HCLTech and IBM collaborate to establish a Generative AI Center of Excellence (GenAI CoE) based on the IBM watsonx AI and data platform.
The Center of Excellence (CoE), which can be accessed via HCLTech’s AI and Cloud Native Labs in Noida, London, New Jersey, and Santa Clara in the US, aims to help businesses update legacy applications, create IT service management (ITSM) scenarios, simplify coding, improve expertise on the IBM Watson platform, and promote ongoing innovation.
The Center of Excellence (CoE) will provide clients with access to education and training resources that cover various AI technologies, including watsonx.ai, watsonx.data, watsonx.governance, watsonx Code Assistants, watsonx Orchestrate, and watsonx Assistant.
“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.
“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 of Service Partners, IBM Ecosystem.
