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Congratulations to the six Global Winners of the 2024 IBM Partner Plus Awards selected for their demonstration of outstanding expertise, impact, innovation and partnership.
EY developed three solutions built with watsonx and powered by AI open-source models, including IBM Granite, to automate their client’s foreign tax compliance process. The solutions automated data ingestion from multiple source systems, extracted data from unstructured invoices, and automated tax rate determination. These AI-driven solutions have delivered significant labor cost savings, enhanced data quality, reduced the risk of tax non-compliance, and saved tens of thousands of hours annually for the client.
Scaleup Consultoria helped a large investment institution serving 4 million clients and nearly USD 1 trillion in revenue manage cloud spending and optimize application performance by adopting IBM Turbonomic. Within four months of implementation, the solution executed over 540,000 automated tasks, nearly half of which focused on performance, resulting in USD 4 million of revenue savings. The client is projected to save nearly USD 10 million by the end of the year.
Glasshouse Systems helped a major automotive aftermarket retailer transform their IT infrastructure by moving them from an on-premise environment to IBM Power Virtual Server on IBM Cloud with integrated access to AWS cloud services for additional functionalities. The multi-cloud shift accelerated store onboarding from weeks to minutes, enhanced resiliency, centralized disaster recovery capabilities and drove down costs by 40%. By implementing direct connection to AWS Cloud, the retailer achieved significant time and cost savings while gaining the scalability and agility needed to meet strategic objectives for rapid expansion. The company has significantly reduced the time and cost of provisioning and operating stores and gained access to advanced analytics and AI tools for better decision-making.
GAVS Technologies Pvt. Ltd. implemented an Identity and Access Management (IDAM) solution for a public sector bank in India using IBM Security products to address manual, file-based data management challenges. The solution provided Single Sign-On (SSO), automated user creation and removal, enhanced security and compliance and streamlined operations. As a result, the bank experienced a 90% improvement in efficiency, reduced employee onboarding time from 1-2 weeks to 2 days and reduced operational costs.
Prolifics helped a leading university-affiliated research institution modernize its production processes, improve quality control and enhance sustainability using IBM Maximo Visual Inspection and IBM watsonx.ai. The solution increased production throughput by 30%, optimized energy consumption, and reduced scrap by 20%, leading to savings of USD 100k annually and a 25 ton reduction in CO2 emissions. The client also gained a comprehensive view of their data journey, from equipment performance to quality control, and also empowered their team to proactively address issues. Designed for adaptability, the system can be replicated and scaled across other production lines within the institution as needs grow and evolve.
NEC Corporation, a major IT system integrator in Japan, adopted Turbonomic to optimize their own internal systems running in a multi-cloud environment. The solution streamlined management of IT resources, reducing the need for employees to manually collect and analyze data. Employees also have more visibility into how performance is impacted and are better able to communicate the reasons for change requests. Within six months of implementation, the company experienced a 10% reduction in cloud costs, and within one year achieved a 200% ROI.
AI For Business – Salient Process
Automation – EY
Hybrid By Design – Glasshouse Systems
Modernization – Pragma Edge
Sustainability – Prolifics
Workforce Productivity – PMsquare LLC
AI For Business – Tech Mahindra
Automation – Octane Software Solutions
Hybrid By Design – Truis
Modernization – GS Lab | GAVS
Sustainability – Beijing Shuto Technology
Workforce Productivity – Appolo Computers
AI For Business – System Research Co.
Automation – ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation
Hybrid By Design – MONO-X Inc.
Modernization – Fukuoka Business Information Technology Center Co.
