to detailed documentation and guidance for all IBM Cloud services.

Become a successful partner

A partnership that grows with you. IBM Partner Plus focuses on expertise, scale and impactful benefits to simplify how we work together. A clear line of sight into what you earn is your roadmap to expanding your business. Join IBM Partner Plus.

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Financial services partners

Let’s build security-rich cloud solutions for the financial services industry. Expand access to financial institutions, address institutions’ most critical concerns about cloud deployments and accelerate your time to revenue.

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Expand your reach

Get started selling your products on the world-renowned IBM Cloud catalog.

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IBM Partner stories

IBM Cloud: Base Media Cloud case study

BASE Media Cloud uses IBM Cloud technology to help steer clients on new and enabling journeys in the media industry.

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SAP on IBM Cloud

Fulcrum’s transformational digital business platform for global law firms enables operational excellence.

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Dizzion + IBM: Adapt. Grow. Transcend.

Dizzion’s Robert Green outlines how an IBM Embedded Solutions Agreement (ESA) helps his organization appeal to clients.

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Key offerings

IBM Cloud for Financial Services™

See why IBM Cloud for Financial Services is the choice for more than 100 Business Partners, including Bank of America and BNP Paribas.¹

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IBM Cloud Satellite™

Achieve a 90% reduction in latency for time-critical models using IBM Cloud Pak® for Data as a Service with IBM Cloud Satellite.²

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SAP on IBM Cloud®

Get 20% savings in manufacturer’s infrastructure costs, plus a reduction in migration time from 24 months to less than 12 months.²

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IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions

Realize up to USD 1.3 million in savings when migrating to IBM Cloud; gain up to a 40% productivity lift for developers with Red Hat OpenShift.²

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IBM® Power® Systems Virtual Server on IBM Cloud

Reduce your operating costs by 20% while scoring a 30% improvement in app-response times.²

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Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Cloud

Check the stats: 1,000 clients; 21,000 Kubernetes clusters in production; 10x release frequency; and 44% less hardware costs.²

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IBM Center for Cloud Training

Your go-to for role-based and specialty IBM Cloud training and certifications

No-charge technical and nontechnical training is available for those who are new to cloud or new to IBM Cloud.

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Introducing IBM Cloud for VMware as a Service (VMwaas)

TDC Digital leverages IBM Cloud for transparent billing and improved customer satisfaction

Change3 builds and scales its world-changing suite of marketing technologies

Grow your business with IBM Cloud

Jump-start your business plan to start building and deploying on IBM Cloud.