Providing choice to enterprise application development teams

IBM Industry Solutions Workbench is a development acceleration platform that helps today's agile development teams to efficiently design, develop, and run modern enterprise applications designed for the cloud. It offers a modern workplace, equipped with everything that modern development teams need to achieve best productivity. It supports application development teams across the entire development phase and helps them to organize, develop & manage their solutions.

First, the teams can organize and store all their development tools and assets for easy access in one aggregated view. This not only enables comfortable exploration of existing assets for easy reuse and access, but also allows a 360 degree view on all development assets, even if their lifecycle information are scattered across multiple tools.

Once all the tools are in place and assets are organized for re-use, the development teams prepare to do actual development work. IBM Industry Solutions Workbench enables development teams to standardize organizational best-practices and cross-cutting functionality based on Managed Software Stacks and Templates. These also help teams to kick-start a new project as they can simply re-use existing code and solutions. It enables development teams to combine the speed and productivity of low-code like – or Design2Code - stacks with the flexibility of pro-code development. Enabling cross-functional teams to collaboratively model solution components and auto-generate the resulting microservice. And it enables development teams to easily adopt open-source technologies on a as-needed scale: It not only provides pre-integration for many mainstream open-source technologies, but also provides the related architectural patterns and industry best practices packaged in the software stacks and templates - ready to use.

IBM Industry Solutions Workbench supports the developer teams even further, by giving them a holistic approach to monitor, manage and organize the developed cloud solutions with confidence. In contrast to the majority of management tools, our management capabilities are specifically tailored to the needs of service owners, rather than cluster admins.

IBM Industry Solutions Workbench consists of the following components

• Solution Designer
• Solution Hub
• Solution Envoy
• Solution CLI

Key Benefits

The main objective of the product is to unify the experience across the entire end-to-end solution lifecycle, optimizing the way developer teams work together in designing, implementing, testing and running enterprise-grade business solutions.

Faster software development: Combine the flexibility and customizability of pro-code development with the speed and productivity of low-code-like design and automated code generation.

Open innovation & co-creation: Build business solutions through composition of existing, to-be developed and externally sourced components.

No lock-in or lock-out: Solutions built with Workbench are 100% cloud native and have no proprietary runtime for all components. All your developed code comes without vendor lock-in or innovation lock out.