C3 AI and NCS Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Enterprise AI Applications Across Asia-Pacific

This agreement represents C3 AI’s first
strategic partnership with a telecommunications group. As part of this
collaboration, NCS will leverage its deep domain experience
and technology expertise in serving governments and businesses in SEA and ANZ,
investing up to S$10 million to develop and deploy enterprise AI applications
created on the C3 AI^® Suite. C3 AI’s solutions will also be deployed
across Singtel, Optus, and other affiliated telecommunications networks to
bring the advantages of enterprise AI to their operations and clients.

“Our partnership with C3 AI reaffirms NCS’
commitment to build a strong digital partner ecosystem that provides our
clients access to world-leading technologies and enterprise solutions,” said NCS
CEO Ng Kuo Pin. “We believe that the wave of enterprise-grade AI solutions
has arrived and are excited to work with our clients to build the next
generation of digital applications with enterprise AI embedded. We look forward
to playing our part to unleash the transformative power of enterprise AI across
governments and enterprises in Asia-Pacific.”

In its 2021 Global CIO Agenda survey, Gartner
found that SEA and ANZ were among the fastest-growing regions in the world to
apply digitalisation to optimise enterprise processes¹. In addition,
CIOs in these regions identified Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning as a
game-changing technology². To capitalise on this trend, C3 AI and
NCS will establish a Centre of Excellence together to jointly explore new
solutions that will accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI and develop custom-built
offerings tailored to the business requirements of the Asia-Pacific market.

“Our Centre of Excellence will bring together experts
from C3 AI and NCS to carefully study and respond to the specific needs of
organisations and industries in Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand,” said
General Manager, Industries and Alliances at C3 AI Gene Reznik. “This
will allow us to better serve customers in SEA and ANZ and provide them with
the enterprise AI solutions they require to achieve their digital
transformation objectives.”

“Singtel and NCS are clear leaders in the
deployment and implementation of telecommunication and cloud solutions, and we
are incredibly excited to be joining forces with such a respected and
forward-looking partner,” said C3 AI Chairman and CEO Thomas M. Siebel. “NCS’ focus on digital transformation
will help drive enterprise AI in Asia-Pacific, especially in the telecommunications
industry, on a massive scale.”

As the leader in enterprise AI applications, C3
AI’s offerings include the C3 AI^® Suite, a powerful end-to-end
enterprise AI platform; C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code solution that anyone can
use to generate actionable enterprise AI insights; C3 AI CRM, the first
enterprise AI-powered CRM solution custom-built for industries; and a
comprehensive inventory of pre-built enterprise AI applications. These
applications cover a broad range of use cases, such as C3 AI Energy Management
for optimising energy consumption and carbon emissions, C3 AI Predictive
Maintenance to reduce unplanned machine downtime, and C3 AI Fraud Detection for
financial transactions.

¹ Gartner,
‘2021 CIO Agenda: Global Perspectives on ‘Seize This Opportunity for Digital
Business Acceleration’, Andy Rowsell-Jones, Tomas Neilsen, Jan-Martin
Lowendahl, Chris Howard, Monika Sinha, March 05, 2021

²
Gartner, ‘2021 CIO Agenda: A Southeast Asia Perspective’, Adrian
Lee, February 03, 2021; Gartner, ‘2021 CIO Agenda: An Australia and New Zealand
Perspective’, Andy Rowsell-Jones, Brian Ferreira, Christopher Bell, December
15, 2021