Midsized businesses need to constantly address infrastructure challenges. The need to reduce IT costs and complexity, service disruptions, escalating licensing fees, end-of-life technology are among the factors that can drive the need for a systems or storage migration. IBM can help.
The IBM Systems Migration Assurance Package for Midsized Businesses is a suite of free system migration assessment tools, highly experienced migration experts, and comprehensive financing options to help you set a clear path towards an improved IT environment. These tools help you understand the business benefits, analyze the business risks, understand the financial benefits and select a proven roadmap to migrate to a platform that’s just right for your business.
IBM and our IBM Business Partners will be with you throughout the system migration process—from the initial decision to the business case to the implementation plan. IBM and our IBM Business Partners have more than 300 migration experts worldwide and 25 years of hands-on experience in almost every industry.
Small and medium businesses are the engines of a smarter planet. In today's economy, companies look to gain competitive advantage with technology that helps drive efficiency, collaboration, and speed to market. IBM can help you with financing options that enable those investments now, so you can compete and succeed on a smarter planet.
Identify ways to reduce cost and achieve fast ROI
Understanding where you are now is the first step. Here are some resources to help you evaluate your current IT situation and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and cut costs. Build a sound case for migration.
Tools
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IBM Systems Consolidation Evaluation Tool
Based on your current IT environment, calculates the TCO and ROI of different IBM systems solutions and gives you in-depth insight into your business and IT risks so you can make informed business decisions.
- GTS Maintenance Assessment
Address the shortfalls in your hardware, software and managed support areas, before you have a problem. A five minute, online self-assessment provides a personalized graph shows your potential areas of exposure.
- IBM Security assessment for midsized companies
This easy-to-use online assessment tool can help you to identify the IT security strategies, capabilities, and technologies used by companies with Best-in-Class performance.
- IBM Blade Assessment tool
Use this tool to find out if blades or rack servers are right for you. IBM BladeCenter is optimized for virtualization and consolidation and can be a great approach to maximize your server capability. Compare your approaches to common IT security challenges to industry best practices and receive best practice recommendations that you can put to immediate use.
- Aberdeen ROI Tool
This easy-to-use online assessment and ROI tool can help you compare your company's Green IT position with the Green IT and environmental strategies, capabilities, and technologies used by companies with best-in-class performance. Compare your company's approach to common Green IT challenges with industry best practices and receive ROI estimates based on your company's performance if you upgrade to a best in class approach.
Offers
- IBM Project Financing
Migration project financing from IBM Global Financing helps you preserve cash and get faster payback and better ROI by reducing up-front costs and structuring payments to more closely match anticipated benefits.
Know what to expect along the way
IBM helps you analyze alternatives for your unique IT infrastructure to understand the roadmap and benefits of a system migration. IBM Server Makeovers can typically reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) by between 20 percent and 60 percent.
Services
- IBM Migration Factory
IBM Migration Factory experts can help you develop a migration roadmap, estimate the migration effort, and develop a customized business case for the migration.
- IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for SAP
IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for SAP Environments is the first step in beginning to understand how to address key issues and optimize your IT infrastructure and SAP environment.
- IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for Oracle
The IBM Systems Makeover Analysis for Oracle captures the dynamics of your Oracle environment based on the answers you provide and produces a detailed report with recommended migration paths and what the transformation process will take both in time and costs.
Count on the experience of seasoned experts
IBM’s assembled a team of over 300 migration experts who work with a process meticulously refined over 25 years. IBM helps ensure your success whether it’s an infrastructure migra¬tion, database migration, independent software vendor (ISV) package, custom application or a combination.
Finance your migration to stay the course
We provide your business with payment options to make it easier to afford a migration and finance the process from start to finish. See how financing from IBM can help your company free up funds and get faster payback from your migration project.
Technology for the long term
IBM has a rich history of systems innovation. Our systems roadmap commitments give you the confidence to choose the platform, or a mix of systems, that makes the most sense for your workloads. Also, IBM can help you dispose of your assets in an environmentally friendly way.
Offers
- IBM Power Rewards Program
IBM Power Rewards can help you access that experience and reduce the risk as you migrate to the industry's leading UNIX + Linux platform.
- IBM Storage No Charge Removal program
With over 1,500 clients migrated from competitive systems to Power Systems, IBM's experience reduces the risk as you migrate to the industry's leading UNIX + Linux platform.
Services
- IBM Migration Factory
IBM Migration Factory experts can help you develop a migration roadmap, estimate the migration effort, and develop a customized business case for the migration.
- IBM Global Asset Recovery: IT Disposal Services
When you need to dispose of old IT equipment, you're looking for simplicity, security and value. IBM Asset Recovery Solutions can help.
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Migration Case studies
Thousands of companies have migrated from compeittive platforms to IBM