Stimulate progress? Cegeka and IBM facilitate your innovation power with these 5 elements

To be successful as an organization, you have to stick to your core values and innovate constantly. Not one by one, but at the same time and always. That, in a nutshell, is the 'Preserve the core, stimulate progress' concept of American researchers Jim Collins and Jerry Porras.

In the blog 'Preserve the core, stimulate progress': how Cegeka Power Cloud helps you stay stable and make progress, we already explained how this concept forms the foundation of many successful organizations. And how Cegeka helps you make this concept your own. What that blog didn't cover was what is needed to actually put 'stimulate progress' into practice.

The 5 elements for innovation 

‘Stimulate progress’ is about the continuous drive for innovation, improvement and growth. Not because you have to, but because an organization wants to. If you want to be able to continuously innovate, you need an IT landscape that supports you in this. And an IT partner that is as agile as you are. For these reasons, with our IBM services, we respond seamlessly to stimulating innovation. Here’s how we do it: 

• Reliability via Cegeka IBM Power Cloud  

If you want to innovate, you need a robust foundation. Cegeka IBM Power Cloud is a specially developed and extremely reliable hybrid cloud platform, based on IBM Power Systems. This server technology from IBM ensures that your organization can process large, data-intensive workloads very efficiently, reliably and cost-effectively. It provides an infrastructure that protects all of your organization’s core operations. Two specific core activities, such as running ERP applications (including SAP HANA) and critical databases (such as Oracle Database) are concrete examples.

• Smart development thanks to application modernization  

Develop and deploy new cloud-native applications quickly, make existing applications even better and automate your IT operation. That's what you need to continuously innovate. With Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible, you standardize and automate development and management tasks. That gives your IT team the room and power to innovate, improve and deliver new functionality faster.

• Flexibility with hybrid cloud solutions

With Cegeka's hybrid cloud solutions, you can effortlessly integrate IBM Power Systems with public and private cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This way, you make your IT infrastructure flexible and future-proof: you switch to the cloud faster, manage your infrastructure more easily and manage innovation, performance and costs at the same time.

• Access advanced AI with IBM Power11 

Power11, the latest version of the IBM processor, introduces even more powerful artificial intelligence. Think complex AI models, improved energy efficiency, AI-driven workload management and built-in GenAI. Thus, the AI in Power11 gives you a huge amount of clout and scalability to take your innovations to the next level.

• Focus on core business thanks to managed services 

'Stimulate progress' is all about progress. About constantly renewing and improving your core business. Your IT landscape must support your organization in this, not hold it back. So you want to be able to rely on everything working as it should. Always and everywhere. With Cegeka's managed services you can be sure of that. Thanks to remote monitoring, full management of IBM Power Systems in your own data center or management of the shared platform Cegeka IBM Power Cloud. By addressing possible problems proactively and early, we keep your system performance optimal. So you can continue to innovate with full focus.

Join the most successful organizations 

Successful organizations reject the “Tyranny of the OR” and embrace the “Genius of the AND,” argue Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in their book Built to last. Achieving goals and making profits. Strive for continuity and realize change. Preserve the core and stimulate progress. Never either. An IT landscape that supports your organization in this is therefore essential. With Cegeka IBM Power Cloud and our other IBM services, you benefit from a stable and reliable platform and you can constantly innovate to meet the changing needs of customers. So you are ready to join the most successful organizations. 

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