‘’Even though this is a horizontal capability, we’ll start in industry segments where we have substantial strength and leverage the client zero experience to execute this and rapidly generate value for our clients,’ says Ramnath Venkataraman, DXC’s president of consulting and engineering services.
Ashburn, Va.-based DXC, ranked No. 14 on CRN’s 2025 Solution Provider 500, has deployed Amazon Quick across its global workforce of 115,000 employees, making it one of the largest enterprise deployments of the platform to date, said Ramnath Venkataraman (pictured), DXC’s president of consulting and engineering services.
The Amazon Quick Suite is Amazon’s new AI-powered digital workspace for AWS aimed at helping businesses find insight, automate tasks and take actions across enterprise applications. Amazon Quick, launched in October, stems from that company’s integration of Amazon Q Business and Amazon QuickSight.
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Amazon Quick is the digital workplace that brings together a number of different elements, including research and automating workflows, Venkataraman told CRN.
“We are using that for our engineers to start with,” he said. “With 115,000 people, it’s one of the largest deployments of Amazon Quick. And on the back of this, it is also going to be a wider platform leveraged by a lot of our clients. We’re going to create a practice working in partnership with Amazon to help clients implement and execute this as we do this for ourselves as ‘client zero.’”
As client zero, DXC has a very large established base of users, Venkataraman said.
“We’re going to create a specialized team to help execute this agenda for our clients working together with Amazon,” he said. “It’s a great opportunity. Think about going from Point A to Point B as the landscape continues to change. What Point B looks like will continue to evolve.”
DXC deals with that evolution with its AdvisoryX global advisory group targeting enterprises’ complex strategic, operational and technology challenges, particularly around AI.
“AdvisoryX is really our C-suite advisory platform for helping clients understand things like what should their architecture look like?” he said. “What should their data landscape look like? How do they leverage a multi-vendor, multi-partner environment? And what should they use to get to the value at the right point in time?”
Those are the kinds of areas DXC will explore with Amazon Quick, Venkataraman said.
“We’ve got a fantastic installed base that’s going to help us do this,” he said. “We’ll start with a set of industry segments where we have strength. We’ve got some excellent capabilities in aerospace, defense, automotive, airlines. Even though this is a horizontal capability, we’ll start in industry segments where we have substantial strength and leverage the client zero experience to be execute this and rapidly generate value for our clients.”
DXC already has a number of clients that have started exploring Amazon Quick, Venkataraman said.
“But the more important and interesting aspect about this is taking this to our installed client base because we manage the infrastructure for pretty much who’s who in the industries that I named,” he said. “We manage a huge chunk of the application estate, so proactively positioning this as we develop use cases is really important. We’re in the very early stages. Amazon has just launched this, and the opportunity to build on this and create a good joint business is what this what this opportunity is about.”
DXC’s move to bring Amazon Quick Suite to its clients is similar to how it works with Microsoft Copilot and other similar platforms, Venkataraman said.
“We work in multi-vendor environments,” he said. “Everybody has multiple enterprise platforms, something for CRM, something for the core HR and finance processes, something for procurement. Think of it that way. There’s going to be a multi-vendor environment in this space. How do you leverage the best of all of these and come up with the right answer for a client? That’s really what AdvisoryX will determine. And then the engineering teams we’re building will go and execute.”
Internally, there’s no AdvisoryX competitive dynamic between things like Amazon Quick and Microsoft Copilot, Venkataraman said.
“We’re agnostic,” he said. “We have to determine what’s right for a client at a certain point in time and build the right solution. So it’s an agnostic practice. AdvisoryX sits at a place where they will help advise clients on what is best for them, and once you decide what the execution should look like, then the actual engineering teams take over.”
AdvisoryX has a team of about 1,800 consultants. Venkataraman said it is not hiring specific to Amazon Quick but is upskilling its existing personnel to work with the new platform.
“We work very closely with Amazon to upskill and train [our people] as the product continues to get developed,” he said. “That’s on the execution side. On the go-to-market side, which determines where this is going to be applied, we’ll work closely with Amazon and come up with the joint go-to-market, which is what this partnership is about—to identify target clients where we can execute.”
