New IBM-Microsoft Experience Zone helps clients explore solutions to innovate business processes and extend generative AI
By Chris McGuire | General Manager, Global Microsoft Strategic Partnerships, IBM Consulting
April 4, 2024
In August 2023, we announced the launch of the IBM Consulting Azure OpenAI service offering, marking an important milestone in our continued collaboration with Microsoft. Today, I am pleased to share that he is moving collaboration forward once again with the opening of the IBM-Microsoft Experience Zone in Bangalore, India. This is our first collaboration. Experience Zone delivers on our “Better Together” philosophy and helps clients understand how generated AI, hybrid cloud, and other Microsoft products and technologies can accelerate their business transformation journeys and gain strategic advantage. We provide a dedicated space where you can explore what’s helpful.
At the Experience Zone, customers from around the world and across industries collaborate with IBM Consulting at various technology stations to collaborate on AI-powered generative solutions leveraging Microsoft technologies such as Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot. Invent and collaborate. Within the Technology Station, clients can explore business solutions in emerging technologies including cloud modernization, data, analytics and advanced AI, customer relationship management, employee experience, finance and operations, IoT and edge, and augmented and virtual reality. Masu. The Experience Zone also focuses on industry solutions for the government, retail and energy sectors.
Additionally, this space provides an opportunity for clients to learn how to enhance the talent of their workforce with next-generation skills, access best-in-class case studies, and discuss with colleagues how to leverage generative AI in today’s competitive market. Offers.
“We are excited to partner with IBM to launch the new Experience Zone and bring together IBM Consulting expertise and Microsoft Cloud technology and services to deliver value to our clients.” said Dinis Couto, general manager of global partner solutions at Microsoft. “Partners like IBM are key to helping companies deploy AI and hybrid cloud solutions at scale. This brings us closer to our clients and supports our progress as a partner. is emphasized.”
IBM Consulting and Microsoft already offer a wide range of AI solutions and services to customers across industries. In fact, IBM Consulting recently collaborated with Virgin Money to develop and launch Redi, a conversational virtual assistant that assists credit card customers with the Virgin Money credit card app. Powered by Virgin Money’s Microsoft Copilot product suite, Redi is a testament to the power of partnership.
Second annual IBM-Microsoft hackathon expands collaboration
Last year, IBM Consulting and Microsoft collaborated with client teams to tackle real-world business challenges using Azure OpenAI Service in the first IBM-Microsoft hackathon. The results showed how innovative this technology is. For example, during the course of a hackathon last year, IBM Consulting and Microsoft worked on a use case with Julius Baer Bank to efficiently process and summarize financial reports while automatically creating audio versions of the reports. Addressed the need for more personalized content for customers.
Additionally, IBM Consulting and Microsoft collaborated with Wintershall Dea to implement a knowledge extraction tool designed for information retrieval within Wintershall Dea’s vast knowledge base. The team developed a user-friendly tool that integrates OCR and Microsoft Azure OpenAI. This eliminates the need for manual references. As a result, users can easily search for valuable insights across their organization.
Building on last year’s success, we’re excited to share that IBM Consulting and Microsoft launched our second client-focused hackathon last month, alongside the launch of the IBM-Microsoft Experience Zone. The hackathon brought together over 350 participants, including customers and experts from IBM, Neudesic, Bluetab, and Microsoft, to leverage Microsoft Copilot to improve customer productivity, unleash creativity, and streamline business processes. Explore and build solutions that can help you.
Each of these initiatives builds on our momentum as partners. We have a shared commitment to co-invest, co-create and co-deliver joint solutions for our customers, and we look forward to the future of our partnership. Clients benefit from generative AI and enterprise-wide hybrid cloud.
Learn more about our collaboration with Microsoft.
