Dive Brief:
- DXC Technology armed 115,00 of its employees with AWS’ new agent-building workspace, Amazon Quick, the company said in a Monday announcement. The move marks one of the largest enterprise-wide deployments of Amazon Quick since its October release, according to DXC.
- The IT services and consulting firm is taking a customer-zero approach to agentic AI adoption, providing AWS with feedback on its progress as it pressure tests Amazon Quick, Ramnath Venkataraman, president of consulting and engineering services at DXC, told Channel Dive. More than 40,000 DXC engineers are already leveraging an AI assistant to access agent-building knowledge, tools and prototypes.
- “This is more than a partnership,” Venkataraman said in the announcement. “It’s a launchpad for AI-powered enterprise transformation, with a focus on making AI practical, scalable and embedded into day-to-day operations, not just another tool sitting on the sidelines.”
Dive Insight:
The AWS partnership expansion harmonizes DXC’s broader, AI-centered strategy and an industrywide push to overcome adoption hurdles.
In December, the company launched AdvisoryX, a global consulting unit tasked with helping clients bridge a growing gap between AI expectations and tangible returns on investments in the technology.
AdvisoryX found that most organizations grapple with formidable AI implementation obstacles and have difficulty articulating a clear business case for use cases at the executive level. The survey of nearly 2,500 IT decision-makers identified a potentially lucrative void that needed filling, as three-quarters of respondents said they were actively seeking partners to help them scale AI.
DXC’s consulting unit complements a deep bench of engineering talent with a strong foundation of AWS expertise build around large mainframe modernization and cloud migration projects. The agentic AI practice expands on the longstanding partnership.
“It’s a step in making sure that we continue to stay in lock step with what our partner ecosystem is doing and what our clients’ needs are,” Venkataraman said. “Having the ability to work and jointly advise clients on moving from point A to point B is where our AdvisoryX business comes in. It builds on the knowledge that we have from our engineers and converts that knowledge into business-specific applications.”
DXC engineers built roughly 400 agents in the first 20 days with the AWS suite.
“It’s starting to show some very nice early-stage results,” said Venkataraman. “We can use that as the basis for helping our clients, especially clients who have an AWS installed base.”
