Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 26 | Page 10

NEWS MTN initiates Digital Transformation with Oracle Cloud Applications Rocket challenge targets local coding skills A ddressing the growing skills gap within software development, Axiz has sponsored the Rocket APT Challenge and encouraged 39 students to participate in the regional round of the Rocket.Build coding challenge. “This is a fantastic innovation challenge that provides students with an opportunity to hone their coding skills on a leading software platform,” said Colleen Becker, Axiz Pre-sales Engineer. “South Africa is by far the bigger pool of entrants and we are excited to see who is selected for the global Rocket.Build 2019 Hackathon.” S outh Africa based mobile telecommunications major, MTN, has chosen Oracle Cloud Applications to drive one of the largest digital transformations in the global telecom industry across all its core business operations. The implementation will help MTN drive efficiency, scale operations and integration across its local and regional operations. help MTN deliver value for all stakeholders and create differentiation needed to achieve market leadership.” Participants are required to design an app on Rocket’s MultiValue application platform in support of the challenge theme, ‘Improve your Community’. Consisting of three regions: EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, three winners from each region will be selected and awarded various cash prizes. Under this initiative, MTN will implement Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); Supply Chain Management (SCM); Enterprise Performance Management (EPM); Customer Experience (CX); Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Oracle Service Cloud solutions. The nine developers will also be given an all-expenses-paid trip to Massachusetts, USA in June 2019 to participate in Rocket.Build 2019, where they will compete in teams of three to decide the global winner of the Rocket APT Challenge. The winning team will share a grand prize of US$24,000. The implementation will drive further productivity through automation, self-service, IoT and mobile application capabilities, as well as enhancing management visibility across all business operations for real time performance measurement. The Rocket APT Challenge is open to undergraduate students aged 18 and older who are currently studying engineering, science, or technology at an accredited college or university. “With clear signs of economic recovery across key African markets, MTN’s decision to undertake large scale Digital Transformation will be instrumental in achieving strategic business objectives,” said Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President – Business Applications, ECEMEA, Oracle. “We are confident that the deployment of the Oracle Cloud enabled digital core will 10 INTELLIGENTCIO Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President – Business Applications, ECEMEA, Oracle www.intelligentcio.com