IBM Technology Expert Labs ADVISE webMethods Integration Offerings

IBM Technology Expert Labs will provide deep, technical consultants specializing in webMethods Integration on Azure or hybrid cloud to work alongside your business and I/T stakeholders to provide end-to-end planning support for a solution or use case(s) that can be deployed rapidly, with minimal risk and with all the desired functionality.

Business Drivers may include:

• Need to augment your internal team's skills for a short term project (e.g., under-staffed while growing your technical teams)
• General staff augmentation needs for ad hoc requirements
• Acceleration to adopt best practices from experts while implementing to improve productivity
• Inability to investigate issues and concerns on current initiatives and gain confidence in your webMethods environment (another set of "eyes")
• Need to gain hints and tips based on multiple engagement experiences on how to leverage webMethods Integration capabilities
• Requirement to reduce trial and error

Scope Activities and Key Deliverables may include:

(i) Recommending and mentoring on "how to" optimize your solution implementation

(ii) Providing insights and guiding on best practices methodologies

(iii) Instructing on "how tos" in order to mitigate risks

(iv) Leading a series of workshops, recommending and documenting high level requirements, success criteria and creating a solution design overview for webMethods Integration

(v) Documenting a plan, architecture and/or approach to a design implementation

Outcomes Desired may include:

• Any tried-and-tested solution template(s) that help to accelerate deployment

• Custom design assistance with best practices applied to handle complex hybrid integration orchestration needs or scaling on Azure

• Any integration automation best practices recommendations

• A plan, recommendations and/or architecture presented and documented

"Advise" category of offerings are recommended based on the weekly scope of activities defined in the Service Description. Pricing is based on a week’s fixed scope of activities (in certain situations less than 5 days) and estimated conversion from USD. Quantities of the part number offering required may vary depending on requirements.