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Modernization isn’t a one-and-done Application modernization

effort, but an ongoing journey. in the age of AI
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CIOs understand propping up existing
systems with modern applications can Why AI in application
often add layers of complexity to an modernization matters
already intricate IT environment. Page 8 →
Can generative AI (gen AI) help
Put AI to work for
organizations ease through this application modernization
typically tricky and lengthy process to Page 18 →
create a well-integrated IT landscape
that remains secure, scalable and Take the next step
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future-proof? Yes, it can. Explore how.
Ready to begin?
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01 Application
modernization
in the age of AI
Modernization comes with its own set of
challenges. Every time businesses reinvent their
operations, the applications powering them need
to be updated as well. Can gen AI help CIOs make
a critical difference in accelerating their application
modernization journey?

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01 Application modernization in the age of AI

The human urge to modernize. It’s what Through application modernization with
has driven us for centuries to build new a hybrid cloud infrastructure, which
worlds—roads and bridges and cities—and combines on-premises and cloud
invent new technologies. It’s what’s driving solutions, enterprises have the potential
us today to update and optimize our digital to update existing application capabilities
infrastructure, because modernization to meet current technology standards,
offers the promise of more. achieve faster time to market, improve
customer satisfaction, create new
For enterprises, that promise can mean business value and capture new business
more agility and efficiency in their digital opportunities. These reasons are why
infrastructure, and more productivity from application modernization is a key business
their developers—in some cases, possibly imperative for many enterprises.
more profitability.
According to a recent study from the
IBM Institute for Business Value, 83%
of responding executives agree that
modernizing applications and data is
central to the business strategy of
their organizations.1

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01 Application modernization in the age of AI

Only 27% of the executive The promise of modernization isn’t From technical debt accumulated over To drive transformational success and take
without its challenges. In a rush to meet years to a need for diverse skills escalated full advantage of gen AI, leaders must first
respondents state that they’ve
urgent business and customer needs, by siloed computing platforms, the barriers focus on addressing their IT weaknesses
modernized many of the many organizations implement siloed to application modernization can be many. by adopting a by-design approach to their
necessary workflows, including cloud or multicloud strategies that lead So, how can business leaders, CIOs in hybrid architecture. This strategy pivots
to increasingly complex IT environments. particular, address these challenges to from determining business limitations due
the related applications, Due to this kind of hybrid by default succeed in their modernization efforts to technology to purposefully building an
systems and data, across approach, the modernization process is at a higher rate? Gen AI. architecture that’s ready for innovation.
often slowed and seldom in lockstep with An intentional multicloud approach, better
their organizations.1 business needs. Gen AI—a generational leap forward in aligned to business outcomes, can help
AI technology—draws from deep learning supercharge modernization efforts and
In the same study, only 27% of the neural networks known as foundation maximize ROI.
executive respondents state that they’ve models and uses powerful transformers to
modernized many of the necessary produce high-quality content—such as text, Let’s explore why gen AI is key to
workflows—including the related images or code—from data. application modernization and how
applications, systems and data—across CIOs can implement it with a hybrid by
their organizations.1 design approach, to simplify, de-risk and
accelerate their modernization journeys.

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01 Application modernization in the age of AI

What’s hindering application Today, CIOs such as you have mandates Fortunately, AI provides capabilities to
to accelerate business outcomes, drive help you overcome these challenges.
modernization projects?
business agility and create new revenue From increasing developer productivity
streams through digital transformation. to accelerating application modernization
For you, application modernization isn’t and operational optimizations across your
just an IT buzzword but a business infrastructure, you can address many
imperative that can help you achieve your strategic outcomes in your modernization
goals. With it comes several challenges— projects by adopting an AI-first strategy.
including an increasingly complex IT
landscape, rising technical debt, aging
applications, limited skills, high costs,
security risks and more—that can slow
down your modernization efforts and stop
you from realizing your business goals.
Understanding these challenges is the first
step toward overcoming them.

