Bangkok, Thailand, March 17, 2023 – Whale Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. (Whale Cloud) is a leading technology company providing comprehensive software solutions and services for telecommunications and multiple industries. As a valued member of TM Forum, Whale Cloud participated as a Silver Sponsor in the Digital Transformation World Asia held from March 14 to March 16 in Bangkok, Thailand.
At the event, Whale Cloud presented its latest STRATO strategy, showcasing its full-stack capabilities to support Asian customers in navigating their business landscape. The strategy aims to provide a comprehensive solution to customers, allowing them to fully capitalize on their potential while enhancing their business capabilities in multiple disciplines. In addition to traditional connectivity businesses, Whale Cloud demonstrated its ambition and ability to help customers explore new paths to enhance and expand their business from connectivity to more innovative domains by leveraging CSPs’ inherent advantages, such as user pool and vast data, to transform them into enablers in the ecosystem value chain.
As a proactive member of TM Forum, Whale Cloud has adopted Forum’s specific standards and core assets to evolve its capabilities continually. This enables Whale Cloud to provide competitive solutions that enable customers to cope with the changing market and embrace sustainable development and agility. Whale Cloud has embedded openness and agility into its solutions, and has introduced new characteristics that empower customers to face market challenges. By keeping pace with changing market trends and customer demands, Whale Cloud helps customers stay ahead of the competition and achieve their business goals.
At the Fireside Chat, Ada Zhang, Marketing Director of Whale Cloud, brought an inspiring topic with Hitesh Kumar, ICT Director, Ooredoo Myanmar. Surround the topic “Delivering Improved CX and Resolving Customer Issues”, they shared the real cases in Ooredoo Myanmar and a successful digital transformation in the partnership with Whale Cloud. Telcos are keen to build a seamless and consistent customer experience that is largely beneficial to business growth. Whale Cloud leverages business process optimization, open and digital ecosystem to help telcos deliver exceptional customer experiences.
During the panel discussion titled "Developing Skills for Cloud Native IT and Network Agility", Whale Cloud's Business Development Director, Muhammad Salman Sami, emphasized the critical role of agility in modern business operations. Sami provided insightful discussions on how agility is deeply embedded in every aspect of IT, Network, and delivery, and explained how leveraging TM Forum's assets can help develop a cloud-native IT to meet the diversified market demands. Additionally, Sami shared numerous practical use cases from Whale Cloud to inspire the audience.
Whale Cloud is a proud founding member of TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and is dedicated to collaborating with Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and eco-partners to contribute to the development of ODA assets, such as Open APIs, eTOM, SID, and ODA components. This collaboration aims to extend the deployment of ODA and bring enormous benefits in incubating digital transformation.
Cece Li, System Architect at Whale Cloud, was invited to speak at the Masterclass to share how ODA components build upon Open APIs, enabling plug-and-play IT and networks. The speech also included actual cases proving the performance and adoption of ODA. Cece was praised by the Forum as an outstanding contribution member and was interviewed at the Global Architecture Forum (GAF) to engage with industry leaders about the blueprint of ODA. During the interview, Cece and industry leaders discussed topics ranging from theory to reality, and shared meaningful messages about why ODA is the future of architecture and how CSPs can embrace it to build substantial value in IT.
"What an incredible experience we had in Bangkok!" said Steven Cho, Whale Cloud's Chief Marketing Officer. He expressed his excitement about being able to showcase Whale Cloud's strategy and solutions to the Asian region and the opportunity to exchange knowledge and the latest market trends with many customers and eco-partners. "Asia market has enormous potential. Whale Cloud has been operating in Asia for decades, we continually evolve our technology and solutions to keep up with the ever-changing business environment. We think digital transformation is not only about simplifying and consolidating IT, but it also involves standing shoulder-to-shoulder with customers to run their businesses as partners rather than vendors. Whale Cloud's comprehensive capabilities, such as local public cloud, mobile payment, etc., are essential for helping customers adapt to change and achieve sustainable growth."