October 7, 2025. IBM and Anthropic today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of enterprise-ready AI. This will involve integrating Anthropic’s Claude, one of the world’s most powerful families of large-scale language models (LLMs), into IBM’s software portfolio to deliver measurable productivity gains while integrating security, governance and cost control directly into the software development lifecycle.
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As part of the partnership, Claude will be integrated into select IBM software products, starting with IBM’s new AI-First Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which comes with advanced task generation capabilities for enterprise software development lifecycles (SDLC), including software modernization.
The IDE is available as a private preview for select IBM customers. In early testing, more than 6,000 early adopters at IBM are using the new IDE and reporting productivity gains of 45 percent on average, resulting in significant cost savings while maintaining code quality and security standards.
As organizations move from AI experimentation to production deployment, they need solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing enterprise infrastructure and meet stringent IT requirements. IBM has proven capabilities in enterprise software delivery and hybrid cloud architecture, as well as regulated industry expertise to ensure AI tools work within the complex realities of global business operations.
“IBM has been the backbone of enterprise technology for decades because we know what it takes to deploy at scale in mission-critical environments,” said Dinesh Nirmal, SVP, Software at IBM. “This partnership adds advanced AI capabilities to our software portfolio while ensuring the governance, security and reliability our clients expect. We’re giving development teams AI that fits the way organizations work, not experimental tools that create new risks.”
“Organizations are looking for AI that they can actually trust with their code, data and day-to-day operations,” said Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer at Anthropic. “Claude has become the preferred AI solution for developers in the world’s largest organizations because of our focus on security and reliability. Through this partnership with IBM, we can support even more enterprise teams with the same commitment while developing the open standards that make AI agents truly useful in business environments.”
By utilizing industry-leading LLMs like Claude, the new IBM IDE is designed to enable developers to be more productive and works in multiple languages and modes. Examples of potential use cases that help developers perform tasks in all aspects of the software development lifecycle include:
As part of the partnership, IBM has created and Anthropic has verified Architecting Secure Enterprise AI Agents with MCP. Their unique guide focuses on the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), a structured approach to designing, deploying and managing enterprise AI agents. As organizations default to agent-based AI to drive autonomous decision making and intelligent automation, traditional IT processes will likely no longer suffice. This new ADLC methodology provides organizations with a purpose-built, enterprise-ready approach to the development, operation and security requirements for enterprise AI agents.
IBM is not only expanding its software portfolio, but also helping to drive open standards for AI deployment with its technology leadership in the enterprise space. IBM will provide enterprise-ready resources to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) community, including best practice guides, reference architectures and open source tools developed based on IBM’s experience deploying AI in thousands of client environments.
IBM plans to integrate Claude into other IBM products as part of a product integration approach. Together, IBM and Anthropic are shaping the future of enterprise AI that empowers developers, drives change and creates long-term value for clients and society.
Statements about IBM’s and Anthropic’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent objectives only.
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries harness insights from their data, optimize business processes, reduce costs and gain a competitive advantage in their industries. Thousands of governments and organizations in critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to deliver their digital transformation quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting provide our clients with open and flexible options. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, accountability, inclusivity and service.
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