CleanSlate Is an IBM
Platinum Partner
We were built on IBM. Our focus today is where IBM creates the most value: data and automation.
A Partnership Built on 25 Years of IBM Work
CleanSlate was founded by people who spent years doing complex IBM infrastructure work before the cloud era. That depth is why IBM awarded us Platinum Partner status, and why we hold Expert Competency certifications across the two areas where IBM drives the most enterprise value today: data and automation.
For organizations running IBM workloads, we're one of the few partners that understands both sides of the equation, what IBM does well, and where moving to modern cloud architecture changes the calculus.
IBM Automation
Connect systems. Automate work. Optimize operations. AI creates more value once it can act across the business, so the work here is production automation that becomes part of how the organization runs: secure, observable, and built to keep improving.
Integrate Your Enterprise
Applications, APIs, data and business processes connected across hybrid environments using IBM integration and automation technology. Information and actions move between systems without adding another layer of complexity to maintain.
What changes: faster integration, fewer manual handoffs, better data flow.
Modernize Application Delivery
AI-assisted development and cloud-native technology applied to how software actually gets built, deployed and managed. Your engineers spend less time on repetitive work and more on the problems that need them.
What changes: faster releases, less technical debt, more engineering capacity.
Secure Identity and Access
Consistent, governed access across applications, users and hybrid environments. Identity governance and access controls get automated and integrated with the security investments you already made rather than replacing them.
What changes: lower risk, simpler administration, stronger compliance posture.
Optimize Technology Spend
FinOps discipline and intelligent automation applied to what technology actually costs across hybrid environments. Financial visibility connects to operational decisions, so spend moves toward the workloads earning it.
What changes: lower run costs, better forecasting, defensible investment decisions.
Automate IT Operations
AI-powered observability and automation across complex hybrid environments: understanding system health, catching issues early, and automating the response. The direction of travel is from reactive operations toward predictive and increasingly autonomous ones.
What changes: less downtime, faster resolution, more resilient infrastructure.
IBM Data and AI
If your data is not ready to act on, your AI is not ready to deliver. Most organizations already hold the data they need. The work is making it accessible, trusted, governed and available at the speed the business is asking for.
Data Foundation
Structured and unstructured data unified through an open, hybrid foundation built for analytics and AI workloads. We establish the architecture, integration, governance and operating model that turn it into a production platform rather than a pilot.
Built on: IBM watsonx.data
Integration
Data connected across applications, databases and hybrid environments through batch, replication and AI-assisted pipelines. The goal is continuous availability of the right data to the systems that need it.
Built on: IBM watsonx.data integration
Streaming
Events and data in motion turned into real-time intelligence, so the business can respond to what is happening rather than what happened last night. Connected, processed and governed as it moves.
Built on: IBM and Confluent
Governance
Knowing where data came from, what it means, whether it holds up, and who is allowed to see it. The same discipline extends to the models themselves, so risk is managed and decisions are documented before anyone asks.
Built on: IBM watsonx.data intelligence, watsonx.governance, IBM Guardium
Asset Performance
Operational and asset data turned into better maintenance and reliability decisions. AI predicts what needs attention, reduces downtime, and extends the working life of infrastructure that is expensive to replace.
Built on: IBM Maximo Application Suite
IBM Software Asset Management
IBM licensing is where a lot of budget quietly disappears. Sub-capacity licensing has to be measured and reported correctly, or you pay for capacity you never used and carry audit exposure you did not know about.
IBM License Metric Tool
ILMT is what makes sub-capacity pricing possible, and IBM requires it. Deployed and reporting correctly, it is the difference between paying for the cores you use and paying for every core in the cluster. How we deploy and manage ILMT
Flexera Software Asset Management
Flexera extends the picture across your whole estate, not just IBM. It shows what is installed, what is actually used, and where entitlements and reality have drifted apart. How we use Flexera
We Know Both Sides of the IBM Equation
Most partners know IBM or know AWS. CleanSlate knows both. That matters when your IBM workloads need to coexist with a modern cloud architecture, or when the right answer is to move some of them.
Our founders built CleanSlate on IBM work. We know what IBM does well, where it creates complexity that cloud architecture solves, and how to make the transition without losing workload integrity or institutional knowledge.
Assess before recommending
We run a COBRA™ assessment before recommending any IBM deployment or migration path. You know the real numbers before committing.
IBM and AWS under one roof
IBM Platinum Business Partner and AWS Premier Tier Partner. The two credentials rarely coexist. For clients with both IBM workloads and AWS infrastructure, that combination is the whole point.
Capability transfer, not dependency
We build things your team can operate and extend. IBM implementations that require us to maintain them indefinitely aren't the kind we deliver.
Production-Grade by Design
Solutions meant to become part of how the business operates, not isolated implementations or proofs of concept that stall after the demo.
Business Outcomes
Technology tied to operational and financial value someone can measure.
Enterprise Integration
AI and automation connected to the systems where work actually happens.
Security and Governance
Controls designed into the solution rather than bolted on once it is live.
Observability and Resilience
Production monitoring, exception handling, and visibility when something breaks.
Hybrid by Design
Built for the reality that your applications and data live across cloud, on-premises and several platforms at once.
Continuous Evolution
Ongoing optimization as data, models, applications and requirements change.
Not Sure Whether Automation or Data
Is the Right Starting Point?
A COBRA™ assessment maps your current environment and tells you exactly where IBM creates value, where modern cloud architecture changes the equation, and what to do first. In most cases, fully funded.