IBM and Microsoft on November 10, 2026 announced Imagine Enterprise, an agentic AI platform for building, running and governing AI agents for industry-specific business processes. The two companies announced it on Microsoft's news site. It is aimed especially at regulated industries and includes controls, observability and support for AI compliance.
The platform combines IBM Consulting technology, including IBM Consulting Advantage, Process Studio, Context Studio and Advantage Core, with Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Azure and Microsoft's security and identity tools Entra, Purview and Defender. IBM Consulting brings a library of more than 6,000 AI agents and assets.
The first industry frameworks cover financial services, insurance and retail. Manufacturing, energy, the public sector and mobility are named as possible future additions. Financial services firm SEI is named as a customer, and its chief AI strategist, Sneha Shah, is quoted in the release.
According to the release, "Imagine Enterprise is available to clients by engaging IBM Consulting to deploy and operate the platform on the client's behalf," with self-managed options also available. Forward-deployed engineering support is offered for qualifying engagements. The companies did not disclose pricing.
The executives quoted are Mohamad Ali, head of IBM Consulting, and Rodrigo Kede Lima, president of Microsoft Frontier Company. For enterprises already on Azure and Microsoft 365, Imagine Enterprise packages agent building, governance and consulting services into a single offering.