• IMOD solves the challenge of deploying and managing complex applications and workloads in the clouds
• IMOD is specifically built to handle the unique challenges associated with cloud-based application and workload management, using patent pending technologies that have more than 50 man years of development effort to-date
• IMOD provides the ability to easily, securely, and efficiently run applications in the clouds with a single click.
• Kaavo is the first and only company to deliver a solution with a top-down, application-focused approach to IT infrastructure management across public, private, and hybrid clouds
• Automation implements standardized best practice policies as known responses to events
• Allows customers to standardize disaster recovery procedures within the system architecture, as opposed to an afterthought
• As a result, customers realize the full potential of cloud computing and optimize their investments
• Customers can deploy IMOD on-premise within their private cloud environment, or can leverage the SaaS version

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• Functional details

  • Customers can lower the deployment cost, risk, and time of applications and services in the cloud
  • Customers can significantly improve service levels for managing cloud-based applications and reduce product support costs
  • Using Kaavo’s life cycle management solution (IMOD), customers can maximize their use of the cloud easily, securely, and with a repeatable process –Easily configure, deploy, run, and manage applications securely in the cloud–Run-time auto-pilot capability automates responses to known events and ensures applications are always available–Track utilization and meter the cost of cloud-based applications and services

• Business problem

  • Deploy complex applications and workloads quickly in the cloud  using an easy, repeatable and secure process
  • Manage the cloud-based resources of applications and workloads, from the end-user’s point of view, through a unified interface
  • Leverage the cloud to increase application availability
  • Map accounting to cloud resource utilization by each application or business service

• Business opportunity

  • Using Kaavo will eliminate some of the adoption barriers to cloud.
  • IBM, IBM partners, and ISVs can deliver vertical solutions on top of the IBM cloud using Kaavo's technology.

• Return on investment

  Without Kaavo, the customer will not optimize the financial or performance benefits of the cloud.  Kaavo provides the only solution that provides the following benefits for cloud-based applications:

  • Up to 30% reduction in administration costs
  • Up to 40% reduction in production support efforts
  • Up to 30% reduction in time-to-market
  • Up to 20% improvement in service levels

• Competitive advantage

  Kaavo is the only vendor that takes a top-down, application-centric approach for the deployment and management of the entire business service (network, storage, servers, middleware, application code)

  Kaavo allows customers to standardize service definition and deployment across clouds, enabling “cloud balancing”

  Facilitates migration to the IBM® Smart Business Cloud

  Kaavo allows customers to automate any event response with behind-the-scenes complex actions, including: system events, customer demand, and accounting

  Unlike other vendors who pitch their datacenter automation tools as lifecycle management solutions for the cloud,  Kaavo represents an enterprise solution for specifically managing cloud-based applications

  Application deployment and management with other cloud vendors is complex, and as of today they do not have live API integration with the IBM Smart Business Cloud

