What was announced
IBM and Microsoft announced Imagine Enterprise, an agentic platform designed to help enterprises build, run and govern AI agents for industry-specific business processes. The platform targets organizations, especially in regulated industries, that want to combine human expertise with AI agents connected to their own data and daily workflows.
Prebuilt agents and enterprise fit
IBM Consulting is contributing more than 6,000 prebuilt AI agents and assets built on its AI-powered delivery platform, IBM Consulting Advantage. Microsoft supplies the AI, data, cloud and security foundation intended to let agents operate securely across the enterprise. The goal is to let companies start with capabilities already built for their industry and connect them to existing systems rather than starting from scratch or replacing current platforms.
Governance and security
The platform includes controls, observability and AI-compliance support for governing agents. On the Microsoft side, technologies such as Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender and Azure provide the data, identity, governance, security and cloud layers. IBM Consulting Advantage's Process Studio, Context Studio and Advantage Core help design, deploy and govern tailored agents.
On-the-ground support
Both companies will offer forward-deployed engineering support for qualifying engagements to help customers move from experimentation to production. The announcement noted that SEI, a financial technology and operations provider, is exploring emerging and agentic technologies with IBM Consulting and Microsoft support as part of its enterprise transformation.
