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Many disruptive forces coming together at one time
Need to think digitally
Customers are redefining how they engage with us
We need to
demonstrate insight about them
personalize their experiences
truly collaborate and build strong relationships.
Changes in engagement forcing businesses to change
Business processes require speed, agility & insight from analytics.
Every business, large or small, needs to act digitally
At startup speed…Cloud enables this
Think like a startup
Act like a startup
Drive innovation.
Cloud enabling enterprises to fuel innovation
We envision a future helping customers continue their digital business transformation - with a focus on speed
“just-in-time” or real-time analytics are becoming a business cornerstone.
We are seeing disruptors leveraging some key digital transformations to reinvent business processes:
Front line decision making: New mobile apps are bringing data and decision making to the fingertips of people at the front lines of your organization who need to act, enabling your organization to become more nimble and provide better service
Moving decision making to the front line requires:
Connecting and securing services and data from different places including core systems of record
The ability to assemble them together as services outside the firewall, for mobile and web apps
Quickly identifying and resolving any performance bottlenecks that could occur.
Insight driven processes: Insight from non traditional data – social like twitter, internet of things, wearable devices, m2m is being used in real time business critical processes to create new business moments. More data, insight and capabilities are available in both employee and customer devices at the point of action, enabling faster, better decisions and action in the business moment
Delivering insight driven processes requires
the ability to integrate data sources from the internet of things, as well as systems of record and 3rd party data sets
analytics that have cloud speed and elasticity
Delivered at the right time, right place… informing and enabling business moments
Ecosystem based innovation: Other companies are effectively becoming digital innovators. They are focusing on creating their unique differentiation and sourcing from developer communities to help complete complex products and solutions. They are leveraging digital services from a broad ecosystem so they can focus on their core competences
Enabling ecosystem based innovation requires:
easy integration of data and services from any source
Agile DevOps capabilities that enable rapid experimentation
Coordinated lifecycle delivery
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Lets talk about some enterprise that have chosen to be disruptors
For instance the airline industry
Globally, over 100,000 planes take off every day – over 37 million flights last year
A plane alone has 360,000 parts.
Small margins - about $4 per passenger in 2012 – about the cost of a cup of large coffee
In the US alone flight delays cost over $8 billion in 2012
Making the right decision at the right time and place can make a huge difference.
A critical metric that airlines can control is Turnaround times – that’s how long it takes to turn an incoming flight into an outbound flight
For an Airbus A320, industry best practice is around 25 minutes.
But it’s not uncommon for turnaround time to take 45 minutes or more.
Every flight hour lost is about $10,000 of lost revenue.
Airlines are looking to adopt more efficient maintenance models
Airbus spoke on stage at InterConnect this year
saw this as an opportunity to transform the way they deliver value to their customers
moving beyond simply selling airplanes to offer new services that bring their expertise to their customers by bringing a wide variety of data and insight together to mobile devices in the hands of maintenance engineers to optimize the speed and efficiency of maintenance actions.
This requires dealing with a high number of diverse systems
some on premises
some in the cloud
some on planes in flight
some in the hands of maintenance engineers
It all has to come together so the people on the front lines can do their jobs more effectively.
They can bring all the pieces of the maintenance puzzle together:
The current location of the aircraft …
The maintenance history and real time maintenance status of the aircraft …
The availability of parts …
The location, availability and skills of the line mechanic … and more
By connecting and securing services and data from all these different sources, on the IBM Cloud, the three main players in aircraft maintenance
The mechanic
The maintenance supervisor
And Airbus
The right information gets to the right decision-makers at the point of action at the right time,
Accelerating troubleshooting
Shrinking Turnaround Time.
Keeping planes and people moving.
IBM Cloud and mobile bring it all together – the ability to bridge between the cloud and back office systems, mobile capabilities, analytics and security
DelHaize,
Parent company of Food Lion
Using nontraditional data, weather data in their inventory business process
To predict buying behaviors based on weather.
Just-in-time inventory based on answering open-ended business questions like weather that causes them to adjust their optimal goals continuously.
Citi spoke at Interconnect as well.
Fostering innovation through digital acceleration
Leverages the concept of outside-in innovation. Through it they want to:
Unleash the power of the tech community
Develop new solutions
Disrupt the way banks innovate
Recognized the missed opportunities that would exist if they relied solely on Citi and were unable to engage the full tech community.
Using 3rd party development communities to help drive innovation.
Businesses today are using the cloud as a way to transform through disruptive innovation. In his keynote from InterConnect 2015, "Digital Transformations: Working in a Hybrid Cloud," Jerry Cuomo talks about Citigroup's digital transformation through JoinPay, a simple app that drives demand to Citi services through a hybrid cloud.https://www.ibm.com/cloud/resourcecenter/content/24
IBM itself is another good example of company who needed to reinvent itself, couple of times already...
