Wipro and IBM launch enterprise AI-ready platform to accelerate AI adoption

Wipro Limited, a global leader in technology services and consulting, has unveiled its latest innovation: the Wipro Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Ready Platform. This new offering, developed in collaboration with IBM, is designed to enable clients to establish their own enterprise-scale, fully integrated AI environments. Utilizing IBM’s watsonx AI and data platform, which encompasses watsonx.ai, watsonx.data, and watsonx.governance along with AI assistants, the platform promises an interoperable service that accelerates AI adoption across various industries.

The Wipro Enterprise AI-Ready Platform is a product of an extended partnership between Wipro and IBM, blending Wipro’s industry and technology expertise with IBM’s leadership in hybrid cloud and AI innovations. This collaboration is set to produce joint solutions aimed at facilitating the robust, reliable, and integrated deployment of enterprise-ready AI applications.

Jo Debecker, Managing Partner & Global Head, Wipro FullStride Cloud, emphasized the significance of this partnership: “This expanded partnership with IBM combines our deep contextual cloud, AI, and industry expertise with IBM’s leading AI innovation capabilities. 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.”

Additionally, the initiative includes the establishment of the IBM TechHub@Wipro, funded by both companies. This hub aims to drive joint client engagements through a dedicated team of experts, engineers, and resources, focusing on integrating IBM’s watsonx capabilities into Wipro’s offerings.

Kate Woolley, General Manager, IBM Ecosystem, highlighted the collaboration’s potential: “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.”

The Wipro Enterprise AI-Ready Platform offers clients essential infrastructure and software for AI and generative AI workloads. It supports dynamic resource management, automation enhancements, and incident reduction. Additionally, the platform caters to specialized industry use cases in banking, retail, health, energy, and manufacturing, offering solutions such as conversational AI for customer support and content generation.

Nagendra Bandaru, Managing Partner and President, Wipro Enterprise Futuring, shared insights into the platform’s flexibility: “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.”

The platform also emphasizes the importance of responsible AI by leveraging watsonx.governance to automate AI governance, ensuring transparency, data protection, and compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

The launch of the Wipro Enterprise AI-Ready Platform marks a significant advancement in AI technology’s accessibility and integration into enterprise environments. By providing a scalable, interoperable platform that emphasizes governance and industry-specific solutions, Wipro and IBM are setting a new standard for AI adoption in the business world. This initiative not only demonstrates the potential of collaborative innovation in technology but also underscores the importance of responsible AI practices in the development and deployment of AI solutions.