Earlier this month, the multi-national carrier MTN announced a rebranding, and along with its logo refresh, announced that it was moving to focus on being a technology provider. The new look, “aligns with our evolution from a telecommunications company to a technology company,” said Nompilo Morafo, Chief Corporate Affairs officer at the company. Across APAC […]
Supporting the transformation from “telco” to “techco” in telecommunications companies to benefit from the right data strategy
Cloudera has been recognized as a Visionary in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) and for the first time, evaluated CDP Operational Database (COD) against the 12 critical capabilities for Operational Databases. Overall, Gartner recognized 20 vendors for the Magic Quadrant of which 16 were evaluated in the 2021 Gartner Critical […]
Delays in implementing a data strategy mean less time for the organization to harness critical business insights. Results from our global study of business and IT decision makers show that organizations which had data strategies in place earlier also reaped the benefits sooner.
One of the most substantial big data workloads over the past fifteen years has been in the domain of telecom network analytics. Where does it stand today? What are its current challenges and opportunities? In a sense, there have been three phases of network analytics: the first was an appliance based monitoring phase; the second […]
The shift to cloud has been accelerating, and with it, a push to modernize data pipelines that fuel key applications. That is why cloud native solutions which take advantage of the capabilities such as disaggregated storage & compute, elasticity, and containerization are more paramount than ever. At Cloudera, we introduced Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) as […]
With submissions for the Data Impact Awards coming in, we’re revisiting last year’s winners to find out what set them apart. In 2020, Telkomsel took home the gold in the Industry Transformation category. The company stood out to the judges for taking its business to the next level by disrupting the telecommunication’s industry through the […]
Minimizing Supply Chain Disruptions January 2020 is a distant memory, but for most, the early days of the pandemic was a time that will be ingrained in memories for decades, if not generations. Over the last 18 months, supply chain issues have dominated our nightly news, social feeds and family conversations at the dinner table. […]
I’m thrilled to report that Cloudera today announced its membership of the TM Forum, the leading industry standards and collaboration group for the telecommunications industry. This is an important step for our company and for our telecommunications and media customers and partners, adding significant momentum and acceleration to our development of solutions for the industry. […]
Most businesses, whether you are in Retail, Manufacturing, Specialty Chemicals, Telecommunications, consider a 10% market capitalization increase from 2020 to 2021 outstanding. But what would you say to your shareholders when they found out your competitors’ market capitalization grew 35%? A recent McKinsey report dove into the divergence between retail’s laggards and winners and found […]