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Analytics & Big Data News
Strategy & Change
Telefónica Tech changes shape ahead of carve-out
Reorganisation sees cybersecurity and cloud businesses merge. Telefónica IoT & Big Data Tech registered as a Telefónica Tech company.
Products & ServicesT-Systems re-morphs movement data analytics biz
Deutsche Telekom shuttered subsidiary Motionlogic in May, and has now added Motion Data products and services to IoT portfolio.
- Suppliers & SCM
BT taps Qlik for data analytics prowess
BT aims to create a ‘data‑literate workforce’ to improve how it exploits its vast troves of customer data for up‑selling opportunities.
- Strategy & Change
CFO Werner in box seat on Telekom’s data strategy revamp
Telekom Deutschland’s money man overseeing data-driven modernisation programme, including effort to meld siloes through over-riding data lake. Data strategy seen as key to growth, efficiency, and customer experience goals.
- Partnerships & Alliances
Vi extends IBM remit to big data analytics
Latest IBM deal in India brings Hadoop back into the fold.
- Venturing & Investments
GeoSpock takes up residence in Vodafone’s Tomorrow Street
Luxembourg venture makes second addition in a month, with one more expected to follow.
- Network & Infrastructure
BT to parachute 5G onto Irish port
Former BT testbed to experience 5G’s full potential. Industry 4.0 applications to be given get-go in multi-purpose setting. BT adding to its private network portfolio.
- Partnerships & Alliances
BENOCS works Deutsche Telekom connections for APAC expansion
Spin-off ties with DT-affiliated MarvelTec to land China Telecom Global engagement.
- Network & Infrastructure
BT takes charge of 5G factory floor
BT collaborates with Worcestershire 5G (W5G) testbed and Ericsson to install ‘live’ 5G factory. Runs and manages private 5G network for Worcester Bosch. Takes technology lead at W5G to accelerate UK adoption of smart-manufacturing.
- Strategy & Change
Services at the core of enigmatic Telefónica Tech
Beyond the big talk about Telefónica Tech, associated revenue remains modest, and growth not immune to pandemic impacts.
- Network & Infrastructure
Telefónica: Elsewhere in Infra-Tech
Microsoft partnership expands to acens, IoT solutions pushed to the fore.
- Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone claims personalisation progress
Adobe and Persado technology used in conjunction to send out curated text which produced “double-digit” uplift in conversion rates. Personalisation, driven by big data, is a “key strategy” for VfIt’s ongoing churn‑reduction and CRM efforts.
- Partnerships & Alliances
VodafoneZiggo turns to K2View for unified data
Dutch JV installs K2View’s Fabric data management solution for converged and consolidated customer repository, replacing problem legacy systems.
- Strategy & Change
Deutsche Telekom’s OneApp undergoes big data revamp
Data-handling turnaround to gain more insights from self-care app. New big-data solution supported by AWS and assortment of software tools.
- Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica brings Erictel IoT to Brazil and UK
Erictel IoT tech at the core of LUCA offerings. To be supported in more Telefónica markets as close links with Ericsson spin‑off intensify.
- Venturing & Investments
Telekom Innovation Pool overview to July 2020
DTCP-advised Telekom Innovation Pool focuses on external startups of strategic relevance and in-house ventures. Formed in 2012, TIP is now under the USA & Corporate Development umbrella with the DT machine.
- Innovation (R&D)
BT opens DigiTech doors
BT and longstanding partner the University of Suffolk launched the DigiTech Centre, to train 145 apprentices and 500 students.
- Partnerships & Alliances
DT backs launch of Europe’s GAIA‑X cloud project
DT on team of 22 founding members as GAIA‑X unveiled, albeit with technical snafu. Initiative talked up as “starting point of a European data ecosystem”.
- Venturing & Investments
Telefónica venturing ecosystem round-up, April 2020
Round‑up of recent activity within Telefónica-backed startup and venturing ecosystems.
- Suppliers & SCM
WidePoint flags $6m BT contract
WidePoint, a communications management solutions provider, flagged the signing of a three‑year, $6m (£5.6m) contract with BT Group.
- Financial & Performance
Al-Saleh retained for next phase of T-Sys reboot
CEO gets a two‑year extension as results hold up during overhaul. Deal positions 2022 as target year for emergence of revamped T‑Sys. Cash flow production remains the big unticked box. DT confirms coming extraction of division’s network activities.
- Products & Services
T-Systems ramps up Open Telekom Cloud with Hawk supercomputer
T‑Sys was able to ramp up the computing power of public cloud offering Open Telekom Cloud.
