Tag: IBM

IBM’s watsonx is an artificial intelligence and data platform designed to scale and accelerate the impact of AI with trusted data. As a part of watsonx, IBM has launched watsonx.data, which enables customers to scale analytics and AI with a fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture. It provides querying, governance, and open data formats for easy data access and sharing. Customers can connect to their data within minutes, gain trusted insights quickly, and reduce data warehouse costs.

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, who are prominent leaders and passionate about sharing their AWS technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events.

Contact center agents operate under vast pressure to find quick customer service solutions—yet they often lack the tools to do so. The IBM Consulting Contact Center Modernization (CCM) solution with Amazon Connect is an intuitive, omnichannel cloud platform that addresses complex and costly issues faced by businesses. By leveraging speed and operational efficiency, and by delivering exceptional customer experiences, IBM Consulting CCM enables brands to jump-start their journey towards success.

To sustain innovation and drive business value, organizations are realizing the importance of decentralization of data products using a data mesh architectural design approach. Experts from AWS and IBM explain how to set the right balance of business ownership using data mesh to modernize data platform and accelerate innovation. We’ll also describe referenceable techniques to build data mesh solutions using AWS native services including Amazon DataZone, AWS Lake Formation, and AWS Glue.

We are excited to highlight 154 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in April for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These specializations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Virtual machines remain a crucial part of many IT environments due to the long-term and substantial investments made by companies. Experts from IBM Consulting and AWS share how running VMs on top of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on AWS offers several benefits, including integrated management, migration and modernization, and improving developer productivity. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is an enterprise-grade feature that makes it easy to deploy and manage VMs on OpenShift.

We’re excited to announce the AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency, which helps customers advance their time to results, optimize operations, seek new revenue streams, and/or generate sustainable business operations, while reducing their carbon footprint. Previously the AWS Industrial Software Competency, the expanded AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency includes new use case categories to further differentiate partners and help customers and sellers find the right solution for their business needs.

Today’s rapidly changing market conditions require organizations to scale IT operations swiftly and securely, while keeping costs under control. But setting up, running, and optimizing cloud infrastructure can be time-consuming and challenging. We’re excited to announce the AWS Cloud Operations Competency, to help customers adopt an integrated approach for cloud operations on AWS and beyond.

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, who are prominent leaders and passionate about sharing their AWS technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events.

IBM and Amazon are both signatories of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040—10 years ahead of The Paris Agreement. Learn how SaaS providers can optimize applications by implementing best practice recommendations from AWS, and review a few examples from IBM to optimize SaaS applications for sustainability and track the results via dashboard. Every action you take contributes to your organization’s broader sustainability goals.