Optimize the IT you have

As IT advances, you can't abandon your past investments and adopt new platforms or technologies.

Modernize your existing resources where you can, and reduce the time and money you spend maintaining them.

• White Paper: Why the future of the cloud is open
• Executive checklist: 4 steps to launch your container journey

Integrate apps, data, and processes

Organizations rely on software to deliver innovation. New technologies, frameworks, and approaches—like containers, microservices, and DevOps—need capabilities and speed that a legacy enterprise service bus (ESB) can’t meet.

Quickly integrate new apps and services with business data and legacy apps. This process should be agile and flexible to adapt to new technologies, methodologies, and needs.

• IDC infobrief: Agile integration for today's cloud enabled enterprise
• Whitepaper: Digital innovation through agile integration

Add and manage cloud infrastructure

Digital services and solutions make doing business easy. Use transformative technologies to create new business models, ecosystems, and revenue streams.

Cloud brings computing power, storage, and network systems to users on demand. Your cloud infrastructure must be elastic to support your organization where traditional, on-premise datacenter resources can’t.

• IDC whitepaper: Adopt a cloud infrastructure for both traditional and cloud-enabled workloads

Build more modern applications

If you're developing new apps using legacy platforms and processes, they could be out-of-date before they debut. Often, these systems aren't connected and applications can't share resources across environments. Maintaining a mix of old and new app stacks is inefficient and time-consuming.

Keep your staff growing skills and planning for your future with modern platforms and technologies.

• Whitepaper: Change the way you deliver apps with a container platform