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High costs Technical debt Skills gap

Why application
modernization projects fail,
according to respondents1
57% 51% 45%
of executives say they’re say they’re challenged say they’re challenged
challenged by financial factors. by technical factors. by expertise factors.

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02 Why AI in
application
modernization
matters
While the benefits of AI are too often mythologized,
there’s no denying that it’s one of the most
revolutionary technologies of our time. By adopting
AI responsibly, organizations can unlock continuous
modernization instead of treating it as a fast and
furious, once-in-a-blue-moon project.

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02 Why AI in application modernization matters

Many enterprises are already working with With enterprise-grade AI, you can bring There’s one caveat to keep in mind while
or planning to adopt gen AI. With wide- these models to life to implement new using gen AI to extend developer skills.
ranging capabilities that span different capabilities, such as semantic search, Just as writers oftentimes need to edit
business processes and operations, not to code generation and knowledge content after using autocorrect, your
mention industries, it’s not hard to see why management. Consequently, you can developers will still need to review and
enterprises are readily embracing gen AI. enhance automation, increase efficiency refine their work. As always, they can make
in different processes and help augment a call on whether the code, for example,
But how do you successfully apply gen AI your staff’s skills and knowledge. should be accepted as is, modified or
for business? completely rejected.
To run those AI models smoothly,
You do so by choosing the right foundation you’ll want to ensure you’re building
models: enterprise-grade, domain-specific an intentional hybrid architecture
foundation models over consumer- whereby you can modernize and deploy
focused, general-purpose models. These applications effectively on the best
models—they could be large language infrastructure—private or public—to
models (LLMs), IT automation models optimize the application portfolio. Gen
and many more—are typically trained AI, with its capacity for automating tasks
on a wide variety of business data and and generating code, can be seamlessly
tuned to perform business-specific tasks. integrated into this infrastructure, enabling
greater productivity for teams.

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02 Why AI in App Modernization matters

Scale AI across
the enterprise, safely

Despite the widespread enthusiasm for

using gen AI for business, especially from
board members and investors, many
business leaders still have concerns about
adopting gen AI.

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02 Why AI in application modernization matters

61% have concerns about data

In a recent study, the IBM Institute
for Business Value found that
responding executives have 4 top lineage or provenance.
concerns about gen AI adoption.2

57% have concerns about

data security.

53% have concerns about the constraints

introduced by regulations and compliance.

45% have concerns about

data privacy.

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02 Why AI in application modernization matters

Whether an organization succeeds with gen IBM has long followed core principles
AI is influenced by how it selects, governs, grounded in commitments to trust,
analyzes and applies data. Huge volumes transparency and fairness to guide how we
of data from different sources are used handle client data and insights—and how
to train gen AI models. So, implementing we develop and deploy new technologies.
governance, management and ethical To continue this practice in the age of AI,
frameworks is essential to the safe and IBM has developed a multidisciplinary,
responsible adoption of AI. multidimensional approach that embeds
ethical principles into AI applications and
processes. With IBM’s Principles for Trust
and Transparency and Pillars of Trust as the
foundation for our AI ethics initiatives, we
are helping people and organizations adopt
AI responsibly, and with clear purpose.

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02 Why AI in application modernization matters

Principles for Trust Pillars

and Transparency ↷ of Trust ↷

IBM’s guiding The purpose of AI is to augment Explainability

human intelligence Good design does not sacrifice transparency
principles for AI ethics
We believe AI should make all of us better in creating a seamless experience.
at our jobs, and the benefits of the AI
era should touch the many, not just the Fairness
elite few. Properly calibrated, AI can assist humans
in making fairer choices.
Data and insights belong to their creator
Clients’ data is their data, and their insights Robustness
are their insights. We believe government As systems are employed to make crucial
data policies should be fair and equitable, decisions, AI must be secure and robust.
prioritizing openness.
Transparency
Technology must be transparent Transparency reinforces trust, and the
and explainable best way to promote transparency is
Companies must be clear about who through disclosure.
trains their AI systems, what data is
used and what goes into their Privacy
algorithms’ recommendations. AI systems must prioritize and safeguard
consumers’ privacy and data rights.

