IBM announced the acquisition of Txture GmbH, an Austrian firm specializing in software for discovering, planning, and executing large-scale cloud transformations. Led by IBM Consulting, this move reinforces its asset-led consulting strategy by integrating Txture’s capabilities into the IBM Consulting Advantage platform to automate initial analysis, reduce manual work, and deliver value faster in hybrid cloud environments with security and corporate governance.
What Txture Brings to IBM Consulting’s Portfolio
Txture’s technology complements IBM’s Application Migration & Modernization (AM&M) and Cloud Technology Strategy practices through four key drivers:
- Accelerated discovery and assessment of existing IT assets, automating inventories of applications, dependencies, and requirements.
- Optimized modernization plan with data-driven recommendations (rehost, refactor, replatform, retire, replace), prioritizing impact and risk.
- More agile project execution for cloud initiatives, with workflows that reduce manual effort and improve deliverable quality.
- Sustainable roadmap, incorporating criteria to reduce the carbon footprint of the IT environment.
According to the leadership team, the goal is clear: shorten the time-to-value and increase certainty in critical modernization decisions for clients operating in complex hybrid cloud environments.
Academic Roots and International Traction
Founded in 2017 in Innsbruck (Austria) as a spin-off of the Innsbruck University’s Computer Science Institute, Txture has its roots in applied research on IT landscape planning and transformation initiated in 2009. This foundation has resulted in a suite that has already driven over 100 cloud migration projects worldwide and processed more than 50,000 applications in partnerships with global integrators and large corporations.
An Ecosystem of “Cloud Value Management”
IBM frames the acquisition within a comprehensive cloud value management ecosystem:
- Initial phase (discovery and planning): Txture for modeling the baseline and defining the modernization strategy.
- Execution and financial governance: Apptio and Cloudability (IBM-owned) for FinOps, showback/chargeback, budgeting, and cost/usage/performance optimization.
- Consulting platform: IBM Consulting Advantage, unifying assets, agents, assistants, and applications to accelerate projects through reuse and best practices.
The result is an end-to-end coverage — from discovery to operational run — with traceability and control, essential for regulated sectors and companies managing multiple clouds and data centers.
Why It Matters for CIOs and Transformation Teams
- Reduced uncertainty during critical phases: discovery is often the bottleneck. Automating it minimizes biases, omissions, and timing.
- Defensible recommendations: data-driven decisions that connect business value (agility, resilience, cost) with technical aspects (debt, dependencies, SLAs).
- Faster delivery: reusable playbooks, software assets, and agents facilitate industrialized portions of consulting work.
- ESG agenda: modernization aligns with energy efficiency and emissions reduction goals for the IT portfolio.
Contextual Movement
IBM Consulting has long invested in combining human talent with digital assets (assistants, agents, and applications) to scale and differentiate its services. The acquisition of Txture strengthens this initiative by incorporating native automation for multi-cloud and hybrid environments, where topological complexity and historical dependency on legacy applications demand specialized tools.
For clients, the promise is modernizing with confidence: greater visibility, clear migration paths, quality controls, and consistent deliverables to facilitate reporting progress to business, finance, and risk.
via: newsroom.ibm