Getting started with watsonx Orchestrate

With IBM watsonx™ Orchestrate, you can automate your daily tasks quickly and efficienty, simplifying complex process, and ultimately saving you and your team time and effort to focus on high-value work. Use the catalog with over 1000 pre-built skills to help you accomplish a wide range of tasks, or quickly and easily create and deploy purpose-built skills and AI assistants that are tailored to your business needs.

IBM watsonx Orchestrate has a catalog of pre-built skills integrated common business technologies. You can scale productivity by creating AI assistants, customizing and expanding them with both pre-built and custom skills that automate tasks. It supports everything from simple task flows to complex, multi-user, multi-turn workflows automated through generative AI, all within a low-code studio that speeds-up development. These assistants are deployable within the platform or embedded into existing systems.

Use the low-code skill builder or AI assistant builder to create skills and AI assistants:
  • Create skills that automate tasks on common business applications.
  • Expand automation of complex tasks by creating projects to build workflows, decision models, generative AI responses, and more.
  • Build AI-powered assistants to create streamlined conversational workflows for your users.

Checking whether the service is installed

An administrator must install watsonx Orchestrate.

To check whether the service is installed:

  1. From the navigation menu, select Services > Services catalog.
  2. Search for watsonx Orchestrate.

If the service is installed and ready to use, the tile in the catalog shows Ready to use.

If the service is installed but no service instances have been created, the tile in the catalog shows Ready to provision.

Important: Even if the service is Ready to use, you must be added to a service instance to use the service.

Accessing the service

Pop-out watsonx Orchestrate is a pop-out service. You can access the service from the Service > Service instances page.

Learn more

To get started with the service, see the following links: