S&P Global and IBM announced a strategic partnership on October 8, 2025, to deploy the IBM watsonx Orchestrate platform into S&P Globals operations. The project will begin by automating processes in supply chain management and will later expand to finance, procurement, and insurance. The watsonx Orchestrate platform enables the creation of "AI agents"—autonomous systems that can understand complex tasks given in natural language and independently execute a sequence of actions across various enterprise applications. For example, an agent could automate the vendor selection process by analyzing S&P Globals risk data while coordinating actions in procurement systems. S&P Global will also build its own agents based on its proprietary data for the watsonx catalog. This deployment is one of the largest examples of using agentic AI for end-to-end automation of complex business processes in the financial industry.
S&P Global and IBM Deploy Agentic AI for Enterprise Operations
