UAE-based e& teamed with IT powerhouse IBM to introduce an agentic AI offering, designed to give employees and auditors clear, traceable responses around enterprise governance requirements. Announced during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, e& explained the AI offering is built on IBM’s Watsonx Orchestrate platform. A joint proof of concept was delivered by e&, Gulf Business Machines (GBM) and IBM within eight weeks, demonstrating “how agentic AI can operate at enterprise scale under real-world conditions”. IBM’s client engineering team led the design and integration of the agentic AI offering, with GBM handling delivery through project coordination,Subscribe to our newsletter Get breaking news, exclusive insight, and expert analysis - before anyone else. Milestonee& stated the collaboration marks an important milestone in its enterprise AI push, establishing a scalable and governed foundation of agentic adoption across the organisation.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 19, 2026 16:22 UTC