Meet Bob: A new way to approach software modernization

Enterprise development teams still need to plan work, manage complex codebases, validate what they build and maintain governance throughout the software development lifecycle. And for many organisations, modernisation means addressing technical debt and existing applications at the same time as they build for the future.

IBM Bob brings those pieces together.

More than a coding assistant

IBM Bob is an AI-powered development partner designed to help enterprise teams plan, execute, validate and govern multi-step software development work across the software development lifecycle.

Rather than focusing on isolated code suggestions, Bob can help orchestrate work across codebases, repositories, workflows and delivery pipelines. The result is a shift from simply generating code faster towards governed software delivery and modernisation at scale. 

For customers, that can support:

• Faster delivery of production-ready software
• Reduced technical debt and modernisation risk
• Improved developer productivity and onboarding
• Better preservation of institutional knowledge
• Stronger governance, auditability and control 

Move beyond code generation. Now you can.

A new conversation for IBM partners

For partners, Bob creates another way to build on existing IBM customer relationships.

By helping customers address software modernisation and delivery challenges, partners can expand services revenue, accelerate delivery projects and create new consulting, implementation and AI transformation conversations. 

And Bob can complement technologies already within a partner's IBM business.

Better together with watsonx Orchestrate

One example is IBM Bob and watsonx Orchestrate. Together, they can help transform business requirements into production-ready agents, tools and workflows. Bob can support the development and testing of enterprise agents while watsonx Orchestrate provides the orchestration environment for putting them to work across the business.

The combination can help reduce development effort, improve agent reliability and accelerate the journey from an AI concept to deployment. 

Turn AI concepts into enterprise outcomes. Now you can.

Get to know Bob

Arrow has brought together training path, demos, client stories and sales resources to help you understand IBM Bob and start bringing it into customer conversations.
Whether you're getting familiar with the technology, building demand or preparing to sell, you'll find resources to support each stage of your IBM partner journey.