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Hans India
19-07-2025
- Business
- Hans India
IBM Opens Agentic AI Innovation Center in India
IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened its newest Agentic AI Innovation Center at its Bengaluru office. The Center fosters co-creation and offers clients hands-on experience working with autonomous AI agents. At the Center, clients and partners can build AI agents, fine-tune Small Language Models (SLMs) to power them, and audit the entire process—all within a matter of hours. Clients, partners and startups can explore AI agents on IBM's platform and solutions. At the heart of the Center and IBM's agentic AI strategy, is IBM watsonx Orchestrate, a single solution that helps companies build, deploy, and manage all of their AI agents and their assistants – and enable them to work across their existing technology stack. The Center will help clients, partners, and startups fast-track adoption of AI, foster co-innovation, and empower developers through hands-on learning and collaboration with IBM AI experts. Developer hangouts and AI Accelerator Days will be organized for an ongoing engagement with community to foster learning in the latest advancements in AI technology and deep engagement that leads to building tangible outcomes. Inaugurating the facility, Dinesh Nirmal, Senior Vice President, IBM Software said, 'We are entering a new era of AI—one defined by intelligent agents that don't just assist but act, adapt, and collaborate in real time. The IBM Agentic AI center brings this vision to life by urging local enterprises to evolve their AI strategy from reactive to proactive. It will empower clients and partners, to identify processes and workflows where AI will significantly boost productivity, elevate customer satisfaction, minimize downtime and enable users to focus on strategic tasks.' A recent survey by IBM, in collaboration with Oxford Economics, reveals that AI is now a key driver of financial performance. The study found that Indian business leaders are leading the charge globally in adopting AI across core business functions. Notably, 78% of Indian executives believe the greatest value of agentic AI lies in enhancing decision-making. Additionally, 78% of the Indian leaders are actively encouraging employees to experiment with agentic AI tools—underscoring a strong culture of innovation and forward-looking leadership.
Time of India
18-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
IBM opens agentic AI innovation center in India
IBM opened its newest Agentic AI Innovation Center at its Bengaluru office. The Center fosters co-creation and offers clients hands-on experience working with autonomous AI agents. At the Center, clients and partners can build AI agents, fine-tune Small Language Models (SLMs) to power them, and audit the entire process—all within a matter of hours. Clients, partners and startups can explore AI agents on IBM's platform and solutions. At the heart of the Center and IBM's agentic AI strategy, is IBM watsonx Orchestrate, a single solution that helps companies build, deploy, and manage all of their AI agents and their assistants – and enable them to work across their existing technology stack. The Center will help clients, partners, and startups fast-track adoption of AI, foster co-innovation, and empower developers through hands-on learning and collaboration with IBM AI experts. Developer hangouts and AI Accelerator Days will be organized for an ongoing engagement with community to foster learning in the latest advancements in AI technology and deep engagement that leads to building tangible outcomes. Inaugurating the facility, Dinesh Nirmal, Senior Vice President, IBM Software said, 'We are entering a new era of AI—one defined by intelligent agents that don't just assist but act, adapt, and collaborate in real time. The IBM Agentic AI center brings this vision to life by urging local enterprises to evolve their AI strategy from reactive to proactive. It will empower clients and partners, to identify processes and workflows where AI will significantly boost productivity, elevate customer satisfaction, minimize downtime and enable users to focus on strategic tasks.' A recent survey by IBM, in collaboration with Oxford Economics, reveals that AI is now a key driver of financial performance. The study found that Indian business leaders are leading the charge globally in adopting AI across core business functions. Notably, 78% of Indian executives believe the greatest value of agentic AI lies in enhancing decision-making. Additionally, 78% of the Indian leaders are actively encouraging employees to experiment with agentic AI tools—underscoring a strong culture of innovation and forward-looking leadership. Sandip Patel, Managing Director, IBM India and South Asia added, "AI is no longer just the future—it is reshaping India today. To unlock its full potential and realize the vision of Viksit Bharat, Indian enterprises must deepen their understanding and focus on high-impact use cases. The rise of Agentic AI is accelerating innovation to meet evolving business needs. With its new Agentic AI Innovation Center, IBM will drive industry-wide collaboration, nurture homegrown innovation, and ensure scalable, real-world impact within a strong governance framework."
