Consulting firm 11:59 has added a partnership with Tungsten Automation to deliver generative artificial intelligence workflow automation to its customers.
Sacramento-based 11:59 is the relatively new brand name of 20-year-old M Corp, a large local consulting shop for government agencies, financial services and other industries.
“Tungsten Automation is the latest addition to our partner ecosystem. We will be leveraging our professional services, migration services and generative AI expertise to build industry-specific solutions and use cases,” said Noel Gie, chief growth officer with 11:59, in a news release.
Irvine-based Tungsten Automation works in intelligent process automation software and workflows. Its systems aim to automate tedious financial processes to make them more efficient. Tungsten, which was formerly known as Kofax, has been around for 40 years. It has 2,200 employees in 32 countries.
The latest partnership with Tungsten is another move toward offering clients access to generative AI for 11:59 following its launch in February of a GenAI Accelerator for Business program.
“AI and automation are significant priorities for our clients,” said 11:59 spokeswoman Mary Ludloff, via email. “It is also why we have an Applied AI practice area as well as a Gen AI Accelerator. This program is designed to help clients ideate, launch and deploy GenAI solutions within a condensed timeframe of four to six weeks, enabling them to kickstart their GenAI journeys."
She said that AI isn’t seen as an option, rather it is “becoming indispensable for ensuring business success now and well into the future."
11:59 has offices in Sacramento, San Diego and the cities of Ashburn and Hampton in Virginia. Ludloff declined to disclose how many employees 11:59 has. She added that the company has been growing and that many of its employees work remotely.
M Corp was founded in 2003. It’s specialized in working with state agencies and also companies in the insurance and banking industries.
The former M Corp rebranded in the spring of last year to the new name, which is a reference to the minute before a new day. M Corp founders Alex Castro and Chuck Czajkowski remain on the company's board of directors. The newly named 11:59 brought on Thomas Beyer as CEO to replace Castro in that position. Beyer had been KPMG’s global head for digital transformation for government and health care. Before that he was a partner at global accounting firm Deloitte for a dozen years, with that last few years in artificial intelligence, starting before the pandemic.
"Along with supplying the right mix of resources, we are forging strategic partnerships to ensure the realization of this goal," Gie said. “Our relationship with Tungsten Automation enables us to provide clients with cutting-edge intelligent automation services and solutions."
