Getting started

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. It helps organizations to transform digital business opportunities into cloud-native solutions. To this end, the offering has a strong emphasis on enabling people in their different roles to collaboratively design, implement and enterprise applications.

Technical analysis results can be directly mapped to concepts and capabilities which are planned and organized with a business perspective. The open architecture provides choice to re-use existing, include 3rd party or create new components. The freedom to compose solutions protects past investments in existing business capabilities, enables best-of-breed solutions, allows a phased modernization of existing solutions and enables progressive infusion of new technologies.

Collaborative design and development tools with low-code and pro-code stacks provide choice to different developer skill profiles to design and build deployment-ready solutions based on microservice architecture principles. Managed development stacks leverage industry best practice architecture principles and ensure coherence. They provide access to specialized knowledge and modern business tools without the need for extensive and expensive training.

Adoption of new technologies is a constant requirement throughout the lifecycle of modern business solutions. Composite Business Solutions can leverage any technology capability to create and evolve business solutions. Pre-integrated IBM CloudPak capabilities provide choice and secure access to the latest technology.

The composite solutions run natively on Red Hat OpenShift, the leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. RHEL supports any cloud, any virtualization and any hardware and OpenShift provides everything out-of-the-box.

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 IBM Industry Solutions 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.

Build new solutions

Build modern UI apps, develop domain decomposed business services, streamline business processes and improve decision making with real-time insights.

Enrich existing applications

Improve time-to-market of new business capabilities by adding new capabilities next to existing systems, rather than replacing them.

Modernize applications

De-compose monolithic core systems and applications. Combine multiple modernization strategies like re-platform, re-architect or rebuild.

Improve developer productivity

Leverage a modern workplace for modern development practices, pre-integrated development tools and curated open-source technologies.

Adopt modern architecture principles

Adopt microservices and event-driven architectures, to build more agile, scalable and resilient business solutions that can respond quickly to change.

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