IBM announced new software and infrastructure products at its annual TechXchange 2025 event in Orlando, aiming to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to practical use. The company presented updates focused on agentic AI, hybrid cloud integration, quantum computing, and intelligent infrastructure.

According to IBM, many organizations face obstacles such as fragmented IT environments and insufficient data quality that slow down the adoption of generative AI. IBM’s latest offerings are designed for production readiness and real-time governance across hybrid cloud ecosystems.

“AI productivity is the new speed of business. These features will help clients remove bottlenecks across their entire technology lifecycle,” said Dinesh Nirmal, Senior Vice President of Products, IBM Software. “With these enhancements across our portfolio, we’re giving customers capabilities that take developer productivity, agentic orchestration and infrastructure intelligence to the next level.”

A key update involves watsonx Orchestrate, which now offers over 500 tools and customizable agents from IBM and partners. The platform includes AgentOps—a governance layer that provides monitoring and policy-based controls for AI agents throughout their lifecycle. This allows businesses to track actions taken by AI agents in real time and address issues promptly.

Enhancements also include standardized agentic workflows for developers and a visual builder through Langflow integration for non-technical teams. These features aim to simplify agent setup and orchestration. IBM plans to extend these capabilities to mainframe environments with watsonx Assistant for Z, targeting proactive system management while maintaining security standards.

Following its acquisition of HashiCorp, IBM introduced Project infragraph—a unified control plane for observability across hybrid cloud environments. This project aims to eliminate manual tracking processes by providing a live view of an organization’s entire infrastructure estate and security posture. Project infragraph is set to be available within HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), with future plans to connect it with other IBM software such as Red Hat Ansible, OpenShift, watsonx Orchestrate, Concert, Turbonomic, and Cloudability.

HashiCorp has opened applications for a private beta program for Project infragraph expected in December 2025.

IBM also unveiled Project Bob—an integrated development environment currently in private tech preview—designed with advanced task generation capabilities for enterprise software development lifecycles. Project Bob orchestrates between multiple large language models including Anthropic Claude, Mistral AI, Llama, and IBM Granite. Its features focus on application modernization at scale, intelligent code generation aligned with enterprise requirements, end-to-end workflow orchestration from development through maintenance, and embedded security practices.

To broaden access to AI technologies without vendor lock-in concerns, IBM announced a partnership with Anthropic to integrate its large language models into select IBM products starting with Project Bob. Additionally, IBM released a guide verified by Anthropic focused on architecting secure enterprise AI agents using a structured approach called the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC).

TechXchange 2025 runs from October 6-9 in Orlando.

Statements regarding IBM's future direction are subject to change or withdrawal without notice.

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