HCLTech and IBM announce GenAI Center of Excellence to support clients with customized AI solutions
July 02 2024 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
HCLTech plans to train 10,000 employees on
IBM’s watsonx™ AI and data platform
HCLTech, a leading global technology company, and IBM today
announced a new collaboration to establish a Generative AI Center
of Excellence (GenAI CoE) based on the IBM watsonx™ AI and data
platform.
The CoE, which will be available through HCLTech’s AI and Cloud
Native Labs in Noida, London and New Jersey and Santa Clara in the
US, will help enterprises modernize legacy applications, develop IT
service management (ITSM) use cases, reduce coding complexity,
improve skill development on the IBM watsonx™ platform and enable
continuous innovation.
“This expansion of our work with IBM will facilitate rapid
exploration of AI’s potential as we create highly differentiated
HCLTech offerings using the latest IBM technology. We plan to embed
watsonx in HCLTech AI Force with GenAI-powered solutions to support
code modernization,” said Alan Flower, EVP, Global Head, AI &
Cloud Native Labs, HCLTech. “Additionally, we plan to help our
clients accelerate GenAI adoption through AI facilitated by watsonx
while enhancing digital skills for enterprise productivity through
the implementation of watsonx Orchestrate.”
Together with IBM, HCLTech aims to train 10,000 of its engineers
and architects in IBM's innovative AI technologies, specifically
watsonx. The adaptive portfolio, CloudSMART for IBM, assists
businesses in continuous innovation through advanced technologies,
utilizing the latest business and technology insights.
“Driving adoption of responsible generative AI solutions is an
important component of our collaboration with service partners like
HCLTech. Through this Center of Excellence, we plan to empower our
joint clients to rapidly explore, experiment and engineer
generative AI solutions with watsonx that are designed to meet
their current business challenges,” said Stephen Smith, General
Manager, Service Partners, IBM Ecosystem.
The CoE will offer clients access to education and training
resources covering diverse AI technologies, including watsonx.ai,
watsonx.data, watsonx.governance, watsonx Code Assistants, watsonx
Orchestrate and watsonx Assistant to help skill their resources and
provide a platform for building use cases.
Read more about the HCLTech-IBM collaboration:
https://www.hcltech.com/cloud/ibm
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For further details, please contact:
HCLTech
Meenakshi Benjwal, Americas meenakshi.benjwal@hcltech.com
Elka Ghudial, EMEA elka.ghudial@hcltech.com
James Galvin, ANZ james.galvin@hcltech.com
Siddhartha Bhatnagar, India bhatnagars@hcltech.com