--- title: IBM Garage Reviews meta_title: 'IBM Garage Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM Garage works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 18 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-22' parent_category: name: Ecosystem Service Providers url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ecosystem-service-providers --- # IBM Garage Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Salesforce Consulting Services](https://www.g2.com/categories/salesforce-consulting-services) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About IBM Garage IBM Garage is a global innovation and transformation consultancy from IBM with more than 25,000 practitioners worldwide. IBM Garage is an end-to-end model for accelerating digital transformation at scale. It helps you generate innovative ideas and equips you with the practices, technologies and expertise to rapidly turn those ideas into business value. We support you in your business goals, whether that’s helping you respond quickly to disruption or guiding your full-scale transformation. IBM Garage clients experience 10x more innovative ideas, 67% faster speed to outcomes, 6x as many projects into production and 102% ROI.\* \* “The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Garage”, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, October 2020 ## IBM Garage Reviews ### 1. IBM Garage is designed to help organizations bring ideas to market quickly. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pratik T. | Salesforce Quality Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** One of the key benefits of IBM Garage is its ability to bring diverse perspectives and skill sets together to solve complex business problems. Teams can consist of individuals from business, design, technology, and other functions, and work together in a collaborative environment to find solutions. This approach helps to ensure that solutions are not only technically feasible, but also aligned with the needs of the business and its customers. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** Nothing, everything is good about IBM Garage. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** This approach allows teams to quickly prototype and iterate on solutions, and respond quickly to changes in market conditions or customer needs. **What problems is IBM Garage solving and how is that benefiting you?** The approach emphasizes a human-centered, design thinking methodology, and leverages agile development methodologies to drive innovation. IBM Garage provides a structured framework and toolkit for organizations to apply the IBM Garage approach, including workshops, coaching, and technology solutions to help teams work more effectively and efficiently. ### 2. An excellent innovation tool for your business **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** The best aspect of IBM garage that I like the most is its adaptability. With it's unique features and variety of solutions, it has helped us to create specialised objectives for our day-to-day client requirements. VOTE framework works exceptionally well and helps us to track the progress of the project at various intervals. Especially in our projects, IBM Garage has helped us to map the new requirements of the client. The various stages of the tool help to create the proper structure. Co-creation helps map the needs of the clients, while co-execution helps build those requirements. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** Nothing specific part from the overall cost involved with the tool. Perhaps one of the things where there is room for improvement and the vendors might consider keeping the cost relatively competitive in the market. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** IBM Garage is one of the tools with a lean methodology and helps deliver seamless outcomes. It incorporates modern methodolgies and agile software development. Definitely recommended for startups if cost is not your biggest concern. **What problems is IBM Garage solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM Garage has helped to scale new opportunities in the business and helped the teams to look at new solutions for driving enhanced business outcomes. It has helped enterprises like us to evolve with the ever-changing market and also allowed us to prioritise our investments with maximum efficiency and minimum risk. ### 3. Excellent Product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul D. | Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** I would say that the entire product suite is beneficial. I like that IBM AI drives the backend. I don't think there is any "best thing" it's all great and easy to use. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** The price point is the only thing I would say is a little hard to overcome. However it still costs less than internalizing a team to deal with it. I think the software works well though. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** Make sure the CBA will give you an ROI. **What problems is IBM Garage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped us with automation of our business processes, it has sped up business processes and made our teams more productive overalll. I would say business performance has increased 2x ### 4. Helps you to innovate new ideas **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed A. | Service Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** Helps with equipment and ideas to rapidly turn those into business value. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** few commercial wrinkles, but it's not a big issue. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** The capability, flexibility and badgeless approach. **What problems is IBM Garage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lack of revenue growth in the business segment. ### 5. a great leader in productive work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** BILAL A. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** From the devops stage to security, a process is emerging in which many areas are considered together.The fact that it is such a comprehensively thought-out project deserves great appreciation. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** It is not a very widespread project and it is still in the experimental stage. It will be more effective with the tools to be put on and developed.I can say that a missing item. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** If you want to put forward a comprehensive project and carry out it systematically and have a mentoring approach, this is for you. **What problems is IBM Garage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provided an intense perspective and a good focus in customer-oriented commissioning,It provides a workgroup opportunity to close customer requests and security angles during the commissioning phase of applications. ### 6. IBM Garage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aysha A. | Marketing Admin Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** It is super accessible for users and easy to use. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** It's harder to find things such as data. **What problems is IBM Garage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving a lot of problems and making things easier and super user friendly. ### 7. The best place to work for **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rehan S. | Technical Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2021 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** Understanding the issues looking at businesses perspective using lean methodology **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** Work from home and flexibility and work environment **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** Timing slots which can be more improved overall **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** Go ahead **What problems is IBM Garage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Digital transformation which helps user to come out with innovative and new ideas ### 8. I would recommend this if you have real problem that needs be solved using AI and Cloud **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2021 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** IBM garage was used to create a fast prototype for a problem related to process industry. **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** The methodology and innovation used are refreshing. