According to IDC, by 2025 more than 19.5 million digital applications and services will be developed and deployed using native cloud approaches in Latin America\u00b9, most targeting industry-specific digital transformation use cases. To make the most of this opportunity, it is essential to promote an integrated ecosystem, capable of collaborating and creating in a coordinated manner, with the objective of solving the most complex challenges in the world. An open hybrid cloud ecosystem comprised of developers, service integrators and solution providers has the potential to scale its resources to equip organizations to modernize their mission-critical workloads with the highest levels of knowledge, innovation and experience.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAt IBM, we are confident that a strong partner ecosystem can deliver lasting value to transform businesses and enable companies to reach their full potential to succeed in the digital age. That's why we recently announced that we've invested US$ 1 billion in the ecosystem globally,\u201d said Joaquim Campos, IBM vice president of technology for Latin America. \u201cIn Latin America we have an important ecosystem of business and innovation partners. By inviting them to participate in this Marathon, we are helping them to foster new talent in the IT market, providing technology and industry expertise to local companies and developers, and reaffirming our commitment to support them by deepening our focus on hybrid cloud and intelligence artificial."<\/p>\n