IBM Press Room – Today IBM announced that Everest Group has named IBM as the top Leader in the research firm’s recent IT infrastructure automation – Market Update and PEAK MatrixTM Assessment for Solutions report.
Everest Group cited IBM’s strong suite of automation solutions combined with its expertise in services as a key differentiator. It also highlighted IBM’s strong mindshare and continued investments in the cognitive space with established use cases and proof of concepts leveraging analytic capabilities offered by Watson across multiple client environments. IBM continues to see cognitive computing as the future of automation and has established a separate cognitive business consulting practice. By taking advantage of in-house automation capabilities along with industry standard tools to expand capacity, IBM is able to improve quality and increase the speed of delivery for its clients. The wide breadth of solutions, coupled with significant deployment experience and cognitive automation capabilities help differentiate it in the market.