IBM Service Delivery Manager vs Lumen Cloud Application Manager comparison

IBM Service Delivery Manager is a single solution that provides all the necessary software components to implement cloud computing. Cloud computing is a services acquisition and delivery model for IT resources, which can help improve business performance and control the costs of delivering IT resources to an organization. As a cloud computing quick start, IBM Service Delivery Manager allows organizations to benefit from this delivery model in a defined portion of their data center or for a specific internal project. Potential benefits include:

• Reduction in operational and capital expenditures.
• Enhanced productivity - the ability to innovate more with fewer resources.
• Decreased time-to-market for business features that increase competitiveness.
• Standardized and consolidated IT services that drive improved resource utilization.
• Increased resiliency to market demands.
• Improved quality of service for IT consumers.

Cloud Application Manager facilitates customer IT transformation by orchestrating the delivery of infrastructure, applications and services across multiple clouds. Manage any infrastructure from a single interface by utilizing the platform's inherent features, including Application Lifecycle Management, as well as Managed Services Anywhere and deployment of CenturyLink Cloud, CenturyLink Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation, Microsoft Azure, or AWS Cloud instances.