Through the alliance, the two companies will design and rollout cutting-edge digitalisation solutions, built around the Cloud and IoT, that will be delivered across various interfaces.
Saudi Telecom Company (STC), represented by its enterprise focused business unit, STC Business, and Tech Mahindra Ltd., a provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services, has announced a strategic alliance aimed at enabling the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in its Vision 2030 through innovations in digitisation targeting a broad spectrum of sectors.
The alliance will leverage STCs cloud and IoT platforms, its expansive national backbone, and the reach and penetration of its fixed and mobile networks, with the experience of Tech Mahindra across the digital spectrum, especially with its expertise in newer technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data & Analytics, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) among others.
As a part of the Vision 2030, the KSA is looking at making the kingdom a global model of excellence on all fronts by diversifying its economy and developing public sectors such as health, education, infrastructure, recreation, and tourism. An aspiring ICT leader with technology infrastructure and strong footprint in the region, STC is a key implementation partner for Vision 2030.
Through the alliance, the two companies will build and roll out cutting-edge digital solutions, built around the cloud, IoT and delivered across a variety of interfaces, and covering a broad spectrum of future smart city and industry specific needs in the public and private sector covering sectors such as health, oil & gas and transportation among others.
Digitisation is key to the success of Vision 2030s transformation objectives, which is why we are partnering with Tech Mahindra to innovate around the cloud and IoT, and encourage innovation across the eco-system with the solutions and usage cases we develop together, said STC Senior Vice President of Enterprise, Dr. Tarig M. Enaya.
Commenting on the partnership, Manish Vyas, President, Communications Business & Chief Executive – Network Services at Tech Mahindra, stated: As a global Digital Transformation leader, Tech Mahindra is driving technology-led transformation at many leading global enterprises and with STC as partners we have increased our capability manifold. We are very optimistic that with STC as our partner, Tech Mahindra can immensely contribute to the Kingdoms march towards achieving Vision 2030.
Tech Mahindra, which is part of diversified business conglomerate Mahindra Group, has been present in the Kingdom since 2006 catering to more than thirty active customers. The company has a combined presence of over 1600 associates in the KSA including the team that came with the acquisition of LCC in November 2014.
