Oct 08, 2025 (MarketLine via COMTEX) --
IBM has revealed new products and updates across its software and infrastructure lines at its annual TechXchange conference, focusing on operationalising AI for enterprise use.
The event, attended by developers and technologists globally, served as the launch platform for several initiatives addressing production-level deployment, governance, and integration of AI in hybrid cloud environments.
IBM presented updates to watsonx Orchestrate, underpinning its agentic AI approach.
The platform now boasts more than 500 modular tools and agents from IBM and third parties, engineered for broad compatibility.
A key feature, AgentOps, offers a framework for full-lifecycle observability and enforcement of policies on agent behaviour.
IBM said that AgentOps help in evaluating the reliability of agents by enabling real-time monitoring and anomaly flagging throughout operational workflows.
For development teams, watsonx Orchestrate now supports agentic workflows, allowing the use of standardised flows which are intended to improve scalability compared to script-based automation. This is now generally available.
Non-technical users can access agent creation capabilities via an integration with LangflowaEUR(TM)s visual editor, currently in tech preview, and planned for general availability at the end of October.
IBM also announced that watsonx Assistant for Z will extend these functionalities to mainframe environments.
This release aims to automate operational processes on IBM Z systems using contextual understanding in line with enterprise security and compliance protocols, building on the prior z17 launch.
With the recent HashiCorp acquisition, IBM introduced Project infragraph, a unified control plane targeting the elimination of tool fragmentation and manual operations in hybrid and multi-cloud settings.
Project infragraph provides a consolidated, real-time infrastructure and security overview, including resources managed within and outside HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).
IBM indicated future plans to extend connectivity to other products such as Red Hat Ansible, OpenShift, and watsonx Orchestrate, alongside, Concert, Turbonomic, and Cloudability.
The company said that HashiCorp has begun accepting applications for the private beta programme scheduled for December 2025.
Project Bob was also unveiled as an AI-first integrated development environment (IDE) and is currently in private tech preview. It incorporates large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude, Mistral AI, Llama, and IBM Granite to automate tasks in the software development lifecycle.
According to IBM, Project Bob is designed for large-scale application modernisation, context-aware code transformation, code review automation, end-to-end software development lifecycles (SDLC) orchestration, and integrated security functions.
IBM software products senior vice president Dinesh Nirmal said: aEURoeAI productivity is the new speed of business. These features will help clients remove bottlenecks across their entire technology lifecycle.
aEURoeWith these enhancements across our portfolio, weaEUR(TM)re giving customers capabilities that take developer productivity, agentic orchestration and infrastructure intelligence to the next level.aEUR
Separately, IBM has confirmed a partnership with Anthropic to embed Claude LLMs into select software offerings, starting with Project Bob.
The collaboration includes a new guide validated by Anthropic that details secure enterprise AI agent development practices.
Additionally, IBM reported the general availability schedule for its Spyre Accelerator. The hardware will deliver low-latency inferencing capabilities for generative and agentic AI workloads on IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 from 28 October, and on Power11 systems in early December 2025.
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