Top 20 IBM Solution Companies - 2020

Corporate IT infrastructure has gone through tremendous changes over the past decade and is slated to undergo further evolution in the upcoming years. In many enterprises, IT has moved from being confined to the basement with countable servers to technologically advanced and sophisticated data centers. The reason being, organizations are expanding in growth and productivity, and their requirements are also rising rapidly. In this changing business scenario, IBM has managed to revamp itself according to the requirements of the changing market trends. As businesses adopt technologies like big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and cloud, they are becoming more responsive and faster but face higher risks. Here, as the flag-bearer of the computing revolution, IBM comes to the rescue.

With beginnings as a hardware company, IBM kept the ball running subsequently by keeping up with the changing market requirements and technology adoptions along the way. Now, IBM is helping businesses step into the cognitive era, where technologies are guiding organizations to stay ahead of their competition. Through its global research and development laboratories, IBM is continuously looking at innovative ways to help organizations in the future ahead. With decades of expertise at hand, IBM is currently investing in skillsets, tools, infrastructure and different processes to provide state-of-the-art support to organizations.

IBM’s latest expedition into the areas of analytics and cloud computing has led the company to rely heavily on recently launched products and technologies. Besides manufacturing computer hardware and software, IBM has also carved a niche for itself in providing hosting and consulting services to a wide range of industries. Watson, IBM’s high-visibility artificial intelligence-based, business platform that is powered by data, is aiding organizations in finding industry-based solutions to real-world problems. `By collaborating with its business partners, IBM now possesses the visibility, control, and automation to deliver solutions in security, systems management, data backup, and recovery.

At this juncture, through the myriad of solutions and products, IBM makes the task of partnering with the right solution provider, a more manageable endeavor for organizational leaders. To help organizations guide through world-class solution providers, CIOReview has compiled a list of the “20 Most Promising IBM Solution Providers – 2020.” The organizations featured in the magazine are transforming organizations with their disruptive technologies. This edition also covers insights from industry leaders on the latest trends, practices, innovations, and their advice for upcoming leaders.

We present to you CIOReview’s, “20 Most Promising IBM Solution Providers – 2020.”

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Top 20 IBM Solution Companies

Alacrinet

Alacrinet a leading cybersecurity and information technology consultant and an IBM Platinum partner

Converge Technology Solutions Corp. [TSXV:CTS]

Converge Technology Solutions Corp. enables medium and large enterprises to achieve their business goals by helping them with the hybrid cloud, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, and advanced analytics. Having acquired 12 regional IT solution providers and value-added resellers (VARs) in just three years since its founding, 9 of which are IBM-centric, Converge has established itself as a provider of state-of-the-art hybrid IT solutions, leveraging IBM products, and providing private managed services ranging from infrastructure management to business process operations. At the core of Converge’s success is its ability to provide a foundational IT infrastructure that acts as the launchpad for companies to go full throttle with their holistic transformation initiatives.

iTech Solutions Group

iTech Solutions Group uses their expertise to help firms optimize the performance and utilization of their IBM i OS. The company's services are customized to meet a customer's requirements and eradicate their pain points; this includes technical support, remote systems management, quarterly PTF maintenance, new hardware, OS upgrades, DR hosting and testing, performance analysis, and more.

Mainline Information Systems

By delivering flexibility, adaptability, and technical depth, Mainline Information Systems has been committed and incredibly responsive to its customers’ immediate needs and requests. The company works with its customers to address their complex data and information requirements by utilizing IBM’s Cloud Paks for Data solution. IBM undergoing massive shifts in its software strategy over the last two years has allowed Mainline to work with customers to transition legacy applications to modern infrastructures and to develop write-once-run-anywhere applications

Advanced DataTools

Advanced DataTools is an Advanced Level IBM Informix Data Management Partner, and has been an authorized Informix partner since 1993. As an advanced level partner with long-term relationships to many IBM personnel, the company has priority access to high-level support staff, technical information, and Beta programs. The firm’s team has been working with Informix since its inception, and includes 12 Senior Informix Database Consultants, 3 IBM Information Champions, 2 IIUG Director’s Award Winners and an IBM Gold Consultant. Advanced DataTools staff have an in-depth knowledge of the nature of data, database structures, and database security, and of how to store data to ensure rapid and flexible retrieval, manipulation, and reporting

Assima

As a world leader in User Adoption, Assima helps to reduce the cost of training by 70%, training time by up to 50% and increase revenue. Covering the entire User Adoption lifecycle, Assima makes the transition from one system to another easier and cost-efficient for any organization. The company’s patented cloning technology creates a life-like clone of clients’ application, therefore giving hands-on training experience to clients’ users in a data-safe, simulated environment. On top of that, its AI-powered Digital Assistant can recommend the user‘s next best action and reduce in-application errors and compliance risk. All this is done based on the user’s role, system location, and live context, in real-time

Beta Systems

Beta Systems offers large corporations, mid-sized companies and organizations high-end infrastructure software products spanning sectors for the cost-effective and secure monitoring of IT processes in high-performance IT environments. The software and solutions portfolio comprises Data & Document Processing, secure and efficient information management in data centers which guarantees premium efficiency in the processing of documents, and Security & Compliance which is the secure and efficient user management for the comprehensive management of statutory provisions. The products in both areas are developed, marketed and sold as integrated product suites under the overarching aspect of governance, risk management and compliance (GRC)

Cirrus Data Solutions

Cirrus Data Solutions is a privately-held developer of enterprise-class data management software solutions for automating data migration, data protection and data security across global organizations. Cirrus Data’s flagship solution is the DMS Platform which provides a broad range of data management solutions including data migration, data protection and data security across global enterprises. Utilizing its TDI technology, DMS installs within minutes for fast, simple, uninterrupted deployment thereby enabling the full capabilities of the DMS Platform with zero downtime, helping customers achieve their IT goals faster with lower risks while increasing their ROI

CSR

As an employee owned company, CSR, Incorporated provides government, private and nonprofit organizations with the knowledge and tools to make informed policy choices and to take effective action. CSR provides value added services to corporate verticals across three (3) lines of business – Program Analysis and Research; Management, Logistics and Technical Support; and Public Information and Communications They develop innovative, knowledge-based solutions that our clients need to achieve their goals, meet their deadlines, and fulfill their organizational mandates. In all of their work, they strive for excellence and conduct business with integrity and accountability

Daqri

DAQRI, the leader in Professional Grade ARTM, empowers workforces to be more effective. DAQRI WorksenseTM and DAQRI Smart Glasses® link digital content to the real world to accelerate productivity, communication, and key business processes. From the office to the factory floor, DAQRI customers improve workplace efficiency, safety, and their bottom line. DAQRI develops, markets and sells its platform products from head offices in Los Angeles, California, and Dublin, Ireland