Sustainability – Exa Corporation
Workforce Productivity – NEC Corporation
AI For Business – EY
Automation – Protiviti
Hybrid By Design – HCLTech
Modernization – Recarta IT
Sustainability – Tata Consultancy Services
Workforce Productivity – valantic
AI For Business – NDS Cognitive Labs
Automation – ScaleUp Consultoria
Hybrid By Design – FCamara
Modernization – SONDA
Sustainability – Union IT
Workforce Productivity – CertSys
EY worked with a convenience store chain to create an AI-driven “Voice of the Associate” platform enabled by watsonx. The platform captures and records real-time feedback from associates using speech-to-text to transcribe audio messages, natural language processing and intelligent automation to drive workflows. The platform integrates with the client’s ServiceNow environment to turn insights into action by opening tickets and automating tasks. Results from the initial pilot included a 50% reduction in associate time spent creating maintenance tickets and reduced downtime of critical machinery, improving customer satisfaction and the store associate experience.
Habber Tec worked with Spain’s largest bank to implement a solution to automate and optimize back-office processes. Based on IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM Automation Insights technologies, the solution helps organize and distribute tasks to agents across its operational centers and provides managers with a set of real-time dashboards, allowing them to better prioritize and balance workloads among the centers and the branch office teams. As a result, response time to complex client requests has been significantly reduced, and office staff is able to spend more quality time with clients.
Converge helped their financial services client significantly improve their data security and compliance strategy, reduce the risk of data breaches and enhance overall management using IBM Guardium. Managed Services provided by Converge, including unique Audit Data Analysis services, also helped the client identify potential risk factors through pattern detection and context enrichment and improved operational efficiency and delivered cost savings.
Silver Egg Technology is leveraging watsonx.ai to quickly and fairly evaluate resumes and flag high potential applicants. The solution proposes specific evaluation criteria based on a job description, evaluates the resumes based on the criteria and ranks candidates. Top candidates can then be immediately scheduled for an interview, with offers delivered to the right candidates in under a week, reducing the time from receipt of the resume to an offer by as much as 75%.
Intercompany worked with their client to address the limitations of its on-premise computer network. The client needed more flexibility to increase or decrease server capacity according to demand while also ensuring that the system maintained high availability and reliability. Intercompany migrated its client a modernized environment with IBM Cloud and IBM Power Systems Virtual Server, enabling significant gains in terms of security, reliability, and performance. As a result of the migration, the client increased computational capacity by 200% and now has the flexibility and agility to meet business needs on-demand.
Wipro designed a solution, based on IBM App Connect, that enables synchronization of data between IBM TRIRIGA and IBM Envizi, allowing their retail client to better inform its decision-making and measure its progress toward meeting ESG goals. Within six months of implementing the solution, the client was able to measure a 23% reduction in emissions, a 21% decrease in energy consumption, and a 32% decline in operating costs.
AI for Business - EY
Modernization - Kyndryl
Digital defense - Converge Technology Solutions
Automation - EY
Digital labor - ActionKPI
Sustainability - Cohesive
AI for Business - Tata Consultancy Services
Modernization - Silverlake Holdings Sdn Bhd
Digital defense - Deloitte India
Automation - Tech Mahindra Limited
Digital labor - LTIMindtree
Sustainability - Wipro Limited
AI for Business - AIT, Inc.
Modernization - OmniScience
Digital defense - Central Soft Service Co.,Ltd.
Automation - NEC Corporation
Digital labor - Silver Egg Technology CO.,Ltd.
Sustainability - ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation
AI for Business - Agile Business Process UK Limited
Modernization - Anycloud A/S
Digital defense - SmarterProcess
Automation - Habber Tec
Digital labor - Visito AS
Sustainability - EY Ukraine
AI for Business - Proa Tecnologia Criativa LTDA
Modernization - InterCompany
Digital defense - PrimeUp
Automation - ViaFlow: Design and Technology
Digital labor - CertSys Tecnologia da Informação LTDA
Sustainability - ScaleUP Consultoria
The Partner Plus Awards are IBM’s award program for business partners. Partners eligible to win an award are part of IBM Partner Plus, a program designed to help deepen partners’ technical expertise, accelerate time to market and win with clients with AI and hybrid cloud.