Crayon Continues Dramatic Business Acceleration In South East Asia With Expansion of their Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practice and Multiple New Market Entries

SINGAPORE,Sept. 4,2018 -- Crayon Group,the global software experts,have announced that they will be establishing an AI Center of Excellence (CoE) in Singapore to serve clients in South-East Asia (SEA).

This will represent a significant expansion for the firm who already have a successful AI Center of Excellence based in Oslo,Norway,serving European clients in multiple industries,including retail,maritime,oil & gas,healthcare,agriculture and public institutions.

Crayon will build a cross functional integrated team of data scientists,data engineers and AI advisors who will work with leading customers and institutions in the region to create tangible client value by developing and deploying AI solutions in their business processes and provide support for their AI transformation programs. The new SEA Center of Excellence will work closely with its counterpart in Europe and with government agencies,research centers and academia,commercial partners,start-ups,and other AI ecosystem players to drive the overall advancement of AI in the region.

Torgrim Takle,Crayon Group CEO commented:"Singapore is an ideal place for us to expand our AI business footprint as the local artificial intelligence community and ecosystem is both very advanced and dynamic and because the development is proactively backed by the local government."

This announcement builds on the existing regional business acceleration that included the recent acquisition of Tribal Knowledge,a specialist strategic software and cloud economics consulting firm based in Singapore. Crayon have also expanded into Singapore,The Philippines and Sri Lanka as new Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and License Service Provider (LSP) status accreditations being awarded to them for the region by Microsoft.

Florent Bellahsene,VP,Crayon APAC commented: "Our strategy is to ensure our customers in South East Asia have full access to Crayon services and expertise to help them optimise their cloud technology and digital transformation. To facilitate this,we are executing on a coherent co-investment plan with Microsoft and our other hyper scale cloud partners to enhance technical and customer support capability within the region."

About Crayon:

Crayon are a global leader in technology and digital transformation services and the largest independent 'cloud economics' practice. We are trusted technical advisors to many of the world's leading organisations and through our unique people,tools and systems we help optimise our clients' ROI from complex technology investments.

Crayon have comprehensive relationships with all the major global software publishers and hyper-scale cloud partners and deep experience within volume software licensing optimisation,cloud adoption,digital engineering,artificial intelligence (AI),machine learning and predictive analytics and are experts in supporting our customers with end to end services to accelerate their digital transformation journey.

Headquartered in Oslo,the company has over 1,100 teammates in 43 offices worldwide.

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