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** I don't remember anything that I disliked **What problems is IBM Garage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were trying to create a quick prototype of a web app for data aggregation and analytics. ### 9. I enjoy learning with the IBM Garage. Soon I will use my developments commercially. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** American F. | Owner, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** I am a web developer and aim my tasks inside the Garage for that purpose. **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** The most interesting category of the Garage for me is Artificial Intelligence. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** Honestly, I have found nothing as yet. Not sure about prices. **What problems is IBM Garage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using to aggregate emails sent concerning ecommerce purchases. ### 10. innovative way of driving business change **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mike c. | Cheif Architect , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** used the ibm garage to drive a blockchain MVP , innovative approach with experts that helped educate us, brought design thinking ideas to the table and drove out over a 3 day period a new business propoistion.within weeks the MVP was delivered and we where able to demonstarte this at customer and business events it positioned us as thought leaders and given us a new business model to bring to market **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** innovative, colabrative approach which producxed quick business resuklts , brought in thoughtleadership and allowed us to learn and cocreate together it quickly produced a MVP and brought value to our business, as both thought leadrrship and business disruptrion **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** nothing , it was a seamless process , enjoyable , motivating brought together people across our business as many different levbels of staff was involved along with technical and business people . ### 11. Watson For Startups and Specific with Data Co-Investment Team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumeet M. | Advisor, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** IBM folks explained and how Watson can best work with any existing data store and cloud platform and also explained (Data Science and Elite AI team). We have a Python/R/Matlab data scientist and can use these tool sets to work with IBM Watson as opposed to be limited to any proprietary standards. **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** Adaptability and flexibility to work with any parameters. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** Might be a bit expensive for startups. The **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** Consider the other teams involved prior to using or engaging IBM Garage - the Elite and AI teams. ### 12. Great framework to create a successful product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Huan N. | CEO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** We use IBM Garage Design Thinking Workshop for project of Credit Scoring based on digital footprint which people leave when they use Internet. **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** framework for open discussion to find the best way to solve problem **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** Time frame to short to create MVP. IBM scope down the expectation and not provide strong enough industry expertise for project. ### 13. Professional, simple and agile process that greatly decreased delivery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** IBM garage engagement revolved around a blockchain MVP. **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** The garage process was easy. The IBM team kept us up to date through daily scrums and weekly playbacks making sure that they were delivering the correct product for our needs. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** I did not have any negative experience with the team or garage process **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** I would highly recommend the garage engagement for teams that do not have the expertise in delivering the solution they need. ### 14. Very excited about this product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** just took a demo of garage. good one. excited to get on board of it implementation for office 365 integration. nice to have cloud solution from IBM. **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** IBM as a provider - reliablity. this is a kind of solution out of the box - cloud garage, bringing flexibility thaty small companies / startups need. **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** hmmm. nothing so far. please integrate more flexibility if you can. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** GO for it. Its coming from IBM. ### 15. IBM garage for bluemix **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** We explained the data and latency problems that we had and the garage team was able to suggest solutions and work with us to create a POC **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** The out of the box thinking and attention to the problem we were having **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** No indepth knowledge of our business and architecture ### 16. Great Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** IT was a demo to build mobile application **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** the approach was good, the methdology built arround it was great **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** I do not recall there was something not viable. ### 17. fantastic design thinking workshop to define opportunities for our business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** we used the ibm garage to drive a blockchain minimum viable product, using innovation skills and ibmers knowledge to build a new product to bring long-tail smaller scale content i.e. in-destination content onto our platform **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** ibms innovation and knowledge in the area **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** more workshops and face to face time with the ibmers ### 18. Overall success **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2018 **Describe the project or task IBM Garage helped with:** the project overall and task that I have been provides a lot of help and satisfaction with this project **What do you like best about IBM Garage?** Overall the system is great but has a few Kinks that got to be worked out will take me a few more days to solve this problem **What do you dislike about IBM Garage?** I dislike the system because of the Kinks are hard to work with and not understanding it **Recommendations to others considering IBM Garage:** Yes I highly recommend IBM garage ## IBM Garage Discussions - [What is the IBM Garage Interface Team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-ibm-garage-interface-team) - [What are the distinct phases of work in the IBM Garage?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-distinct-phases-of-work-in-the-ibm-garage) - [What are the key characteristics of the IBM Garage?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-key-characteristics-of-the-ibm-garage) - [What does IBM Garage do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-ibm-garage-do) - [View IBM Garage pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-garage/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-30+11%3A58%3A30+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=fd03a9d2-ff86-467e-bbea-340975ee8954&secure%5Btoken%5D=c23f04ef6b69f3637f93c9c19ba5141fd95e2b6862a65f1e61f69ae4470ec674&format=llm_user) ## IBM Garage Features **Planning** - Needs Assessment - Resource Allocation - Stayed within Budget - Statement of Work - Best Practices **Delivery** - Technical Expertise - Met Deadlines - Meeting Management - Project Updates - Scope Management - Roll-out **Support** - Go Live Support - Documentation - Training - Metrics - Admin Services **Team Quality** - Change Management Skills - Executive Presence - Vertical Expertise - Technology Partnerships ## Top IBM Garage Alternatives - [Salesforce Customer Success](https://www.g2.com/products/salesforce-customer-success/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (365 reviews) - [SmartSites](https://www.g2.com/products/smartsites/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (253 reviews) - [SmartBug Media](https://www.g2.com/products/smartbug/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (208 reviews)