Tech Mahindra joins GE Digital Global Alliance Program to spur industrial Internet growth

Tech Mahindra, a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering, today announced its participation as a member of the new GE Digital Alliance Program that is dedicated to growing the digital industrial ecosystem.

Tech Mahindra has been an early adopter of the Predix platform, GE's cloud platform-as-a-service for the industrial Internet. GE Digital recognises Tech Mahindra's robust capabilities in driving innovation and transformation in the age of the Internet of things, which is revolutionising the industrial world by connecting assets with data and analytics, all with unprecedented speed and scale.

Tech Mahindra and GE Digital will work together to create innovative solutions that will address the needs of the power, oil and gas, and transportation industries. In addition, Tech Mahindra is also working on building solutions around the Smart City Analytics platform. With over 100 Predix-trained experts, Tech Mahindra plans to invest in more than 1 000 developers and architects for the Predix platform in the next several months. Tech Mahindra has also invested in an Industrial Internet lab to allow for GE and other companies to pilot solutions in a controlled environment.

"The GE Digital Alliance Program provides members with expanded access to GE Digital tools, technologies and domain expertise," said Denzil Samuels, Head of Global Channels and Alliances, GE Digital. "We are excited to work closely with some of the most forward-thinking companies in technology, such as Tech Mahindra, to unlock unprecedented value for our customers."

"Our deep expertise and legacy in industrial system and processes will provide businesses with a competitive edge to best leverage the power of the Predix platform to develop innovative IIot Solutions and we are pleased to be an active stakeholder in GE Digital's journey to digital transformation," said Arvind Malhotra, SVP of Strategic Accounts.