IBM Architecture Center

IBM Architecture Center
Use IBM’s reference architectures to help you architect solutions that enable you to use leading edge hybrid cloud and AI technologies to meet your business objectives.

Build your future
Every enterprise starts their architecture journey in a different place. IBM has identified seven architecture decision points to help you architect solutions that enable you to meet your business objectives. Each decision point enables you to establish the technical foundation for future growth in a specific focus area. After the foundation is in place, expand into new architectural areas to incorporate leading edge products and services including AI.

Open hybrid cloud platform
Adopting a hybrid cloud platform is essential when developing microservice and event-based applications that deliver new client experiences and improve employee productivity. Use Red Hat OpenShift to improve your developers’ productivity and simplify the management of hybrid cloud-based applications.

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Open cloud platform

Data fabric
Unlock the value of all of your accessible data to gain valuable insights. Discover, govern, and secure your data.

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Business automation
Automate your business processes to increase productivity and performance. Incorporate AI models to create new workflows that take advantage of your data.

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Observability
Bring your operational information into one management platform to proactively predict problems and build automated responses to keep downtime to a minimum.

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Security
Build the best possible defense to keep your enterprise safe and secure. Protect your enterprise from perpetrators and recover rapidly from security incidents.

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Regulated workloads
Adopt a cloud platform that complies with industry regulations while delivering the benefits of cloud native applications and development.

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IBM Z
Integrate your IBM Z systems of record into your hybrid cloud transformation strategy to get the best of both worlds.