Around 1960 IBM introduced early Mainframes which replaced computers based on vacuum tubes
In 1981 IBM introduced IBM PC to the market, hiring Microsoft to develop it’s OS called DOS
In 1993 IBM is loosing 8 billion $ as result of missread of personal computers revolution
In 1994 IBM has new business course, one that focuses less on its traditional strengths in hardware, and more on services, software, and its ability to craft technology solutions
In 1997 IBM creates term eBusiness and defines new industry by using Internet as medium for doing Business
Source
http://www.pcworld.com/article/230435/100_years_of_ibm_milestones.html
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How you will personally respond to the new digital era?
The first step is to recognize where you need to head
If you look at these digital transformations it’s clear that digital businesses today use and connect data and services from many different sources. Some you will own. Some you will simply connect to. Some will be on-premises and some will not.
One large category of apps and services that are being driving through cloud are mobile apps and other means of engagement.
The bottom line is no one environment will contain everything you will need and use.
The reality is that digital transformations will require hybrid cloud.
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Hybrid cloud is defined as the connection of one or more clouds to traditional systems and/or connection of one or more clouds to other clouds
So some or all of environments you will use will be cloud
When we talk about cloud there are three fundamental elements:
Cloud Business Apps – these are the software-as-a-service offerings that allow you to rapidly address front and back office needs.
Digital Innovation Platform – this is the platform for building, running, and managing cloud and mobile apps
World Class Cloud Infrastructure – this is the private and public cloud infrastructures that you will use
There are characteristics to these elements that are important for digital transformations.
But to make these work effectively in a hybrid cloud environment there are some important challenges that must be overcome
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IT Leaders need Ninja like speed and skill to embrace the flexibility of universal hybrid clouds and meet shrinking time-to-value needs of the business. 61% of leading companies are achieving their objective of increased workforce efficiency through cloud (IBM Business Technology Trends 2014)
Developers are now empowered to focus on cloud and working to create new apps faster. By the end of 2015, 75% of large organizations are expected to have adopted agile devOps practices, (IDC) and 25% of cloud developers indicated development of cloud apps from within a hybrid environment.
Business leaders use the power of technology to experiment and innovate. 68% of leading companies are achieving their objective of improved customer experience through cloud (IBM Business Technology Trends)
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Start with a World Class Infrastructure
IBM’s cloud infrastructure is currently in more than 140 different countries.
In 2014, we added 10 data centers to SoftLayer's global network in places like Hong Kong, Paris and Mexico Cit.
SL continues their global expansion in 2015, with new datacenters we are announcing we will add in Montreal and Sydney
Through SoftLayer’s cloud infrastructure, IBM has uniquely brought you visibility and control of your data and apps with our cloud infrastructure SoftLayer.
Private Networks, dedicated server, ability to deploy on bare metal means fast performance and increased security.
For example, the Mexico City facility provides 10Gbps connections to SoftLayer services, less than 25 milliseconds of latency from IBM’s Dallas cloud center, and less than 210 milliseconds of latency from IBM’s growing network of SoftLayer cloud centers around the world.
IBM’s cloud infrastructure helps increase IT and Developer productivity
Open Stack services allow you to use open standards based apis to quickly provision infrastructure to test and deploy.
Also newly announced IBM Power Systems on the cloud allow for easy capacity expansion to SoftLayer
Ginni recently announced, IBM will invest more than $1 billion in software defined storage over the next five years to help clients transform their IT infrastructure by evolving their storage to enterprise-grade, open and scalable hybrid cloud environments.
Added security with Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) and new Auto Scale capabilities
Two new data centers built to meet FedRAMP and FISMA requirements
Bare metal servers deployed in minutes and billed by the hour - enabling a new consumptive business model for rapid delivery of computing intensive workloads
Hybrid Infrastructure enabled by delivering consistent Openstack experience across consumption models (local, dedicated and public)
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IBM Bluemix is an open-standards cloud platform for building, running, and managing applications. With Bluemix, developers can focus on building excellent user experiences with flexible compute options, choice of DevOps tooling, and a powerful set of IBM and third-party APIs and services.
Bluemix provides mobile and web developers access to IBM and third-party software for integration, security, transaction, and other key functions. The goal is to simplify the delivery of an application by providing services that are ready for immediate use and hosting capabilities to enable internal scale development.
Bluemix also has cloud deployments that fit your needs. Whether you are a small business that plans to scale, or a large enterprise that requires additional isolation, you can develop in a cloud without borders, connecting your dedicated services to the public Bluemix services available from IBM and third-party providers.