Time of India
16-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Enterprises will take 18-24 months to see real benefits of Agentic AI: IBM executive
While there are a lot of claims about agentic artificial intelligence (AI) currently, the real benefits will come in the next 18-24 months as enterprises implement these solutions in their systems, Dinesh Nirmal, senior vice president, IBM Software , told ET. Agentic AI is becoming a key area of interest for large enterprises and startups, with the latest McKinsey report estimating the market's potential to be $11 trillion to $18 trillion globally in the areas of marketing, sales, and supply chain. While there is potential, the report noted that over 80% of the companies have not seen any material impact on their top or bottomline from their GenAI initiatives Nirmal said that while any new technology will take time for adoption, considering that there are multiple challenges in terms of reliability, scalability, security, and regulatory concerns. 'But the potential is huge,' he company is seeing demand for agentic AI solutions from its clients. It is also using these solutions internally. IBM is seeing momentum from Indian enterprise customers, said tap into the growing demand, the company has launched the Agentic AI Innovation Centre at its Bengaluru office, where it will work with customers, partners, and startups to co-create solutions, build AI agents , fine-tune small language models, and audit the process on IBM watsonx Orchestrate. But the company did not disclose the scale of the said that the centre will be a part of its global effort and will focus on building AgentOps, agent-to-agent communication, and security aspects to stay ahead in the agentic AI said that India is critical for the company, given the scale of talent and skills in the country.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
IBM's Software Segment Growth Picks Up: A Sign of More Upside?
International Business Machines Corporation's IBM Software segment is increasingly gaining traction with an increasing demand for a focused portfolio that provides end-to-end hybrid cloud and AI capabilities. The segment revenues in the first quarter of 2025 increased to $6.34 billion from $5.9 billion a year ago, driven by growth in Hybrid Platform & Solutions, Red Hat, Automation, Data & AI and Transaction Processing, backed by a strong focus on product buyout of California-based software company HashiCorp Inc. for an enterprise value of $6.4 billion has brought powerful synergies across key strategic growth areas of IBM, such as Red Hat, watsonx and IT Automation solutions. HashiCorp's tools, Terraform and Vault, have been integrated with IBM's Red Hat platforms to enhance cloud infrastructure management and hybrid cloud security, including for IBM Z. The addition of the new cutting-edge products has significantly improved IBM Software's ability to help organizations optimize IT spending, reduce cloud costs and boost overall efficiency through automation. With a surge in traditional cloud-native workloads and associated applications, along with a rise in generative AI deployment, there is a radical expansion in the number of cloud workloads that enterprises are currently managing. This has resulted in heterogeneous, dynamic and complex infrastructure strategies, which, in turn, have led firms to undertake a cloud-agnostic and interoperable approach to highly secure multi-cloud management. Our revenue estimate for the segment is pegged at $7.52 billion, indicating year-over-year growth of 11.6% at constant currency. Much of this growth is expected to come from Hybrid Cloud businesses (up 23% to $1.9 billion) and Automation (up 15.4% to $1.87 billion). Microsoft Corporation MSFT has doubled down on the cloud computing opportunity. Azure's increased availability in more than 60 announced regions globally has strengthened Microsoft's competitive position in the cloud computing market. Operating through a vast network of global data centers that ensure high availability and reliability for applications, Azure offers seamless access to all the services included in the portal once customers subscribe to it. Subscribers can use these services to create cloud-based resources, such as virtual machines and databases, which can then be assembled into running environments used to host workloads and store Inc. AMZN enjoys a dominant position in the cloud-computing market, particularly in the IaaS space, thanks to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is one of its high-margin-generating businesses. AWS is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted on-demand cloud computing platform, offering more than 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers, including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises and leading government agencies, are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. It reportedly offers the widest variety of databases that are purpose-built for different types of applications to enable subscribers to choose the right tool for the job. IBM has surged 60.7% over the past year compared with no change for the industry. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research From a valuation standpoint, IBM trades at a forward price-to-sales ratio of 3.74, above the industry. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The Zacks Consensus Estimate for IBM's earnings for 2025 has been on the rise over the past 30 days. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research IBM currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Inc. (AMZN) : Free Stock Analysis Report Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) : Free Stock Analysis Report International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
