IBM and Microsoft Corp. announced Imagine Enterprise, an agentic platform designed to help enterprises build, run and govern AI agents that help people execute industry-specific processes. IBM Consulting and Microsoft have combined their technologies and expertise with forward-deployed engineering support for qualifying engagements to help enterprises accelerate AI deployment.
Imagine Enterprise aims to help organizations, especially in regulated industries, combine human expertise with AI agents and connect them to unique enterprise data and daily processes. The platform is built to help organizations govern AI agents with controls, observability and AI-compliance support designed to help 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 that is designed to help the agents operate securely across the enterprise, while forward-deployed engineers from both companies can help customers move from experimentation to production.
Instead of organizations having to start from scratch, replace the platforms they already depend on or spend months assembling the pieces themselves, Imagine Enterprise is designed around three simple advantages:
Instant Expertise: More than 6,000 AI agents and assets
Starting with prebuilt AI agents, assets and deep industry expertise from day one. Organizations can begin with capabilities already built for their industry and adapt them to the unique needs of their business.
Fits the Enterprise: A platform that adapts
Imagine Enterprise is designed to connect with an organization’s existing data, processes, systems and technology environment. Enterprises can start where they are, build on what they already have and scale over time, with enterprise security, identity, AI governance and control built into the experience.
Intelligence Multiplier: Puts the knowledge of the business behind people and AI agents
Imagine Enterprise brings IBM Consulting’s hands-on experience building and running more than 6,000 AI agents together with the Microsoft technologies to connect enterprise knowledge, data and context across the organization. People and agents can operate with richer enterprise knowledge and context behind them, helping put what they already know to work across people and agents.
Supporting these advantages, Microsoft and GitHub technologies including Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio help coordinate AI agents and enterprise systems, while Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365 infrastructure, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Azure provide the data, identity, AI governance, security and cloud foundation. IBM Consulting Advantage’s Process Studio, Context Studio and Advantage Core help organizations design, deploy and govern tailored AI agents.
