IBM yesterday announced to expand its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) derive value from the latest technologies, including generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), and also launched an innovation lab, in collaboration with AWS, at the IBM Client Experience Centre in Bengaluru, a statement from IBM informed.
The statement said that the lab is a first-of-its-kind for the IBM-AWS collaboration, and is open to stakeholders from around the world to explore joint IBM-AWS solutions and test prototypes and proofs of value that aim to help accelerate innovation across industries such as banking and financial services, automotive, manufacturing, energy and utilities, travel and transportation, and healthcare, among others.
Anuj Malhotra, Vice President and Senior Partner, Growth Platforms, IBM India Client Innovation Centre, IBM Consulting, said in the statement, “With the IBM innovation lab being launched in collaboration with AWS in India, our objective is to showcase the full potential of the joint value proposition that IBM and AWS offer to our clients from across the world. Clients can now experiment with the latest cloud-enabled technologies including generative AI in our lab, before actually implementing and scaling solutions on AWS. Our teams at the lab, consisting of technology and industry experts from IBM and AWS, will help build rapid prototypes that address client business and technology challenges. IBM and AWS have a history of driving client innovation leveraging the latest technology such as AI in India. We look forward to deepening our partnership with AWS and support even more clients across industries and across geographies to unlock the full potential of cloud and generative AI.”
The lab is divided into experience zones that focus on different technology areas underpinned by generative AI and Machine Learning (ML). These areas demonstrate cloud modernisation, SAP transformation, industry innovation, data and technology transformation, and cybersecurity, added the statement.
Vaishali Kasture, Director and Country Leader, Commercial Sales, AWS India and South Asia, also said in the statement, “AWS is delighted to be launching a new innovation lab with our AWS Premier Tier Consulting Partner, IBM. By combining the AI and data analytics expertise of IBM and AWS’s broadest and deepest set of cloud-enabled solutions, we look forward to drive industry transformation and developing solutions that address real-world customer needs. AWS remains committed to invest in working backwards from our joint customers and leveraging advanced cloud technologies like generative AI and the innovation lab as sandbox environment, to ideate and scale industry-focussed solutions.”
