IBM and Microsoft partnership

Making enterprise-wide transformations a reality by accelerating hybrid cloud and AI strategies.

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One-of-a-kind partnership

IBM® and Microsoft are well positioned to meet clients on their transformation journey with an open and collaborative approach to drive positive business outcomes.

Together, we help our clients implement and govern generative AI with solutions that embrace multiple models across hybrid cloud environments. Our teams offer a robust partner network of professionals who are industry-smart and multicloud adept.

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Partnership highlights
25+ IBM Technology offerings on the Azure Marketplace

Clients can directly access IBM’s growing list of SaaS and customer-managed offerings, including AI, cloud and automation software on the Azure Marketplace.

IBM Software—Azure Marketplace

80+ IBM Consulting offerings on the Azure Marketplace

IBM Consulting® offers 80+ listings on the marketplace.

IBM Consulting–Azure Marketplace

3-time winner: 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards

IBM and Neudesic (acquired by IBM) were recognized for their ability to use Microsoft’s technology to help clients succeed in today’s digital landscape.

  • Energy and Resources Industry Award, Winner, Neudesic
  • Microsoft Japan Global SI Partner of the Year Award, Winner
  • Microsoft Spain Best SAP Migration Partner, Winner
Finalist: 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards

IBM was recognized as finalists for innovation and expertise

  • Modernize and Build AI Apps Partner of the Year Award, Finalist
#1 Red Hat® GSI

IBM Consulting® specializes in Azure Red Hat® OpenShift® (ARO). This commitment has helped us become recognized in 7 categories for this year’s Microsoft Partner of the Year Award, while helping clients simplify their application modernization journey.

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39k + Microsoft certifications

IBM established 41 centers of Microsoft competencies across 170 countries and grew Azure certifications to 39 thousand. Our advanced specializations grew to 6 and we earned an Expert MSP designation.

Delivering joint value

TargetProcess

TargetProcess is a flexible, scalable agile project and portfolio management (PPM) solution designed for scaling agile delivery with speed. It provides visibility, control and insights into projects and programs, enabling organizations to align strategies, prioritize initiatives, allocate resources effectively and measure progress towards desired outcomes.

IBM Copilot Runway

IBM Copilot Runway, a new offering from IBM Consulting® is designed to help enterprises create, customize, deploy and manage copilots to seamlessly integrate generative AI into their organizations, enhance productivity, and drive business success.

Maximo® Application Suite

IBM® Maximo® Application Suite, offered on Microsoft Cloud, offers an intelligent asset management, monitoring, maintenance and reliability solution in a unified platform.

Apptio Costing + Planning

IBM Apptio Costing and Planning delivers a market-leading, streamlined approach to managing IT spend. Purpose-built for IT Finance and CIOs, it replaces spreadsheets and manual processes with automation. By providing near real-time visibility into fully burdened costs by service, application, or business unit, Apptio enables smarter, data-driven decisions. The result: greater transparency, accountability, and agility to optimize investments, control spend, and align every technology dollar to business outcomes. Now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, it offers seamless deployment and cost-effective adoption through Azure Consumption Commitments, accelerating time to value.

Cyber Security Services

IBM's Threat Detection and Response (TDR) Cloud Native service brings together Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Defender for Cloud with the AI-powered security technologies that underpin IBM's TDR Cloud Native service.

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Watsonx.governance on Microsoft Azure

Generative AI models come with new risks and complexities that require governance. watsonx.governance™ augments Microsoft Azure capabilities, providing the guardrails necessary to govern the end-to-end model lifecycle, proactively detecting and mitigating risk and managing compliance to the growing and changing AI regulations and industry standards.

Next steps

Check out IBM on the Azure Marketplace or learn how IBM Consulting can help accelerate your hybrid cloud and AI journey.

  1. Explore IBM Consulting for Microsoft
  2. View IBM listings on the Azure Marketplace

IBM strategic partnerships are collaborations between IBM and other organizations to develop and deliver innovative solutions that help clients achieve their business objectives. These partnerships often involve co-development, co-marketing and co-selling efforts, and can span various industries and technologies. By working together, IBM and its partners can combine their expertise, resources and technologies to create value for clients and drive growth for both parties.

IBM strategic partnerships can help clients by providing access to leading technology and consulting services, improving the client experience and driving business growth. By working together with IBM and its partners, clients can benefit from the combined expertise, resources and technologies of the partnership. This collaboration can lead to the creation of innovative solutions that are tailored to the client’s specific needs.

Furthermore, it can help the client achieve their business objectives more efficiently and effectively. Also, IBM strategic partnerships can also help clients stay ahead of the curve in terms of technology and industry trends, by providing access to the latest innovations and best practices.

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Hyperscaler marketplaces are becoming a primary enterprise buying route. IBM is expanding our model to accelerate growth and capture demand at scale.
IBM now offers expanded routes to market through hyperscalers:

  1. NEW Tier 1 - IBM partner-led via AWS
  2. Tier 2 - Distributor & partner-led

Partners can choose the route that best fits each opportunity.

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