IBM Consulting Delivery Curator

Planning, designing, and executing a successful Journey to Cloud requires an integrated and end-to-end approach. IBM Consulting Delivery Curator or ICDC provides this end-to-end approach by bringing together:

• IBM’s extensive Cloud Migration experience
• Industry best practices
• GenAI powered intelligent automation across the Cloud Migration and Modernization lifecycle

ICDC assists in planning, designing, executing and governing the cloud migration journey across the program lifecycle with its industry leading capabilities across each of the migration program phases.

IBM Consulting Delivery Curator specifically focuses on curating Rehost, Replatform and Retire journeys to Azure. It is a proven asset across multiple migration and modernization engagements and has helped transform tens of thousands of applications and hundreds of thousands of servers across industries.

ICDC features industry-leading Agentic AI capabilities that accelerate migration to Azure, including specialized agents for:

• Cloud Readiness Assessment
• VMware to OpenShift Virtualization
• Database migration

Core ICDC Capabilities

A. Discovery and Assessment

• Automated Application Infrastructure Discovery – Discover application and server portfolio across an IT estate, whether on-prem, cloud or both
• Universal Data Ingestion – Ingest all existing data in form of spreadsheets, CMDB extracts or other data sources. With GenAI, ingest data from PDFs, Word documents, audio files etc.
• Discovery & Workshop Assistant – Web-based surveys to collect non-functional requirements such as security, data privacy, DR setup etc.
• Sustainability Prescription – Identify IT infrastructure components such as servers which are rarely used to optimize IT footprint and help sustainability goals
• Application Disposition Roadmap and Modernization Point of View

B. Design

• Migration and Modernization Design – Built-in patterns to generate Target Migration Designs and build sheets at scale. Use GenAI to generate target architecture decisions and diagrams.
• Design Assistant – Customize strategic technological choices for target architecture design
• Migration Wave Planning – Plan waves with affinity and priority groupings

C. Execution and Governance

• Curated Work Breakdown Structures for specific Azure journeys. Plug and play integrations of WBS tasks with tools such as JIRA or VersionOne for seamless workflow
• Persona-driven governance dashboards to track program progress across phases

ICDC is available in both on-premises and Software-as-a-Service deployment models. It integrates seamlessly with Azure and other third-party products, services, and GenAI platforms.

To see how IBM Consulting Delivery Curator can help you scale and accelerate your cloud transformation journey to Azure, reach out to an IBM representative today.