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Channel Post MEA
10 hours ago
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
NTT DATA Launches Global Business Unit For Microsoft Cloud
NTT DATA has announced its NTT Data business unit for Microsoft Cloud to meet rising demand for secure, AI-driven enterprise cloud transformation. The global unit brings together NTT DATA's deep industry and technical expertise in Microsoft Cloud, security and AI solutions to accelerate cloud modernization, scale Agentic AI and navigate complex sovereignty and compliance requirements. 'Our expanded collaboration with Microsoft reflects a shared commitment to helping clients tackle today's complex business challenges with speed, scale and trust,' said Charlie Li, Head of Cloud and Security Services, NTT DATA, Inc. 'Through our global business unit for Microsoft Cloud, we're bringing together the strengths of both organizations to solve modern problems using advanced cloud and AI technologies, whether it's modernizing operations, improving how people work and connect, or delivering more intelligent, secure and resilient digital experiences.' Global NTT Data business unit for Microsoft Cloud: scale and specialization With a presence across more than 50 countries and a deep bench of Microsoft certified specialists holding 24,000 certifications, the NTT DATA business unit for Microsoft Cloud helps clients accelerate digital transformation globally. This unit brings together technical expertise in cloud-native development, cybersecurity, observability and Agentic AI, while staying closely aligned with Microsoft's technology roadmap and engineering teams. Led by Aishwarya Singh, Senior Vice President and Head of the Global Business Unit for Microsoft Cloud, the unit builds on NTT DATA's longstanding strategic alliance with Microsoft to elevate existing capabilities and expands its global reach, reinforcing NTT DATA's role as a trusted enterprise transformation partner. To accelerate adoption, NTT DATA is aligning its sales, pre-sales and delivery teams with Microsoft to help clients design, build, secure, migrate and implement solutions on Microsoft Cloud that deliver measurable business impact across industries and regulated markets. Core areas of focus include: Agentic AI at scale: Helping clients rapidly scale AI agents with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry enabling real-time voice communications and intelligent orchestration with speed, efficiency and ethical integrity. Helping clients rapidly scale AI agents with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry enabling real-time voice communications and intelligent orchestration with speed, efficiency and ethical integrity. Modern cloud solutions: Supporting organizations in building and updating applications In Microsoft Azure to boost agility, reduce complexity and stay ahead of change. Supporting organizations in building and updating applications In Microsoft Azure to boost agility, reduce complexity and stay ahead of change. Developer acceleration: Empowering Azure developers to accelerate cloud-native development with a microservices library of 500+ industry-accelerators, built on top of NTT DATA's Industry Cloud platform. Empowering Azure developers to accelerate cloud-native development with a microservices library of 500+ industry-accelerators, built on top of NTT DATA's Industry Cloud platform. Enhanced digital experience: Enabling more connected, collaborative workplaces with Microsoft 365 and transforming customer engagement through integrated Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center solutions. Enabling more connected, collaborative workplaces with Microsoft 365 and transforming customer engagement through integrated Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center solutions. Sovereign cloud adoption: NTT DATA is one of the few Microsoft partners collaborating on Sovereign Cloud specialization under Microsoft AI Cloud partner program. Driving agentic AI adoption at scale Today's announcement also follows strong momentum for NTT DATA's recently launched Agentic AI Services for Hyperscaler AI Technologies, built on Azure and Azure AI Foundry. In just 90 days, these services have generated nearly 100 enterprise client opportunities, including Newell Brands. This interest underscores the growing demand for AI-powered automation, intelligent workflows and seamless enterprise integration and the need for scalable solutions that move AI out of the lab and into production. NTT DATA is also scaling support for multi-agent models by leveraging Azure AI Agent Service on Azure AI Foundry. As a result, NTT DATA can help clients build, manage and orchestrate multi-agent workflows across multiple platforms. Providing next-generation service delivery NTT DATA is uniquely positioned to lead cloud-native business transformation in the AI era with deep expertise across Azure, Agentic AI and Industry Cloud ecosystems. Backed by 27 Advanced Specializations, including Security, Data & AI for Azure, Infrastructure, Digital & App Innovation and AI Business Solutions, NTT DATA helps enterprises accelerate big data migration and analysis, scale AI and ML workloads with flexibility and implement cost-effective, composable infrastructures that drive innovation and resilience. 'NTT DATA has played a pivotal role in driving global adoption of Microsoft Azure innovations. This global business unit and our expanded collaboration enables enterprises to integrate AI seamlessly, modernize operations and achieve digital transformation with confidence,' said Stephen Boyle, Global Leader, SI & Advisory at Microsoft.
