Modernize, Optimize, Innovate with IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
Transform legacy apps into agile, cloud-native powerhouses that adapt to changing demands.
Overview of the Product
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications is a comprehensive hybrid-cloud solution designed to modernize your legacy software systems. By leveraging AI-assisted tools like IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, microservices, and Red Hat OpenShift, it facilitates seamless integration, robust security, and improved ROI. With IBM Cloud Pak for Applications, you can effortlessly modernize your infrastructure and accelerate application deployment, ensuring a competitive edge in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.
Why Choose IBM Cloud Pak for Applications?
Scale your applications with ease to meet shifting business demands.
Leverage microservices to deploy, build, and innovate at a faster pace with IBM Cloud Pak for Applications.
Secure your digital assets and maintain compliance with the latest industry regulations.
Streamline costs by reducing compute resources and improving budgeting practices.
Seamlessly move workloads across environments, independent of any hyperscaler.
Empower teams to innovate and accelerate application delivery with modernized runtimes from IBM Cloud Pak for Applications.
What the Numbers say?
Reduce risk and time spent refactoring applications with IBM Cloud Pak for Applications.
Dramatically cut down time to launch new apps and features.
Improve efficiency with cloud-native applications and modernized runtimes using IBM Cloud Pak for Applications.
Features
Leverage IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps for automated insights and intelligent operations.
Accelerate cloud-native development with seamless Kubernetes orchestration via IBM Cloud Pak for Applications.
Flexibly deploy and manage applications across multiple cloud environments.
Built-in security features ensure data protection and regulatory adherence with IBM Cloud Pak for Applications.
Transform legacy apps into modern microservices for greater agility and scalability.
Optimize lifecycle management with advanced AI-powered automation tools.
Key Facts
Enjoy true multi-cloud flexibility with IBM Cloud Pak for Applications.
Achieve faster deployment cycles and improved developer productivity.
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications offers a robust security framework that minimizes risks across your enterprise applications.
Case Studies
Accelerating Digital Innovation with IBM WebSphere Liberty and MicroProfile
Accelerating Digital Innovation with IBM WebSphere Liberty and MicroProfile
A leading European financial institution partnered with Nexright to accelerate application modernization, reduce deployment times, and deliver next-generation banking services using IBM WebSphere Liberty, MicroProfile, and Red Hat OpenShift. This collaboration empowered the bank to launch new services in minutes rather than months—without the need for costly migration.
Business challenge
As consumer expectations evolve, financial institutions face increasing pressure to modernize legacy applications and offer personalized digital experiences.
The bank struggled with:
- Long application deployment cycles.
- High maintenance costs for traditional monolithic systems.
- Limited flexibility to innovate and scale efficiently.
- Compatibility issues between legacy workloads and cloud environments.
To remain competitive, the institution needed a cloud-ready platform that supported rapid innovation, open standards, and zero-downtime modernization—all without disrupting mission-critical banking services.
Solution
Working with Nexright, the bank leveraged IBM WebSphere Liberty and MicroProfile on Red Hat OpenShift to create a flexible, scalable platform for hybrid-cloud banking innovation.
Solution Highlights:
- IBM WebSphere Liberty: Provided a lightweight, modular Java runtime that reduced startup times and simplified cloud deployment.
- MicroProfile APIs: Enabled faster development of microservices using open standards.
- Red Hat OpenShift: Delivered container orchestration and scalability for production-grade applications.
Zero Migration: The bank maintained full compatibility with existing WebSphere applications while shifting toward a cloud-native environment.
Solution components
- IBM WebSphere Liberty
- MicroProfile APIs
- Red Hat OpenShift
Cloud-Native Agility
By adopting containerized microservices, the bank achieved faster updates and easier scaling across digital banking platforms.
Zero-Downtime Modernization
Applications were transitioned to modern architectures without disrupting ongoing operations.
Developer Efficiency
Teams gained the flexibility to build and test new features using open APIs and continuous integration pipelines, significantly reducing release cycles.
Result
- Reduced new feature deployment from months to minutes.
- Achieved zero migration downtime across core banking workloads.
