IBM and Microsoft launched a platform promising over 6,000 ready-made AI agents. Gartner found 4% of CIOs implemented plans to adjust roles.
IBM and Microsoft announced Imagine Enterprise on 10 November, CIO Dive reported.
It is designed to let companies build and govern AI agents, software that carries out tasks on its own.
IBM's consulting arm will bring more than 6,000 pre-built agents. Microsoft provides the AI and cloud foundation. Engineers from both companies will work inside customers' teams to support adoption. The platform initially targets financial services, insurance and retail.
CIO Dive set the launch beside a finding from the research firm Gartner. Only 4% of chief information officers have implemented plans to adjust roles for a workforce of people and agents. That figure covers CIOs in general and does not describe this platform's customers.
The desk's reading: the report gives no price, no named customer and no date when customers can start using it. It also does not say how many of the 6,000 agents a company can run without changing its own processes first.
Sources
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For your next steering committee
- 1Ask which AI tools already touch your ERP or finance data, including the ones nobody approved.
- 2Ask what each tool is allowed to change, and who reviews what it changed.
- 3Ask how the result is measured, and who decides to switch a tool off.
Issue 01 of the ERP LEADERS brief puts a timeline, the three-number review and six questions on one page. Read issue 01
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