GBM Systems Group – Helping Organizations build Dynamic Infrastructures
Today, IT organizations are facing a huge number of challenges in many areas. Pressure on IT budgets are getting intense while the need to take advantage of weaknesses of competitors and be prepared for the opportunities is placing new demands on IT.
Our experience shows that most IT infrastructures are underutilized, and often are getting difficult to manage, pushing operational cost and complexity to unsustainable and uncompetitive levels. Moreover, rising cost pressures, higher service expectations, new risks and threats, the need for agility and the growing list of emerging capabilities only compound the inability to harness the sum total of an organization’s overall IT assets for real competitive advantage.
Finally, there are numerous new models and standards such as SOA , SaaS, Cloud computing , etc. that CIOs need to consider as they undertake tactical and strategic decisions about the way they implement today’s and future IT resources to enable them to deliver the services that the business requires.
All of these factors weigh heavily on the minds of IT staff who are making decisions about today’s and future IT delivery. In order to help our customers address these challenges, GBM delivers a new vision for infrastructures of the future which requires a new way of thinking.
It’s time to start thinking differently about infrastructure.
The IBM vision for customers is for a dynamic infrastructure – one that transforms assets into valued services. IBM vision is for a shared, integrated and highly available infrastructure that can address today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities.
Creating a dynamic infrastructure with GBM Systems Group
Together with IBM , GBM offers a strategy for designing and evolving today’s infrastructure that enables organizations to move beyond simply addressing operational challenges piecemeal, or in silos. A strategy that transcends physical boundaries to help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats. This strategy is both a vision and an approach for achieving that vision.
GBM’s approach to a dynamic infrastructure addresses today’s challenges and tomorrow’ opportunities.
It allows for improved service - Not just high availability and quality of existing services, but also meeting customer expectations for real-time, dynamic access to innovative new services.
And reducing cost- Not just containing it, but achieving breakthrough productivity gains through virtualization, optimization, energy stewardship, and new computing models.
And finally, not just managing the risk requirements that we are facing today, with security, resiliency and compliance challenges, but getting in front of new risks that may come with a more connected and collaborative world.
GBM is working with many clients in the region today who are making paradigm shifts in how they are addressing these areas.
- GBM offers the industry leading portfolio of IBM Systems and together with IBM is setting the infrastructure agenda for the region and providing our clients with a clear path to a dynamic infrastructure.
- We provide choice to our clients with a broad range of server , storage and retail systems offerings required to match diverse workload needs. Not “one size fits all”… these are "fit for purpose" optimized components that can be combined and managed together.
- Systems capable of running multiple operating systems: zOS, AIX, i, Linux, and Windows.
- We also have comprehensive Systems Software for our servers and storage offerings that: virtualizes, manages, and provides security, energy management capabilities, and availability.
- Our service management capabilities deliver the visibility, control and automation needed to deliver quality service, manage risk and compliance, maximize return on investments, and accelerate business growth.
- In the end we deliver business value to our clients by helping them improve service, reduce cost and manage risk.
GBM has successfully deployed retail systems in most large retailers throughout the territory and regularly supplies, maintains and offers support to a host of industry leaders. The IBM Retail Store Solutions portfolio, backed by three decades of IBM’s expertise in the global Retail and Hospitality sectors , comprises the most complete range of products covering everything from Point of Sale (POS), Kiosk, Self Service and Self Checkout machines, Printers and Peripherals to POS software applications, and monitoring and management utilities. In addition to the IBM RSS product portfolio, GBM has cultivated a partner network that has the ability to co-create bespoke solutions for virtually any solution. This includes everything from custom self service kiosk design services to electronic funds transfer applications, bank integration and customer specific POS application deployment and support.
GBM gives organisations the dynamic edge
GBM's Software Group understands that a firm's IT infrastructure is both an opportunity and a challenge for those who are alert to harness the increasingly digitised world.
Being the sole distributors* for IBM - the major providers of Infrastructure Software for all industry verticals - allows us to offer our customers the broadest software solutions.
GBM's Software Group deploys end-to-end infrastructure solutions, based on the platform of IBM's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) which is supported by GBM's Software Implementation service.
Today, it is a known fact that in distributed computing environments, up to 85 percent of the computing capacity sits idle, doing little to meet rising service level expectations, reduce risk, manage costs or maximise revenue ability.
The good news is that GBM brings a broad expertise to the table, across servers, storage, software and technical support and through the vast but relevant offering of IBM software, we are able to suggest the right solutions to help our customers manage data, put together trusted information that cuts across diverse silos and also gain valuable insights to optimize your business.
IBM software follows open standard which means that the IBM software will run on both IBM and non-IBM hardware.
GBM has a dedicated team of Software professionals in all of its operating markets to help customers achieve their business goals. Not only do we sell software, but we support implementation and offer a complete after-sales service - in essence we are the ideal 'one stop shop'.
GBM is the leading Information Technology infrastructure solutions provider in the region with over 20 years of regional experience. Combined with our unique partnership with IBM, we truly believe that GBMÂ Software Group Offers Comprehensive IT INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS for End-to-End Enterprise needs of today. These solutions are based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the following offerings are broken down by major Infrastructure areas with description of GBM capabilities and some examples of customer who deployed our Solutions.
