Mumbai: Software engineering and product development company EPAM and Google Cloud have announced a strategic global partnership to enable enterprises to modernise and transform with artificial intelligence (AI).
The partnership will play a key role in developing and deploying AI -the first Google Cloud solutions that will help enterprises overcome operational challenges and drive transformational growth.
Under this tie-up, EPAM will expand its global, cloud-native engineering and integration services and introduce targeted vertical solutions and managed services around Google Cloud AI solutions, including Vertex AI, Generative AI App Builder, Model Garden and more.
“We are excited to expand our partnership with Google Cloud to bring the power of AI to our clients,” said Elaina Shekhter, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer (CMSO), EPAM.
The two companies have been working together on many the cloud-native developments since the mid-2000s, according to Shekhter.
“Larger scale success with AI will also be critically enabled by a new wave of EPAM’s industry leading data engineering and ML capabilities. By furthering our long-standing partnership, we will help our clients stay ahead of the competition in a fast-changing digital landscape,” added Shekhter.
This partnership will leverage Google Cloud’s advanced AI and ML capabilities, and EPAM’s platform and data engineering along with consulting, and software development experience to deliver cloud-enabled AI, data modernisation, migration, data and analytics solutions to the Forbes Global 2000.
“Generative AI has the potential to streamline business processes and even transform entire industries,” said Michael Clark, VP of Google Cloud North America Regions.
“By combining Google Cloud’s generative AI capabilities with EPAM’s engineering expertise, we will help customers leverage cloud-first technology and generative AI as a catalyst for digital transformation, rapidly realising business value, addressing real-world use cases and driving business growth across industries,” added Clark.
EPAM and Google Cloud will expand their collaboration to build and deliver AI-driven solutions helping enterprises in key verticals including financial services, consumer, telecom, media, entertainment, healthcare, life sciences, energy and high-tech to modernise and transform their businesses.