IBM's Q2 led by software revenue
As for the outlook, IBM projected annual revenue growth in the mid-single digit range with free cash flow topping $12 billion.
As for the outlook, IBM projected annual revenue growth in the mid-single digit range with free cash flow topping $12 billion.
IBM has open sourced its portfolio of Granite large language models under Apache 2.0 licenses on Hugging Face and GitHub, outlined a bevy of AI ecosystem partnerships and launched a series of assistants and watsonx powered tools.
The "Value Generation" partnership will focus on generative AI and industry cloud applications. SAP is trying to migrate its customer base to the cloud and S4/HANA via its RISE with SAP program.
IBM said it will acquire HashiCorp in a deal valued at $6.4 billion as it builds out its infrastructure and security lifecycle management tools to go along with its hybrid cloud and AI portfolio.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said, "our book of business for watsonx and generative AI roughly doubled from the third to the fourth quarter."
For IBM, StreamSets and webMethods will give it more API management and data integration tools.
With IBM Quantum Heron, IBM is planning to use a 5x performance boost with improved error rates to build out a fleet of systems.
Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM, said the company was seeing clients adopt its watsonx AI and data platform. That adoption is also generating consulting revenue.
Manta Software customers include Bank of Montreal, T-Mobile and J.B. Hunt.
IBM will make its watsonx.data available on Amazon Web Services on AWS Marketplace. IBM Consulting will expand its AWS partnership to train 10,000 consultants on AWS generative AI services, use cases and best practices.
The watsonx Code Assistant for Z, which will be generally available in the fourth quarter, is aimed at its mainframe customer base that's looking to modernize its COBOL applications.