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Endava to accelerate Google Agentspace enterprise AI

Endava to accelerate Google Agentspace enterprise AI

Techday NZ07-05-2025
Endava has been named as an implementation partner for Google Agentspace, with a role in supporting its wider industry adoption.
Agentic AI, which refers to autonomous, goal-oriented systems capable of making decisions, learning, and collaborating across varied environments, is seeing greater uptake in business settings as organisations seek advanced ways to deploy artificial intelligence.
Google Agentspace is a platform designed to embed intelligent, proactive agents within enterprise workflows. The platform's core offering is a multimodal search agent that functions as a conversational interface to facilitate access to organisational knowledge.
Agentspace integrates data from both structured and unstructured resources, including Google Drive, Jira, and SharePoint. This gives employees a single destination for up-to-date information, reducing time spent on system navigation and supporting quicker decision-making through proactive AI suggestions.
"As a partner to Google Cloud, Endava plays a critical role in helping organisations realise the full potential of Agentspace. With deep experience in cloud-native engineering, enterprise integration and AI solution design, we support clients in deploying intelligent agents that align with real business needs and ensure a smooth, scalable implementation journey," Andrew Rossiter, Global Senior Vice President of Google Cloud at Endava, said.
Agentspace allows organisations to implement domain-specific expert agents. These AI-powered assistants carry out multi-step tasks, provide analysis, and generate content across operational domains such as marketing, legal, finance, and engineering. The platform is intended to foster collaboration between human teams and AI, enabling the completion of complex tasks with greater efficiency and accuracy.
Enterprise productivity may be improved as these agents can automatically summarise documents, track project milestones, synthesise data-driven insights, and coordinate workflows within a secure company environment.
To support the adoption of agentic AI, Endava is making a suite of Agentspace accelerators available. These include pre-built templates, integration frameworks, and reusable software components that aim to simplify and speed up the deployment process, removing the need for businesses to build from the ground up.
The company serves clients across multiple industries, including financial services, technology, healthcare, media, retail, and more. Teams are based in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. As of late 2024, Endava reported over 11,600 employees worldwide.
Endava, a leading provider of next-generation technology services, continues to help businesses accelerate growth, address complex challenges, and succeed in dynamic markets. With a strong focus on innovation and an AI-native approach, the company partners with clients to deliver tailored solutions that support digital transformation and enhance decision-making across the enterprise.
Combining deep industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies, Endava collaborates with customers from ideation through production, offering support at every stage of the digital journey. Its comprehensive approach is designed to create a meaningful and lasting impact, regardless of industry, geography, or scale.
Endava's diverse client base includes organisations across payments, insurance, financial services, banking, technology, media, telecommunications, healthcare and life sciences, mobility, retail, consumer goods, and more.
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