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Nokia opens Cloud Collaboration Hubs
for cloud strategy recognition
global network of hubs provide support to operators to speed up their
transition to cloud. The Cloud Collaboration Hub is an evolution of the
Cloud Design Center, opened in 2016 in the UK, which has already
been delivering multi-vendor cloud solutions to operators globally.
The Cloud Collaboration Hubs are supported by a network of
cloud delivery centres for industrialised infrastructure staging and
delivery. Nokia is also opening a new cloud delivery centre in India to
complement one in Hungary.
N
okia is strengthening its cloud and data centre services by opening
a Nokia Cloud Collaboration Hub in Singapore. Another hub will be
opened in Irving, Texas in February 2018, to be followed by a third one
in Reading, UK. The hubs are execution centres where multi-vendor
cloud services from strategy and design, to execution and delivery, are
provided. They offer innovative tooling and automation, as well as
DevOps-based cloud development and delivery.
The Nokia Cloud Collaboration Hubs include a multi-vendor lab
set-up with experts co-located to help operators visualise, develop
and execute tailored use cases based on their cloud strategies. The
Nokia cloud solutions cover integration to virtual network function
(VNF) and IT applications, as well as hybrid cloud solutions. The hubs
provide services for Nokia specific, multi-vendor and open source
solutions. The strong partner ecosystem linked to the hubs enable
Nokia to provide best-in-class cloud solutions to meet the digital
service provider needs.
Deepak Harie, Head of Systems Integration, Global Services at
Nokia, said: “We are excited to announce the first of our network
of Cloud Collaboration Hubs. This represents the next phase of our
cloud professional services offering. The Cloud Collaboration Hub
model helps make services tangible and accelerates operators’ move
towards becoming digital service providers.”
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UK start-up bank partners with Personetics
for AI-powered banking
D
igital challenger bank Tandem is
partnering with Personetics, the leading
provider of cognitive banking applications,
to harness the power of artificial
intelligence towards its promise of putting
the customer first.
Customer experience was cited by
consumers as the key driver when choosing
their banking provider – they felt that
their finances were better understood,
better guided and better managed by new
providers rather than traditional banks.
Powered by Personetics’ Cognitive Banking
Brain, Tandem will provide customers with
personalised insights and advice integrated
into the bank’s everyday digital experience.
Delivering on the promise to put customer
interests first, these insights are designed to
anticipate customer needs, simplify money
management and help customers reach
their financial goals. “Our primary focus is
making money so easy for our customers
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that they can get on with their life,” said
Tandem’s chief executive, Ricky Knox.
“Together with our use of Open Banking we
can use AI to get to know our customers
better, predict their needs and help them
make better decisions about their money
with as little effort as possible on their part.
We want to do the heavy lifting for them, so
they can go about their lives and not worry
about day-to-day finances.”
“It’s exciting to see an innovative neo bank
such as Tandem integrating customer-
facing cognitive capabilities into its core
offering,” said David Sosna, Personetics’
Co-founder and CEO. “We see a surge in the
adoption of AI by institutions of all sizes
and much of it can be attributed to the
renewed focus on the customer experience
that challenger banks have been injecting
into the market place.”
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