Overview
- The two companies publicly announced Imagine Enterprise on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, as a joint platform to build, run and govern AI agents for industry-specific business tasks.
- IBM Consulting is supplying a library of more than 6,000 prebuilt agents and delivery assets drawn from its Consulting Advantage tools to give clients ready-made industry capabilities.
- Microsoft provides the cloud, data, AI and security foundation through services such as Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Entra, Purview and Defender to connect agents to enterprise data and identity systems.
- Imagine Enterprise includes built-in controls for governance, observability and compliance plus forward-deployed engineering from both firms to help customers move agent projects from pilots into production.
- The announcement leaves commercial details unresolved, with no pricing, customer adoption figures or timelines for planned expansion beyond financial services, insurance and retail, and the move could speed deployments while shifting more operational work to vendor teams and to employees who oversee agent actions.