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NO. 04 · IBM CLOUD PAK FOR AIOPS × MCSP · BYOC

Letting customers bring their own cloud

Research for a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) setup of Cloud Pak for AIOps, built on IBM's Multi-cloud SaaS Platform, so customer data stays in the customer's own AWS account.

PREP ONLYI worked on the research. There are no screens of mine here.

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PRODUCT
IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps, on the Multi-cloud SaaS Platform
MY ROLE
UX Designer, research phase
TEAM
7 people from two product teams
TIMELINE
Jan – Mar 2026
STATUSResearch complete · design continued without me
01 · INGREDIENTS

Why getting started was slow

Cloud Pak for AIOps leaned heavily on on-premises installs. The root causes we started from:

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02 · PREP

Why BYOC, and why on MCSP

Customers wanted a managed service without their data leaving their own cloud. The Multi-cloud SaaS Platform (MCSP) already had the shape for that: one part IBM runs, one part the customer owns.

CONTROL PLANE · IBM RUNS IT Service orchestration, platform updates, lifecycle operations and overall service health. One consistent management layer.
DATA PLANE · THE CUSTOMER OWNS IT Runs inside the customer's own AWS account and connects securely to IBM's control plane, so the data stays in their environment.
THE TAKEAWAY MCSP provides the shared platform and architecture. InnerSource lets product teams like AIOps reuse and extend it, instead of building their own.
03 · METHOD

Benchmark, assess, align, recommend

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"recommend" means direction for the design team, not screens
04 · THE JOURNEY WE MAPPED

From marketplace to a running instance

The research ended with the BYOC journey laid out end to end, so design could start from the real technical flow. Three stops:

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05 · WHERE IT STANDS

I handed over the prep

  • ✓Root causes, benchmarks and the existing AIOps experience reviewed.
  • ✓End-to-end technical flow mapped with architects and engineers.
  • ✓Recommendations for a guided setup handed to the design phase.
  • –Design and build: picked up by the team after the research. Not my work, so not shown here.
Curious about the research? happy to talk it through on a call
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