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02 Why AI in application modernization matters

What does gen AI In the past, enterprises have approached So, does this shift in technology mean
AI as an add-on, with the end goal being you need to replace your traditional
mean for traditional AI?
digital transformation. AI solutions with the latest gen AI for
application modernization? IBM AI
Now, AI is becoming the centerpiece leaders say no.
of business transformation—75% of
the business leaders surveyed believe Traditional AI models that use conventional
competitive advantage will depend on machine learning (ML) and rules-based
who has the most advanced gen AI.3 models have different capabilities and
But harnessing the potential of AI to serve different functions: predictive
fundamentally transform application analysis, security and compliance,
modernization requires a mix of vision and automation, and more. Gen AI models,
technology. Enterprises need to put AI to on the other hand, use foundation models
work at the strategic core of the business— to autonomously generate content based
not just add it on to existing systems—to on the data they were trained on.
solve challenges and help achieve their
business objectives. It’s time to move from
+AI to AI+.

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The AI Ladder®
AI+
in the modern day

Let AI help with the work

Replace your workflows

Automate your workflows

Add AI to your applications

Collect, organize, grow data

+AI
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02 Why AI in application modernization matters

Gen AI and traditional AI

are, in fact, complementary Traditional Generative
AI ↷ AI ↷
technologies; use them
together to help accelerate and
achieve your strategic goals.

Applies predefined rules and algorithms to Uses LLMs to generate new content
specific sets of data to help solve problems, based on patterns learned from the
make predictions and automate tasks data they were trained on

Potential IT tasks using traditional AI Potential IT tasks using gen AI

– Predictive maintenance – Issue summarization
– Problem detection – Action recommendations
– Incident response – In-depth conversation
– Service desk automation – Code generation
– Process automation – Insight extraction
– Intelligent workflows – Classification
– Capacity planning – Testing and debugging

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02

As a CIO, you may already

recognize the obvious merit
in adopting gen AI to progress
your many mandates. If not,
now is the time to embrace a
new perspective and learn why
gen AI could be the solution to
your modernization challenges.
03 Put AI to work
for application
modernization
Combined, gen AI and application modernization
fuel a virtuous cycle of increased agility and revenue
growth. This dynamic blend has the power to enable
CIOs to greet key modernization challenges with
unprecedented confidence.

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79% of responding executives

say using gen AI in application
modernization projects will
increase business agility. 4

Integrating existing systems with modern

applications creates perpetual challenges
for an IT organization. Using gen AI
instead to tackle modernization issues
can help simplify and accelerate the entire
application modernization journey. Through
gen-AI-powered code conversion, code
generation, code reverse engineering
and transformation planning, you can
help address common modernization
challenges, improve employee productivity
and reduce costs.

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03 Put AI to work for application modernization

Tackle technical debt When technical debt accumulates across With AI-enabled automation, developers
various aspects of your IT infrastructure, can also reduce the time they spend
with gen AI
such as code, architecture and provisioning cloud infrastructure, applying
documentation, identifying, prioritizing patches and performing maintenance.
and resolving the complexities can From implementing faster code debugging
become a Herculean task. It’s not the and enabling better document generation
case with gen AI. When you use it to take to driving automation efforts, gen AI is
on technical debt, you can accomplish designed to help reduce your technical
tasks and achieve outcomes that were debt and accelerate your modernization
otherwise impossible. Enterprise-grade AI efforts one prompt at a time.
provides capabilities that improve issue
classification, generate code for issue
resolution and set up context-sensitive
automation, significantly cutting down the
time your developers spend fixing code.

