Introduction to the IBM Bluemix Garage in London, United Kingdom.

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Sonia Cyrus
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Imagine the possibilities if you could
truly surface Business Value
efficiently and get from Ideato
the Right Solutionin
minimum possible time?
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Cognitive
understand, reason, learn
Predictive
predict, decide, act
Descriptive
discover, report, analyze
• Using Cognitive Services to gain new insights
• Offering new and timely services to your
clients & users …..on their terms!
• Differentiating from your competitors
What if you could shift your Technology’s role
from Enabler to Advisor?

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Introducing The Bluemix Garage, a Startup within IBM
IBM Bluemix Garage is a consultancy with a startup DNA empowering companies,
large and small, to design and build engaging applications using IBM Design Thinking,
Lean Startup, and Agile DevOps.
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People Place Practice Platform

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People
Collaborate across disciplines with clients to move faster and work smarter.
Gain industry knowledge, customer insight, and subject matter expertise.
Visual Designers / UX Designers / Developers /
Architects / Technical Product Managers /
Project Managers / Our Customers

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People Place Practice Platform

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Place
Located with Startups and Technology Accelerators, the Bluemix Garage provides a physical space to co-locate with our
customers to drive collaboration, and innovation.
London / Nice / San Francisco / Melbourne /
Austin / Toronto / New York City / Singapore /
Tokyo

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People Place Practice Platform

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Practice: Innovation with IBM Design Thinking
Think differently with IBM Design Thinking:
Human-centred outcomes at speed and scale.
Observe Reflect Make
Understand
people’s needs. Form intent. Deliver outcomes at
speed and scale.
Observe Reflect Make

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Practice: Industry best Practice in Agile development
Deliver at speed with eXtreme Programming, Test Driven Development, CI/CD, Agile DevOps
1 - Explore Potential Outcomes
Gather a shared understanding of
your user, rapidly ideate and exhaust
all potential opportunities, and define
what you should actually build.
2 - Inception
Define Goals + Risks and breakdown
the design into user stories.
3 - Build a Backlog
Build a prioritised backlog of user
stories to organise how developers
and designers will start tackling the
building of the MVP.
4 - Continuously Deliver Value to User
Development works like clockwork with
the following weekly pattern: (1) Iteration
Planning Meeting, (2) Daily Stand-Ups,
(3) daily story commits, and (4) daily
story reviews.
As a <user role>, I can
<functionality> so that
<value>.
User Stories
User Story Backlog
Someday Backlog Current Complete
=
Iteration Planning Meeting
StandupM
StandupT
StandupW
StandupTH
StandupF
Retrospective

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People Place Practice Platform

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Platform: IBM Bluemix
140+ building blocks for developers to create apps fast !
Security
Services
Web and
application
services
Cloud
Integration Services
Mobile
Services
Database
services
Big Data
services
Internet of
Things
Services
Watson
Services
DevOps
Services
Code
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Code
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualisation
Servers
Storage
Networking
Build IT Yourself
On-Premise
Platform as a Service
Garage | San Francisco
Virtualisation
Servers
Storage
Networking
IBM Managed HostingCustomer Managed
Use a combination of the most prominent open-source compute
technologies to power your apps. Then, let Bluemix handle the rest.
leave worrying about the plumbing in the past with our managed hosted digital platform

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The next evolution of human and systems capabilities, where technology enhances, scales and accelerates human expertise
Focus your Developers on creating value using Industry leading technologies
Concept expansion
Machine translation
Message resonance
Question and answer
Personality insights Relationship extraction
Speech to text
Text to speech Tradeoff analyticsVisualization rendering Visual recognition
Concept insights
Analyzes the visual appearance of
images or video frames to understand
what is happening.
Translate text from one language to
another.
Personality insights to engage users on
their own terms
Graphical representations of data
analysis for easier understanding
Direct responses to users inquiries
fueled by primary document sources
Provides highly accurate, low latency
speech recognition capabilities
Synthesizes natural-sounding speech
from text
Communicate with people with a style
and words that suits them
Locate relevant documents that may
not directly mention your query.
Intelligently finds relationships between
sentences components (nouns, verbs,
subjects, objects, etc.)
Helps make better choices under
multiple conflicting goals with smart
visualizations and analytical
recommendations.
Maps euphemisms or colloquial terms
to more commonly understood phrases
IBM Bluemix: Infuse Cognitive capabilities into your apps
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People Place Practice Platform
IBM Bluemix Garage

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Serve your Clients & Users better by
delivering compelling customer
experiences
Experiment without huge investment upfront
using Bluemix
Learn Fast from User feedback loops by
validating your MVP via iterative releases
Reduce Risks, Costs & Timescales
The IBM Bluemix Garage
Method and Approach helps
you understand your
customers – and enables you
to leverage our techniques
and technology to deliver the
kinds of experiences and
offerings they want.
Getting to the right Business Outcomes
Gain Confidence in your Business Hypotheses
before launching your production app using
Bluemix
Partner to create multi-disciplinary teams to
focus on driving the right solutions for your
clients & users

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Innovation Application
Development offerings
…to build new cloud native
apps
Bluemix Academy offerings
…to train your teams on
using Bluemix and the IBM
Bluemix Garage Method
Cloud Architecture offerings
…to build Hybrid Cloud
platforms that enable your
existing apps to use Bluemix
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Working with our Clients to get the right Business Outcome

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