IBM and Anthropic Partner on Enterprise Software Development

IBM and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of enterprise-ready AI. They plan to create solutions by infusing Anthropic’s Claude into IBM’s software portfolio.

Through the partnership, Claude will be integrated into select IBM software products, starting with a new AI-first integrated development environment (IDE), designed with advanced task generation capabilities for enterprise software development lifecycles (SDLC), including software modernization. The IDE is available in private preview to select IBM clients and in early testing.

As part of the partnership, IBM has created, and Anthropic has verified, Architecting Secure Enterprise AI Agents with MCP. A first-of-its-kind guide focusing on the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), a structured approach to designing, deploying, and managing enterprise AI agents. This new ADLC methodology provides businesses with a purpose-built, enterprise-ready approach for the development, operations, and security requirements for Enterprise AI agents.