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Etisalat Misr selects Ericsson to evolve BSS Digital Transformation and IoT
Hazem Metwally , CEO , Etisalat Misr , said : “ It is a pleasure to have Ericsson as our partner that understands our vision and ambitions to evolve and transform our business . Enhancing our business operations in Egypt is essential to improving customers ’ services and satisfaction . We are looking forward to the outcomes of this partnership that will be brought , especially with evolving our BSS Digital Transformation , latest network technology readiness , FinTech and IoT .”
Etisalat Misr has selected Ericsson to modernise its business support systems ( BSS ) in Egypt . The transformation will upgrade and modernise Etisalat Misr ’ s BSS platform to support data and voice-over-LTE ( VoLTE ) traffic growth , 5G readiness and Internet of things ( IoT ).
The agreement will equip Etisalat Misr with a range of upgraded capabilities across all its business operations in the customer , product , and service management domains and for customers , enterprises , partners , network technologies and events .
Ekow Nelson , Vice President , Ericsson Middle East and Africa , said : “ The acceleration of digitalisation everywhere in the world is transforming lives and opening doors to a whole host of opportunities . The partnership with Etisalat Misr underscores our joint role in this transformation . The BSS transformation agreement is testament to the common vision we share with Etisalat Misr and we are excited to work jointly towards its realisation .”
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launches new services and capabilities to give customers more flexibility
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ( OCI ) is expanding with 11 new compute , networking , and storage services and capabilities that enable customers to run their workloads faster and more securely at lower costs . New offerings provide customers with truly flexible core infrastructure services , automatically optimising resources to match application requirements and significantly reduce costs . Leading global organisations including Vodafone , Samsung Securities , GoTo and Cox Automotive rely on OCI to run all types of workloads , from microservices to AI .
Oracle stated that global cloud adoption continues to expand rapidly as business models transform and the demand for secure remote technology accelerates . However , the vendor noted that a variety of prevailing public cloud misconceptions are still holding companies back from realising the full benefits of the cloud .
“ OCI continues to break the rules in the cloud , helping customers run their workloads faster , more securely , and more economically ,” said Clay Magouyrk , Executive Vice President , Oracle Cloud Infrastructure . “ Customers can build cloud native apps on OCI with support for open , standards-based Kubernetes , while AI and high-performance computing customers can build some of the fastest computing clusters in the cloud .”
“ We selected OCI to run our video conferencing ,” said Sascha Kuemmel , Vice President , Technology Strategy , GoTo . p
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