IBM announced new software and infrastructure capabilities at its TechXchange 2025 event in Orlando, Florida. The updates are aimed at helping businesses move beyond AI experimentation and realize productivity improvements across development, operations, and business workflows.
The company introduced advancements in agentic AI, hybrid cloud solutions, quantum computing, and intelligent infrastructure. According to IBM, these updates address challenges such as fragmented hybrid environments and gaps in data quality that often hinder AI adoption.
“AI productivity is the new speed of business. These features will help clients remove bottlenecks across their entire technology lifecycle,” said Dinesh Nirmal, Senior Vice President of Products, IBM Software. “With these enhancements across our portfolio, we’re giving customers capabilities that take developer productivity, agentic orchestration and infrastructure intelligence to the next level.”
One key update centers on watsonx Orchestrate. This product now offers more than 500 tools and customizable agents from IBM and partners. It includes AgentOps for real-time observability and governance of AI agents. AgentOps provides full lifecycle transparency with monitoring and policy-based controls to assess reliability.
IBM also introduced agentic workflows for developers using watsonx Orchestrate. These standardized flows allow consistent sequencing of multiple agents and tools. Additionally, Langflow integration offers a drag-and-drop builder for creating agents without coding expertise; this feature is expected to be generally available by the end of October.
For mainframe users, IBM announced plans for watsonx Assistant for Z. This will bring domain-specific AI agents to the IBM Z platform with an aim to shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive system management while maintaining security standards.
Following its acquisition of HashiCorp, IBM unveiled Project infragraph—a unified control plane designed to reduce tool fragmentation by offering a single view into an organization’s entire infrastructure estate. The platform provides live observability over managed resources both within HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) and external environments. It aims to replace manual processes such as tracking vulnerabilities with automated reporting tools.
Project infragraph is planned as a capability within HCP with future integration into other IBM software products like Red Hat Ansible and OpenShift, watsonx Orchestrate, Concert, Turbonomic, and Cloudability. HashiCorp has opened applications for a private beta program set for December 2025.
IBM also previewed Project Bob—an AI-first integrated development environment (IDE) currently in private tech preview. Project Bob uses large language models including Anthropic Claude and Mistral AI alongside IBM Granite to assist developers through tasks such as application modernization at scale, code generation and review tailored to enterprise requirements, end-to-end orchestration across software lifecycles, and embedding security checks directly into workflows.
A new partnership with Anthropic was announced as part of IBM’s effort to expand its partner ecosystem. Anthropic’s large language models will be integrated into select IBM products starting with Project Bob. In addition, a guide verified by Anthropic—Architecting Secure Enterprise AI Agents with MCP—was released focusing on structured approaches for developing enterprise-grade AI agents.
TechXchange 2025 runs from October 6-9 in Orlando.
