IBM Cloud Pak

Built on Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud Pak lets business and IT teams run and manage containerised workloads consistently across on-premises infrastructure and public cloud. Rather than a single product, it's a family of modular offerings, each addressing a different part of application modernisation — you deploy the modules relevant to your environment rather than an all-or-nothing platform.

Key Modules

• Cloud Pak for Integration — connects applications and data across on-premises, cloud and SaaS environments, with centralised visibility and management across integration instances for API management, messaging and application connectivity.
• Cloud Pak for Business Automation — automates workflows and business processes, bundling content management, business process automation and decision management to reduce manual operational overhead.
• Cloud Pak for Data — a data and AI platform for governed analytics, now closely integrated with IBM's watsonx AI platform for model training, inference and AI governance.

Why Choose Cloud Pak

Cloud Pak's value is in its modularity — you're not locked into deploying the entire suite to get value from one part of it. An organisation might start with Cloud Pak for Integration to connect legacy systems with newer cloud applications, then add Business Automation once workflow bottlenecks become the priority, without needing to re-architect the environment each time. Because everything runs on Red Hat OpenShift, the operational model stays consistent across modules and across on-premises and cloud deployments.

Cloud Pak for Data's role has expanded significantly as IBM has built out its watsonx AI platform — for organisations investing in AI training and inference, it's increasingly the data governance and integration layer that watsonx sits on top of, rather than a separate concern.

Common Use Cases

• Legacy application modernisation — connect and gradually replatform ageing systems without a disruptive rip-and-replace.
• Hybrid cloud integration — a consistent operating model across on-premises and multiple public clouds.
• Business process automation — reduce manual overhead in document-heavy or workflow-heavy operations.
• Governed data and AI — a data platform that supports AI governance requirements alongside model deployment.

Not sure which Cloud Pak modules fit your environment? Talk to Fortuna Data. As an IBM Silver Partner we can help you scope the right combination for your application modernisation and integration needs.