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- Expands Sunshine.AI suite to introduce sovereign-enabled AI fundamentals and physical AI platforms and agent assistant capabilities
- Strengthening partnerships across industries including healthcare, transportation, and education to expand AI adoption
- We develop expert talent to help organizations leverage AI for enterprise-wide transformation across their operations.
- Publishes practitioner handbook drawn from over 100 AI projects to guide clients to tangible returns from their AI investments
Singapore, July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NCS today announced its expanded Sunshine.AI suite of sovereign, enterprise-grade AI platforms and products, formed new sector-specific partnerships, and is committed to training the next generation of AI talent. Together, they enable organizations to move from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale transformation with the speed, security, and governance they need. The initiative was announced at the annual technology forum NCS AI Impact 2026.
NCS CEO Sam Liu “The real opportunity is not about incremental improvements; it’s about redesigning core operations for exponential outcomes. To deploy AI at scale, organizations need the right partners. It also requires a strong ecosystem behind it. As an AI-driven technology services company, this is exactly what we built NCS for. As Singapore advances its national AI agenda, we are committed to helping our clients realize it.’Ambition leads to real, measurable results. ”
To enable AI transformation across the enterprise, NCS brings together platforms, products, expert talent, industry partnerships, and practical implementation experience. As a result, clients can make AI work better, faster, and more securely, with security and governance built in from the start.
Enterprise-ready platforms and products to bring AI to production
For organizations that need to deploy AI within their own environments while maintaining full data control, NCS’ expanded Sunshine.AI suite delivers sovereign, enterprise-grade AI with safety, governance, and compliance built in from day one. Our multi-model and multi-modal portfolio, built by practitioners for practitioners, ranges from foundational AI platforms to physical AI. This includes:
- Sunshine core: An AI foundation platform for building and operating production-grade AI agents. A library of reusable, combinable components eliminates the need for teams to rebuild common infrastructure.
- sunshine builder: An AI-powered application that allows business analysts to build software applications without writing code, transforming business requirements into working systems that allow users to define what they need, analyze how it works, validate that it meets requirements, and deploy solutions.
- Sunshine Chilliclaw: An enterprise-ready AI assistant that embeds agent intelligence directly into the software your employees already use, from productivity suites to business systems like ERP.
- Sunshine Commander AI: A physical AI platform that connects AI with real-world robotics and serves as a single command center for multivendor robot fleets with safety and security controls built for large-scale deployments.
- NCS was also launched RAMP (Robot and AI in motion program)an invitation-only sandbox in which NCS participates; AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC), Dell Technologies; and Nvidia Together, we build client solutions across public safety, smart buildings, and physical operations.
- Sunshine Guardian: NCS’ AI safety and assurance engine for agent AI in production. This follows a simple cycle. We carefully monitor each agent, test it by simulating real-world attacks, and automatically fix any issues. In the process, it produces audit-ready records that meet reliable standards.
NCS has also upgraded its proven tools. agent-like AI feature: Sunshine.coderdeveloper productivity and quality increased by 15%. sunshine operationsIT incident escalation was reduced by 40%. sunshine.productivityThis saves employees two hours a week. Complementing these upgrades are sunshine kaisenseNCS’ advanced video AI platform for real-time monitoring and analysis.
Sector and technology partnerships
NCS is bringing AI to areas where it needs to be proven to work under real-world constraints, such as healthcare, transportation, and education. From helping patients recover faster to closing learning gaps for students to freeing clinicians from their day-to-day tasks, these partnerships combine domain expertise with NCS’ technology expertise. They demonstrate how AI can move beyond controlled pilots and deliver measurable outcomes in high-stakes regulatory environments.
- health care:
- NCS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with: IHH Healthcare Establish a joint AI Center of Excellence. The center will co-develop and deploy AI solutions across IHH’s multinational network to enhance clinical excellence, operational efficiency and cost control.
- and NHG HealthNCS is deploying agent AI across pilot areas such as biometric identification, digital pathology, and HR transformation to streamline operations, enhance clinical workflows, and improve patient outcomes.
- education:
- and Ngee Ann University of TechnologyNCS introduces AI tutors to bridge the learning gap for individuals. In a recent pilot, adult learners reported positive effects. NCS is also incorporating the Sunshine.coder tool into the institution’s ICT curriculum to build a pipeline of AI-native talent.
- transportation:
- What is Korean? autonomous A2ZNCS is building an autonomous shuttle service for its employees and is integrating the ROii vehicle with NCS’ RobotManager platform to create an operational blueprint for future client projects.
- Enterprise AI:
- NCS is affiliated with: alibaba cloudis a leading global provider of AI infrastructure and intelligence backbone for Alibaba Group, accelerating the deployment of enterprise AI solutions to various sectors across the region. By combining Alibaba Cloud, Qwen’s AI platform and foundational model with NCS’ AI governance, security, systems integration, and implementation expertise, this partnership enables organizations to securely deploy AI while optimizing performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Physical AI and health tech: NCS is expanding into body AI and human-centered care through exoskeleton technology and integrated healthcare solutions, working with:
- fourier rehabilitationThe company, a global leader in rehabilitation technology, introduces medical exoskeletons to accelerate patient recovery.
