Debuts Enterprise Cloud Marketplace with Global Partner Ecosystem
IBM has launched a new cloud marketplace that brings together IBM’s vast portfolio of cloud capabilities and new third-party services in a way that delivers a simple and easy experience for three key user groups within the enterprise – developers, IT managers and business leaders to learn, try, and buy software and services from IBM and its global partner ecosystem.
The launch of IBM Cloud marketplace represents the next major step in IBM’s cloud leadership announced the press release further adding that this single online destination will serve as the digital front door to cloud innovation bringing together IBM’s capabilities-as-a-service and those of partners and third party vendors with the security and resiliency enterprises expect.
The marketplace offers a gateway for IBM’s vast global business partner ecosystem to tap into the growing $250B cloud market opportunity, with instant access to IBM’s rich intellectual capital, array of services and software capabilities and access to IBM’s vast enterprise client network. For partners, IBM’s cloud marketplace provides a global path to the enterprise and new opportunities to collaborate with a network of channel partners in its ecosystem to generate new revenue streams driving cloud innovation.
This marketplace will serve as a cloud innovation hub where technology meets business with hundreds of cloud services from IBM, partners and third party ecosystem.
“Increasingly cloud users from business, IT and development across the enterprise are looking for easy access to a wide range of services to address new business models and shifting market conditions,” said Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, IBM Software & Cloud Solutions. “IBM Cloud marketplace puts Big Data and Analytics, mobile, social, commerce, integration —- the full power of IBM-as-a-Service and our ecosystem — at our clients’ fingertips to help them quickly deliver innovative services to
their constituents.
