This year, we celebrate the 40^th year of the strategic partnership between IBM and Oracle. To mark the milestone, we are advancing our partnership to help meet our customers’ evolving needs and help them succeed in the era of AI and hybrid cloud.

Our mutual customers are asking for integrated foundations that provide flexibility and help them break down silos, automate intelligently and scale AI across their business operations. A recent study from the IBM Institute for Business Value found that, due to fractured data and AI foundations relying on traditional methods, organizations are hitting roadblocks as they scale AI. As a result, customers can struggle to integrate data and applications across clouds, streamline processes and scale AI capabilities with consistency and control.

To help organizations transform faster, IBM and Oracle are collaborating on new agentic AI and hybrid cloud innovations that support secure, flexible, high-performing operations in today’s fast-changing markets.

Building the foundations for flexible, efficient hybrid cloud

Organizations will soon be able to directly buy and use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), providing a simpler, more integrated option than the current Bring Your Own Subscription model. Availability is planned later in 2026.

Red Hat solutions are also expected to be available through the Oracle Marketplace later this year. Customers will be able to use Oracle Universal Credits to purchase RHEL through OCI, making it easier for clients to build, modernize and deploy applications at scale across OCI and the rest of their hybrid environments. Read more about Red Hat’s collaboration with Oracle here.

Integrating and automating across operations

Many organizations are looking to reinvent their operations with AI, automation and hybrid cloud capabilities, but they need high-performance, flexible platforms that bring applications, automation and data together to ease complexity and produce business value. To help address these needs, IBM and Oracle are:

• Developing a new connector between Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and the IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) to help joint customers use built‑in AI and analytics to manage processes across finance, procurement, assets and facilities.
• Planning to deliver IBM’s Envizi as a SaaS offering on OCI to enable customers to manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) data and reporting on the same cloud that hosts much of their operational and financial information. The service is expected to launch first in Saudi Arabia.
• Offering IBM Turbonomic to customers to help continuously optimize compute, storage and network resources in real time -- while enforcing performance policies -- across their Oracle Cloud environments. Turbonomic has also been verified by IBM to run on OCI, enabling clients to deploy on Oracle’s next-generation cloud. 
• Extending IBM Guardium support to include Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D), a high-performance database platform, on OCI. Customers will be able to include their Oracle AI Database ExaDB-D instances OCI as they use Guardium to discover, analyze, and respond to data security risks, protect sensitive data, and address compliance needs.

These new capabilities are expected to be available later this year.

Accelerating transformation with services for agentic AI and hybrid cloud

IBM Consulting is also expanding its support for customers with a new managed service offering of Maximo on OCI, allowing organizations to move Maximo to the same cloud where Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP runs. IBM Consulting can help set up the OCI infrastructure, deploy and tailor MAS to customers’ specific needs, and manage both the application and the OCI infrastructure, so customers can take advantage of a flexible cloud deployment model.

IBM watsonx Orchestrate also has launched AI Agents for Learning and Development and Talent Acquisition that further extend the Oracle Fusion Applications ecosystem and enable expanded functionality across third-party and custom applications and data sources. The latest agentic use cases from the IBM and Oracle partnership expand the ways customers can build and manage agents across multi-agent, multi-system business processes, spanning both Oracle and non-Oracle applications and data sources.

Additionally, with IBM Txture, AI-driven modernization intelligence now exclusive to IBM Consulting, IBM is helping organizations accelerate their modernization journey by rapidly determining which workloads to prioritize for OCI, how to modernize them and what the business case looks like. IBM Consulting can help customers move from “lift-and-shift” approaches to strategic architecture and process decisions that can underpin their next decade of growth.

These new services capabilities build on IBM’s recent acquisitions of Accelalpha and Applications Software Technologies (AST), which expanded our expertise in supply chain, ERP, and public sector transformation. IBM was also recently recognized by IDC as a Leader in the “IDC Marketscape: Worldwide Supply Chain Oracle Ecosystem Services 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment.”

What better way to build on 40 years of partnership than with these new AI and hybrid capabilities to help customers modernize, orchestrate and scale improved outcomes across their operations? We’re excited to continue to expand our work with Oracle to help our customers transform their business and unlock new levels of productivity and competitive advantage.

For more details about IBM’s collaboration with Oracle, visit www.ibm.com/consulting/oracle.

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