To deliver a simple and easy experience for three key user groups within the enterprise – developers, IT managers and business leaders to learn, try, and buy software and services from IBM(NYSE:IBM) and its global partner ecosystem, the company has launched a new Cloud marketplace.
The launch of IBM Cloud marketplace represents the next major step in IBM’s cloud leadership. This single online destination will serve as the digital front door to cloud innovation bringing together IBM’s Capabilities-as-a-Service and those of partners and third-party vendors with the security and resiliency enterprises expect.
“Increasingly cloud users from business, IT and development across the enterprise are looking for easy access to a wide range of services to address new business models and shifting market conditions. IBM Cloud marketplace puts big data analytics, mobile, social, commerce, integration – the full power of IBM-as-a-Service and our ecosystem – at our clients’ fingertips to help them quickly deliver innovative services to their constituent,” said Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice-President, IBM Software & Cloud Solutions.
The marketplace will serve as a cloud innovation hub where technology meets business with hundreds of cloud services from IBM, partners and third-party ecosystem. Clients can access a full suite of IBM-as-a-Service with 100 SaaS applications, IBM’s Bluemix Platform-as-a-Service with composable services, the powerful SoftLayer Infrastructure-as-a-Service and third-party cloud services.
