NCS has launched a S$130 million initiative to drive AI transformation across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region over the next three years.

Announced at its annual Impact Forum, the Singapore-based IT services firm also unveiled Sunshine.AI, a suite of proprietary AI tools and accelerators to transform how organisations develop intelligent solutions.

In addition, they signed six strategic partnerships with global technology players, including AWS, Databricks, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, and Sunline, to tap onto their expertise and capabilities in Generative AI and agentic AI services and collaborate on solutions for clients across APAC.

“With AI reshaping industries as it becomes more accessible than before, we’re partnering government agencies and enterprises to help them harness the best of AI not just for efficiency gains but to advance communities,” said NCS CEO Ng Kuo Pin.

“The investment we are making over the next three years and our blueprint anchored by three pillars – intelligentisation, internationalisation and inspiration – will better enable our people and clients to create new business outcomes and build a resilient, innovative future with AI.”

Bringing Sunshine into the Workplace

At the forum, Ng shared two critical factors that he believes organizations needed to become top of their game: AI and digital resilience.

“We are entering a new era where AI is no longer experimental,” he said. “Over the past 30 years, we moved from an IT-led era, where IT systems supported basic operations, to the digital-led era, where cloud, data, and mobile transformed services.

“Today, we are entering the intelligence ladder, where AI and intelligent systems are deeply embedded — driving real-time positions, automation, and innovation at scale.

“Yet today, there’s this fog of hype and confusion surrounding AI. AI seems to be capable of everything, yet no one seems to know how to embrace AI at scale. There are also deep concerns about the risk of AI and its impact on the jobs and livelihood of people.”

To help organizations use AI for good, for instance to improve mundane work processes, simplify tedious tasks, and improve overall operational workflows, NCS has designed the Sunshine suite of AI tools tailored for developers, IT operations teams, and corporate users. It comprises:

• Sunshine.Coder: An AI coding assistant that supports language conversion, test generation, and code analysis;
• Sunshine.Operations: An AI-Ops platform designed to automate incident triage, system log analysis, and operational task flows;
• Sunshine.Productivity: A suite of tools that enhance day-to-day tasks such as summarization, content retrieval, and secure document handling.

NCS’ accelerators comprise proprietary frameworks, code libraries, and deployment toolkits that mirror human cognitive functions like perception, reasoning, decision-making, and action.

Meanwhile, his emphasis on digital resilience refers to a system’s ability to enable sustained AI adoption. This relied on factors like the strength of an organization’s cybersecurity, infrastructure, as well as operations responsiveness.

“It’s how we embrace AI and emerging technologies with a human-centric approach,” said Ng. “We need to recognize that as Gen AI and agentic AI become more powerful, they can instill fear. This is why we must inspire each other to collaborate and design AI for good — for individuals, businesses, and communities.”