HCLTech, IBM To Establish Generative AI Centre Of Excellence
HCL Technologies Ltd. is collaborating with International Business Machines Corp. to establish a Generative AI Centre of Excellence based on the IBM watsonx artificial intelligence 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 U.S., will help enterprises modernise legacy applications, develop IT service management use cases, reduce coding complexity and improve skill development on the IBM watsonx platform.
“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 gen AI-powered solutions to support code modernisation,” said Alan Flower, executive vice president and global head, AI & Cloud Native Labs, HCLTech.
“Additionally, we plan to help our clients accelerate gen AI adoption through AI facilitated by watsonx while enhancing digital skills for enterprise productivity through the implementation of watsonx Orchestrate,” Flower said.
Together with IBM, HCLTech aims to train 10,000 engineers and architects in IBM's AI technologies, specifically watsonx. The adaptive portfolio, CloudSMART for IBM, assists businesses in innovation through advanced technologies, utilising business and technology insights.
The CoE will offer enterprises access to education and training resources covering AI technologies, including watsonx.ai, watsonx.data, watsonx.governance, Code Assistants, Orchestrate and Assistant to help skill their resources and provide a platform for building use cases.
“Driving adoption of responsible generative AI solutions is an important component of our collaboration with service partners like HCLTech. Through this Centre 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.
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