IBM and Aricent, a global technology design and engineering company, announce a 10-year partnership to develop new digital capabilities for select products within the IBM Cloud product line.
Together, the two companies will accelerate product roadmaps, modernize user experiences and enrich the cloud capabilities of products in IBM’s systems management portfolio while reducing time to market and increasing revenue growth. The partnership which builds on a eight-year relationship between the two companies seeks to introduce the product capabilities into new geographies, platform eco-systems and deployment models.
Aricent’s digital transformation offering combines human-centered design and experience strategy together with technology-driven solutions to modernize products that meet customer expectations. The company launched Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Cognitive Services to enhance customer engagement and brand loyalty in a digital era.
At the same time, Aricent has joined the Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) community to contribute software, integration and testing frameworks to the CORD reference implementations.
Frank kern, CEO, Aricent
Aricent is proud to be working with IBM, leveraging our design and engineering expertise with investments in digital technology to meet IBM’s customer expectations and business objectives for the IBM Cloud portfolio.
Rob Lamb, VP, Hybrid Cloud Management, IBM
Today’s announcement marks a significant milestone in how we are leveraging a long-term partnership with Aricent, where our goals are aligned and together we have the capacity to extend high value products in IBM’s systems management portfolio to the hybrid cloud.
