IBM and Oracle Forge Strategic Partnership to Advance AI and Cloud Integration

IBM AI Watsonx Integrates With Oracle Cloud To Boost Enterprise Productivity - IBM (NYSE:IBM)

International Business Machines Corporation IBM on Tuesday disclosed a collaboration with Oracle Corporation ORCL to integrate IBM's premier AI platform, Watsonx, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This latest development in their partnership aims to leverage OCI's built-in AI capabilities to foster a new wave of AI-powered productivity and efficiency across businesses, particularly through multi-agentic systems. IBM's Watsonx Orchestrate AI agents will be available on OCI in July, integrating with Oracle's AI Agent Studio and OCI AI services for unified multi-agent management across Oracle and non-Oracle systems. Initially focused on HR, watsonx Orchestrate on OCI (Red Hat OpenShift) supports various cloud regions and hybrid deployments, performing AI inferencing on OCI. Greg Pavlik, executive vice president, AI and Data Management Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, said, "IBM and Oracle have been collaborating to drive customer success for decades, and our expanded partnership will provide customers new ways to help transform their businesses with AI." In a separate release, IBM introduced new hybrid cloud technologies designed to overcome traditional obstacles in scaling enterprise AI. The company projects that the app landscape will explode to over a billion by 2028, intensifying the pressure on organizations to achieve scalability across increasingly complex and fragmented IT ecosystems. In April, the company disclosed a $150 billion investment plan in the U.S. over the next five years to drive economic growth and strengthen its position as a global computing leader. Investors can gain exposure to the stock via First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund TDIV and FT Vest Technology Dividend Target Income ETF TDVI. Price Action: IBM shares are down 0.59% at $247.70 premarket at the last check on Tuesday. Read Next: IBM's Shares Drop Sharply After Q1 Report: Analysts Say It's Overdone, Revenue Growth To Accelerate Photo via Shutterstock IBMInternational Business Machines Corp$247.32-0.75%Stock Score Locked: Want to See it? Benzinga Rankings give you vital metrics on any stock - anytime. Reveal Full ScoreEdge RankingsMomentum91.19Growth75.71Quality56.22Value17.52Price TrendShortMediumLongOverviewORCLOracle Corp$147.80-1.00%TDIVFirst Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund$75.730.48%TDVIFT Vest Technology Dividend Target Income ETF$22.71-% This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors. Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs

IBM and Oracle enhance AI and cloud collaboration By Investing.com

ARMONK, N.Y. - IBM (NYSE: IBM), a prominent player in the IT Services industry with a market capitalization of $226.6 billion, is collaborating with Oracle to integrate IBM's artificial intelligence (AI) portfolio, watsonx, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This partnership aims to boost enterprise productivity and efficiency through multi-agentic AI-driven solutions. According to InvestingPro data, IBM has demonstrated strong market presence with annual revenue reaching $62.8 billion. The collaboration focuses on deploying AI across business operations using AI agents, which provide a unified interface for completing tasks. IBM's watsonx Orchestrate AI agent offerings are set to be available on OCI starting in July, allowing for the management of agents across diverse business processes and systems. These agents, designed to interface with Oracle's AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications and OCI's AI services, will initially target human resources applications. With IBM's stock trading near its 52-week high and showing a remarkable 52.75% return over the past year, investors can access deeper insights through InvestingPro's comprehensive analysis tools and Pro Research Reports. IBM's AI agents will be operable on Red Hat OpenShift on OCI, catering to various regional and governmental privacy requirements, and can also be hosted on-premises or in multicloud environments. Additionally, Oracle plans to offer IBM's Granite family of AI models via OCI Data Science, aiming to provide customers with more efficient AI model options by the second half of this year. Furthermore, IBM intends to make its Envizi ESG Suite, a tool for managing environmental, social, and governance data, available on OCI, with an expected initial release in Saudi Arabia within the next 12 months. IBM's watsonx.ai, an enterprise-grade developer studio for AI applications, is now certified to run on OCI, which could help organizations develop and deploy AI services where they already host applications and data. The company's strong financial health is reflected in its GOOD overall score from InvestingPro, which also notes that IBM has maintained dividend payments for 55 consecutive years. IBM is also expanding its consulting services to assist customers in integrating and scaling AI agents across multiple platforms, thereby transforming business processes. This includes advising on the impact of AI agents on enterprise models and the workforce. IBM Consulting will offer new services to facilitate the migration of workloads from on-premises virtual machines to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on OCI. The longstanding partnership between IBM and Oracle, spanning 38 years, includes a joint go-to-market strategy in select markets to introduce these new services and capabilities to customers. This partnership is based on a press release statement and aims to enhance the strategic use of AI agents in optimizing operations and improving customer and employee experiences. Currently trading above its InvestingPro Fair Value, IBM continues to demonstrate strong market momentum, with 7 analysts recently revising their earnings expectations upward for the upcoming period. In other recent news, IBM has announced an increase in its regular quarterly cash dividend to $1.68 per common share, marking the 30th consecutive year of dividend growth. This decision underscores IBM's commitment to shareholder value and reflects its financial stability. Additionally, IBM has expanded its partnership with Box to integrate AI-driven workflows into enterprise content management, leveraging IBM's watsonx technology. This collaboration aims to enhance productivity and compliance through AI-powered insights. In the realm of cybersecurity, IBM introduced new AI capabilities with the Autonomous Threat Operations Machine (ATOM) and X-Force Predictive Threat Intelligence (PTI) agent, aiming to improve threat detection and response efficiency. These advancements highlight IBM's focus on AI-driven solutions to tackle sophisticated cyber threats. Furthermore, IBM is considered a potential candidate for a contract to modernize the U.S. air traffic control system, as mentioned by President Trump. This project emphasizes the need for a single contractor to oversee the integration of new and existing systems.

