EY and IBM are combining their services capabilities in a joint global go-to-market initiative in the digital transformation space. The multi-year alliance covers hybrid cloud services, artificial intelligence, blockchain and 5G and edge technologies.
The two firms already worked together in the M&A, finance, HR, legal, tax, risk and compliance, supply chain and asset management spaces.
The expanded alliance marks EY's access to the IBM public cloud ecosystem, and will support global system integrators and independent software vendors to help their clients modernise and transform mission-critical workloads.
Carmine Di Sibio, EY global chairman and CEO, said: "The EY-IBM Alliance is built on providing differentiating and transformational business value for clients. As organisations learn how to adapt to today's new normal, leveraging the cloud, AI, analytics and other technologies have become increasingly important.”
Di Sibio said: “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.”
Arvind Krishna, IBM chief executive officer, said: "Combining EY teams' breadth of industry and regulatory knowledge, technology capabilities and long-standing 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."
