Pushing pilots-to-production: NTT DATA expands collaboration with Google Cloud 

What is Gemini Enterprise?

The collaboration is focused on enabling AI-powered reinvention, helping enterprises redesign processes, operating models and user experiences using agentic AI.

The collaboration combines Google Cloud’s AI, data and cloud platform capabilities with NTT Data’s scale and industry know-how across strategy, implementation, adoption and managed services. The firms will work to put AI into core workflows and improve productivity.

NTT Data is establishing a dedicated global Gemini Enterprise practice, backed by joint business planning, technical enablement, training, certifications, engineering support and coordinated go-to-market investments. 

The company says it aims to certify 5,000 Gemini Enterprise experts globally. 

“The NTT Data Gemini Enterprise practice will help clients accelerate deployment, deepen adoption and create more repeatable paths to business value with Gemini Enterprise. This includes a joint roadmap to co-innovate up to 500 AI agents across horizontal and industry-specific enterprise use cases, creating reusable building blocks for rapid, scalable AI adoption,” states the organisation.

The two companies think they will be able to enable thousands of AI-skilled engineers, “forward-deployed engineers” embedded directly with clients, alongside industry domain experts, forming integrated co-innovation teams to deliver enterprise-scale AI software.

Industry spread

The initiative will support the development of AI agents across a broad range of industry, IT and domain services, including re-imagining business processes in banking, insurance, manufacturing and retail, accelerating cloud migration and software development and optimising marketing performance, procurement and finance operations. 

“Enterprises need a practical way to scale AI adoption, strengthen governance, enable their workforce and create measurable business value,” said Abhijit Dubey, CEO and chief AI officer at NTT Data, Inc. “This expanded partnership with Google Cloud and NTT Data is helping clients move beyond pilots and embed AI into the way their organisations operate, creating a faster and lower-risk path to enterprise-wide transformation.”  

Key components of the program include industrialised agent development and deployment, so that a global factory model combines reusable assets, engineering talent and co-innovation pipelines to design, build and scale AI agents across enterprise workflows.

Integrated teams of experts

Dedicated joint engineering and innovation teams will create integrated teams of NTT Data experts and Google Cloud engineers working side by side to prototype, produce and scale high-value use cases.

Sovereign, secure and compliant AI by design will enable support for sovereign AI deployments that meet data residency, regulatory and compliance requirements, using Google Cloud capabilities alongside NTT Data’s work with datacentres.

According to suggestions made by a recent NTT Data client survey, 99% of enterprises say AI is driving greater demand for cloud investment. At the same time, 88% report that current cloud investment levels are putting AI, cloud-native and modernisation initiatives at risk. This work is hoped to help close that gap by aligning AI ambition with the cloud infrastructure.

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