Technology services and consulting company Wipro launched the Wipro enterprise AI-ready platform. This service – which leverages IBM’s watsonx AI and data platform – allows clients to create integrated, enterprise-level, customized AI environments.
The Wipro enterprise AI-ready platform specifically makes use of watsonx.ai, watsonx.data, watsonx.governance and AI assistants, to deliver interoperable services to accelerate AI adoption, enhance operations and offer capabilities spanning tools, large language models, streamlined processes and robust governance. This lays the foundation, Wipro noted, for future industry analytic solutions to be built on watsonx.data and AI.
Wipro’s enterprise AI-ready platform is born out of an expanded, multi-year partnership with IBM to bring together Wipro technology and industry expertise with hybrid cloud and AI innovation from IBM.
“This expanded partnership with IBM combines our deep contextual cloud, AI and industry expertise with IBM’s leading AI innovation capabilities,” said Jo Debecker, managing partner & global head, Wipro FullStride Cloud. “The solutions we are creating as part of this partnership will help enterprises achieve new levels of flexibility when building their own enterprise-specific AI ecosystems. Our goal is to make AI consumption as efficient, agile, reliable and sustainable as possible—ultimately, helping advance the adoption of enterprise-level AI.”
As part of the partnership, Wipro and IBM are jointly funding the IBM TechHub@Wiprosolution, for driving and supporting joint client pursuits through a centralized group of subject matter experts, engineers, assets and processes. The IBM TechHub@Wipro will include a watsonx Center of Excellence, which will focus on infusing IBM watsonx capabilities across Wipro’s offerings.
“We’re pleased to reach this new milestone in our 20-year partnership to support clients through the combination of Wipro’s and IBM’s joint expertise and technology, including watsonx,” said IBM Ecosystem GM, Kate Woolley. “We’re also looking forward to supporting our joint clients with IBM TechHub@Wipro, which will comprise a network of Wipro and IBM subject matter experts operating in global centers of excellence, focused on AI, automation, IT modernization and sustainability.”
Wipro’s enterprise AI-ready platform will provide clients with infrastructure and core software for consuming AI and generative AI workloads, including using code-based configurations to enhance automation; dynamic resource management to dynamically adjust to workloads using predictive analytics; and driving improvements in incident reduction and operational efficiency in the enterprise. The Platform will also support specialized industry use cases for banking, retail, health, energy and manufacturing, providing conversational AI for customer support, customized marketing, customer feedback analysis, content generation and design optimization.
“Wipro’s enterprise AI-ready platform will allow clients to easily integrate and standardize multiple data sources augmenting AI- and GenAI-enabled transformation across business functions,” said Nagendra Bandaru, managing partner and president, Wipro Enterprise Futuring. “The service will provide clients with the flexibility and freedom to choose how they want to develop and deploy their large language models, giving them the option to use IBM’s existing models, co-develop their custom applications or create their own models based on the foundational models and tools available on the platform. Further, clients will have the flexibility to run these models in their preferred cloud environment—whether that’s public, private or hybrid.”
The platform will leverage watsonx.governance to automate AI governance through the AI lifecycle, helping businesses control and monitor risk while adhering to the key tenets of responsible AI: transparency, data protection and compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
As part of this expanded partnership, Wipro associates will be trained in IBM hybrid cloud, AI and data analytics to accelerate joint solutions development.
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