AI models will continue to advance, but every organization has a unique combination of knowledge, processes, relationships, methods and experience that is hard to replicate. Context engineering makes more of that institutional knowledge usable by AI.
Discover how IBM Consulting can help turn enterprise knowledge into governed, reusable context and build quality, enterprise-grade products agentically.
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1Gartner, AI Vendor Race: IBM Is the Company to Beat for Context Engineering Services, Ben Fieselmann, Tom Coshow, et al., 23 October 2026
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