Bring efficiencies across the full application and operations life cycle to promote self-serve.

In 2026, we will bring automated observability and guardrails for visibility into risks. With generative AI and low-code tooling, we will help accelerate building sophisticated apps that seamlessly integrate with proprietary and vendor systems.

Why this matters for our clients and the world

Organizations will be able to accelerate application development while having continuous observability and risk posture assessments to balance speed-to-market with reliability and security. Generative AI and low-code techniques will enable productivity even for novice users.

The technologies and innovations that will make this possible

We will leverage generative AI to build low-code tooling for developers and operations. This tooling will allow building highly customizable apps and fit-for-purpose observability and alerts. Agentic AI techniques and extensibility in integrations will enable intelligent automation in operations.

How these advancements will be delivered to IBM clients and partners

The integrated IT operations and automation platform will include deeper application development and runtime capabilities, powered by generative AI-assisted low-code. The platform will cover the app life cycle from development to API-based integrations, deployment, runtimes, risk assessments, guardrails, and agentic AI interfaces.