IBM Software

Hybrid, open, and responsible by design—personalized to your environment and proven for enterprise scale

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Connect your hybrid world

Today’s hybrid companies run thousands of applications and data sources across multiple clouds—creating disconnected innovation, data without context and rising security and governance risks. IBM Software is the only hybrid intelligence portfolio built to make your systems work together, not just side by side. Our software connects applications, agents and data wherever they live, minimizing costly migration and refactoring by working seamlessly across your environments to get more from existing investments and evolve over time. 

Turning complexity into advantage
Hybrid

Run workloads seamlessly across clouds and on-prem systems, connecting environments for agility, cost control, resilience and trusted governance.

Open

Designed with multiple open-source standards and partner integrations to give you greater reliability of your AI, flexibility and zero lock-in across your technology estate.

Responsible

Embedded security, governance, cost efficiency and observability from day zero, so organiztions can scale AI and hybrid operations with trust and compliance.

Built to lead in a changing market

Recognized by analysts

  • 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning​
  • 2025 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Management Tools

  • 2024 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
  • 2024 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

  • 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms​
  • 2024 Magic Quadrant for Access Management

  • 2025 Magic Quadrant for API Management​
  • 2025 Magic Quadrant for Container Management (Red Hat)​
  • 2025 Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

  • 2025 Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms​
  • 2025 Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Platforms​
  • 2025 Magic Quadrant Cloud Native Application Platforms (Red Hat)

Chosen by customers

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To turn growing complexity into opportunity, organizations need a way to connect, govern and scale intelligence across their entire hybrid environment.​

Built as a hybrid, open, responsible system, IBM Software connects data, infrastructure, applications, and clouds across five core pillars, helping organizations maximize returns from existing investments. Embedded enterprise generative AI and partnerships with leading model providers deliver greater flexibility and efficiency across the portfolio.

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IBM AI productivity

Automate the busywork, accelerate the business

Turn fragmented AI into measurable business value in weeks, not years—with an open, hybrid and responsible orchestration layer that unifies agents, automations and workflows to drive secure, enterprise-wide productivity.

IBM watsonx Orchestrate
IBM watsonx Orchestrate acts as a multi-agent, multi-tool supervisor, orchestrating agents built with any technology—IBM, third-party or open source—alongside workflows, automations and data systems.
IBM Project Bob
IBM Project Bob goes beyond code generation, using agentic workflows to automate upgrades, vulnerability fixes, testing and pipeline compliance across the software development lifecycle.
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IBM data management 

Build the foundation for smarter, trusted and scalable AI​

Rapidly unlock reliable, cost-efficient AI and analytics through IBM’s Converged Data Foundation—an open, hybrid and responsibly governed architecture that unifies data across every cloud and system. By automating data integration, enriching context with intelligence and enforcing trusted, policy-driven access, clients accelerate time to value, increase AI adoption, improve decision quality and demonstrate fast, measurable business transformation. 

IBM watsonx.data
IBM watsonx.data enables scaling analytics and AI with all your data, wherever it resides, through an open, hybrid and governed data store.
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IBM security and governance

Unify security and compliance to protect your most critical data

Embed trust, security and transparency into every part of your operation, across data, applications and AI, so you can innovate fast and with confidence.​ Ensure every layer—data, models and access—is governed and secured so companies can scale AI confidently without compromising compliance or control.

IBM watsonx.governance
IBM watsonx.governance tracks which models are used, by whom, for what purpose and at what cost—giving leaders visibility into risk, bias and compliance that no other vendor matches.
IBM Vault
IBM Vault provides machine identity management by encrypting sensitive data and gating access based on identity. With Vault, you can centrally define trusted identities, enforce policy and secure secrets, certificates, keys and data.
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IBM integration and resilience

Automate resilience and connect applications, agents and operations with intelligence at scale

Accelerate innovation, streamline operations, and improve resilience with AI-powered automation across apps, workflows, networks, and infrastructure in your hybrid cloud. AI analyzes data, predicts needs and automates tasks to drive smarter decisions and maximize return on investment (ROI), while also providing a secure foundation for deploying agents across the enterprise.

IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration
IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration offers a unified iPaaS for agents, LLMs, apps, APIs, B2B and data, scaling agility across locations, environments and teams.
IBM Concert
IBM Concert helps organizations automate IT resilience by unifying data, identifying risk early, and driving prioritized actions to keep hybrid environments running reliably.
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IBM hybrid infrastructure management

Do hybrid cloud right​

Unify infrastructure governance, security automation, observability and cost to accelerate delivery, reduce risk and optimize performance across any environment. This lifecycle-driven approach enables organizations to modernize confidently, operate efficiently and realize faster, measurable returns on hybrid-cloud and AI investments.​

IBM Terraform
IBM Terraform enables you to automate infrastructure provisioning and management through a systematic platform approach. Infrastructure and policies are codified, shared, versioned and executed within a standardized, consistent workflow across all infrastructure, from cloud services to on-premises data centers.
IBM Cloudability
IBM Cloudability maximizes the business value returned from your cloud investments by bringing visibility and financial accountability to the variable, consumption-based spend model of public cloud.
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Accelerating time to value

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Scuderia Ferrari

Ferrari partnered with IBM to transform its fan app into a global, real-time digital experience without replacing its existing tech stack. Within five months, Ferrari doubled daily active users and delivered a secure, scalable platform that personalizes content in real time—showcasing IBM’s ability to drive rapid, responsible innovation on an open hybrid cloud foundation.

2x
increase in daily active users
35%
increase in average time spent in-app
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