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IBM has announced two big-name partnerships as it seeks to expand the enterprise appeal of its agentic AI offerings.
The first partnership, announced last week, sees tighter integration between AWS’ and IBM’s own agentic AI services: Amazon’s Q index and IBM watsonx Orchestrate.
Q index provides a central repository of third-party data for use with AI tools, while IBM’s Orchestrate offers ready-made AI agents customised for particular business functions. Think HR, procurement, customer services and sales. It also allows customers to build their own agents.
Through the integration, IBM watsonx agents will be able to access domain-specific data from third-party applications such as Adobe, Salesforce, Slack and Zendesk. Agents can then use that information to make discussions with customers more personalised, according to IBM.
IBM watsonx agents and watsonx Orchestrate are currently available via AWS Marketplace in Europe, Singapore and the US.
However, IBM plans to expand its offerings on AWS platforms over the course of this year. Next month, its AI-focused automation product webMethods Hybrid Integration will be available via AWS Marketplace, while in Q3 2025 IBM’s large language model Granite 3.2 will be offered through Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import.
IBM’s second agentic AI partnership is with Oracle, whose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) now also boasts integration with watsonx Orchestrate.
Thanks to the integration, users will be able to build and manage both IBM and Oracle AI agents through OCI. Watsonx Orchestrate will now work with Oracle’s Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, its platform for building and managing AI agents, as well as OCI Generative AI Agents.
The deal will mean customers have “a consistent way to build and manage agents across multi-agent, multi-system business processes,” IBM said.
According to the company, the first use case will be using agentic AI agents for human resources.
In an echo of its Amazon deal, IBM also announced that its Granite family of LLMs will be made available later this year through Oracle’s OCI Data Science, its service for managing machine learning models.
Analysts Grand View Research valued the agentic AI market at $2.6 billion last year, and thinks it’s set for explosive growth of 46.2% over the next five years. That means it would be worth $50.3 billion in 2030.