Korea Herald
28-07-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
FNZ Announces Strategic Partnership with Microsoft to Accelerate the Transformation of the Wealth Management Industry
LONDON, July 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- FNZ, a leading end-to-end wealth management platform has today announced a global, five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to transform the wealth management industry through technology, innovation and AI-driven digital solutions. The partnership combines FNZ's industry-leading technology, wealth management expertise and global reach with Microsoft's advanced AI capabilities, cloud infrastructure and engineering excellence. By integrating Microsoft Azure AI Foundry at the heart of its platform, FNZ is redefining how financial institutions, advisors and their clients interact by delivering more personalized, intelligent and resilient digital wealth management experiences. This collaboration with Microsoft accelerates this transformation by helping FNZ bring new solutions to market faster, enhance client outcomes, boost advisor productivity and drive innovation across industry. With more than 650 financial institution partners, over 26 million end investors and close to $2 trillion in assets under administration, FNZ brings scale to the partnership. This provides access to one of the largest wealth management data sets in the world, enabling the powerful application of AI, cloud technologies and analytics to deliver deeper insights, greater personalization and better outcomes for advisors, clients and institutions alike. Partnership Highlights Through the partnership, FNZ will work with Microsoft to deliver advanced AI tools, drive new technology development and collaborate on joint go-to-market initiatives, including: Roman Regelman, Group President, FNZ, said:"FNZ has always been at the forefront of innovation in wealth-management technology. Partnering with Microsoft allows us to accelerate our AI-led roadmap and enhances our ability to deliver personalized, intelligent and resilient solutions to our clients, strengthening our position of leadership." "Together, we are not just upgrading technology. We are setting a new standard for how wealth management is delivered. Partnering with Microsoft further advances our mission to open up wealth, by making investing more accessible to more people worldwide." Bill Borden, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft, said:"Our partnership brings together Microsoft's AI and cloud technologies with FNZ's global platform and expertise in wealth management to deliver insights that will lead to more impactful and personalized experiences for advisors and their clients. Together, we're helping financial institutions lead as Frontier Firms by reimagining their operations through agentic AI, accelerating innovation, and unlocking new value across the wealth management ecosystem." FNZ is backed by some of the world's largest institutional shareholders, including Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (La Caisse), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), Generation Investment Management and Motive Partners.
Channel Post MEA
14-07-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Kyndryl Microsoft Acceleration Hub Accelerates AI Adoption
Kyndryl has announced the launch of Kyndryl Microsoft Acceleration Hub designed to advance the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerate digital transformation for enterprise customers. Developed in close collaboration with Microsoft, the new Acceleration Hub leverages Kyndryl Consult services and Kyndryl Vital co-creation and technical expertise to explore and support the deployment of tailored agentic AI solutions using Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Copilot across the Microsoft stack. The Hub will focus on building industry-specific solutions and capabilities, leveraging agentic AI to serve customers more efficiently and help them unlock new business value. The Kyndryl Microsoft Acceleration Hub will tap into existing physical and virtual innovation labs globally, including Kyndryl's new AI Innovation Lab in Liverpool. These locations will serve as collaborative environments for ideation, prototyping, and deployment of AI and digital solutions across industries and regions for customers. 'We are confidently doubling down on our successful collaboration with Microsoft because we know that the combination of Kyndryl Consult expertise with Microsoft technologies is a powerful duo that will help customers reap the benefits of AI, drive innovation and achieve meaningful business outcomes,' said Ismail Amla, Global Leader, Kyndryl Consult. 'Kyndryl's Microsoft Acceleration Hub represents the next evolution of our strategic collaboration and a shared commitment to helping enterprise customers unlock the full potential of AI,' said Stephen Boyle, Global Leader, SI & Advisory Partners, Microsoft. 