- Increased development speed and innovation agility by 60%.
- Improved resilience and compliance through standardized cloud environments.
By combining IBM WebSphere Liberty with MicroProfile and Red Hat OpenShift, we were able to slash deployment times dramatically. Our teams can now deliver innovative banking services faster than ever—without complex migrations.
— Head of IT Modernization, Leading European Bank
Seamless Multi-Service Integration with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Accelerating Digital Innovation with IBM WebSphere Liberty and MicroProfile
A leading European financial institution partnered with Nexright to accelerate application modernization, reduce deployment times, and deliver next-generation banking services using IBM WebSphere Liberty, MicroProfile, and Red Hat OpenShift. This collaboration empowered the bank to launch new services in minutes rather than months—without the need for costly migration.
Business challenge
As consumer expectations evolve, financial institutions face increasing pressure to modernize legacy applications and offer personalized digital experiences.
The bank struggled with:
- Long application deployment cycles.
- High maintenance costs for traditional monolithic systems.
- Limited flexibility to innovate and scale efficiently.
- Compatibility issues between legacy workloads and cloud environments.
To remain competitive, the institution needed a cloud-ready platform that supported rapid innovation, open standards, and zero-downtime modernization—all without disrupting mission-critical banking services.
Solution
Working with Nexright, the bank leveraged IBM WebSphere Liberty and MicroProfile on Red Hat OpenShift to create a flexible, scalable platform for hybrid-cloud banking innovation.
Solution Highlights:
- IBM WebSphere Liberty: Provided a lightweight, modular Java runtime that reduced startup times and simplified cloud deployment.
- MicroProfile APIs: Enabled faster development of microservices using open standards.
- Red Hat OpenShift: Delivered container orchestration and scalability for production-grade applications.
Zero Migration: The bank maintained full compatibility with existing WebSphere applications while shifting toward a cloud-native environment.
Solution components
- IBM WebSphere Liberty
- MicroProfile APIs
- Red Hat OpenShift
Cloud-Native Agility
By adopting containerized microservices, the bank achieved faster updates and easier scaling across digital banking platforms.
Zero-Downtime Modernization
Applications were transitioned to modern architectures without disrupting ongoing operations.
Developer Efficiency
Teams gained the flexibility to build and test new features using open APIs and continuous integration pipelines, significantly reducing release cycles.
Result
- Reduced new feature deployment from months to minutes.
- Achieved zero migration downtime across core banking workloads.
- Increased development speed and innovation agility by 60%.
- Improved resilience and compliance through standardized cloud environments.
By combining IBM WebSphere Liberty with MicroProfile and Red Hat OpenShift, we were able to slash deployment times dramatically. Our teams can now deliver innovative banking services faster than ever—without complex migrations.
— Head of IT Modernization, Leading European Bank
What The Users Say
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FAQ's
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications is a hybrid cloud platform that helps modernize existing apps and build new cloud-native applications using Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. It streamlines app lifecycle management and enhances DevOps capabilities.
It provides tools to assess, refactor, and containerize legacy applications, allowing businesses to move from monolithic architectures to microservices. The built-in modernization toolkits reduce time-to-market and support agile delivery.
Yes. It supports containerized workloads across multiple clouds including AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and on-premise environments via OpenShift, giving organizations deployment flexibility and scalability.
It includes transformation advisors, modernization toolkits, development accelerators, and DevOps integrations for CI/CD pipelines. These tools help developers optimize application architecture and deployment.
By offering prebuilt templates, automation, and integration with tools like Jenkins, Tekton, and Git, it accelerates development cycles and reduces the manual effort needed for code deployment and maintenance.
Containerization allows for improved resource efficiency, faster deployment, consistent environments, and easier scalability. IBM Cloud Pak for Applications supports container orchestration via Kubernetes.
Yes. Red Hat OpenShift is the foundational platform that supports app deployment, management, and scaling within the Cloud Pak for Applications.
Nexright offers consulting, assessment of legacy systems, application transformation services, and managed OpenShift deployment to support end-to-end modernization with IBM Cloud Pak for Applications.
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