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IBM & Oracle Expand Partnership to Help Enterprise Scale AI
Marking four decades of partnership, IBM & Oracle have expanded their collaboration to help enterprises modernise with AI, agentic & hybrid cloud solutions

TL;DR
- IBM and Oracle are extending their 40-year partnership with new AI, agentic, and hybrid cloud solutions.
- New capabilities aim to help enterprises scale AI workloads and integrate AI across disconnected systems.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) starting later in 2026.
- IBM watsonx Orchestrate introduces AI Agents for Learning and Development and Talent Acquisition, extending to Oracle Fusion Applications.
- IBM Consulting will offer a new managed service for Maximo on OCI.
- A new connector between Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and IBM Maximo Application Suite will be launched.
- IBM Envizi will launch as a SaaS offering on OCI, initially in Saudi Arabia, for ESG reporting.
- IBM Turbonomic is verified to run on OCI for resource optimization, and IBM Guardium support is extended to Oracle Exadata Database Service.