NANJING, China, September 26, 2021—Whale Cloud today announced that it has won the TM Forum Excellence Awards 2021 together with DITO Telecommunity in the Cloud native IT & networks category for enabling the launch of DITO Telecommunity in 10 months with an intelligent and cloud-native IT and network architecture.
TM Forum announced the Excellence Award winners at this year’s Digital Transformation World Series global conference during the event’s opening Headliners session on September 22.
Whale Cloud helped DITO Telecommunity implemented a cloud-native IT and network architecture – drawing on TM Forum established frameworks, best practices, and open APIs – to enable the launch within 10 months. To fully utilize the scalability of a cloud-native platform, Whale Cloud deployed the business support, operating support systems (BSS/OSS) and big data on the cloud.
“Congratulations to Whale Cloud and DITO Telecommunity for its achievement in this year’s TM Forum Excellence Awards,” said Nik Willetts, CEO, TM Forum. “Our mission at TM Forum is to reinvent the telco industry to be a vibrant player in the digital tech market landscape – and act as a driving force in shaping its future. The winning projects showcase the successful implementation of standards, blueprints, best practices, and frameworks co-created by TM Forum member initiatives. As the winners of this year’s Excellence Awards show us, unlocking growth and creating long-term value is possible through innovation, partnership, and digital transformation. Our independent, impartial judging panel has once again recognized the outstanding achievements being made to accelerate change in our industry.”
“We are so excited to be the winner of 2021 Excellence Award with our partner Whale Cloud in cloud-native IT & networks,” said Albert Jiang, IT Director, DITO Telecommunity. “We aim to reinvent the Philippine telecommunications industry by improving the way Filipinos experience connectivity with secure, fast and high value 4G and 5G technologies. A cloud-native IT architecture and reliable networks play as the backbone for us to ensure that our customers get the innovative, digital and unified experiences. On behalf of DITO Telecommunity, thank TM Forum once again for selecting us to be the recipient of this prestigious award.”
“Whale Cloud is so pleased to work with DITO Telecommunity on this wonderful transformation journey, to help win over customers and the market with cloud-native IT & reliable networks”, said Steven Cho, Chief Digital Officer, Whale Cloud. “The Excellence Award demonstrates the recognition from the industry of how we have made a great impact on our ability to leverage cloud native technology for faster time-to-value and dynamic zero-touch operations.”
Since 2007, TM Forum’s Excellence Awards have recognized the world’s leading companies for innovative achievements spanning digital transformation, business and IT agility, customer centricity, cross-industry partnering and collaboration, and product and service innovation across six event themes.
This year the 95 entries received from 23 countries were judged by a panel of 22 independent industry experts. As a neutral, non-profit organization, TM Forum ensures that the awards are impartial, celebrating important examples of industry success and delivering valuable peer recognition.
