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February 21, 2019
ODM on Cloud for Business Rules Management
We migrated all our company business rules to IBM ODM on Cloud which runs ICP. It is being used across the company. This solution addresses the following problems: The Cloud First Strategy at our company is to enhance self-service capabilities to allow end-user autonomy, speed to market, and offer new opportunities for business users. Our department is one of the business solution areas pioneered to implement this initiative to solve our current application issues.
Our current on-premise ODM environment has many defects, contains single points of failure, is a few versions behind, takes too long to upgrade, is too complicated (more customized code), and costly to maintain. We explored different cloud offering options and conducted many proofs-of-concept (POC) tests to find a solution so our team could have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, except for limited user-specific application configuration settings. Based on our analysis and POC test results, we decided to use IBM ODM on Cloud SaaS offering to support online applications.
Our current on-premise ODM environment has many defects, contains single points of failure, is a few versions behind, takes too long to upgrade, is too complicated (more customized code), and costly to maintain. We explored different cloud offering options and conducted many proofs-of-concept (POC) tests to find a solution so our team could have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, except for limited user-specific application configuration settings. Based on our analysis and POC test results, we decided to use IBM ODM on Cloud SaaS offering to support online applications.
- Capacity On Demand to scale up and down environments
- SaaS model allows our team to have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities.
- SaaS model allows our team to worry less about upgrades, fix packs, environment support etc.
- Logging function: Currently use Kibana Logging Service, but [we expected] this feature to be integrated to ODM on the Cloud Dashboard.
- Rule Artifacts Metrics should be available from ODM on Cloud Dashboard
- Performance Improvement: Sometimes we experience very slow response time when using the Decision Center
We host our AA applications (internal and external) on IBM Private Cloud.
- On-Demand Capacity
- Easy to use UI
- Faster VM provisioning for rapid deployments
- Support for newest technologies such as Kubernetes
- Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
- Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more
January 14, 2019
Blue Box is a great for your changing business needs
I use Blue Box for a private cloud experience that gives me more storage and scalability options. With BlueBox, I get a single, consolidated view of all assets and clouds within my organization. It makes my job a lot easier.
- Creating a project and users is very easy and I can manage my configurations anytime, which is ideal.
- Self-service was a big selling point. At times there are issues that I can't figure out, but for the most part, I'm able to manage everything with little to no assistance.
- Blue Box is scalable - I can quickly add capacity at any time. Easy to use and navigate.
- A little on the expensive side, but not bad if you’re a large company.
- Larger operating systems can take longer to configure. Not a huge problem, but expect to spend some time on it.
- If you do need support, it can take a while to get the help you need.
IBM Cloud is being used within my organization as the PaaS for micro services and new REST APIs. It is being used by different groups across the enterprise. We are using it both for POCs and for production services.
- There is a large variety of services available on IBM Cloud.
- This is my first experience with a PaaS and I haven’t had any major problems navigating around it.
- It is easy to deploy applications and services on IBM Cloud.
- The UI was a little confusing at first after the shift from BlueMix.
- There could be better support and examples for deploying SOAP services.
February 13, 2019
Positive experience in the early stages
Our company is currently exploring how to transition into a hybrid cloud environment. We are using IBM Cloud Private in an attempt to identify which applications we can feasibly transition into the cloud and build a long term cloud strategy.
- IBM provides great customer support
- Obtaining access was easy and went very smooth
- IBM Cloud Private alleviates and meets the security requirements demanded in a regulated industry.
- More hands on training outside of virtual classes would be helpful.
IBM Cloud Private Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
About IBM Cloud Private
IBM Cloud™ Private is a scalable cloud platform that runs on users’ infrastructure. It’s built on open source frameworks, like containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, and a portfolio of middleware, data and analytics.
Key Features and Benefits
Security
Helps ensure security for data in transit and data at rest across all
platform services. All services expose network endpoints via TLS and encrypt
data at rest.
Kubernetes container orchestration
Brings orchestration primitives to support, enabling users to run
Kubernetes containers in production.
Private Docker image registry
Integrates with the Docker registry V2 API to provide a local registry
service that functions similarly to the cloud-based registry service Docker
Hub.
A unified installer
Uses an Ansible-based installer to rapidly set up a Kubernetes-based
cluster that contains master, worker, proxy, and optional management and
Vulnerability Advisor nodes.
Transformation advisor
Provides recommendations for users’ cloud journeys by turning information
about their environments and applications into insights.
Monitoring and alerts
Configures Prometheus collectors for custom metrics. Custom metrics help
provide insights and building blocks for customer alerts and dashboards.
Categories: OpenStack Cloud, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
IBM Cloud Private Technical Details
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| Mobile Application: | No |