Microsoft and Eviden, an Atos Group firm specializing in big data, security, cloud services, and digital technologies, have just established a five-year strategic agreement. With the launch of innovative Microsoft cloud and AI-powered solutions designed for a range of sectors, this partnership would be poised to completely transform their present relationship.
This collaboration is a crucial aspect of Eviden's plan to expand and improve its worldwide network of partnerships by strengthening current ties and fostering new ones.
Microsoft and Eviden’s collaborative development and implementation of ground-breaking solutions in Data & AI, Copilot, and cloud transformation will be the main goals of this strategic alliance. With Eviden’s extensive domain expertise and customer-focused approach, combined with Microsoft's cloud computing prowess and technology stack, the partnership would be well-positioned to provide customized and cutting-edge solutions that tackle the complex issues faced by contemporary businesses.
Creating an extra $2.8 billion in cloud service business for Eviden over the next five years is one of the main objectives of this partnership. This will be accomplished by working together to establish accelerators and launch go-to-market initiatives in important industries including manufacturing, financial services, automotive, energy and utilities, healthcare, life sciences, and public sector. Using “top-notch personnel,” both businesses are using Eviden's Global Delivery Centers and Center of Excellence to build Prioritized Offerings and engage in co-innovation.
Several co-innovation Industry Hubs have been established as a key component of this relationship. These centers will concentrate on advancing cutting-edge research and collaboratively creating industrial solutions enabled by GenAI in a variety of fields. As originally stated in November, this endeavor will make use of Eviden's proficiency with machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft Azure will be used by Eviden in the development of various industry solutions.
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The collaboration will keep focusing on providing cutting-edge solutions in the six key sectors where they have previously found success working with joint marquee clients. Cloud Services, Application Infrastructure & Innovation, Data & AI Innovation, Business Applications, Security, and Accelerating SAP Transformation are some of these domains. Notably, the alliance extends beyond SAP, Eviden, and Microsoft's 14+ year history, and is further strengthened by Eviden's vast expertise implementing SAP S/4HANA.
By upskilling its employees, Eviden intends to improve both its Center of Excellence (CoE) and its worldwide delivery centers. In the next five years, more than 50,000 workers globally will complete training that would result in more than 16,000 new Microsoft certificates. Furthermore, Eviden is growing its Microsoft Business by assigning specialized teams for sales, solution architects, and enablement in important nations including the UK, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland.
The CEO of Eviden and Group General Manager in Charge of Business Operations, Carlo d'Asaro Biondo, expressed his enthusiasm for the collaboration. He emphasized the dedication to advancing innovation and the synergy of integrating capabilities to enable businesses to effectively use data and AI. The expanded engagement on Digital Workplace with Atos' Tech Foundations business line, which was announced in November, is one aspect of this alliance that strengthens Atos Group's current collaboration with Microsoft.
Microsoft's Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Judson Althoff, offered more commentary on the partnership. He underlined how businesses are becoming more and more interested in using generative AI safely and ethically to solve their most important business problems. Mr. Althoff was excited about growing their partnership with Eviden in order to provide cutting-edge AI solutions based on Azure OpenAI Service and Microsoft Cloud. Through this agreement, clients across a range of sectors will be able to fully use their data, resulting in increased company development and an acceleration of the AI transition.
