The mission of the Software Solutions Lab is to help IBM customers throughout Africa understand and implement the latest solutions from IBM to achieve their business goals. We are establishing a high performance technical team focused on local enablement, innovation, and knowledge transfer. The centre will draw from the latest and best skills of IBM Research and Development.
SSL capabilities
- Executive briefings
- Showroom for integrated IBM solutions
- Architectural design sessions
- First of a kind implementations
- Proofs of concept
- Skills transfer & mentorship
Key Focus Areas:
Cloud Computing
Develop and deliver highly scalable, virtualized infrastructure solutions Reduce IT management complexity and skill requirements Support both existing and emerging, data-intensive workloads
Information On Demand
Unlock the business value of information for competitive advantage Enabling organizations to establish and leverage trusted information to optimize business performance
Service Oriented Architecture
Understand and implement a Service Oriented Architecture Leverage IBM’s web services technology and product portfolio based on industry standards to transform your business
Innovation
Develop and deliver solutions to accelerate innovation from ideation to product incubation Leverage Web 2.0 and automation technologies
Banking Centre of Excellence
Transform back office applications to open standards-based, flexible solutions Improve efficiency and reduce costs Meet growth needs
Performance & Scalability
Optimize massive scale-out infrastructures and design of high-availability solutions Plan for capacity required to meet performance objectives Maximize performance through SOA workload tuning and characterization, including capacity planning