Why PureSystems ?

In a previous blog post, I presented my views on one of the key motivation behind IBM's introduction of PureSystems into the marketplace, citing the need for IT to adopt solutions that are optimized to achieve the business agility needed in today's business environments. Most c-level executives anticipate significant change and complexity ahead, with only a handful prepared to handle it. With complexity on the rise, agility becomes a key competitive advantage.

In the past, IT used to be the control point. The lines of business specified their requirements and IT designed and implemented what they needed.  The line of business had their own application silos, with IT providing safely through separate ownership and segregation of resources. Increasingly, the line of business teams are making the call, with business owners having greater control.  In the cloud space, evidence of this trend can be confirmed by the increasing adoption of Software as a Service applications.  Without IT consulation, the business is reaching out to external IT services providers to fulfill their requirements.  In one fell swoop, the entire IT organization can be cut out, and to make it worse, the IT organization is left to deal with subsequent integration problems.  And clients are demanding more too.  The rise of mobile computing puts pressure on IT organizations to deliver support for new types of applications, additional capabilities that enterprise applications never had to deal with before.  

This need for agility is transforming the relationship between IT and the business in very profound ways. The true promise of IBM's PureSystems isn’t just about addressing the complexity of IT,  it is about redefining the economics of IT.  Over half of the business executives believe that cloud computing enables business transformation; leaner, faster, and more agile processes.  This is strategic thinking.  Organizations that approach cloud in a tactical fashion risk adding complexity and inefficiency due to fragmentation, redundancy and operating silos. PureSystems is designed to accelerate cloud adoption, enabling organizations that embrace cloud strategically, from a business as well as IT perspective, to capture new business value through innovation, flexibility, and speed, with integrity and security, while reducing cost and complexity.