IBM and Microsoft Launch Imagine Enterprise AI Agent Platform
IBM and Microsoft unveiled Imagine Enterprise, an agentic platform with 6,000-plus pre-built AI agents for industry-specific processes.
IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT) on Tuesday announced Imagine Enterprise, an agentic platform designed to help enterprises build, run, and govern AI agents that execute industry-specific processes. IBM Consulting and Microsoft combined their technology and expertise with forward-deployed engineering support for qualifying engagements, the companies said in a joint press release.
Imagine Enterprise aims to help organizations, especially in regulated industries, combine human expertise with AI agents and connect them to enterprise data and daily processes. The platform is built to govern AI agents with controls, observability, and AI-compliance support intended to secure industry-specific AI deployment.
IBM Consulting brings AI transformation expertise and a fleet of more than 6,000 AI agents and assets built on IBM Consulting Advantage, the company's AI-powered delivery platform. Microsoft provides the AI, data, cloud, and security foundation intended to help the agents operate securely across the enterprise, while forward-deployed engineers from both companies can help customers move from experimentation to production.
The platform is designed around three advantages, the companies said: Instant Expertise, with more than 6,000 pre-built AI agents and assets; Fits the Enterprise, which connects to existing data, processes, systems, and technology environments; and Intelligence Multiplier, which brings IBM Consulting's experience building and running more than 6,000 AI agents together with Microsoft technologies.
SEI's enterprise transformation illustrates the types of business needs that agentic AI can help address, the release said. Rodrigo Kede Lima, president of Microsoft Frontier Company, said enterprise AI will be won by organizations that turn their data, industry expertise, and AI into action, and that the two companies are bringing the best of their technology and expertise to help customers move from AI ambition to business impact faster and with confidence.
In delayed trading, IBM shares were down 0.64% and Microsoft shares were down 2.20%.