Tech Data Centre of Excellence - IBM
Tech Data’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) is an adaptive virtual lab environment built for the channel ecosystem. It provides our IBM partners and their customers with a suite of ready-built and tested solution offerings to leverage in order to innovate, drive agility and accelerate their success and speed to market.
CoE CODE : AN-S01
Accelerate Journey to AI (IBM Cloud Pak for Data)
Leveraging IBM Cloud Pak for Data as an Enterprise Insight Platform to demonstrate the flexibility and capabilities of adopting the Data and AI initiative, which enables you to climb the ladder to AI faster.
Solution Components
IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Value Proposition
IBM Cloud Pak for Data lowers your total cost of ownership, accelerates innovation based on open-source technologies, and fully supports multicloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud™ and private clouds.
Demo Time
1 Hour
CoE CODE : DA-S04
Process Automation with RPA
This solution enables customer to implement business automation with RPA (Robotic Process Automation) which are software bots or digital workers. It automate repetitive tasks, scale on demand, optimize operation cost and is available 24/7.
Solution Components
IBM RPA
Value Proposition
RPA enables companies to automate and drive a new wave of productivity and customer experiences, freeing staff from low-value tasks and assisting them in higher-value work.
Demo Time
1 Hour
CoE CODE : AN-I05
Automate essential planning, budgeting and forecasting using Analytics
Organizations can go digital for their planning and budgeting process and automate forecasting.
Solution Components
IBM Planning Analytics, VMware.
Value Proposition
With IBM Planning Analytics, organizations can plan & forecast their business outlook and achieve more predictable results
Demo Time
45 Mins
CoE CODE : DA-I07
AI powered automation for insurance claim processing
Build an Insurance chatbot to enhance agent productivity , expand customer reach and get optimal ROI out of IT & AI investment.
Solution Components
IBM Watson Assistant API
Value Proposition
Insurance chatbot will improve agent productivity, spread customer reach & achieve maximum returns from investment in IT & AI solutions.
Demo Time
45 mins
CoE CODE : DB-I04
Data backup and recovery for multicloud environments
With IBM Spectrum Protect Plus support for S3 Cloud, acquire data off-site in the event of a disaster & recover data in multiple locations.
Solution Components
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, VMware, MS Azure.
Value Proposition
Multi cloud support helps to retrieve data off-site in the event of a disaster with options to recover data in multiple locations and achieve cyber resiliency with “Air-gap” like capabilities.
Demo Time
30 mins
CoE CODE : SE-S07
Security Operation Center (SOC) with Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
A modern virtual SOC to enable security team on monitoring, manage and response to security incident. Aligning SOC and SOAR to accelerate response times and reduce analyst workload.
Solution Components
IBM QRadar, IBM Resilient SOAR
Value Proposition
By integrating the IBM Resilient with IBM QRadar Security Intelligence, security teams are able to build out a market leading threat management solution that covers the detection, investigation and remediation of threats across a wide range of cyber use cases. The technology integration allows security analysts to quickly and efficiently escalate suspected offenses from QRadar to Resilient, trigger automated enrichments and drive the full investigation process.
Demo Time
1 Hour
CoE CODE : AN-S02
Automate your FAQ with an Intelligent Chatbot
Show case automated deployment of BIG-IP for web application - Automate initial configurations like DNS, NTP ,VLANS, Self-IPs etc., creation of virtual servers, pools, monitors, traffic profile etc.
Solution Components
IBM Cloud Pak for Data Add on- IBM Watson Assistant , IBM Watson discovery and IBM Watson API
Value Proposition
With never-sleeping Chatbot, Organizations can give instant responses to all customers queries and problems, Companies can get real insight into what they’re costumers prefer, and therefore provide improved offers and answers to their users.
Demo Time
30 min
CoE CODE : DA-I06
Automating response to banking customers
Build a Banking chatbot to improve customer satisfaction index & scale your business to channels of customer choice.
Solution Components
IBM Watson Assistant API.