• Industries

  Aerospace & Defense Industry
     Aerospace
     Defense
     Ship Building
  Automotive Industry
     Automotive OEMs (Manuf of Cars, Light Trucks, Motorbikes)
     Automotive Suppliers
     Distributors, Importers, Retailers
     Heavy Equipment
  Banking Industry
     Banking - Other
     Banking - Global Customer Management
  Chemicals & Petroleum Industry
     Chemicals & Life Sciences
     Petroleum
  Computer Services Industry
     Business Recovery Services
     Computer Leasing and Rental
     Computer Maintenance & Services
     DP Education
     Outsourcing
     Prepackaged Software
     System Integration
  Consumer Products Industry
     CP - Beverages & Tobacco
     CP - Food Manufacturing
     CP - General Processing
     CP - Household / Health & Beauty
  Education Industry
     Basic/Secondary Education
     Higher Education
  Electronics Industry
     Electronics
     Technology Systems and Microelectronics
  Energy & Utilities Industry
     Combo Electric/Gas
     Electric
     Electric and Gas Energy Services Traders
     Gas
     Waste
     Water
  Financial Markets Industry
     Financial Markets - Global Customer Management
     Financial Markets - Other
  Government Central/Federal industry
     Defense and National Security
     Environ., Transp. & Pub. Works
     Finance and Administration
     Postal
     Public Safety and Justice
     Scientific
     Social Services
  Government, State/Provincial/Local Industry
     Env/Trans/PubWrks, City/Mun.
     Env/Trans/PubWrks, County/Shire
     Env/Trans/PubWrks, Spec. Dist.
     Env/Trans/PubWrks, State/Prov.
     Fin. & Admin, City/Municipal
     Fin. & Admin, County/Shire
     Fin. & Admin, Special District
     Fin. & Admin, State/Prov./Reg.
     Other Government
     PS & Justice, City/Municipal
     PS & Justice, County/Shire
     PS & Justice, Special District
     PS & Justice, State/Prov./Reg.
     Soc. Services, City/Municipal
     Soc. Services, County/Shire
     Soc. Services, State/Prov/Reg.
  Healthcare Industry
     Alternate Healthcare
     Health Plans / Payors
     Healthcare Other
     Integrated Healthcare Systems / Hospitals
     Pharmaceuticals
     Physicians / Clinics
  Industrial Products Industry
     Construction/Architecture/Engineering
     Fabrication & Assembly
     Forest Products
     Metals
     Mining
     Other Process
     Textiles
  Insurance Industry
     Insurance Carriers - Life & Asset Management (L&AM)
     Insurance Carriers - Property & Casualty (P&C)
     Insurance Intermediaries
     Other Insurance, N.E.C.
  Life Sciences Industry
     Pharmaceuticals
  Media & Entertainment Industry
     Advertising
     Associations
     Broadcast
     Cable
     Entertainment
     Printing & Publishing
     Sports
  Professional Services Industry
     Accounting and Auditing
     Business Services
     Legal Services
     Management Consulting
     Marketing & Public Opinion Research
  Retail Industry
     Retail - Apparel Manufacturing
     Retail - Department Stores
     Retail - Direct Marketing
     Retail - Retail Food
     Retail - Food Services
     Retail - Hard Goods
     Retail- Hospitality
     Retail - Mass Merchants
     Retail - Pharmacy/Drug
     Retail - Specialty
  Telecommunications Industry
     Broadband
     Wireless
     Telecommunications
  Travel & Transportation Industry
     Airports
     Car Rental
     Freight Airlines
     Freight Forwarders & Arrangers
     Freight Services
     Gaming
     Global Dist. Systems / CRS
     Hospitality
     Lodging
     Passenger Airlines
     Passenger Water Transportation
     Post Operations
     Rail
     Shipping
     Tour Operations and Arrangers
     Travel Agencies
     Truck Rental and Leasing
     Trucking
     Urban Transportation
  Wholesale Distribution & Services Industry
     Wholesale - Food/Food Svc/Drug
     Wholesale - General Trading Co.
     Wholesale - Non-Durables
     Wholesale - Durables
     Wholesale - Services
  

