The New AI Vanguard: How Google Cloud's Partners in India Are Leading the Charge

The next revolution of AI led innovation is already here

A revolution is underway, powered by Artificial Intelligence, and India's technology leaders are at the epicenter. As businesses race to reimagine their operations, Google Cloud's partner ecosystem has emerged as a formidable lever, translating the promise of AI into tangible business outcomes. The recent surge in Agentic AI is further fueling this transformation - where AI moves from being just a cutting-edge tool to an absolutely critical lever for active transformation.

As Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian noted, "Agentic AI is the biggest opportunity for partners, with billions of dollars of economic impact in terms of productivity from delivering agents within customers. That’s where we see the future.”

Nowhere is this future arriving faster than in India. In a recent series of interviews, leaders from some of Google Cloud's key partners— Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, Riafy, Quantiphi, Ollion, Persistent, Brio, Shivaami, and Searce—revealed the sheer scale and sophistication of the work being done; with a hyper-skilled, deeply integrated ecosystem that is not just implementing technology but co-innovating with customers to solve their most complex challenges.

"Our partners are the vanguard of the AI revolution in India," says Sashikumar Sreedharan, Managing Director, Google Cloud, India. "They are combining their deep industry knowledge with the power of Google's end-to-end AI stack to deliver incredible value. From transforming customer service in banking to reimagining drug-development in biotech, they are driving real-world impact at scale "

A Force Multiplier for Innovation

The capabilities of this ecosystem are staggering. The partners represent a powerhouse of technical expertise, with thousands of Google Cloud-certified engineers, a vast array of specializations and expertise badges. This deep talent is enabling some of the most complex digital transformation projects.

Searce, for instance, successfully migrated one of India's largest telcos, moving thousands of VMs and 4 petabytes of data to Google Cloud, while also managing the largest Google Workspace deployment for a leading professional services firm with 100,000 employees. Brio helped DTDC, a leading logistics company, modernize its parcel tracking application to process over 170 million parcels annually.

"Our partnership strategy is built on a foundation of co-innovation and shared success," says Chandra Sankholkar, Director, Partner Ecosystem, Google Cloud India. "We are deeply invested in enabling our partners, providing them with access to our engineers, technology roadmaps, and co-developing solutions to solve real-world problems. This collaborative approach, as our partners attest, has been instrumental in their growth- and more importantly, in our customers' success."

Voices from the Frontline

Leaders spearheading these partner organizations echo the sentiment of a truly collaborative and differentiated partnership.

Abhrajit Ray, Partner, Deloitte, stated: "Deloitte’s deep domain expertise, combined with Google Cloud’s full stack platform for AI, is helping deliver innovation faster to customers. Our customers should think of Deloitte + Google as the number one partner for AI-enabled business transformation."

Vishal Bhaskaran, Head - Bangalore Delivery Center, Quantiphi, points to Google's integrated technology as a key differentiator: "From TPUs to foundation models and application builders, vertical integration delivers unmatched performance and reliability for our customers."

Shashi Tripathi, India Business Head, Searce, highlights the cultural synergy: "What makes this partnership thrive is the deep alignment in culture—our teams are both relentlessly customer-obsessed and constantly pushing boundaries to deliver real business outcomes. Our aspiration is to become the most trusted partner for our clients globally, with Google Cloud at the core.”

From Services to Software: Rise of Partner-Built IP

A defining characteristic of this ecosystem is the evolution from pure-play service delivery to creating AI-powered platforms to drive competitive-advantage. Partners are leveraging Google Cloud's models and infrastructure to build their own intellectual property, accelerating value for customers.

Riafy launched its enterprise AI platform, by leveraging Google’s models with its own data from over 100 million users, allowing them to deploy ethical and secure AI assistants for clients like IndiGo and Federal Bank in under six weeks.

PwC deepened their competency around GCP security architecture, DevSecOps, and cloud security. PwC won the Asia-Pacific Security Partner of the Year at Google Cloud Next 25

KPMG has built KRAFT (KPMG’s Revenue Acceleration through Front Office Transformation) to reimagine customer journeys and also announced a $100 million global investment with Google Cloud to accelerate the adoption of AI in enterprises.

"As enterprises adopt wide scale Agentspace amongst all their employees - every finance professional, operations-analyst, marketeer, HR professional, sales-manager, etc just became better because they have access to the best AI through Agentspace & Google’s genAI. Combining deep industry knowledge with the power of Google's end-to-end AI stack, our partners are delivering incredible value to Enterprises”, added Chandra Sankholkar, “Agentspace potentially becomes the standard way for all employees to do their work. It democratizes AI - which unleashes its power”

The next revolution of AI led innovation is already here. Google Cloud partners are at the forefront by leveraging Google Agentspace to create agents that automate complex processes, enhance decision-making, and transform how work gets done - #BetterTogether.

This article is sponsored by Google.