IBM has introduced IBM Concert, an AI-powered automation tool designed to help businesses navigate the growing complexity of modern applications. Powered by watsonx AI, Concert provides users with deep insights into their applications’ operations, enabling them to streamline processes, reduce complexity, and drive innovation.
With worldwide IT spending on software expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2024 and the number of cloud-native applications projected to skyrocket from 531.3 million in 2024 to over 1 billion by 2028, businesses are faced with an overwhelming amount of data, dependencies, and interconnectivity.
IBM Concert tackles this challenge by offering a holistic view of connected applications and generating AI-driven analyses, visualisations, and actionable recommendations.
The setup process for IBM Concert is designed to be simple and intuitive. Users begin by connecting their existing supported applications and toolsets to the platform, allowing Concert’s powerful AI engine to discover relevant data about the applications’ operations automatically. The AI then delves deep into the application architecture, uncovering intricate connections, dependencies, and opportunities for optimisation.
One of the key features of IBM Concert is its 360 view, which creates a single, unified view of the user’s application environment. This eliminates the need for multiple siloed dashboards and provides a summarised overview of applications within a dynamic, user-friendly interface. The 360 view offers a central perspective on the application environment, critical risk information, and a synthesis of collected data from multiple applications, revealing previously unavailable common flows.
IBM Concert is set to become generally available on June 18, 2024, with an initial focus on three critical use cases: Application Security Risk Management, Application Compliance Management, and Application Certificate Management. As the platform evolves, additional risk use cases and focus areas, such as cost, observability, security, and networking, are planned for future releases.
In the realm of risk management, Concert enables proactive prioritisation, mitigation, and tracing of application vulnerabilities, providing concrete suggestions for mitigation and revealing vulnerabilities before they are integrated into the codebase.
For compliance management, the platform streamlines the process by helping users manage security standards as applications grow, minimising resource usage and enhancing security. Finally, Concert’s certificate management capabilities allow users to identify and track the lifecycle of certificates, receive insights into expiration dates and potential risks, and prioritise renewal efforts to mitigate potential disruptions effectively.
To help clients fully leverage the power of IBM Concert, IBM consultants are available to assist in establishing AIOps strategies, with a focus on risk, compliance, and certificate management. These experts can guide businesses in applying IBM Concert and other technologies to combat IT complexity across hybrid cloud environments.