IBM and Oracle Expand Partnership to Advance Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud

ARMONK, N.Y., May 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) is working with Oracle to bring the power of watsonx, IBM's flagship portfolio of AI products, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Leveraging OCI's native AI services, the latest milestone in IBM's technology partnership with Oracle is designed to fuel a new era of multi-agentic, AI-driven productivity and efficiency across the enterprise. Organizations today are deploying AI throughout their operations, looking to take advantage of the extraordinary advancements in generative AI models, tools, and agents. AI agents that can provide a single, easy-to-use interface to complete tasks are emerging as key tools to help simplify the deployment and use of AI across enterprise operations and functions. "AI delivers the most impactful value when it works seamlessly across an entire business," said Greg Pavlik, executive vice president, AI and Data Management Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "IBM and Oracle have been collaborating to drive customer success for decades, and our expanded partnership will provide customers new ways to help transform their businesses with AI." Watsonx Orchestrate to support multi-agent workflows To give customers a consistent way to build and manage agents across multi-agent, multi-system business processes, spanning both Oracle and non-Oracle applications and data sources, IBM is making its watsonx Orchestrate AI agent offerings available on OCI in July. This multi-agent approach using wastonx Orchestrate is designed to work with the expansive AI agent offerings embedded within the Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, as well as OCI Generative AI Agents, and OCI's other AI services. It extends the ecosystem around Oracle Fusion Applications to enable further functionality across third-party and custom applications and data sources. The first use cases being addressed are in human resources. The watsonx Orchestrate agents will perform AI inferencing on OCI, which many customers use to host their data, AI, and other applications. IBM agents run in watsonx Orchestrate on Red Hat OpenShift on OCI, including in public, sovereign, government, and Oracle Alloy regions, to enable customers to address specific regulatory and privacy requirements. The agents can also be hosted on-premises or in multicloud environments for true hybrid cloud capabilities. IBM Granite Models Hosted on OCI Data Science To give customers more choice of fit-for-purpose, compact and efficient models, Oracle intends to make the IBM Granite family of AI models available through its OCI Data Science via AI Quick Actions. To streamline Granite access, the open-source Granite models are expected to be available within OCI as a cached LLM in the second half of this year. "By integrating our AI with Oracle's offerings, we're enabling businesses to easily deploy and manage AI agents across their enterprise," said Kareem Yusuf Ph.D, Senior Vice President, Ecosystem, Strategic Partners & Initiatives, IBM. "Our collaboration with Oracle illustrates how IBM and our partners offer clients a seamless and flexible path to scale AI." IBM Software to be Available on OCI Oracle and IBM also plan to make IBM Envizi ESG Suite available on OCI, with an initial release in Saudi Arabia expected within the next 12 months. IBM Envizi is an enterprise sustainability solution that automates the capture, management and reporting of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data. IBM's watsonx.ai is now certified to run on OCI, enabling customers to leverage its industry-leading scalability and performance for bare metal and virtual machine instances with the benefits of the Red Hat OpenShift. Watsonx.ai is an enterprise-grade developer studio for building, running, and managing AI applications. Bringing watsonx.ai to OCI can help organizations develop AI services on OCI, where they may already have applications and data, and deploy them into their application of choice with a collection of the APIs, tools, models, and runtimes. Expanded Oracle Services from IBM Consulting IBM is introducing expanded consulting services to help customers turn enterprise strategy into enterprise outcomes by enabling the use of AI agents across multiple platforms to transform end-to-end business processes. Leveraging deep technology and industry expertise, IBM Consulting will help customers orchestrate their agentic ecosystem by integrating, building, and scaling AI agents, including native Oracle AI agents, watsonx Orchestrate AI agents, and agents from across IBM's partner ecosystem. IBM Consulting will also advise customers on how AI agents impact enterprise operating models and the workforce, including change management and enabling new ways of working. IBM consultants bring deep expertise in transforming core business processes like HR and supply chain as well as capabilities in its AI-powered delivery platform, IBM Consulting Advantage, to deliver value quickly. IBM Consulting is offering new services that leverage AI-powered assets and methods to help Oracle customers migrate their workloads from on-premises virtual machines to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on OCI bare metal cloud. This service helps customers migrate and modernize their infrastructure as they deploy with the proven virtualization of the OpenShift container platform running on OCI to provide flexible infrastructure for both legacy applications and AI and hybrid multicloud workloads. IBM brings deep expertise in business transformation with OCI and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, backed by a 38-year strategic partnership spanning technology and services, thousands of consultants who are certified across core Oracle technologies, and the acquisitions of Oracle consultancies Accelalpha and Applications Software Technology LLC. Oracle and IBM also intend to pilot a joint go-to-market approach in select markets to help bring these new services and capabilities to customers. "Agents are becoming an important strategic advantage for organizations to optimize operations and deliver better customer and employee experiences," said Ritu Jyoti, IDC General Manager and Group Vice President. "Today's most advanced agents are able to interact across different systems and processes, unleashing greater productivity and driving wider adoption. The Agentic AI approach IBM is taking with Oracle is a leading example of how the ability to orchestrate agentic workflows across systems can drive significant advantages, streamlining how work gets done and unlocking growth and innovation." For more information about this collaboration between IBM and Oracle, please visit: https://www.ibm.com/consulting/oracle Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only. About IBM IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain a competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of governments and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information. About Oracle Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle, Java, MySQL and NetSuite are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. NetSuite was the first cloud company -- ushering in the new era of cloud computing.