IBM and Microsoft launch Imagine Enterprise, an agentic AI platform with 6,000+ prebuilt agents

IBM and Microsoft on Tuesday (November 10) jointly announced Imagine Enterprise, a platform for enterprise AI agents designed to help companies build, run and govern AI agents tied to industry-specific processes, with a particular focus on regulated industries such as financial services and insurance. The companies did not disclose pricing.

More than 6,000 prebuilt agents to start from

IBM Consulting brings more than 6,000 prebuilt AI agents and assets, built on its IBM Consulting Advantage delivery platform, along with industry expertise. Microsoft provides the AI, data, cloud and security foundation, including Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio to coordinate agents and enterprise systems, and Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365, Entra, Purview, Defender and Azure for data, identity, governance, security and cloud. Forward-deployed engineers from both companies will support qualifying engagements to help enterprises move from experimentation to production.

Financial services, insurance and retail first

The platform's first industry frameworks cover financial services, insurance and retail, with plans to extend later to manufacturing, energy, the public sector, mobility and more. It is designed to connect agents to an enterprise's existing data, systems and daily processes, with controls, observability and AI-compliance support to govern them. Financial technology company SEI, which manages, advises or administers about $2 trillion in assets, is exploring emerging and agentic technologies with IBM Consulting and Microsoft's support as an example of enterprise transformation; the announcement does not say SEI has deployed the platform.

“Clients are no longer looking for AI that simply helps people do the same work a little faster. They want to build an agentic business,” said Mohamad Ali, senior vice president and head of IBM Consulting. Rodrigo Kede Lima, president of Microsoft's Frontier Company, said enterprise AI “will be won by organizations that can turn their data, industry expertise and AI into action.”