Originally announced August 2019. Source: DXC Technology / finance.yahoo.com
Partnership Overview
DXC Technology (DXC) announced a global strategic partnership with Google Cloud, aimed at helping enterprise clients modernize mission-critical IT infrastructure and integrate digital solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The partnership adds Google Cloud to the DXC Partner Network as a strategic partner, enabling co-investment in solution development, training, certification, and joint go-to-market campaigns.
As part of the announcement, DXC launched two dedicated Centers of Excellence (COEs): a Google Cloud Platform COE and a Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence COE. These centers are designed to provide clients in key industries with secure, scalable, and agile cloud-based platforms that incorporate advanced data analytics and machine learning capabilities.
Target Industries
The collaboration initially focuses on joint solutions across the following sectors:
- Insurance
- Oil and gas exploration
- Automotive
- Consumer products and retail
- Banking and capital markets
These verticals share a common need for scalable data platforms, AI-driven insights, and modernized legacy infrastructure — all areas where the combined capabilities of DXC and Google Cloud are positioned to add value.
What the Partnership Delivers
DXC and Google Cloud have outlined a concrete set of enterprise capabilities the partnership is designed to deliver:
- Application transformation and migration: Moving workloads to Google Cloud Platform, including enabling robust e-commerce engines and modernizing legacy applications.
- Managed infrastructure and platform services: DXC will provide managed GCP services and resell Google Cloud Platform to clients transitioning to the cloud.
- AI-enhanced workplace intelligence: Using Google Cloud machine learning and AI services to generate deep insights into workplace environments, improve workforce experiences, and deliver predictive analytics for mobile device management.
- Data mashups and customer targeting: Leveraging large-scale datasets to surface business insights and power fine-grained, AI-driven customer targeting strategies.
- Managed SAP on GCP: Expanded global delivery options for managed SAP solutions running on Google Cloud Platform.
- Android application support: Google-trained DXC professionals implementing and supporting enterprise Android applications.
How DXC Integrates Google Cloud Across Its Portfolio
DXC’s existing digital portfolio — spanning Workplace and Mobility, Cloud and Platform Services, Analytics, Business Process Services, and Security — will be combined with Google Cloud Platform products to create new enterprise solutions. DXC plans to embed Google Cloud expertise across its Digital Transformation and Innovation Centers and its analytics labs globally.
Executive Perspectives
“Google Cloud’s leading infrastructure, products and solutions — together with DXC’s deep industry expertise and leadership in AI and machine learning — will define new pathways for enterprises to access, manage and leverage data-intensive workloads on a global scale.”
— Edward Ho, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Offerings, DXC Technology
“This partnership combines DXC’s trusted experience in IT management and modernization services with Google Cloud’s leading infrastructure and cloud capabilities, creating new pathways to the cloud for thousands of enterprise customers.”
— Carolee Gearhart, Vice President, Worldwide Channel Sales, Google Cloud
Why This Partnership Matters for Enterprise DevOps Teams
For enterprise DevOps and platform engineering teams, this type of partnership has practical implications. Large systems integrators like DXC serve organizations that often run complex, multi-decade IT estates — ERP systems, on-premises data centers, and industry-specific platforms that are difficult to migrate without specialized support. A partnership that combines GCP’s managed Kubernetes, BigQuery, Vertex AI, and Apigee capabilities with DXC’s SAP, managed services, and industry consulting expertise can lower the barrier to cloud adoption for these organizations.
The establishment of dedicated AI and GCP COEs also signals a longer-term commitment to building repeatable migration and transformation patterns, rather than one-off engagements — which is generally more useful for enterprise customers planning multi-year modernization programs.
About DXC Technology
DXC Technology is an end-to-end IT services company that manages and modernizes mission-critical systems and integrates them with digital solutions to produce business outcomes. At the time of this announcement, DXC served more than 6,000 private- and public-sector clients across 70 countries. For more information, visit www.dxc.technology.