Cirata Symphony, IBM OEM Agreement

Cirata PLC

16 June 2026

 

16 June 2026

Cirata plc

("Cirata" or the "Company")

Cirata Symphony, IBM OEM Agreement

Cirata plc (AIM: CRTA) a leading provider of enterprise data orchestration technology, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a revised Original Equipment Manufacturer agreement (the "Revised OEM Agreement") with International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM"). Under the terms of the Revised OEM Agreement, Cirata Symphony - the Company's Data Orchestration product- will be offered by IBM to its customer base and branded as Cirata Symphony for IBM Big Replicate.

Stephen Kelly, CEO of Cirata, commented:

"We are delighted to deepen our relationship with IBM through this strategic Revised OEM Agreement. IBM's decision to incorporate Cirata Symphony into its offering is a strong endorsement of our technology and its ability to address some of the most complex data challenges facing enterprises today. The age of live data is here. Resilience, Active Risk Management, cloud modernization, and agentic AI all depend on trusted data that moves continuously and without disruption. That is much harder to deliver than most transformation programs anticipate. Together with IBM, Cirata gives organizations exactly that capability - accelerating change without sacrificing operational continuity or control of their most critical asset: their data."

Background

On 28 April 2026, IBM published a Statement of Direction announcing its intention to expand its strategic partnership with Cirata to offer Cirata Symphony for IBM Big Replicate, a data orchestration platform engineered to eliminate data silos and accelerate enterprise AI initiatives. The inclusion of Cirata Symphony in the Revised OEM Agreement announced today, details of which are set out below, represents the formal commercialization of that partnership.

Principal Terms of the Revised OEM Agreement

Under the Revised OEM agreement, IBM will embed and distribute Cirata's Symphony technology as Cirata Symphony for IBM Big Replicate, the next generation of IBM Big Replicate, providing a unified control plane for petabyte-scale data movement, operation, and management. The solution is designed to:

=	Deliver continuous data movement at petabyte scale with near-zero downtime.
=	Expand native support for open table formats, including Apache Iceberg, enabling real-time transformation of legacy data into AI-optimized formats.
=	Provide real-time data lineage and immutable audit trails to support compliance and governance obligations; and
=	Integrate with a wide variety of existing customer data-centric systems, including scale-out storage technologies, observability platforms, real-time data streaming technologies, AI agents and language models, and modern data and AI platforms including watsonx.data, watsonx.ai, IBM Confluent and IBM Cloud.

Strategic Rationale and Expected Business Value

Management believe that the inclusion of Cirata Symphony in the Revised OEM agreement represents a significant milestone in Cirata's strategy to embed its technology within leading enterprise technology ecosystems. The agreement is expected to accelerate Cirata's commercial reach by leveraging IBM's global distribution network and its established relationships with enterprise clients at scale.

The combined solution is expected to deliver the following business value to IBM's client base:

=	Accelerated time to value: enabling clients to unlock AI workloads faster by removing data pipeline bottlenecks.
=	Operational continuity: maintaining business continuity through continuous, uninterrupted data movement; and
=	Data confidence: assuring data consistency, interoperability, and compliance throughout the data lifecycle.

This announcement contains inside information under the UK Market Abuse Regulation. The person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement on behalf of Cirata plc is Stephen Kelly, Chief Executive Officer.

For further information, please contact: 

Cirata	[phone]
Stephen Kelly, Chief Executive Officer
Ed Kee, Finance Director
Daniel Hayes, Investor Relations
FTI Consulting	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Kwaku Aning
Stifel (Nomad and Joint Broker)	[phone]
Fred Walsh / Brough Ransom / Ben Good / Daniel Dearden-Williams
Panmure Liberum (Joint Broker)	[phone]
James Sinclair-Ford / Rupert Dearden / Piers Shimwell

About Cirata

Cirata is the Data Foundation for Enterprise AI. The company enables enterprises to continuously move, orchestrate and protect data across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments without downtime, disruption, or vendor lock-in. As organisations modernise infrastructure, improve resilience and deploy AI at scale, Cirata ensures critical data remains accessible, available and under control wherever it resides.

By combining large-scale data movement, continuous synchronisation, and operational resilience, Cirata helps organisations accelerate AI initiatives, reduce infrastructure risk and maintain freedom of choice across their technology estate.

For more information about Cirata, visit www.cirata.com

 

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