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IBM Consulting Advantage for Agentic Cloud Transformation
IBM Consulting Advantage for Cloud Transformation (ICA4CT) is a field-tested consulting asset developed by IBM to accelerate cloud transformation journeys.
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, enterprises seek innovation, agility, and efficiency. To achieve these, many are migrating workloads to Microsoft Azure. Whether through lift-and-shift or full cloud-native transformations, Azure provides the scalability, DevOps tools, and AI capabilities needed to accelerate digital transformation and future-proof enterprise IT.
Speed and precision are critical in realizing the benefits of cloud. Delayed migrations or misaligned strategies can result in diminished ROI and stalled digital initiatives.
In 2025, top IT investment is expected in migrating apps from on-prem to cloud. Microsoft Azure provides a secure, scalable foundation for enterprise workloads, but challenges such as modernization complexity, limited skilled resources, and fragmented tools often hinder smooth execution and slow cloud adoption across organizations.
IBM Consulting helps address these challenges through:
IBM brings:
IBM Consulting leverages its proprietary platform—IBM Consulting Advantage—to deliver:
ICA4CT, powered by generative AI, is IBM’s flagship platform for cloud transformation. Part of the IBM Consulting Advantage ecosystem, it offers AI-infused, automation-driven capabilities to accelerate migration, modernization, and transformation at scale. ICA4CT enables structured, expert-led journeys with prebuilt accelerators across hybrid and multi-cloud. It simplifies discovery, refactoring, and migration of legacy .NET/Java workloads to Azure services like App Services, AKS, Azure SQL, and Functions, delivering speed, consistency, and optimized performance.
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Journey Framework | Offers industry-aligned transformation paths (e.g., Rehost, Replatform, Refactor) for middleware, Microsoft, legacy, and modern app stacks. |
| Expert Rules Engine | Codified modernization strategies and AI-guided recommendations for dispositioning applications. |
| Integrated Solutioning | End-to-end support from assessment to execution with built-in sizing, staffing models, cost estimation, and ROI analysis. |
| Native Features | Includes playbooks, sizing models, reference implementations, migration tools, and landing zone setup scripts. |
| Unit Cost Framework | T-shirt-sized pricing for workloads (S/M/L) enables predictable cost estimation and scalable delivery. |
| Toolchain Orchestration | Supports IBM, open-source, and third-party tools across Azure, OpenShift and other hyperscalers. |