At TechXchange 2025, IBM’s annual event for developers and technologists, the company showcased new and upcoming product capabilities aimed at helping enterprises move beyond AI experimentation and achieve productivity gains across development, operations, and business workflows.
At TechXchange 2025, IBM’s annual event for developers and technologists, the company showcased new and upcoming product capabilities aimed at helping enterprises move beyond AI experimentation and achieve productivity gains across development, operations, and business workflows.
Drawing thousands of global attendees, TechXchange highlighted IBM’s latest innovations in agentic AI, hybrid cloud, quantum computing, and intelligent infrastructure.
Generative AI could generate trillions in economic value in the coming years, but many organizations struggle with adoption due to fragmented hybrid environments, data quality issues, and AI readiness gaps.
IBM’s latest offerings tackle these challenges with solutions designed for production-ready AI, real-time governance, and seamless integration across hybrid cloud ecosystems.
“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.”
At the heart of IBM’s agentic AI framework is watsonx Orchestrate, offering over 500 tools and customizable, domain-specific agents from IBM and its partners. Designed to be tool-agnostic and adaptable to any environment, Orchestrate enables scalable deployment and governance of AI agents.
Key features include AgentOps, a built-in observability and governance layer that provides full lifecycle transparency. With real-time monitoring and policy-based controls, AgentOps helps organizations assess and ensure agent reliability.
IBM also plans to bring these capabilities to the mainframe with the upcoming watsonx Assistant for Z. Purpose-built IBM Z agents will shift operations from reactive troubleshooting to proactive system management, leveraging conversational context to automate processes while ensuring security and compliance.
Building on the IBM z17 launch, this redesigned experience is designed to streamline workflows and boost productivity for mainframe users.
