IBM has expanded its software portfolio to 92 countries via AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) in a move expected to make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
In Africa, IBM has said the it has made its software available in Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad,Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia and Uganda.
Clients in these new region will therefore have more access to IBM’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) and data technologies within a portfolio of 44 listings and 29 SaaS offerings available for purchase such as the watsonx AI and Data platform, which allows enterprises to build, scale and govern AI workloads.
“IBM’s global expansion with AWS Marketplace opens up innovation opportunities for our joint customers across the world,” said Matt Yanchyshyn, General Manager AWS Marketplace and Partner Services at AWS.
IBM is also launching 15 new IBM Consulting professional services and assets on AWS Marketplace, exclusively designed for AWS. IBM Consulting also brings 24,000 AWS certifications and a dedicated team of experts trained in the latest AWS technologies to help clients with tailored recommendations grounded in industry best practices.