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OpenLogic Case Study

International Business Machines Corporation

Introduction

This case study of International Business Machines Corporation is based on an April 2021 survey of OpenLogic customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“OpenLogic has provided an alternative solution to high-cost commercial licensed products, that allow our customers to stand up an environment quicker, and at a lower cost.”

Challenges

They have been concerned with the following when it comes to developing with open source technologies:

  • Too much complexity in package selection

Use Case

When asked which efforts have seen the most success when choosing an open-source solution, they said:

  • Application modernization
  • Digital asset transformation and management

Said that it is extremely important that their open-source support vendor offers support for a full solution stack

Confirmed that when it comes to having a comprehensive and viable open source consumption strategy, it is critical to have:

  • Access to deep expertise
  • Vulnerability patching and maintenance capability

Results

International Business Machines Corporation achieved the following results with OpenLogic :

  • What OpenLogic enabled them to do:
    • Avoid downtime
    • Reduce organizational costs
    • Reduce maintenance
    • Maintain security compliance
    • Facilitate an overall open source risk strategy
  • OpenLogic compared to other vendors they have previously evaluated or used:
    • Ticket Response Time: superior
    • Ticket Resolution Time: superior
    • Support Staff Expertise: best in class
    • Ease of engaging the support team: superior
    • The range of packages supported: superior
  • Importance of OpenLogic’s end of life / long-term support maintenance capabilities related to the following:
    • Linux and other operating systems: highly important
    • Application Platforms (Java, Node.js, PHP, etc): crucial
    • Databases: crucial
  • Level of agreement with the following:
    • OpenLogic helps their business to achieve a faster time to market: agree
    • OpenLogic support saves them a significant amount of time: agree
    • OpenLogic consistently meets or exceeds their contracted support ticket SLAs: strongly agree
    • OpenLogc adds value to their organization’s overall security strategy: agree
    • OpenLogic makes it easier for their business to innovate: strongly agree
  • Realized a payback in their investment with OpenLogic within the first year.




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