With the broad set of services and runtimes in Bluemix, the developer gains control and flexibility, and has access to various data options, from predictive analytics to big data.
Bluemix provides the following features:
A range of services that enable you to build and extend web and mobile apps fast.
Processing power for you to deliver app changes continuously.
Fit-for-purpose programming models and services.
Manageability of services and applications.
Optimized and elastic workloads.
Continuous availability.
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Cloud brings a new level of agility to business innovation – our research shoes that leading organizations are using ready-built SaaS applications not only to run their business but to change it and evolve it.
SaaS delivers deep domain expertise, powerful analytics and flexible collaboration tools in every solution, as part of the application design.
As part of the over 400 IBM and partner solutions on IBM Cloud marketplace, IBM has a large portfolio of more than 100 SaaS solutions for front and back office needs along with customized solutions from GBS (the 20 Cloud Business Solutions).
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We’ve already pointed out that business leaders are innovating. One way they’re doing this is by leveraging SaaS. Knowing what business problem needs to be solved, SaaS empowers a business person to find an application which supports the LOB to be up and running quickly and delivering value and innovation without the drudgery of buying and deploying servers, architecting applications, etc. Business can focus on business.
This is perhaps an oversimplification, but it’s illustrative of SaaS. You own a computer at home. You want to have an email account. Your ISP doesn’t provide one. Are you, the casual user, going to learn about IMAP, POP, SMTP and how to setup an email server? Or would you rather sign up for Verse, Gmail or Hotmail and just have the ability to communicate with others in seconds? Businesses have similar decisions to make with the outcomes having further reaching consequences.
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According to an Evans Data survey, the top two reasons to move to cloud are lower cost and flexibility of technology. *
The challenges we hear from customers as they try to ensure successful hybrid cloud implementations are:
That Business processes and transactions now cross multiple environments
creating new risk for security, visibility and control at each touch point.
and maximizing flexibility
to use not only my own data, apps and services,
but also those from anywhere I want
and be confident I’ll have that flexibility into the future?
In this hybrid environment,
how do I give my apps and developers fast and secure access
to only the data they need
to improve my business processes?
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Determine the organization goals, platform requirements & complexity associated
Develop enterprise cloud strategy, options available and roadmap
Envision the cloud architecture that will support cloud initiatives
Update IT Strategy and IT plans to align them with cloud strategy
2.
Define business drivers to prioritize use cases for cloud
Implement a CloudFirst strategy to evaluate right blend of cloud options for new projects
Assess and evaluate from the current applications, the best candidates for cloud
Determine the applications to be moved to cloud
3.
Define multi-sourcing models and cloud vendor selection criteria
Assess and determine how to best leverage the options of private, public and hybrid delivery models
Develop Cloud Service Catalog, SLAs and KPIs
4.
Conduct risk assessment, identify risks and mitigation measures
Develop cloud cost models including transition
Finalize a cloud business case and examine its ROI including time required for initial payback
5.
Prepare infrastructure for cloud
Develop
Cloud Risk Management plan and policies
Security and Compliance plan and processes
Transition plan including workforce transition
Assess impact on operating model; identify and plan changes required
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APPLICATION AND DELIVERY PLATFORMS
Driving agility and productivity for the enterprise;
tested strategies to improve life cycle performance
INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORMS
Delivering consumable, secure and readily available resources to enable agile execution
DATA PLATFORMS
Instantiating well-integrated business intelligence to manage the enterprise
BUSINESS MODELS ENABLED BY CLOUD
Promoting highly competitive initiatives at the enterprise and Industry level
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Enterprise Cloud Adoption
Cloud First
The Opengroup defines the term “workload” as the type and characteristics of application(s) that can be hosted on the Cloud
Challenges to address:
Now that I am ready for cloud, what workloads fit my target cloud?
What is the real cost-benefit of moving workloads to the cloud?
Prioritization helps determine cloudable applications
Workload migration categories
Ready for Cloud – Wave 1
May be ready for Cloud – Wave 2
Not ready for cloud – Wave 3
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Private Cloud
Software, hardware and platforms are hosted in a data center owned by a organization and used by different departments / units inside of the organization
Off-premises Cloud (Public)
Software, hardware and platforms are hosted externally by a third party vendor who manages all aspects of the services for the organization
Rais analogy to Bank
Hybrid Cloud
Software, hardware and platforms are hosted both in third party data centers, as well as inside of a organization
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An operating model is a framework for formulating an operations strategy that best deploys and determine the explicit choices needed to achieve business goals
Market shifts in the digital economy necessitate most industries to adopt new technologies like cloud, mobile, social media and analytics
To succeed with cloud, organizations have to assess the impact of cloud on the operating model and determine what actions are required to make cloud adoption smoother and more successful