NCS ramps up digital services arm NEXT to meet growing global demand

SINGAPORE – NCS today announced that NEXT, its digital services arm which offers clients deep-tech capabilities and end-to-end digital services, has grown to scale in key markets in the two years since embarking on its growth strategy to regionalise and expand its business beyond Singapore.

With a fivefold increase in headcount since 2019, NEXT has become a 2,000-strong team of digital specialists across 18 specialisations in Asia Pacific, well-placed to help clients accelerate digital transformation and leverage emerging technologies such as metaverse and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) for innovation breakthroughs.

Mr Ng Kuo Pin, CEO of NCS, said, “With NCS as the growth engine for the Singtel Group, we’ve advanced NEXT to be one of the largest end-to-end digital powerhouses in the region with the purpose of igniting possibilities for our clients’ growing digital demands.
NEXT leverages NCS’ digital services companies including ARQ Group, 2359 Media, Riley, ClayOPS, Velocity and Eighty20 Solutions1, and the current NEXT team to bring to scale industry-leading specialisations and talent to drive innovation.”

NEXT’s focus on leading the charge in digital services is in line with NCS’ three axes of growth transformation – expanding in Asia Pacific, doubling down the government sector and enterprise business and growing its digital capabilities. NCS’ digital-led revenue contribution has increased from 37% in FY2020 to 48% in first quarter ended 30 June 2022.2

Access to digital specialists across Digital, Data, Cloud and Platforms

As more clients seek to be at the forefront of technology and breakthrough thinking, NEXT will focus on four key pillars – Digital, Data, Cloud and Platforms.

These pillars will address key digital trends that could impact governments and enterprises over the next few years, such as responsible AI, multi-platform digital world, robots as your colleagues, meta-everywhere and digital humans.

NEXT, together with NCS’ core service offerings in applications, infrastructure, engineering and cybersecurity, offers clients a comprehensive suite of technology services to help them accelerate digital transformation and better scale operations.