IBM Cloud Platform Demo & Tutorial Library
Dear IBM Cloud user and reader,
there’s a solution (you can find it here without having to read the whole post) for saving huge amounts of time when looking for demos and tutorials related to IBM Cloud. During my nearly almost 4 years working at IBM Cloud I’ve experienced many times that the search for an useful demo and/or tutorial based on a particular service of the IBM Cloud Platform Catalog could be improved and in a more efficient way that using a search engine. This situation is ongoing as the cloud evolves at the same pace than the market.
It’s not only me who’s facing the mentioned above but every IBM Cloud Platform user that wants a different demo than the ones that are available on the documentation of the services that are listed on the catalog.
Sometimes IBM Cloud users are looking for that dreamed demo that would provide him/her that source code that would definitely boost the project that’s under development and shorten the deadline until the release date in a way that the time-to-revenue is much shorter. This is critical on the very disruptive market on which we’re today on which you either develop something that everybody needs or you are the first on releasing a project and therefore you have a very competitive advantage on the market by positioning yourself as a market leader. Another situation on which the time is critical for the new organizations and enterprises is the time to innovation. The shorter amount of time is needed by the organization/enterprise to innovate, the most competitive it is.
Just by reading the brief explanation above and the title you might already figure out what’s this post about. Shorten demo/tutorial search time that means also shorten the “time-to-innovation”, that furthermore means saving time, and time is money, isn’t it?
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How am I planning to do that? Simple. Very simple. There are a bunch of websites like IBM Developer Works Technical Library, IBM Cloud Blog, IBM Cloud Architecture Center, and a long etc of different sites run by IBM, partners, 3rd party providers, freelances, etc. In many many cases you will end up using a search engine that will display thousands of results and you will be browsing them one by one until you find something that could fit the purpose that you had at that time. Why not bringing something more practical and easy to maintain that would benefit all the IBM Cloud users at once?
I’ve been harvesting demos for a while now although it’s not that long since I started doing that. Saying that I’m ready to release the first Demo & Tutorial Library for IBM Cloud that’s on the format of a simple spreadsheet, on which you can use the filter & search functionalities and you will have demos/tutorials for a particular service in a matter of seconds instead of hours.
On this version you will be able to find all the IBM Cloud Architecture Center that were published on it’s site until 1st of January of 2018, plus a few other demos for IBM Cloud Private. You can find them on this link: IBM Cloud Platform Demo & Tutorial Library.
The plan is keep adding demos & tutorial for creating the largest and most efficient to use demo and tutorials library of IBM Cloud Platform so keep an eye on the updates!
I hope this helps you and/or your customer to ease their cloud adoption curve and get very fast to innovation and therefore to revenue.
With Best Regards,
León Felipe López Mármol — Technical Customer Success Manager IBM Watson and Cloud Plaform
