IBM Devops Loop

Overview

React and deliver solutions faster, without compromising on quality

An open platform that unifies tools and data across projects, enabling automation, governance, and alignment between business goals and delivery. AI enhances every stage with intelligent insights and agentic workflows, while end-to-end automation accelerates delivery, reduces risk, and provides real-time insights for better collaboration and decision-making.

Features

Automation and AI at every stage of delivery

Collate and connect ideas with AI and keep everyone on track

Transform ideas into action with AI by generating tasks from high-level concepts and customizing workflows to meet governance needs. Automate repetitive activities, track progress with insights and reports, and securely manage code to move from idea to implementation in minutes.

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Automate and govern the delivery of reliable software

Maximize test coverage by automating API, UI, security, and performance testing with AI-driven script generation and maintenance. Detect root causes of failures, generate realistic test data, simulate dependencies, and gain quality insights while automating pipelines, reducing risk, and ensuring reliable deployments.

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Track value, connect teams and release to live

Visualize value and risk with real-time insights into delivery performance and potential issues. Track progress through dashboards aligned to key metrics, orchestrate pipelines and releases, and generate readiness, security, and audit reports with up-to-date status for stakeholders.

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Use cases

Solutions to strengthen your pipeline

Explore integrated solutions that connect tools and workflows across the delivery lifecycle. See how combining capabilities enables smarter automation, faster execution, and end-to-end visibility, helping teams streamline processes, improve collaboration, and deliver value more efficiently.

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DevOps Loop for Apptio®

A unified approach to business and technical agility. Enables organizations to define value clearly and measure how efficiently it’s delivered. Optimize resource allocation, track value delivery and improve cost efficiency across the software development lifecycle.

 

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DevOps Loop for IBM Concert®

Deliver real-time, AI-powered visibility into application resilience across your DevOps pipeline. Assess, monitor and improve system reliability by unifying data from multiple tools into a single, actionable view.

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DevOps Loop for Instana

Accelerate delivery with real-time observability. Gain end-to-end visibility into application performance and infrastructure health. Detect issues early, reduce time to resolution, and ensure every release is reliable with AI-powered insights and automated root cause analysis.

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DevOps Loop for API Connect®

Streamline the API lifecycle with AI-driven insights, secure builds and real-time dashboards. Empower teams to deliver, monitor and optimize APIs faster with full lifecycle visibility and automation.

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DevOps Loop for Engineering Lifecycle Management

Unify engineering data and workflows with real-time insights, AI assistance and full lifecycle traceability. Empower teams to manage complexity, improve quality and accelerate delivery across systems engineering and software development.

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DevOps Loop for SCC WP

Security and compliance are baked into every stage of the DevOps lifecycle. Organizations can significantly reduce the risk of security breaches, protecting both their reputation and sensitive customer data.

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DevOps Loop for HashiCorp

Deploy faster, secure better and govern smarter. integrate seamlessly to enhance cloud-native DevOps workflows. Supports automated CI/CD pipelines with infrastructure as code, secrets management and scalable deployment.

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DevOps Loop for IBM Z®

Bring modern DevOps practices to mainframe development with unified CI/CD pipelines, AI insights and real-time visibility. Accelerate delivery, improve quality and integrate z/OS® with cloud-native tools and workflows.

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DevOps Loop for Red Hat

Streamline the entire DevOps lifecycle within a Kubernetes-native environment. Designed for scalability and automation, empower teams to deliver applications faster and more reliably on Red Hat®.

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Pricing

Plans and Licensing

Essential tier List price USD 25 per user monthly*

For teams looking to get control: collate and connect ideas with AI, and manage the delivery lifecycle.

Standard tier List price USD 150 per user monthly*

For organizations seeking to accelerate time-to-market and reduce human error: automate testing with AI, generate test data, detect and fix issues faster and streamline deployment across environments.

Premium tier

For enterprises looking to align business goals to delivery activities: track value, connect teams and improve for the next project.

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  • Use AI generation to turn ideas into tasks
  • Specify and track timelines, resources and budget
  • Automate repetitive activities by using rule-based workflows
  • Generate reports on status, dependencies, bottlenecks, timelines and tasks
  • Out of the box integrations into DevOps, runtime, business and environmental, social and governance (ESG) tools
  • Capture ideas and designs with sketching and process modeling
  • Design and share technical architecture and dependencies with all stakeholders
  • Detect and resolve differences between business processes, architecture and AI-generated code
  • Ensure AI-generated code and infrastructure correlates with the capabilities

Everything from Essential, plus:

  • Automate application programming interface (API), UI, security and performance testing
  • Generate and maintain UI test scripts with AI-vision
  • Detect why test cases fail and receive fix recommendations or automatically fix scripts with intelligent self-healing
  • Generate large volumes of synthetic test data
  • Use AI to identify quality patterns and understand and mitigate performance issues
  • Automate repeatable delivery processes across development, test and production
  • Set up intelligent gates to ensure only component versions that meet quality criteria are promoted
  • Deploy GitOps

Everything from Essential and Standard, plus:

  • Predict delivery risk with AI analytics
  • Comprehensive insights and DORA metrics
  • Visualize value and delivery risks
  • Link business and delivery stakeholders
  • Manage pipelines and releases

Virtual services

Simulate responses of missing services so teams can test early

  • Sold in packs
  • The most common is: 200 VUs

Virtual users

Simulate the behavior of users for performance testing

  • Sold in packs
  • The most common is: 1000 performance VUs

Deployment agents

Run deployment tasks to different environments

  • Sold as authorized or floating users

*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.

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