'By combining Kyndryl's deep industry expertise with Microsoft's trusted cloud and AI capabilities, we're empowering organizations to accelerate innovation, improve operational efficiency and achieve meaningful transformation at scale.' Kyndryl will deliver scalable, innovative AI solutions across the Microsoft technology stack through its substantial commitment to skilling its workforce. To date, more than 16,000 Kyndryls have earned over 26,000 Microsoft certifications, which lends to our deep and growing expertise across Microsoft technologies — such as Microsoft Azure cloud, data platforms, security and modern workplace solutions — which strengthens the company's ability to deliver Microsoft-based services to enterprise clients. Kyndryl is also embedding agentic AI into its global infrastructure services and delivery capabilities to help customers fully leverage the Microsoft stack and act with autonomy, goals and decision-making in mind. 'As a customer, we are thrilled about the Kyndryl Microsoft Acceleration Hub's transformative potential and believe it can help streamline our adoption and application of AI and enable better services for our customers,' said Anders Bjørnrud, CTO of Care Safety Innovations. 'The cutting-edge capabilities that Kyndryl and Microsoft are providing will assist with providing smarter and more efficient home care to patients and the caregivers who support them.' Kyndryl recently achieved the AI Platform on Microsoft Azure specialization and renewed its Azure Expert MSP (Managed Services Partner) designation, which is the highest status a service provider can achieve with Microsoft; less than 2% of Microsoft's partner ecosystem garner this designation.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Saifr® Collaborates with Microsoft to Deploy AI Agent to Streamline Compliant Content Creation
Saifr models available via Microsoft Azure AI Foundry will power compliance AI agent at scale on Azure BOSTON, May 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Saifr®, a leading AI technology company incubated within Fidelity Labs, today announced an expansion of its integration with Microsoft bringing a Saifr compliance AI agent to Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. This marks the next step in Saifr's mission to meet clients where they work, after Saifr AI models were added to the Microsoft Azure AI Foundry model catalog last year. Now Microsoft customers can benefit from advanced compliance solutions for regulated industries, starting with financial services. At Microsoft Build 2025, Saifr introduced its Communication Compliance Agent which creates a seamless user experience for clients in the financial industry. The agent can be deployed on human- or LLM-generated content, paving the way for easier generative AI adoption within the industry by providing more guardrails for content creation while allowing humans to remain in the loop where they provide the most value. The Saifr agent identifies potentially noncompliant text and suggests more compliant, fair, and balanced version, helping end users adhere to relevant communications guidelines and rules from US regulators. "The Saifr agent puts humans at the center, equipping them with a simple way to create communications that are more compliant," said Vall Herard, CEO of Saifr. "Saifr turns regulation into code users can run in their daily productivity tools, bringing efficiency at scale. With this integration, an enterprise can easily deploy Saifr's compliance capabilities to thousands of users." Azure customers can integrate Saifr directly into their Azure instances or content generation tools, including any Microsoft 365 E5 products. For example, the Saifr Communication Compliance Agent can be deployed in financially focused chatbots and LLM financial retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) processes. Additionally, as part of this partnership, Saifr will open source the agent template as an industry standard. "Regulated industries, such as financial services, face unique challenges that advanced technologies can help address," said Yina Arenas, Vice President of Product – Azure AI Foundry at Microsoft. "Our collaboration with Saifr provides specialized regulatory insights via AI capabilities that promote innovation across the industry and can deliver significant efficiency gains to clients." With the Saifr Communication Compliance Agent, Microsoft customers can create content faster, improve efficiency, and reduce friction by leveraging Saifr's AI to help manage their compliance with financial industry communication regulations. About Saifr Saifr redefines how compliance operates with advanced AI technology, the right data, and deep industry expertise. Built within Fidelity Investments' innovation incubator, Fidelity Labs, Saifr harnesses the power of AI agents to help address the limitations and inefficiencies within traditional compliance frameworks, helping safeguard organizations from regulatory and reputational risks. Saifr helps clients save time, reduce costs, and improve accuracy while protecting their firms. Our AI-powered risk prevention and management solutions include capabilities for marketing compliance review, adverse media monitoring, and electronic communications surveillance. Learn more at About Fidelity Labs Fidelity Labs is Fidelity Investments' in-house software business incubator. Founded in 2005, Fidelity Labs has played a critical role in driving growth and innovation for the firm. The Fidelity Labs organization has a portfolio of internal capabilities and commercial businesses and is actively exploring concepts for future Fidelity businesses to enter new markets and better serve our customers. Learn more at Saifr's products and services are not intended to replace the user's legal, compliance, business, or other functions, or to satisfy any legal or regulatory obligations. All compliance responsibilities remain solely those of the user and certain communications may require review and approval by properly licensed individuals.1203651.1.0 Media ContactPANBlast for SaifrEmylee Eylereeyler@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Saifr Sign in to access your portfolio
