IBM's delivery optimisation solutions put business users and processes in control to dynamically drive the underlying IT infrastructure. Infrastructures optimised for delivery ensure that user-demanded resources are delivered in the most timely and efficient manner. Examples can range from user self-provisioning on demand, to cloud-based "virtual enterprises" that are entirely unconstrained by physical barriers or location.

Support ongoing cost savings

• Automatically reserve and reclaim computing power to virtually eliminate underutilisation.
• Support standardisation with business-ready cloud offerings for significant gains in productivity and rapid return on investment.
• Gain awareness of usage-based costs to highlight efficiency opportunities and facilitate granular chargeback.

Improve service delivery

• Provide self service capabilities for provisioning application stacks as services.
• Ensure that resources are directed to the workloads that matter most to business clients.
• Support elastic scaling to avoid disruptive capacity shortfalls.

Increase business agility

• Facilitate rapid provisioning of new services or resources and the scaling of established services to dramatically increase business agility.
• Support creativity by almost entirely decoupling business decisions from infrastructure constraints.
• Preserve business capital by exploiting pay-as-you-go, self-service access to virtualised resources virtually anywhere and anytime, whether internal or external to the organisation.