This white paper outlines why managing AI agents has become more complex than building them and what organizations need to operationalize agents safely and effectively.  It explains the growing risks around security, governance, integration and performance as agent use expands and shows how a unified control plane can bring order, trust and oversight to increasingly autonomous systems.

Readers will learn:

• Why AI agents introduce new operational, security and compliance challenges

• What core capabilities define an effective AI agent management platform

• How IBM® watsonx Orchestrate provides centralized governance, orchestration and lifecycle management for agents across environments