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ICT services provider NCS and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership designed to accelerate AI-led transformation for public and private sector organisations across Singapore, Australia, and the wider Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

NCS, a subsidiary of Singtel Group, announced that its digital arm, Next, has recorded a 5x increase in headcount since 2019, posting a 2,000-strong team of digital specialists across 18 specialisations in Asia Pacific—half of them based in Australia.

NCS is moving to acquire Australia’s largest privately-owned IT services company, The Dialog Group (Dialog), to better support the Australian public sector and enterprise clients in addressing their rising digital transformation needs. The acquisition comes at the tune of $325 million and will accelerate NCS' regionalisation strategy.

Technology services firm NCS Australia, has appointed Nicole Key to the role of director of sales and marketing.

Singapore-based service provider NCS has acquired three specialist companies around the APAC region to boost its capabilities and drive growth.

NCS Australia announced the launch of NCS NEXT Cloud Centre of Excellence (CoE) for APAC in Melbourne. The NCS NEXT Cloud CoE will offer governments and businesses greater access to a team of multi-disciplinary, cloud-native practitioners and experienced project managers across the APAC region to support their cloud initiatives based on business needs and industry compliances.

Singapore telecommunications provider Singtel has grouped its cyber security capabilities along with those of Optus, Trustwave and NCS into a single entity that will operate under the Trustwave brand.

Competition in the Asia Pacific IT services market over the last two years has got tougher for the major players vying for marketshare, with the market declining by 2.1% year-on-year in 2015, according to the latest report from global analyst firm IDC.