REDWOOD
CITY, Calif. and SUNNYVALE,
Calif., Sept. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- C3 AI
and Google Cloud today announced a new, first-of-its-kind
partnership to help organizations across multiple industries
accelerate their application of artificial intelligence (AI)
solutions. Under the agreement, both companies' global sales teams
will co-sell C3 AI's enterprise AI applications, running on Google
Cloud.
The entire portfolio of C3 AI's Enterprise AI
applications, including industry-specific AI Applications, C3 AI
Suite®, C3 AI CRM, and C3 AI Ex Machina, are now available on
Google Cloud's global, secure, and low-latency infrastructure,
enabling customers to run C3 AI on the industry's cleanest
cloud.
Going forward, C3 AI will also work closely with Google
Cloud to ensure that its applications fully leverage the accuracy
and scale of multiple Google Cloud products and capabilities,
including Google Kubernetes Engine, Google BigQuery, and Vertex AI,
helping customers build and deploy ML models more quickly and
effectively.
C3 AI's enterprise AI applications, built on a common
foundation of Google Cloud's infrastructure, AI, machine learning
(ML) and data analytics capabilities, will complement and
interoperate with Google Cloud's portfolio of existing and future
industry solutions. Customers will be able to deploy combined
offerings to solve industry challenges in several verticals,
including:
- Manufacturing: Solutions to improve reliability of
assets and fleets with AI-powered predictive maintenance, improve
revenue and product forecasting accuracy, and improve the
sustainability of manufacturing facilities and operations through
optimized energy management.
- Supply Chain & Logistics: Solutions to help
supply-chain reliant businesses understand risks in their supply
networks, maximize resilience, and optimize inventory
accordingly.
- Financial Services: Solutions to assist financial
services institutions in modernizing their cash management
offerings, improve lending processes, and reduce customer
churn.
- Healthcare: Solutions to improve the availability of
critical healthcare equipment via AI-powered asset readiness and
preventative maintenance.
- Telecommunications: Solutions to improve network
resiliency and overall customer experience, while reducing costs
and the carbon footprint of operations.
"Combining the innovation, leadership, scale, and
go-to-market expertise of Google Cloud with the substantial
business value delivered from C3 AI applications, this partnership
will dramatically accelerate the adoption of Enterprise AI
applications across all industry segments," said Thomas M. Siebel, C3.ai CEO.
"Google Cloud and C3 AI share the vision that artificial
intelligence can help businesses address real-world challenges and
opportunities across multiple industries," said Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud. "We believe
that by delivering C3 AI's applications on Google Cloud, and by
partnering to address specific industry use cases with AI, we can
help customers benefit more quickly and at greater
scale."
"Organizations across industries are accelerating their
digital transformations with cloud-based solutions, purpose-built
to deliver specific business outcomes," said Ritu Jyoti, group vice president, AI and
Automation Research at IDC. "This new partnership between C3 AI and
Google Cloud represents an acceleration of this trend, as the two
companies partner to expand the application of AI-powered solutions
in the enterprise."
"This is fundamentally game-changing for the hyperscale
computing market," said Jim Snabe, former co-CEO, SAP AG. "Google
Cloud is changing the competitive discussion from CPU seconds and
gigabyte-hours, to enterprise AI applications producing enormous
value for customers, shareholders, and society at
large."
Additional resources
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Data Warehouse
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Infrastructure and Platform Services again
About C3.ai, Inc.
C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI) is a
leading provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital
transformation. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated
products: C3 AI Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing,
deploying, and operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI
Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS AI
applications; C3 AI CRM, a suite of industry-specific AI CRM
applications; and C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code AI solution to meet
the needs of citizen data scientists. Learn more at:
www.c3.ai.
About Google Cloud
Google Cloud
accelerates organizations' ability to digitally transform their
business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions
and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage
Google's cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the
industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn
to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve
their most critical business problems.
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