• Solution areas

  Aerospace & Defense
     Integrated Production and Supply
     Program Management
     Service Lifecycle Management
     Other
  Automotive
     Design and Development
     Embedded Device Lifecycle Management
     Marketing, Sales and Service
     Pervasive Computing/In-Vehicle
     Production
     Other
  Chemicals and Petroleum
     Chemicals and Petroleum Supply Chain Optimization
     Demand Management
     Geoscience
     iPlant
     Production management
     Upstream Petroleum
     Value chain management
     Other
  Consumer Products
     Brand Innovation
     Merchandise management and inventory control
     Product Packaging
     Wholesale systems
     Other
  Education
     Administration Information Systems
     IT Infrastructure and Services
     Operations
     Research & Collaboration
     Student Information Systems
     Teacher Information and Content Systems
     Other
  Electronics
     Production Management
     Sales and Service
     Value Chain Management
  Energy and Utilities
     Asset Management
     Generation Solutions
     Infrastructure and Systems Management
     Network Transformation
     Strategic Outsourcing
     Wholesaling and Risk Management
     Other
  Financial Markets
     Business Efficiency
     Other
  Financial Services/Banking
     Automated Solutions
        ATMs
        Kiosks
        Point of Sales
     Branch Transformation
     Core Banking
     Core Systems Transformation
     Customer Insight
     Customer sales & service
     Enterprise Payment Platform (Back Office/Payments)
     Infrastructure and Support Services
     Internet Banking
     Marketing insights & analytics
     Multichannel Transformation
     Operations & Processing
     Product Manufacturing
     Regulatory Compliance
     Risk management & compliance
     Service to Sales (Front Office)
     Other
  Government
     Case Management
     e-Government
     Finance and Administration
     Multichannel Distribution
     Record Management
     Regulatory Compliance
     Safety, Security & Privacy
     Security & Surveillance
     Tracking Management
     Transportation Management
     Other
  Healthcare and Pharmaceutical
     Administrative Systems
     Clinical Care
     Finance and Accounting
     High Performance Computing
     Medical Imaging
     Operations and Regulations
     Patient Care and Services
     Payer Transaction Services
     Physician Office Automation
        Claims administration
        Clinical information systems
        Computerized physician order entry
        Health information systems
     Picture Archival and Communication Systems
     Other
  Insurance
     Administration Systems and Services
        Claims Administration
        Policy Administration
     Agent Management
     Core Insurance
     Insurance distribution and services
     Other
  Life Sciences
     Clinical Genomics
     Drug Development
     Drug Discovery
     Life Sciences Research and Development
     Medical Imaging
     Regulatory and Compliance
     Other
  Media and Entertainment
     Business Transformation
     Infrastructure Systems and Management
     Other
  Retail
     Customer Service
     Logistics
     Merchandising
     Retail Sell-thru Bundles
        Merchant Reach
     Sales Management
     Self- Service solutions
        Kiosks, ATMs
        Point of Sale
     Store Operations
     Other
  Telecommunications
     Internet Data Center
     IP Telephony
     Network Infrastructure
     Network Management
     Network Operations
        Transmission and Distribution
     Resource Systems and Management
     Service Management
     Other
  Travel and Transportation
     Airline Operations
     Airport Operations
     Corporate travel
     Demand Management
     Infrastructure Systems
     Security operations
     Sell-thru Bundles
        Track and Trace
        Trip Works
     Travel services: business
     Travel services: consumer
     Other
  Wholesale Distribution
     Business management systems
     Other
  Cross industry
     Business Continuity
     Business Intelligence
        Data Mining
        Data Warehousing
        Financial Analysis
        Fraud Management
        Relationship Marketing
        Sales Analysis
        Text Mining and Analysis
        Other
     Business Process Management and Integration
        Business Operations
        Employee Services
        Inventory/Warehouse and Shipping Mgmt
        Production/Ops and Logistics
        Security and Disaster Recovery
        Other
     Computer Services
        Capacity Planning
        Client Consolidation
        Host management
        Provisioning
        Security
        Systems Management
        Other
     Customer Relationship Management
        Contact Center Optimization
        Field Services Effectiveness
        Marketing and Customer Intelligence
        Sales Productivity
        Strategy
        Other
     Digital Media
        Create Digital Media
        Distribute Digital Media
        Manage Digital Media
        Other
     Document Management
        Case Management
        Decision Support System
        Document Imaging
        Document Management/Processing
        e-Forms
        OnDemand
        Workflow
        Other
     Dynamic Infrastructure/Smarter Planet
        Asset Management
        Business Resilience
        Energy Efficiency
        Information Infrastructure
        Security
        Service Management
        Virtualization
     e-Business/e-Commerce
        Billing Systems
        Direct Customer Access
        Infrastructure Systems and Management
        Internet Selling: Business to Business
        Internet Selling: Business to Consumer
        Internet Services
        Payments
        Subscriber management
        Other
     e-Mail Messaging and Collaboration
        Collaboration
        E-mail Communications
        Team Management
        Other
     Emerging Technologies
        Green IT - Energy Efficiency
     Enterprise Resource Planning (a.k.a. Enterprise Application Systems (EAS)
        Business to Business Extensions
        Core Enterprise Resource Planning
        Customer Relationship Management Extensions
        Enterprise Resource Services
        Human Capital Management
        Supply Chain Management Extensions
        Other
     Knowledge Management
        Collaborative learning
        e-Learning
        Experience based learning
        Interactive learning systems
        Performance support systems
     On Demand Operating Environment
        Automation
        Flexible Financial & Delivery Offerings
        Information and data integration
        People integration
        Process integration
        Virtualization
        Other
     On Demand Workplace
        Enterprise Portal
        Other
     Pervasive and Wireless Computing
        Advanced Infrastructure
        Consumer Services Enablement
        Operational Effectiveness
        Wireless Sell-through Bundles
        Workforce Mobility
     Product Lifecycle Management
        Design
        Engineering and Analysis
        Implementation
        Manufacturing
        Planning
        Product Data Management and Collaboration
        Product Lifecycle Express
        Service After Sales
        Other
     Professional Services
        Billing management and services
        Legal Services
        Litigation
        Practice Management
        Other
     Science and Technology
        Data Management
        Engineering
        Research and Development
        Other
     Supply Chain Management
        Asset Management
        Business -to- Business Buy Side
        Business -to- Business Sell Side
        Supply Chain Execution
        Supply Chain Management Services
        Supply Chain Planning
        Trader partner collaboration
        Value Chain management
        Warehouse management
        Other
     Surveillance and security
        Application and Process Security
        Data and Information Security
        Governance, Risk and Compliance
        Identity and Access Management
        Infrastructure Security
        Safety, Security and Privacy
        Security event management
        Security systems and operations
        User Identification
        Other
     System and data management
        Business Resilience
        Data Handling
        Data Protection and Recovery
        Global Storage Solutions
        Operating Systems
        Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
        Storage
        Other
  

