Earning Criteria

• Must be an IBM Business Partner who has been invited to participate by the IBM partner team, or an employee of IBM. Participants must be approved to join the Practicum by the program administrators. IBMers may click here for more information.
• Attend a 5-day Practicum for Cloud Pak for Automation.
• Architect the software solution for the Customer Use Case - Working with teammates, design the system architecture, i.e. software and operating environment, which provides a solution to the Customer Use Case by demonstrating the value of the solution.
• Follow documented architecture to implement solution software - Install and configure all the software needed to implement the architecture established during the solution design. Different team members will be responsible for different software used in the solution.
• Demonstrate the software solution - Each team member will demonstrate their part of the overall software solution. This will require a presentation of how their software supports the overall solution and provide a hands-on demo of their software as used by the Customer.
• Document the software solution for field use - After the previous criteria has been completed, both as-designed and as-built documentation of the software solution are created for distribution to the field.
• IBM employees can click here to apply for this badge.
• IBM Business Partners will be validated and approved for receiving the badge by the Practicum Administration team.