AUSTIN, Texas, April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Ferrovial has teamed up with U.S. expertise consulting agency DXC Expertise to collectively develop the platform often called Quercus to speed up and scale the adoption of Generative Synthetic Intelligence (AI) throughout the infrastructure firm’s companies and belongings. DXC will oversee sustaining, creating, and advertising and marketing Quercus, which relies on a Ferrovial Generative AI venture. Microsoft will present the expertise base for scaling up the platform.

Quercus consists of a set of expertise parts and enterprise logic that may function the idea for scaling using AI and constructing secure, quick and efficient options for all sorts of corporations and industries. It contains the required technical parts to make sure knowledge safety and privateness, the power to combine with different techniques, and coordination between completely different Generative Synthetic Intelligence fashions.

Due to its improvement capability, Quercus will allow corporations to cut back the time related to the creation of recent options tailored to their wants.

The primary model of the platform has already enabled Ferrovial to supply a market of Generative AI options, together with an assistant for frequent duties that can be utilized by any worker or by Human Sources and Cybersecurity specialists.

“The journey has solely simply begun. In cooperation with DXC and with Microsoft’s expertise, Ferrovial expects to roll this expertise out in dozens of instances. Quercus shall be very helpful in optimizing processes, producing designs, simplifying purposes for employee well being and security, and, typically, enhancing its operations,” mentioned Dimitris Bountolos, CIIO of Ferrovial, on the signature of the settlement in Madrid. The occasion was additionally attended by DXC Expertise World CEO, Raul Fernandez, DXC Expertise Europe Market Chief, Juan Parra, and Microsoft Spain President, Alberto Granados.

From its Synthetic Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), DXC will drive the evolution, upkeep, and commercialization of the platform for third events, supported by Microsoft expertise.

“The settlement with Ferrovial marks a milestone within the development of AI-supported enterprise providers. This distinctive collaboration guarantees to revolutionize the best way expertise options are developed and utilized within the area of Generative AI. DXC is assured of the worth that the Quercus platform will present to our clients by enabling them to speed up innovation and enhance the profitability and effectivity of their companies, giving them a major aggressive benefit within the market,” mentioned Juan Parra, Market Chief of DXC Europe.

The assist of Microsoft will allow the platform to develop and acquire in versatility, which can profit different corporations that determine to make use of it.

“Microsoft has strategic relationships with each Ferrovial and DXC, and we’re very happy to work with each corporations on this initiative primarily based on our Accountable AI expertise. To make sure that the expertise is built-in into our society each successfully and ethically, we imagine that AI options should be designed and deployed allowing for crucial points comparable to safety, privateness, reliability, equity, inclusiveness, accountability and transparency,” mentioned Alberto Granados, President of Microsoft Spain.

Ferrovial’s expertise utilizing Quercus to develop and deploy Generative AI options will serve to enhance the platform’s efficiency and determine finest practices that may be utilized by different corporations in a spread of industries.

About Ferrovial

Ferrovial is a number one international infrastructure operator, dedicated to creating sustainable options. The corporate operates in additional than 15 nations and has a workforce of over 24,000 professionals worldwide. Ferrovial is dually listed on the Dutch and Spanish inventory exchanges and is a member of Spain’s blue-chip IBEX 35 index. It’s a part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good, and all its operations are carried out in compliance with the ideas of the UN World Compact, which the corporate adopted in 2002.

SOURCE Ferrovial