It's a wrap: News this week (November 8-14)

Deloitte India-AWS partnership

Deloitte India and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) for cloud and AI-led transformation across India. With this, Deloitte India becomes the first global system integrator in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) to collaborate with AWS. 

Under the collaboration, Deloitte India will establish AWS Agentic AI Lab, an AWS Centre of Excellence (CoE), and offer its digital and agentic AI solutions on AWS Marketplace. With these initiatives, Deloitte India aims to expand its cloud business multifold by 2030. This collaboration builds on similar programmes launched by Deloitte and AWS in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. 

Tech Mahindra partners with AT&T

Tech Mahindra has entered a licensing agreement with AT&T to use the latter’s Automated Network Testing (ANT) and Open Tool platforms. The move is aimed at improving how global Communication Service Providers (CSPs) test and manage their mobile networks across LTE, 5G Non-Standalone, and 5G Standalone systems.

The ANT platform provides automated network testing and certification capabilities. It includes a graphical interface, a test execution engine, and backend automation features that help reduce manual effort in testing. The system also works as an orchestrator that can integrate with various industry traffic generation tools. By adding these platforms to its telecom solutions portfolio, Tech Mahindra will offer CSPs support for network performance checks, connectivity testing, and troubleshooting.

TCS wins IT transformation deal from Australia’s Lion

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), on Thursday, signed a new partnership with Lion, a beverage company headquartered in Sydney with operations across Australia and New Zealand, to transform and manage its information technology landscape.

Under the multi-year engagement, TCS will help Lion enhance operational resilience and productivity by modernising its core systems, adopting cloud and AI-led automation, and strengthening cybersecurity. The IT major will deploy its TCS Cognix platform to drive service resilience, business agility, and improved customer experience.

Cloudera, Intel join hands to scale enterprise AI adoption

Cloudera, a U.S.-based hybrid data platform company, on Wednesday, announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to accelerate enterprise-grade AI adoption across India and the broader Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The partnership integrates Intel Xeon 6 processors with Cloudera’s AI stack, enabling enterprises to deploy and manage advanced AI workloads efficiently across hybrid and on-premise environments.

The move comes at a time when India is fast emerging as both a key innovation hub and growth market for Cloudera. Over the past two years, the company has ramped up its local investments—committing nearly ₹500 crore to expand its Bengaluru-based Centre of Excellence (CoE) and grow its engineering strength to over 600 professionals. The India CoE contributes to Cloudera’s global product development in areas such as data warehousing, cloud-native analytics, machine learning, and cybersecurity, while also supporting an expanding customer base across sectors like banking, telecom, and government.

Hexaware launches AI-powered insurance solutions on Google Cloud

Hexaware Technologies on Tuesday announced the launch of two cloud-native insurance platforms—ParaClaims and Intelligent Product Factory (IPF)—developed exclusively for Google Cloud. The move deepens Hexaware’s collaboration with Google and aims to help insurers modernize claims management and product innovation through artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and scalable cloud architectures.

The ParaClaims platform automates the end-to-end process of parametric insurance claims, integrating real-time data from trusted global sources such as the India Meteorological Department (IMD), NOAA, satellite networks, and Google Earth Engine for continuous environmental monitoring. Using the Agent-to-Agent Protocol, AI agents autonomously handle trigger detection, data validation, and claims settlement—reducing settlement timelines from weeks to a few hours. All operational data is unified within Google BigQuery, ensuring transparency and auditability across the claims process.