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03 Put AI to work for application modernization

Bridge the skills gap The shortage of traditional technical skills languages. With these capabilities, your
is a real challenge many CIOs must address teams are positioned to translate code
with gen AI
today. But with technology evolving faster from one language to another or create
than ever, it’s equally important you acquire refreshed code, even when they don’t
modern skills—including ones related to know the specifics or syntax of a language.
gen AI and the new disciplines it’s creating, Additionally, they can easily summarize
such as prompt engineering. The solution existing code—typically older code, which
to this problem may seem simple enough: may have been poorly documented—and
reskill, automate and adapt. But is it still provide the necessary context without any
simple if it costs you time? Make use of assistance from the original developers
the code generation capabilities of gen who may no longer be around. They can
AI and provide your teams a new, faster also write automation playbooks with
way to work with a variety of skills and AI-generated recommendations.

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Gen AI
in action
Many organizations around the world are
already using gen AI to modernize their
applications. Here are two instances where
IBM was able to successfully put AI to work
for application modernization.

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 Westfield Insurance

Westfield Insurance
A leading US-based property and casualty
insurance company sought guidance
and expertise from IBM Consulting® to
experience the firsthand benefits of putting
AI to work for application modernization.
In a pilot with IBM® watsonx Code
Assistant™ for Z, Westfield Insurance
managed to support their ever-changing

80%
business demands and improve overall
developer productivity.

30%
time reduction for a developer
to understand the application

time reduction for a developer

to explain and document code

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 IBM CIO

60%
IBM CIO
IBM is always looking for new ways to
streamline and automate tedious, repetitive
IT maintenance tasks that are required
across the entire IT estate. The IBM CIO
Organization team always relied on the of Ansible Playbook content
Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform automatically generated
to support a wide range of tasks within
its IT environment. With trust and
confidence, as client zero, the IBM CIO
Organization leveraged a technical preview
of IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat
Ansible Lightspeed and improved Ansible
Playbook development efforts
with gen AI.

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Application modernization
phases and workflows in brief

How to use AI for As with any complex IT transformation Key workflows What happens in these phases?
project, application modernization also
application modernization
happens in phases. We can broadly
categorize them as advisory, planning, Transformation Advisory
transformation and testing. These phases planning You assess your application and ecosystem landscape
include critical workflows that present and create the modernization roadmap.
fitting opportunities for applying gen AI.
Transformation planning, Planning
code reverse engineering You develop the project plan and set
the modernization milestones.

Code generation Transformation

and code conversion You modernize the applications and migrate them
to newer platforms and architectures.

Code generation Testing

and code conversion You validate the modernized applications to ensure
they are fully functional and meet the performance
and security requirements of your organization.

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What are Workflows are processes and tasks that Teaming with IBM Consulting gives
occur in a sequential order, from start you access to services that help your
workflows?
to finish, through which people and organization prepare for its transformation
enterprises accomplish their work. The journey, meeting you where you
workflows discussed in this section are are—whether it’s creating a custom
instances where gen AI can be inserted strategy, modernizing business-critical
into an application modernization project, applications, or developing and managing
enhancing what teams can achieve. new applications.

Let’s look at the 4 main gen AI workflows

for application modernization.

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1 2
Transformation planning Gen AI can help you: Code reverse engineering Gen AI can help you:
Determining the transformation strategy, – Accelerate discovery and disposition In the planning phase, you perform reverse – Extract business rules by analyzing
including ROI estimation, should take by processing and summarizing hundreds code engineering to analyze the business and summarizing code.
place during the advisory and planning of documents when required. logic that’s embedded in the existing code. – Uncover domain models by analyzing
phases. It’s at this point when the – Create modernization roadmaps with It helps you understand the codebase, its code and identifying domain-specific
modernization approach is defined based detailed transformation plans and target architecture and any dependencies. entities.
on both business and technical aspects architecture designs to achieve a hybrid – Support monolith-to-microservices
of applications. Today, you likely rely on by design ecosystem. With gen AI, technology experts are transformation by analyzing monolithic
extensive rules encoded in spreadsheets – Generate reference architecture, exploring ways to summarize the code and applications and generating microservice
and other tools to do the planning. But including diagrams and documentation analyze existing applications to generate recommendations.
when there are hundreds of servers and that can be converted into Terraform phased modernization plans based on – Optimize application refactoring and
applications to modernize, how do you code to create a landing zone for the code dependencies and historical project containerization by identifying refactoring
manage the complexity? transformed applications. sequencing. opportunities, generating refactored
– Understand the overall application to code and suggesting containerization
Technical leaders are considering how gen make informed modernization decisions. configurations.
AI can be adopted to radically streamline
transformation planning.

