Acquired in 2022, international know-how large IBM is launching its US-based Microsoft cloud consulting model Neudesic in Australia, to be led by former SXiQ managing director John Hanna.
Based in 2002 and headquartered in California, Neudesic has a group of greater than 2,500 throughout the US and India offering a spread of cloud and AI technique, implementation and managed companies based mostly on the Microsoft Azure platform.
The corporate was bought in 2022 amid an acquisition spree following the installment of Arvind Krishna as international CEO and IBM’s tilt in direction of hybrid cloud and AI, which in Australia included the addition of AWS and Azure specialist SXiQ.
With the latter now totally absorbed into IBM Consulting, former SXiQ managing director John Hanna has been tapped to drive Neudesic’s enlargement as Australia CEO: “With this launch, our Australian prospects achieve a brand new Microsoft-pure play associate which brings extra capabilities and property to assist them succeed on their digital transformation journeys,” he acknowledged.
These capabilities embrace a full suite of cloud infrastructure, software innovation, knowledge & AI, and enterprise technique & transformation companies, with ASX200 corporations within the monetary companies, manufacturing, and power & utilities sectors amongst these the native observe is aiming to focus on, in keeping with an announcement from IBM Consulting Australia managing associate David Ellis.
“This launch will considerably develop IBM Consulting’s portfolio of focused companies, offering a chance to strengthen an underserviced market,” mentioned Ellis, who joined the agency from Bain & Firm earlier this 12 months. “Microsoft Azure is essential to lots of our shoppers’ capacity to modernise and innovate, and Neudesic’s choices will additional advance our Microsoft Azure technique in Australia.”
Alongside the recruitment of Ellis, IBM Consulting has been stacking its senior ranks over the course of 2024, together with most not too long ago with former govt David Burns, who returns to the agency after greater than a decade at Telstra. Others to have joined or been promoted in current months embrace hybrid cloud chief Iskra Nikolova, and Richa Arora, as head of cybersecutity companies.
Extra broadly, the enlargement of Neudesic into Australia follows IBM’s current introduction of its ‘watsonx’ synthetic intelligence platform downunder through IBM Cloud, housed inside its Sydney-based knowledge centre. The transfer goals to assist meet Australia’s sovereign knowledge storage laws, with knowledge lakehouse and governance & compliance options among the many preliminary suite of choices.
