Companies keep recruiting, hiring, paying, rewarding, moving, repatriating, retiring and hiring in an endless loop, and EY has capabilities — including consulting, tax and software — that can accelerate movement around that endless loop. EY did not need to say that at the Global Mobility Reimagined conference, as clients understood it already. EY also has a stated ambition to grow People Advisory Services to more than $3 billion by 2031. Absent the worst possible global political and economic scenarios, including a drastic curtailment of global mobility, TBR believes that ambition is perhaps a bit too modest.

Between the technology partners and GSIs, Informatica works with a robust ecosystem of partners in a triparty approach, where resources from a hyperscaler, GSI and Informatica are brought together to help customers modernize their data faster and, by default, hasten AI’s time to value. When we survey and speak to alliance decision makers at IT services firms, data management comes up as one of the top areas for partner-led growth, signaling to the ecosystem that they will continue to invest in resources to guide conversations with customers with the technology maturity to address the data foundations ahead of GenAI.

Oracle’s full-stack approach to analytics makes a compelling case for consolidation, helping partners create value by eliminating disparate integrations and unlocking ROI. This is particularly true for partners that are perhaps willing to abandon the typical tech-agnostic approach and recommend Oracle as the primary choice from a data and analytics perspective. If Oracle engages a broader external data ecosystem in the future, as discussed above, partners will need to make sure they look beyond the applications layer and leverage Oracle’s broad PaaS and IaaS capabilities for custom development use cases.