Planit to come underneath the NRI ANZ banner to give clients wider services

The transition will be finalised on October 1.

Quality engineering and testing arm, Planit will officially come under the NRI ANZ arm as of October 1, 2025.

Speaking to CRN Australia, Kaylene O’Brien, CEO, NRI ANZ said this move means Planit clients can access a fuller range of consulting, implementation and managed services, in addition to the quality engineering and testing services that are offered.

“That has quite a big benefit for our clients, for both the NRI Australia New Zealand clients and the Planit clients as well, as well as a benefit for our employees,” she said.

Planit was acquired by NRI ANZ’s parent company, Nomura Research Institute four years ago.

“Planit has a global reach with approximately 1800 people, and we started on the integration steps, mostly in the back office, around shared systems. But now is the big step, so come first of October, the legal entity effectively integrates with NRI Australia New Zealand.”

One of the major shifts O’Brien has noticed is clients that buy testing and quality engineering services that previously looked for independence, are looking for depth of specialisation.

“[They’re] wanting an integrator like us that could bring the full breadth of other related services together,” she said.

One of the big investments that NRI and Planit has made over the last few years has been the artificial intelligence platform Amplifier, O’Brien said.

“[It] has had quite big benefits in terms of further automation of the testing processes and test data management. We're going to extend that Amplify AI tool further across the system development life cycle across NRI, so that will ultimately benefit clients of Planit and current clients of NRI as well.”

There will be no staff changes at Planit with this official move, O’Brien said instead it will open up more career growth and a broader set of opportunities.

O'Brien said this move is much more of a peer level integration with some of the leaders taking on bigger roles across both businesses.

“For the Planit leadership, a couple of them are taking on broader roles across the combined business ready for our new financial year, which starts in April,” she said.

“There's more opportunities for the leadership team in Planit and for the NRI team there's a lot more access to the training and development that Planit had invested in for the team as well.”

O’Brien explained her goal for the new business.

“That they're a strategic partner, bringing the full breadth of consulting implementation managed service and underpinned by quality engineering and absolute specialisation in testing,” she said.

She added that the goal is to create more market growth opportunities for them.

“This is a strategic step that will allow us to collaborate more with the client base. Effectively, we had two sets of clients and not a lot of overlap between them, and now this will allow us to bring more of the services to the full range of clients that we currently have,” she said.

"This is a big strategic step for us to combine the businesses so that we can collaborate around clients.”