NCS announces strategic partnership with Google Cloud in Australia and APAC

NCS and Google Cloud announced today a strategic partnership to accelerate AI-led transformation for public and private sector organisations across Singapore, Australia, and the wider Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

NCS has also integrated its Google Cloud expertise across its service offerings and teams. This enables APAC clients to use AI and cloud technologies, tapping into NCS’ extensive experience and capabilities and its 100-person APAC Google Cloud team.

The partnership is led by NCS Global Google Alliance Lead Tom Bernadou and marks a new milestone in the collaboration between the two enterprises.

Organisations will now be able to leverage Google Cloud’s capabilities with NCS’ end-to-end services.

NCS is pitching the integrated offering helping businesses unlock new opportunities and improve operations, enabling them to deploy AI capabilities for data-driven decision making, with cloud providing the infrastructure to support AI applications at scale.

“Together, we will co-create the next generation of resilient and secure AI-powered applications that our clients need to advance their businesses and the communities they serve,” said Howie Lau, Managing Partner, Corporate Development and Partnerships.

"Google Cloud is committed to providing the industry’s most open cloud, as well as enterprise-grade data management and AI development platforms, to help customers accelerate their digital transformation,” said Anthony McMahon, Managing Director, Partners and Alliances, Asia Pacific, Google Cloud.

NCS is a Premier partner for Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspaces, offering clients a range of services from Data Analytics to Infrastructure and Cyber across the Google suite, including Google Cloud, Workspace, Maps, and Mandiant.

Supporting this Premier status are Partner Specialisations in Infrastructure Services, Data Analytics Services, and 15 Partner Expertise including retail, healthcare, education, and financial services.

In September, NCS announced a partnership with Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud. The combined offering, experience and capabilities enable organisations to tap into an “intelligence-led approach to cybersecurity”, supported by end-to-end applications and infrastructure services delivered by NCS. The partnership also gives clients a single point of contact and accountability.

NCS has also funded Google Cloud training for more than 200 personnel as Google Cloud Certified Professionals, including professional-level certifications in Data Engineering and Cloud Architecture. This is in addition to NCS’ 100-person APAC Google Cloud team.

As part of its cloud services portfolio, NCS provides a full spectrum of services across strategy, advisory & design, and FinOps; design and build; implementation services, migration services; AI-led innovation services; and managed services.