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3
Code generation Gen AI can help you:
You focus on code generation in the – Write cloud-native code in Java,
transformation and testing phases. But Quarkus, Spring Boot and more.
what if you are plagued by developer – Optimize and document COBOL code.
team fatigue, too many repetitive manual – Build UI code, including backend for
tasks, poor code quality and constant frontend (BFF) patterns, by analyzing
customization challenges? images to generate code compatible
with the UI design.
Gen AI lets you create codes very – Generate infrastructure code for
quickly, enabling you to accelerate Terraform and configuration code for
code development with just natural container platforms such as the Red Hat
language prompts. OpenShift® Platform.
– Develop serverless code for serverless
functions using Knative.

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IBM offers you enterprise-grade code IBM watsonx Code Assistant is built on
generation capabilities through IBM IBM® Granite™, state-of-the-art models
watsonx™ Code Assistant™. This AI- designed for code and trained on 116
powered coding assistant simplifies and programming languages. Granite is geared
automates both new software development to help IT teams create high-quality code
and application modernization, boosting using AI-generated recommendations
productivity and empowering development based on natural language requests or
teams of all skill levels to support business existing source code.
innovation. Developers can accelerate
workflows across Python, Java, C, C++, IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z is a
Go, JavaScript, Typescript and more—using gen AI-assisted product built specifically
gen AI assistance that is fine-tuned for to accelerate the mainframe application
enterprise-grade code and available directly lifecycle. It supports the end-to-end
in the IDE. application developer lifecycle with
capabilities for application discovery and
Teams can enhance business agility analysis, code explanation, automated
and reduce technical debt with a code refactoring, code optimization
custom experience that automates the advice, COBOL to Java transformation
end-to-end modernization of Java and validation.
applications and runtime environments.
Secure deployment of the assistant on Finally, IBM watsonx™ Code Assistant for
premises or in the cloud can put your Red Hat® Ansible® Lightspeed demystifies
business in control—by integrating with IT the process of Ansible Playbook creation
environments and meeting unique privacy through gen AI-powered content
and compliance requirements. recommendations. Purpose-built to
accelerate IT automation, the product is
designed to deliver automation content
recommendations for an enhanced
Ansible experience.

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03 Put AI to work for application modernization

4
Code conversion
In the transformation and testing phases,
you also engage in code conversion to IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z is a gen-AI-assisted product
translate or migrate code from one format
built to accelerate mainframe application modernization at lower
to another. Maybe you have existing
applications that aren’t compatible with cost and with less risk than today’s alternatives. The product
new platforms, but you still need to retain provides an end-to-end application developer lifecycle that includes
them. What if your developers don’t have
the bandwidth or the expertise required for application discovery and analysis, automated code refactoring,
code conversion from existing applications? COBOL to Java conversion, automated test generation and code
Gen AI can help you automate this
conversion process and enable it for many
explanation. Developers can automatically refactor selected
languages. For example, convert code elements of an application and continue modernizing in COBOL
from COBOL to Java by generating Java
or selectively transform code to Java by leveraging gen AI.
code that matches the functionality of the
original application.

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04 Take the
next step
The best way to sidestep application modernization
challenges is to start right. Only then can CIOs
harness the full potential of gen AI and go after
opportunities that were previously off limits.

