- A worldwide team at IBM with varied skills across many geographies worked on 16 industries and developed 100 iOS apps, 680 APIs, and had 160 compute nodes across QA and production environments plus numerous development sandboxes. They faced pressures around skills, automation, repeatability, and reliable speed of delivery. - Using UrbanCode Deploy, Heat, and OpenStack allowed them to provision environments for full-stack application blueprints, perform on-demand automated scaling, and promote infrastructure and middleware changes through environments like application changes. This reduced delivery time from 5 weeks to 3 hours and half a day verification with turnkey solutions. - Key benefits included standardization across implementations, version management at all levels, 40% cost reduction over