AHEAD vs. IBM Garage

They are easily our go to company for anything revolving around VMware suite, whether that is infrastructure related, automation related, or monitoring related. It's a no brainier to get their assistance with a lot of tasks as they can competently implement complex designs. Also on the storage architecture side they are great. I'm sure there is much more but for my team we mainly leverage them in these areas.

Incentivized

I recommend IBM Cloud Garage to anyone that has a real problem [that needs] to be solved through algorithms.

Incentivized

• The provided pre-req documentation was thorough and well thought out, making it easy to jump into the project.
• The design session to gather our requirements was very helpful, Sovereign's familiarity with the vRealize product line along with diagramming our desired layout confirmed our decision to bring in assistance with the project.
• When we ran into some issues with Sovereign's custom code their development team was on top of it and solved the issue in a matter of a few days.

Incentivized

• Creating epics and user stories
• Helping refine user stories and creating subtasks
• Design and arch

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• Coordination of product orders with the vendor although I think the vendor is the bigger issue. Insuring delivery time frames are met is of great importance with these kinds of projects.
• Communication between scheduled project meetings. There could be more contact between meetings.
• Provide a customer portal for project tracking.

Incentivized

• Timing slots
• The program should be expandable to outside of IBM offices
• More dedicated people

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IBM cloud garage will always be as an extra power for our organisation. An extra power is always welcome.

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i havent used any particular function myself, so i cant evaluate the usability

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We had all the support we needed to accomplish our goal, in the right time.

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I would not call it training, rather would call it knowledge transfer.

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Having extensive pre-implementaton dialogue really made the process much smoother. We had most of our bases covered and were ready for the equipment installation/implementation, except for the previously mentioned network configuration issues that arose.

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im not able to give an opinion, since i havent participated

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Not that Garage did not finish the job, but the cost is too high

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• Positive ROI, MVP launched in 2 months to validate our hypostesis

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