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04 Take the next step

60% of organizations
surveyed have not yet
developed a consistent,
enterprise-wide approach
to gen AI.5

As enterprises transition from the hype to

the how of gen AI, it becomes even more
critical to understand the costs of—and
the value derived from—investments in the
technology. CEOs and their CIOs know they
need to tread carefully while adopting it,
but they also feel the need to act fast. Still,
according to an IBM Institute for Business
Value study, 60% of organizations surveyed
have not yet developed a consistent,
enterprise-wide approach to gen AI.5

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04 Take the next step

1
Here are 7 recommendations Ensure your infrastructure is set up By integrating AI capabilities within hybrid
intentionally, with the necessary security, environments, organizations can enhance
to help you get started.
privacy and resiliency controls to support their application modernization efforts,
the right AI use case for your organization. ensuring efficient data management and
robust security protocols.
An effective AI journey starts with an
intentional hybrid approach. Choose an IBM’s IT infrastructure solutions—from
open, hybrid cloud platform empowered servers and mainframes to storage systems
by Red Hat OpenShift that you can deploy and software—have been designed to
across different locations and offers help support the next generation of AI
a consumption-based model for both technology and follow a clear set of
on-premises infrastructure and cloud- build guidelines.
delivered services.

Don’t over invest or over provision

infrastructure for AI; instead, align the
right infrastructure to the right AI task at
hand. Make sure the infrastructure meets
your organization’s standards for security,
privacy and resiliency.

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2 3 4
Start with a clear roadmap and develop a Grab low-hanging fruit by applying Go after opportunities that were previously
well-articulated plan before you implement gen AI to applications that have already off-limits such as applications and
the modernization and migration journeys. been modernized. processes in core systems.

Understand how the applications are Seize the low-risk, high-visibility Direct your efforts toward core business
aligned to your business and discover opportunities. Applying gen AI to already- systems where gen AI can deliver bigger,
any dependencies to ensure your modernized applications can help you more more strategic results. Focus on past
transformation strategy doesn’t disrupt readily highlight its benefits. initiatives that represented the most
the business. business value but were abandoned due
to cost or complexity.
IBM Consulting can help you discover
your entire landscape—from the platform, IBM Consulting can help you rethink your
operating systems and middleware you strategy and modernize with purpose.
use to the different applications you With a focus on AI and hybrid cloud, we
run—to define your AI roadmap and tailor can implement and scale advancements
it to your transformation journey. to reinvent your organization’s workflows.

Our IBM Business Partners are well

placed to help with the implementation,
maintenance or management of your
infrastructure and software.

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5 6 7
Track and measure the impacts of gen AI Seed new teams with experienced Take a strategic approach to AI ethics,
on developer productivity. talent to serve as cross-functional ensuring that platform policies are based
guides and advocates. on the principles of transparency, trust
Measure and reward fast cycles of and fairness.
modernization made possible by gen AI. Extend gen AI modernization to
Use this data to demonstrate the value of opportunities across the organization. Establish, publish and enforce organization-
gen AI to other business unit leaders and Close the gap between IT and business wide policies, practices and guidelines for
drive consistent and accurate automation and form new partnerships that drive employees using the technology.
adoption across your organization. technology modernization and business
performance, irrespective of roles. Instill a culture of ethics and AI governance
IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red to enable holistic, end-to-end management
Hat Ansible Lightspeed can help novice of AI solutions.
developers write Ansible Playbooks and
automate tasks while removing the burden IBM can help you deploy the right AI
of low-level task creation from more technology in the right business area,
experienced automators. designed for maximum impact, with
governance and security guardrails built
into the process.

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IBM operates. services or products will ensure that the client is in
compliance with any law or regulation.
Examples presented as illustrative only. Actual results
will vary based on client configurations and conditions
and, therefore, generally expected results cannot be
provided.

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