During its Annual Think event, IBM has announced an ambitious expansion of its artificial intelligence ecosystem with the aim of eliminating barriers that hinder its escalation in the corporate environment. With an eye on the future where the creation of more than one billion applications is expected before 2028, the technology raises an response focused on integration, automation and use of unstructured data.
One of IBM’s great bets is the evolution of artificial intelligence agents from simple conversational assistants to systems capable of executing tasks autonomously. In this context, the suite Watsonx Orchestrate It is presented as the nucleus of a strategy oriented to companies that seek to implement AI without depending exclusively on developers.
Watsonx Orchestrate allows you to create personalized agents in less than five minutes, integrate them with more than 80 leading market applications – such as Salesforce, Oracle or Servicenow – and orchestrate them so that they work in a coordinated manner, even in complex projects. In addition, IBM has launched a Catalog of agents With more than 150 options ready to use in domains such as human resources, sales or purchases.
The president and CEO of IBM, Arvind Krishna, was blunt when pointing a paradigm shift: “The experimentation stage with AI is over. Today, the competitive advantage resides in an integration of the specifically designed to generate measurable business results”. He added that IBM’s new hybrid technologies seek precisely “reduce complexity and accelerate the implementation of lists for production solutions.”
The company presents in Think 2025 an ecosystem of solutions designed to climb artificial intelligence in increasingly complex business environments
This vision responds to a reality that begins to become evident: although investment in artificial intelligence is growing accelerated, only a quarter of the projects currently reach the expected return. According to a recent IBM study, the CEOs expect to double the investment rate in AI in the next two years, but many still face disconnected and difficult to climb environments.
WebMethods and the challenge of hybrid integration
One of the main obstacles identified by IBM is the complexity of integrating systems, APIS and data sources into hybrid environments. To address it, the company has presented WebMethods Hybrid Integrationa solution that automates workflows between business applications, B2B partners and cloud systems and on-PREM.
According to a Forrester Consulting study, this tool could provide an investment return of 176% in three years, reduce the time of inactivity by 40% and expedite the simple projects by up to 67%. All this with an approach to intelligent automation and data governance.
Activate the hidden value of unstructured data
Another of the great sources of innovation is the evolution of watsonx.datawhich now incorporates an architecture of Lakehouse and capabilities of Data Fabric to activate unstructured data – like contracts, spreadsheets or presentations – which are usually out of the reach of traditional AI.
IBM has also presented tools such as Watsonx.Data Integration and Watsonx.Data Intelligencedesigned to orchestrate and extract knowledge of these dispersed data, with improvements in precision of up to 40% against conventional methods such as RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
Infrastructure prepared for the future
Completing the announcement, IBM has presented Linuxone 5a high performance and energy efficiency platform oriented to generative work loads. With state -of -the -art processors and advanced security capabilities, it promises to reduce property costs by 44% compared to traditional infrastructure.
With these innovations, IBM is positioned as a key actor in the career to make artificial intelligence an accessible, scalable and oriented tool oriented to concrete results for the business world.
