Imagine Enterprise at a glance
IBM and Microsoft announced Imagine Enterprise on November 10, 2026: an agentic platform pairing IBM Consulting's library of more than 6,000 prebuilt AI agents and assets with Microsoft's AI, cloud and security stack, with forward-deployed engineers from both companies.
What changed with Imagine Enterprise
IBM and Microsoft announced Imagine Enterprise on November 10, 2026, an agentic platform designed to help enterprises build, run and govern AI agents that execute industry-specific processes. IBM Consulting brings more than 6,000 prebuilt AI agents and assets from its IBM Consulting Advantage delivery platform, plus the industry expertise behind them, while Microsoft provides the AI, data, cloud and security foundation. Forward-deployed engineers from both companies support qualifying engagements, helping customers move from experimentation to production.
The platform is built on Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio for coordinating agents, with Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365, Entra, Purview, Defender and Azure underneath for data, identity, governance, security and cloud, and IBM Consulting Advantage's Process Studio, Context Studio and Advantage Core for designing and governing tailored agents. Its industry frameworks initially cover financial services, insurance and retail, with manufacturing, energy, public sector and mobility named as future expansions. Financial-services firm SEI is the launch example, exploring agentic transformation with IBM Consulting and Microsoft. Clients engage through IBM Consulting, which can deploy and operate the platform or co-innovate on implementations; self-management options are also available. No pricing was published.
Why Imagine Enterprise matters for businesses
Why it matters: the two companies are packaging agent adoption as a consulting-led platform rather than a product a business assembles itself, aimed squarely at regulated industries where governance and compliance decide whether agents ship at all. For independent agencies and smaller consultancies selling agent builds, the competitive bar is shifting toward governed, industry-specific deployments with an audit trail — offers that cannot speak to controls, observability and compliance will be harder to sell against platforms like this.
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