Introduction
The race for the next computing platform, quantum computing, is at full speed. As with every new computing platform, the focus is first on getting the hardware right. With IBM making substantial progress toward its end-of-2024 goals, naturally the relative focus switches to software, because hardware without software is just…hardware. This blog post investigates the recent announcement from IBM regarding the Qiskit Functions Catalog and describes why it matters and what CxOs should do with quantum.