Cloud financing

Cloud computing is enabling a more cost effective, agile and flexible consumption of IT and is transforming the way companies do business. However, realizing these benefits require upfront investments. In a world where budgets are constantly scrutinized and increasingly tight, accelerating the time to value is critical. IBM Global Financing can help your clients achieve the benefits of cloud computing.

Lower cost

Adopting cloud can help your clients reduce their IT costs – financing the IT infrastructure needed to operate in a cloud environment, can help take these savings further.

IBM Global Financing offerings provide qualified companies with:

• 0% interest rate for select servers, storage and software ⁽¹⁾
• Fair Market Value leasing that helps further lower your Total Cost of Ownership with savings up to 16 percent compared to outright purchase ⁽²⁾

Act with speed

Cloud enables your clients to accelerate time to market - financing can help expedite the time to value.

IBM Global Financing:

• Enables your clients to acquire the cloud solutions they need by addressing budget constraints and proving payment deferral options
• Helps your clients to accelerate their cloud project’s cash flow break even point by as much as 6 - 10 months by spreading up-front costs over time ⁽³⁾
• Increase flexibility
• Cloud provides your clients with the flexibility to react to new demands and revenue streams – financing can help increase the cash available to seize those opportunities.
• Helps your clients avoid upfront costs for cloud solutions, and conserves cash for other strategic initiatives
• Fair Market Value leasing brings protection from technology obsolescence and enables credit-qualified clients to add capacity and upgrade with little or no changes in monthly payment.

IBM has a Cloud Computing specialty for IBM Business Partners which covers 5 solution areas. Two of these solution areas focus on IBM Business Partners who are implementing cloud-delivered solutions for their clients: Cloud builders and cloud infrastructure providers. These partners can quickly build and expand their cloud business with our low-rate financing programs.

IBM Global Financing offers a range of financing alternatives to fit each cloud builder and infrastructure provider’s specific needs, enabling faster build-out of their cloud infrastructure to service their clients. Payment deferral options allow business partners to avoid large upfront cash outlays and predictable monthly payments help optimize cash flow. In addition there are also lease options for select hardware that allow for mid-lease upgrades to the latest processor technology and peripherals, protecting the business partner's investment and competitive position while minimizing costs.

• Cloud Financing solution brief (194KB)

• Client facing cloud presentation

Contact us to discuss which of our cloud financing options best fits your client’s unique business needs.

Work with your distributor's lease coordinator or access the Rapid Financing® tool to request credit approval and contracts today.

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• Cloud financing sales kit
• Press Release: IBM Broadens Efforts to Prepare Small and Medium Businesses for Growth Provides $1 Billion In Financing; Launches New Cloud and Business Analytics Offerings:
• Press Release: IBM Offers New Opportunities to Jump Start Cloud Computing for Business Partners and Start-ups
• CRN ChannelWeb: IBM Offers Cloud Partners New Financing, Rental Options

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