NANJING, China, July 01, 2020 – Whale Cloud and China Telecom today announced that they have been jointly recognized as finalists for TM Forum Excellence Awards 2020 in the Cloud Native IT & Agility category. The two companies won the “Outstanding Customer Centricity Award” at the TM Forum Excellence Awards 2019.
Cloud native IT and agility category focuses on how hyper-converged infrastructure can deliver faster time-to-value and dynamic zero-touch operations. Whale Cloud and China Telecom worked as one team to help China Telecom transform its legacy IT architecture into a cloud-native distributed one to enable the required business and IT agility, affirming its leading position in internet speeds, innovation and customer experience. The unified BSS 3.0 platform supports continuous integration and development processes. With the platform, China Telecom consolidated and decommissioned 62 applications to streamline operations across its 31 subsidiaries, accelerating the time to market to launch new services from two months to three days.
“Congratulations to the finalists for this year’s prestigious Excellence Awards,” said Nik Willetts, CEO, TM Forum. “The entries selected by our impartial judging panel make an inspiring set of real-world digital transformation case studies. The business results achieved by this year’s finalists demonstrate that real change is possible and underscore the critical importance of collaboration and co-creation to the future of our industry. I look forward to congratulating the winners in October.”
“We are delighted that Whale Cloud and China Telecom are finalists for TM Forum Excellence Awards 2020,” said Ben Zhou, CEO, Whale Cloud International. “We worked as a team with China Telecom for BSS 3.0 project and now the effort is paid off. The recognition validates our expertise and alignment of TM Forum best practices and standards to accelerate our customers digital journey.”
The winners will be announced at a special ceremony at Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen, Denmark in October, 2020.