• Customer size

  Very Small Business (Less than 50 employees)
  Small Business (50 to 99 employees)
  Midmarket Business (100 to 499 employees)
  Midmarket Business (500 to 1000 employees)
  Large Business (greater than 1000 employees)
  

• Languages supported

  English
  

• Countries/regions available for distribution

  Africa

  Algeria , Angola , Benin , Botswana , Bouvet Island , Burkina Faso , Burundi , Cameroon , Cape Verde , Central African Republic , Chad , Comoros , Congo , Congo, The Democratic Republic of the , Côte d'Ivoire , Djibouti , Equatorial Guinea , Eritrea , Ethiopia , Gabon , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea , Guinea-Bissau , Kenya , Lesotho , Liberia , Madagascar , Malawi , Mali , Mauritania , Mauritius , Mayotte , Morocco , Mozambique , Namibia , Niger , Nigeria , Rwanda , Réunion , Senegal , Seychelles , Sierra Leone , Somalia , South Africa , Swaziland , São Tome and Principe , Tanzania, United Republic of , Togo , Tunisia , Uganda , Western Sahara , Zambia , Zimbabwe

  Americas

  Anguilla , Antigua and Barbuda , Argentina , Aruba , Bahamas , Barbados , Belize , Bermuda , Bolivia , Brazil , Canada , Cayman Islands , Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Dominica , Dominican Republic , Ecuador , El Salvador , Falkland Islands (Malvinas) , French Guiana , Greenland , Grenada , Guadeloupe , Guatemala , Guyana , Haiti , Honduras , Jamaica , Martinique , Mexico , Montserrat , Netherlands Antilles , Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , Puerto Rico , Saint Kitts and Nevis , Saint Lucia , Saint Pierre and Miquelon , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands , Suriname , Trinidad and Tobago , Turks and Caicos Islands , United States , Uruguay , Venezuela , Virgin Islands, British , Virgin Islands, U.S.

  Asia Pacific

  American Samoa , Australia , Azerbaijan , Bangladesh , Bhutan , British Indian Ocean Territory , Brunei Darussalam , Cambodia , China , Christmas Island , Cocos (Keeling) Islands , Cook Islands , Fiji , French Polynesia , Guam , Hong Kong S.A.R. of China , India , Indonesia , Japan , Kazakhstan , Kiribati , Korea, Republic of , Kyrgyzstan , Lao People's Democratic Republic , Macao S.A.R. of China , Malaysia , Marshall Islands , Micronesia, Federated States of , Mongolia , Myanmar , Nepal , New Caledonia , New Zealand , Norfolk Island , Northern Mariana Islands , Palau , Papua New Guinea , Philippines , Samoa , Singapore , Sri Lanka , Taiwan , Tajikistan , Thailand , Timor-Leste , Turkmenistan , Viet Nam

  Europe

  Åland Islands , Albania , Andorra , Armenia , Austria , Belarus , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Faroe Islands , Finland , France , Georgia , Germany , Gibraltar , Greece , Holy See (Vatican City State) , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macedonia, The former Yugoslav Republic of , Malta , Moldova, Republic of , Monaco , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russian Federation , San Marino , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Svalbard and Jan Mayen , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , Ukraine , United Kingdom , Uzbekistan

  Middle East

  Afghanistan , Bahrain , Egypt , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Oman , Pakistan , Palestinian Territory, Occupied , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates , Yemen

  Other

  Antarctica , French Southern Territories , Heard Island and McDonald Islands , Maldives , Nauru , Niue , Pitcairn , Saint Helena , Solomon Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , United States Minor Outlying Islands , Vanuatu , Wallis and Futuna

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• Hardware/OS platforms

  • Operating systems

    AIX
       AIX 7.1
       AIX 6.1
       AIX 5.3
       AIX 5.2
    HP
       HP-UX
    Linux
       Novell SUSE Linux Retail Solution (SLRS)
       Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
          RHEL6
          RHEL5
          RHEL4
       SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
          SLES11
          SLES10
          SLES9
       Fedora
       IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX (Novell Linux Point of Service)
    Windows
       Windows Server 2008 (inclusive)
    

• Services

  IBM SmartCloud Enterprise
  

• Storage devices

  IBM System Storage SAN File System