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IBM

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

PA Consulting

Working across the world as a single united team, we’re the only firm with the range of expertise – strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists – to enable our clients to innovate and transform.

We accelerate new growth ideas from concept, through design and development to commercial success. And we revitalise organisations with the leadership, culture, systems and processes to make transformation a reality.

We deliver great work because of our brilliant people who live our purpose every day.

Strategy

At Strategy, we provide cutting-edge business analytics software, powered by AI and natively designed for the cloud. With more than 35 years of experience, we help thousands of organizations around the world transform their data into intelligent decisions and explore new technological frontiers.

Our open platform brings together data, analytics, and AI, adding consistent business context to data across different systems and cloud environments. By applying the same definitions, KPIs and business logic across analytics and AI, organizations create a trusted foundation for better insights and AI applications, while continuing to work with the technologies and platforms they already use.

Tricentis

 Tricentis is centered around customer success. We provide best-in-class solutions that transform testing into a catalyst for innovation, helping our customers release higher-quality software, faster.

Flexor

Empowering enterprises to deploy AI with confidence.

Led by a team of visionary experts, with decades of combined experience in the unstructured data space, we’ve made it our mission to enable organizations to turn informal organizational information – locked inside millions of emails, messages, PDFs, notes, calls, customer reviews and more – into a unified layer of organizational truth that fuels human, AI and agentic decision making. This is how our technology delivers context for AI. 

Starburst

Starburst is the data platform built for flexibility, delivering fast, secure access to all your data, wherever it lives. Whether on-premises, across clouds, or in hybrid environments, Starburst provides choice and control to your architecture. Built on an open data stack with Trino and Apache Iceberg, it unifies distributed data without complex or costly migrations, unleashing the full power of the data lakehouse for analytics and AI.

With our Lakeside AI architecture, enterprises gain federated access, governed collaboration, and full data lineage, laying the foundation for scalable, compliant AI innovation. Starburst empowers the world’s most data-intensive and security-conscious organizations to realize the full potential of their data while maintaining performance, compliance, and control.

Enterprises in 60+ countries, including Comcast, Citigroup, Vectra AI, 4 of the top 5 global banks, and 4 of the top 8 pharmaceutical companies, rely on Starburst to maximize the value of their data and unlock what’s next. Our strategic partnerships with AWS, Dell Technologies, and other top cloud providers ensure seamless interoperability across any environment.

From insight to action to AI, Starburst helps organizations move faster, reduce risk, and turn data into business value—fueling innovation at every level. Learn more at starburst.ai.