Value Proposition
Additional channel in form of a chatbot, to help in customer retention & reduce overhead costs by minimizing number of queries received by customer care agent
Demo Time
45 mins
CoE CODE : AN-I06
Integrated Business Intelligence Suite to uncover hidden data insights
Visualize data and share insights across organization for data driven decisions, empower business user with AI infused, self service capabilities.
Solution Components
IBM Cognos, VMware.
Value Proposition
With IBM Cognos analytics organizations can visualize, analyze and share actionable insights about their data with stakeholders including business performance, sales and profitability analysis
Demo Time
45 mins
CoE CODE : DA-I08
Building a happy & productive workforce with cognitive tools
Assist HR team in saving operational costs & head counts with AI powered HR bot.
Solution Components
IBM Cognos, VMware
Value Proposition
With IBM Cognos analytics organizations can visualize, analyze and share actionable insights about their data with stakeholders including business performance, sales and profitability analysis
Demo Time
45 mins
CoE CODE :DB-I02
Experience the power of modern data protection solution
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is easy to deploy & manage, accelerates backup & recovery, thus adding resilience to IT infrastructure.
Solution Components
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, VMware
Value Proposition
Modernize IT infrastructure while keeping costs low and provide instant backup system available for modern workloads like containers and virtual environments.
Demo Time
30 mins
CoE CODE : SE-A18
Connected security for a hybrid, Multicloud world – IBM Cloud Pak for Security
IBM Cloud Pak for Security is an open security platform that connects to your existing data sources to generate deeper insights and enables you to act faster with automation. Uncover hidden threats and make more informed risk-based decisions.
Solution Components
IBM Cloud Pak for Security
Value Proposition
Whether your data resides on IBM or third-party tools, on-premises or multiple cloud environments, IBM Cloud Pak for Security helps you to find and respond to threats and risks — all while leaving your data where it is.
Demo Time
45 mins
CoE CODE : HC-A06
Implement IBM i, AIX and Linux on Power in the Cloud
IBM PowerVS is the implementation of the IBM Power platform in IBM Cloud. Creating new virtual environments for IBM i, AIX and Linux on Power is straight-forward and convenient
Solution Components
IBM Cloud PowerVS
Value Proposition
Leverage the rock-solid, enterprise-class performance of the IBM Power platform with the convenience and flexibility of Cloud.
Demo Time
30 mins
CoE CODE : C2R-07
Turn data into insights by unifying and simplifying the collection, organization and analysis of data
Quickly deploys the infrastructure needed to run IBM Cloud Pak for Data on Microsoft Azure.
Solution Components
This Click to run solutions will deploy required Azure infra which includes VMs, Storage disk, Load balancer's along with critical network components and other configuration. IBM Cloud Pak software comes with microservices that run on top of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform which are deployed as part of this solution.
Value Proposition
This solution creates a single unified platform for data management, governance and analysis which automates the delivery of data and AI to the business. It brings reduction in deployment time from weeks to few hours.
Demo Time
30 Mins
CoE CODE : DO-A04
Connect applications and data across all environments
Connect anything to anything – create API and event-driven flows from scratch or with pre-defined templates, truly leveraging the power of standardized APIs without the need to code.
Solution Components
IBM App Connect Enterprise, as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Value Proposition
Accelerate the integration of disparate applications and data to create immediate and real business value. No Code needed.
Demo Time
30 Mins
CoE CODE : AN-107
Building a happy & productive workforce with cognitive tools
Assist HR team in saving operational costs & head counts with AI powered HR bot.
Solution Components
IBM App Connect Enterprise, as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Value Proposition
Accelerate the integration of disparate applications and data to create immediate and real business value. No Code needed
Demo Time
30 mins
CoE CODE :DB-I03
Simplify data recovery and data reuse for Virtual Environments
Rapid restore & data re-use with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to meet the needs of the development teams or the lines of business.
Solution Components
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, VMware
Value Proposition
Provide instant data access for recovery, DR and data reuse for applications and VMs. Customers can develop applications faster and more efficiently, helping to reduce costs and time to provide new services.
Demo Time
30 mins
