By BigGo Finance
Publication Date: 2026-11-11 03:26:00
IBM and Microsoft announced on November 10 (US time) a platform called “Imagine Enterprise” that enables companies to build, operate, and govern industry-specific AI agents. It combines more than 6,000 pre-built agents and assets held by IBM’s consulting arm, IBM Consulting, with Microsoft’s cloud, data, and security infrastructure.
The target is heavily regulated industries, with the initial framework set for three sectors: financial services, insurance, and retail. The companies plan to expand sequentially to manufacturing, energy, the public sector, mobility, and other areas. Both companies will dispatch forward-deployed engineers to customer sites to support the transition from proof-of-concept to production operations.
Three deployment models are available. Customers can choose to outsource both build and operation entirely to IBM Consulting, deploy at scale jointly with the company, or operate the platform themselves.
IBM’s underlying platform, “IBM Consulting Advantage,”…
