Case Study: Blue Shield of California accelerates deployments and boosts innovation with IBM PureApplication System

Serving members, increasing competitiveness through innovation and rapid time to market

Blue Shield of California, a not-for-profit health plan, needed to increase its competitiveness and agility by accelerating the provisioning of new IT systems to get offerings to market faster. They worked with IBM to implement IBM PureApplication System, an open and cloud-ready platform, to help overcome a lack of automation and better support their members.

The solution from IBM used pattern-based provisioning to automate deployments, which simplified management and drastically reduced setup times. As a result, Blue Shield accelerated the provisioning of environments from several weeks down to just a few hours, allowing their IT staff to focus more on strategic innovation while also achieving significant cost savings and long-term operational efficiency.

Blue Shield of California

Fernando Acosta

Director of Infrastructure Management