‘Our consulting business largely was structured by region and industry. We wanted to structure that effectively by capability and practice area, which is largely how we see our clients struggling with AI issues and emerging tech issues,’ says Pete McEvoy, global head of DXC’s AdvisoryX Group.
Global technology services provider DXC Technology Wednesday unveiled AdvisoryX, a new global advisory group targeting enterprises’ complex strategic, operational, and technology challenges, particularly around AI.
While AdvisoryX was officially launched Wednesday, it is not a completely new offering, said Pete McEvoy, global head of the AdvisoryX Group at Ashburn, Va.-based DXC. Instead, it is based on advisory services that are part of DXC’s Consulting and Engineering Services, or CES, business, McEvoy said.
“AdvisoryX is effectively a complete restructuring of our existing consulting business to help our clients with strategic technical and operational implementation of AI and AI solutions,” he said.
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DXC, ranked No. 14 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500, wanted to restructure that business for a couple reasons, McEvoy said.
“There are some operational things,” he said. “Moreover, our consulting business largely was structured by region and industry. We wanted to structure that effectively by capability and practice area, which is largely how we see our clients struggling with AI issues and emerging tech issues.”
DXC’s CES revenue has recently been flat to lower on a yearly basis. For DXC’s second fiscal quarter 2026, revenue for the business totaled $1.23 billion. That compares to $1.28 billion in second fiscal quarter 2025, and $1.32 billion in second fiscal quarter 2026.
DXC has ambitious plans to grow the business, McEvoy said.
“One of the things we’re seeing as we’ve been talking to clients and in the market is that there’s a lot of capability across DXC from infrastructure to engineering excellence. AdvisoryX is sort of the glue that will tie that together as a single, unified solution. So we can now run from strategy to implementation to managing the infrastructure, all through one single, homogeneous interface, which is largely AdvisoryX. So the plans are larger, more holistic solutions and better interaction throughout the firm with the client through a single, unified AdvisoryX.”
AdvisoryX is a global business, McEvoy said.
“It’s not a boutique,” he said. “It started with scale. We leveraged DXC proper to scale into other areas. So while AdvisoryX is a new business, it’s starting from a pretty solid, sizable base.”
The name “AdvisoryX” comes from DXC’s branding scheme that includes the letter “X,” which is short for “exponential,” McEvoy said. That would include DXC Xponential, the company’s next-generation AI orchestration blueprint.
“We give that kind of nomenclature to our new and emerging businesses and advisory services,” he said. “We wanted to differentiate ourselves from the existing consulting business by saying we’re no longer bodies on the ground. Instead, we’re advising our clients in a strategic capacity, helping them guide them through change and transition.”
While AdvisoryX is based in part on an existing business within DXC, it does come with several new offerings planned to be released in the near future, McEvoy said.
With Wednesday’s AdvisoryX launch comes five new initial core AI solutions, including:
- AI Core, which are DXC’s foundations for enterprise-grade AI, including data, modeling, governance, and platform architecture. “DXC has a heritage around technology, technology implementation, and design,” he said. “AI Core is the design, build, and management part.”
- AI Reinvent, which are proven industry use cases showing value-based implementations of AI across human-assisted, semi-autonomous and autonomous operating models, he said.
- AI Interact, which is redesigned workflows and natural interfaces for seamless collaboration between people and AI via a re-designed user interface that leverages AI, he said.
- AI Validate, which provides continuous testing, observability, and governance to ensure accuracy, quality and safety. “This ensures AI behaves properly, and more importantly, does not behave improperly,” McEvoy said.
- AI Manage, which provides production operations and lifecycle management for evolving models and infrastructure. “For those of our clients that are more mature in this space, running an AI plant, we can do managed services around that,” he said. “that’s probably very familiar to all our clients on the managed infrastructure platforms.”
All these new capabilities are based on prior offerings with net-new capabilities added, he said.
Looking ahead, DXC expects AdvisoryX to continue helping clients build and instill AI across their businesses, McEvoy said.
“We’re working with some clients now on launching new products and new revenue streams using AI and AI products,” he said. “We’re expecting to see more capabilities and more value cases coming out of AI. You may see from our ‘Closing The AI Execution Gap’ study where clients are struggling with that. We’re continuing to help them along those lines. There will also be a large thematic around data cleanup that we’ll continue from 2025 into 2026.”