- hyper shellis the world’s leading consumer exoskeleton brand, advancing all-terrain exoskeletons that extend mobility beyond the hospital and into everyday life and demanding work environments.
- I Medwayis a leading provider of healthcare IT solutions, delivering comprehensive digital solutions to enable data-driven efficiencies and better patient outcomes.
- link documentwill bring AI-driven clinical trials and regulatory innovation to healthcare customers in Asia Pacific, strengthening NCS’ medical technology offering. link document is a healthcare AI technology company that transforms clinical trials, accelerates drug and medical device research, and drives innovation across the life sciences industry through data and advanced AI.
Today’s announcement further expands the ecosystem of best-in-class technology partners that NCS has built over the years. These include AI readers Mistral AI, Pioneer of data platform VAST data, Specialist in humanoid robotics AjibotEnterprise AI Implementers Lian Singh. Together, NCS and its clients will have access to comprehensive technology from across the global AI landscape.
A partnership of talent and skills
Scaling AI requires leaders who can combine deep domain expertise with AI fluency. In support of Singapore’s National AI Strategy 2.0, NCS is building this mix to develop AI talent at every stage of their career, from early career professionals to executives.
- For senior leaders: NCS partners with leading institutions – Singapore University of Technology (SUTD), NUS School of Continuing Education (SCALE), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) (represented by SJTU Asia Pacific Graduate School), and AI Singapore (AISG)develops and delivers a variety of applied AI masterclasses. The curriculum is designed for senior executives and addresses the practical challenges of deploying AI at scale, featuring role-specific courses such as AI Economics for Finance Leaders and AI Governance for Risk Leaders.
- For specialist AI talent: NCS is affiliated with: Digital Industry Singapore (DISG) Accelerate your AI transformation and strengthen your competitive edge. Through targeted talent development, NCS will hire over 130 AI practitioners over three years, building advanced and differentiated AI capabilities in the AI Central team, as well as building expertise in sectoral teams for Singapore’s connectivity sector.
A Practitioner’s Guide to “10X” AI Returns
Today, NCS NCS AI Handbook – Practitioner-driven blueprints extracted from over 100 AI projects. It is structured around two questions that every company must answer. “Are we doing the right thing and are we doing the right thing?”
The key points are:
- 3R framework Reframe AI from cost reduction to value creation (customer return, employee return, future return).
- The 5 U’s of failed AI The root causes of program stagnation include unclear costs, unchanged business processes, unprepared data, unmanaged agent development, and unknown security and safety risks.
- Four pillars of execution – Cheaper, better, faster, safer – operationalize AI with rigor.
- cheaper Choosing a token strategy and model: All tasks consume tokens, which increase costs if left unmanaged. By treating tokens as management costs on your balance sheet, monitoring and controlling them instead of keeping them running, and matching each task to a right-sized model instead of defaulting to the most expensive frontier model, you can reduce costs by up to 82% and speed up responses by 3-10x.
- better AI-enabled data and workflow redesign: AI is only as reliable as the data behind it. Therefore, by basing AI on clean, well-managed data, errors and illusions that undermine trust and create business and legal risks are significantly reduced. The biggest benefits come not from incorporating AI into traditional processes, but by rethinking the workflow itself and targeting the right use cases first.
- Faster NCS AI Accelerator: Rebuilding components that already exist elsewhere wastes a significant portion of your project’s effort. NCS’s reusable, pre-tested building blocks cut this out, allowing teams to build once and deploy again and again.
- safer Built-in assurance: Once the AI begins to act, not just give advice, it also becomes a target and a potential threat actor. Safety guardrails and AI-to-AI cyber defenses are applied from day one to protect against a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
Applying these pillars in combination yields the highest returns and moves companies from low short-term ROI to long-term transformational growth. The platforms, partnerships and talent programs launched today will put these practices into practice.
Underpinning these efforts is a new operating structure that brings domain expertise closer to customers. NCS has been reorganized into 10 industry-specific operating groups and supported by two service organizations: Applications and Communications Engineering (ACE) for AI agent-driven delivery and Digital Resilience (DR) for secure and resilient operations. This structure is supported by a newly formed AI Central team that drives strategy, accelerates innovation, and ensures safe and responsible adoption of AI across the organization.
About NCS
NCS is a leading AI technology services company. With a 15,000-strong team across Asia Pacific, NCS has expanded its platform and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a wide range of industries. NCS employs a strong ecosystem of global partners to transform the delivery of technology services that combine AI and digital resilience to drive real business impact. NCS is a subsidiary of Singtel Group.
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