Analytics & Big Data News
Financial & Performance
Telefónica Transformation: ahead of schedule but hitting a bump
Digital services revenue hits 17% revenue increase year-on-year, with the bulk coming from video services. Telefónica Infra remains barebones, but the future looks promising.
Strategy & ChangeAlonso sets out his stall as Digital Consumer Officer
Digital Consumer services arguably a secondary consideration in a unit dominated by executives with an innovation or entrepreneurial bent. Previously-launched Digital Home solutions and added-value services may get a burst of management attention in the early days of the unit.
- Venturing & Investments
Open Future developments
Round‑up of recent activity among Telefónica-backed startup and venturing ecosystems.
- Innovation (R&D)
Telefónica Alpha taps NHS for patient data
O2 UK catches heat for a Group‑led project, with negative press coverage underlining the PR risks associated with data‑driven projects in sensitive sectors.
- Enterprise (B2B)
T-Systems adds Splunk to big data analytics portfolio
Unit still sees mileage in role as enterprise data sherpa.
- Venturing & Investments
AppsFlyer becomes ‘a unicorn-and-a-half’
AppsFlyer raised $210m (€191m) in a Series‑D funding round. Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners.
- Products & Services
Vodafone Italy, HDI partner to launch telematics-based insurance policy
Italian insurance provider HDI Assicurazioni launched HDI Insieme, a telematics-supported policy created in partnership with Vodafone Italy and Vodafone Automotive.
- Innovation (R&D)
Deutsche Telekom looks to synthetic data generation
Deutsche Telekom secured a US patent on a method for synthetic data generation.
- Partnerships & Alliances
T-Systems North America partners with Hitachi Vantara
T‑Sys NA partnered with data specialist Hitachi Vantara to develop solutions for enterprise imaging in life sciences and healthcare.
- Venturing & Investments
Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners confident in South Korean tech startups
Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners confident of turning South Korean technology startups into ‘unicorns’
- Venturing & Investments
Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners exits Paxata
DTCP looked to have exited Paxata, a data analytics solution provider in which it acquired a stake in 2016
- Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone gives Hadoop the heave-ho, turns to Google
Vodafone nearly half-way through migrating its Hadoop‑based big data analytics platform, serving eleven countries, onto Google Cloud Platform. “Cloud-native” Neuron systems leans on Google’s expertise in AI and ML. Full migration from Hadoop to Neuron slated before 31 March 2020.
- Innovation (R&D)
LUCA turns three, with AI embrace
Third edition of LUCA’s annual innovation event focuses on big data and AI solutions for partners. Movistar Living Apps and Aura voice-control in the spotlight.
- Venturing & Investments
Telefónica Open Innovation developments, October-November 2019
Round-up of recent activity among Telefónica‑backed startup and venturing ecosystems
- Suppliers & SCM
Altran ties with Vodafone Portugal on AI and data science
French engineering and industrial consultancy Altran flagged a tie‑up with Vodafone Portugal (VfP) that aims to “increase the skills and know‑how” of the two partners in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science.
- Strategy & Change
Vodafone’s analytics team starts looking outward
Vodafone ready for long-trailered Location Intelligence services expansion. Five-year IT and organisational update ensures so-called ‘single version of truth’. IoT and security use-cases also in focus.
- Partnerships & Alliances
Vivo Empresas flags new big data solutions contract
The contract will support the expansion of Benjamin A Padaria’s business operations.
- Strategy & Change
Alonso elevates “Wozniak” mindset in Telefónica transformation
Influential CDO charts his progress within Telefónica, linked to developing the trust of current Executive Chairman Álvarez-Pallete. An engineering-focused mindset and startup mentality deemed key attributes in the fast progression of security and data operations within the Group. While the instigation of several standout Telefónica transformation projects predate his ...
- Financial & Performance
Deutsche Telecom Capital Partners invests in Heap
Deutsche Telecom Capital Partners (DTCP), the investment management arm of DT, participated in a $55m (€49.6m) Series-C funding round in Heap, a US-based analytics specialist.
- Strategy & Change
HAL’s odyssey: Deutsche Telekom grows API framework to drive savings
Executives claim progress in Europe’s digitally-flavoured simplification plan, flagged at DT’s last Capital Markets Day. OneApp customer support platform nears full reach across Europe area. E-commerce and TV services next. Data-analytics layer in pipeline.
- Operations
Digital transformation (DTW19): culture change, reskilling crucial
Reskilling employees fundamental to Wind Tre’s digital transformation strategy. Cultural and organisational change critical for digital transformation to be adopted at scale and to succeed. Operators must change their corporate identity to attract vital new talent. Wind Tre CIO sceptical of vendor marketing of new technologies.
- Operations
Telefónica embraces short-term pain for data flexibility
Telefónica Mexico provided insights on building momentum on creating replicable data-driven local systems, with potential for wider deployment. Groundwork on establishing principles, and ensuring standardisation, vital to ensuring benefits can flow through to subsequent use cases. Real-world implementation of a standardised approach can cause initial localised pain, but is ...
