Best Practices and Services

To help organizations gain insight into IT strategy and architecture, IBM offers tools and consulting / implementation services based on 25 years of thought leadership and thousands of engagements.

Your business depends on your IT organization. Without the right technology, processes and skills in place, you'll be left behind in a world that never stands still. Business alignment and prioritization helps organizations take a good look at their IT organization. When you do, you should be able to see where it makes sense to invest, whether you should consider sourcing alternatives and how IT can support your business goals.

These services include:

Tools:
IBM Component Business Model for IT: To help you see your enterprise in new ways, IBM's component view of business maps your entire organization on a single page. Each of these components, and the service it provides, is made up of people, processes and technology.
IBM and Industry Standard Business Models

• IBM Process Reference Model: PRM-IT provides an integrated collection of the processes involved in using IT to help businesses carry out many or all of their fundamental purposes.
• IBM Rational Unified Process is a software delivery process based on more than 25 years of experience with customers and industry experts. The de-facto software engineering standard used by thousands of software delivery teams worldwide, the Rational Unified Process has been extended with a rich process library of more than 20 process plugins. Each plugin provides extended guidance on a specific topic, such as geographically distributed development, compliance management, SOA delivery and real-time systems development.
• IBM Tivoli Unified Process

Services:

Align IT to business objectives by evaluating, aligning, designing and governing IT strategy and resources as a business in support of business objectives.

• You can start with a readiness assessment and develop a detailed, prioritized roadmap and technical architecture; facilitated workshops, tool strategies and best practices.

Increase efficiency and effectiveness by implementing and managing an IT environment with industry accepted best practices.

• IBM offers technical services that span utilization and performance, establishing and following policies, improving performance and scalability, and build, pilot, deploy and validate business expectations.