Open Source technology can accelerate enterprises with their digital transformations by providing a quickly developing innovation ecosystem filled with like-minded peers. But to successfully use open source to win, serve, and delight customers, there’s a level of quality and performance that is expected.

The key success factors for Open Source Life Cycle Management with Automation are:

1. Adoption
• Open source in a Cloud Native Environment, without complexity
• Integration with other open source and enterprise software

2. Life Cycle Management
• Automation driven Managed Services – including proactive notifications about patches or fixes

3. Cost Optimisation
• The ability to switch to less expensive community editions

4. Security & Compliance
Most importantly, the need for a specialist in not just a single open source category to achieve some of these demands, but integrations and the ability to successfully meet performance expectations are reserved for players like IBM that can understand you Industry, future need across complex IT stacks