IBM Champions

Champion Spotlights

• Check out another great IBM Champion Spotlight with Salman Shaikh, DevSecOps architect at Royal Cyber, highlighting his experience with IBM Bob.

• Don’t miss this IBM Champion Spotlight about Bob Biggs, Expert Systems Engineer at Altera Digital Health

• In August, we also shined the spotlight on Khalid Abu-Elsoud, VP and Head of Design and Development at Alrajhi Capital. Khalid also uses IBM Bob to navigate undocumented legacy systems. "Bob helps us reverse-engineer architecture, understand dependencies, and it amplifies the architect’s ability to reason about complex systems," he says.

IBM Power and IBM i

• Hats off to the many contributing IBM Champions, who provided their expert voices to a recently published RedBook, Modernizing IBM i Applications, including Steve Bradshaw, Jim Buck, Andrew Clark, Sébastien “Seb” Julliand, Gaurav Kumar, Marius le Roux, Rahul Pareek, Pascal Polverini, Marina Schwenk, Todd Stewart, George VanEaton, Khushi Wadhwa, Carol Woodbury, and Andy Youens.

• IBM Champion Michal Wiktorek shared this LinkedIn article PostgreSQL on IBM Power vs x86: Performance Benchmark.

Automation

• Visit the App Connect community topic group and check out Containerizing IBM ACE: A Blog Series - The Basics, by Champion Matthias Blomme

• IBM Champion Richard Fichtner shares his favorite IBM product here. IBM Semeru Runtimes!

• IBM Champion Mohan Garikapati co-wrote this case study with our Champions program manager, Claudia Beisiegel, Engagement Offering Manager IBM Automation, Application Runtimes called How Mitsubishi Motors mapped 170 Java applications for a low-disruption move to IBM WebSphere Liberty.

• Don’t miss this article from Champion Vladimir Mikhalev watsonx.governance Enforcement Tracking - Sampled Compliance and the Unevidenced Run

Events reviews

• IBM Champion Johann Rumpl shares his key takeaways from EuroMaintenance 2026 in Luleå: Big Ideas, Practical Lessons, and a Realistic Look at the Future of Maintenance

• IBM Champion Tanaka Seigo wrote a great recap (photos included) of his participation in the IBM Champion Forum Japan 2026.

Data

• In case you missed it, IBM Champion Roy Boxwell posted Db2 vNext Migration - Are YOU ready, Player One?

Maximo

• IBM Champion Helio Reis wrote The quietest change in MAS 9.2 is the one worth your attention.

• Check out Maximo to MAS - Need to ensure that the maximo root logger is configured to use console and rolling appender, by IBM Champion Mark Robbins.

Bob Talk

Here are some examples of Championing IBM Bob

• IBM Champion Peter Kindiger shares his point of view about IBM Bob in this blog post entitled, IBM Bob – Mehr als nur eine KI-Anwendung
• Make sure you catch up on IBM Champion Jorge De Trinidad Zepeda’s most recent post of his three-part series Buying licenses is not implementing AI: the lesson many organizations still haven’t learned
• In case you missed it, IBM Champion Takeshi Sugata created this IBM Japan hosted video for the IBM Bob product page, which highlights his feedback and the potential uses of IBM Bob.
• IBM Champion Bernd van Oostrum, published this thoughtful blog called, WANTED: an AI companion for enterprise software.

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