Business Wire
19-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Credo AI Collaborates with Microsoft to Launch AI Governance Developer Integration to Fast-Track Compliant, Trustworthy Enterprise AI
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Credo AI, a global pioneer and leader in AI governance for the enterprise, today launched an integration with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. First announced in November, the next step in this collaboration bridges a long-standing divide between technical development and AI governance teams—empowering enterprises to innovate with AI at speed and scale while simultaneously ensuring trust, safety, and compliance. A recent Gartner report predicted that 60% of GenAI projects will fail after proof-of-concept due to gaps in governance, data, and cost control. Governance teams often lack the technical context to define or interpret AI evaluation results, while developers lack clarity on how to meet emerging governance requirements. The result is misalignment, friction, and AI innovation stuck in R&D. 'As AI becomes central to enterprise value creation, governance must shift from reactive oversight to proactive enablement,' said Navrina Singh, Founder and CEO of Credo AI. 'Our integration with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry represents a breakthrough: actionable, real-time governance that lives where AI is built. It's how innovation accelerates with responsibility.' 'Credo AI's integration tackles one of the biggest blockers in enterprise AI–the communication and alignment gap between AI governance teams and developers,' said Sarah Bird, Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI, Microsoft. 'The integration delivers prescriptive guidance to AI governance leaders on what to evaluate and empowers developers to run governance-aligned evaluations directly within their workflow.' The 1st Step to Solving the AI R&D Bottleneck This integration marks a breakthrough in Credo AI's vision to operationalize policy-to-code translation–turning abstract governance goals into concrete, actionable metrics and steps. By bridging policy and execution, the integration empowers governance teams to convert risk-management and innovation strategies into code-level evaluations–enabling scalable, measurable risk management across the AI lifecycle. The benefits of Credo AI's integration with Azure AI Foundry: Governance teams receive structured, validated technical evidence tied to each use case. Developers get code to run evaluators (like groundedness, hallucination, bias) to ensure their development process is aligned with AI governance and business objectives Evaluator results automatically flow back into the Credo AI platform, linking risk insights directly to governance workflows. Unlocking Innovation with Built-In Trust As part of this integration, all Azure AI Foundry models are governable within the Credo AI Platform, which is made possible by Credo AI's automatic integration specific mapping to the appropriate policies, risks, and evaluation requirements. This ensures: Faster AI adoption and approvals through contextual risk insights End-to-end compliance visibility aligned with the EU AI Act, NIST RMF, and ISO 42001 Smarter investment decisions based on governance readiness and risk adjusted ROI The integration is already in active pilots with select Global 2000 enterprises and has received strong enthusiasm from Microsoft teams and customers alike. Early users report accelerated model approval, clearer cross-team multistakeholder collaboration, and faster time-to-value for high-risk AI initiatives. 'At Version1, we're using the new Credo AI and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry integration to streamline AI governance for our clients—embedding policy, risk, and compliance into development and easing the load on our AI Labs team,' said Brad Mallard, CTO of Version1. More information on the Credo AI integration for Azure AI Foundry can be found here. To request a Demo of Credo AI's Platform, visit AI Governance Platform and AI Governance Advisory Services empower your enterprise to adopt and scale trusted AI with confidence. From Generative AI to Agentic AI, Credo AI's centralized platform measures, monitors, and manages AI risk—enabling your organization to maximize AI's value while mitigating security, privacy, compliance, and operational challenges. Credo AI also future-proofs your AI investments by aligning with global regulations, industry standards, and company values. Recognized as Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CB Insights AI 100, Inc. Best Workplaces, and the World Economic Forum Technology Pionee r, is leading the charge in accelerating the adoption of trusted AI.
