- Combines IBM's premier technology consulting services with EY
leading strategy and business consulting capabilities
- Provides clients with specialized hybrid cloud functionalities
including Red Hat OpenShift, as well as IBM Watson, IBM Blockchain,
5G and edge computing technologies
- Dedicated EY professionals with broad experience across IBM's
leading technologies to help solve significant client
challenges
LONDON and ARMONK, New York, July
17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- EY and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today
announce an enhanced, global multi-year alliance designed to help
organizations accelerate digital transformation and improve client
outcomes, including leveraging the hybrid cloud capabilities of Red
Hat OpenShift, as well as IBM Watson, IBM Blockchain and IBM's 5G
and edge technologies. Together, IBM and EY professionals will
focus on helping clients modernize and transform their
businesses.
Carmine Di Sibio, EY Global
Chairman and CEO, says:
"The EY-IBM Alliance is built on providing differentiating and
transformational business value for clients. As organizations learn
how to adapt to today's new normal, leveraging the cloud, AI,
analytics and other technologies have become increasingly
important. IBM is a proven leader in hybrid cloud and AI, and
together we're developing innovative solutions to help provide the
sustainability and resiliency that assist clients to operate and
lead today, and in the years to come, as they reframe their future
amidst an unpredictable and rapidly evolving environment."
EY and IBM teams will provide additional joint consulting and
systems integration capabilities to help deliver long-term value to
clients. The combination of EY market leading strategy and global
business consulting services, and dedicated EY professionals with
broad experience across IBM's leading technologies, alongside IBM's
premier consulting technology practice and powerful hybrid cloud
and AI capabilities, will help clients address significant business
challenges. In addition, the alliance will continue to support
multiple functional areas comprising M&A, finance, HR,
legal, tax, risk and compliance, supply chain and asset management
to assist clients in business and workforce transformations, and
cloud strategies.
Arvind Krishna, IBM Chief
Executive Officer, says:
"Expanding this global alliance bolsters our ability to bring
our hybrid cloud and AI capabilities to clients. The EY
organization is a leader in driving large and complex client
transformations. Combining EY teams' breadth of industry and
regulatory knowledge, technology capabilities and longstanding
strategy and business consulting leadership, with IBM's powerful
technology and Red Hat OpenShift's open hybrid cloud portfolio,
will play a key role in accelerating our clients' journeys to the
cloud."
The expanded collaboration with IBM is a key component of the EY
commitment to growing and strengthening its diversified, connected
and intelligent ecosystem of alliances. EY professionals help
clients orchestrate their own ecosystem relationships and provide
insight and trusted intelligence from EY alliances. As a global
leader in driving large scale, complex client transformations, EY
Consulting also helps clients focus on facilitating innovation,
driving digital transformation and utilizing advanced technology.
Working with IBM will include the creation of joint offerings with
the EY developer ecosystem and provides access to IBM's leading
enterprise technologies to help drive results for clients.
The expanded alliance also marks EY professionals' access to the
IBM public cloud ecosystem. The new initiative supports global
system integrators and independent software vendors to help their
clients modernize and transform mission-critical workloads with
RedHat OpenShift for any cloud environment, including IBM public
cloud. The IBM public cloud's security leadership, enterprise-grade
capabilities and support for open source technologies are designed
to differentiate and extend on hybrid cloud capabilities for
enterprise workloads.
Joanna Hardy
EY Global Media Relations
+1 212 773-4473
joanna.c.hardy@ey.com
Lowell Eschen
IBM Media Relations
+1 303 913 2569
Lowell.Eschen@ibm.com