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Huawei OTF 2016 – Lester Thomas, Chief IT Systems Architect at Vodafone Group

The Chief IT Systems Architect at Vodafone Group, Lester Thomas, discusses Vodafone’s digital transformation journey and how it is being driven by the company’s underlying customer-centric strategy. The key to being able to quickly react to customer needs, says Thomas, is the adoption of an agile, devops-style operational structure. Finally we speak about the Open API Map developed by Vodafone, Huawei and the TM Forum and designed to standardise the software interfaces between operators.

• 10 Nov 2016

Can Donald trump the technology industry?

Following one of the more controversial and flamboyant election campaigns in recent memory, Telecoms.com has a look at what a Donald Trump presidency could mean for the tech industry.

• 09 Nov 2016

Huawei OTF 2016 – Wei Bing, CMO of Huawei GTS

The Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Global Technical Services. Wei Bing, details the drivers pushing operators towards operational transformation. Changing customer behaviour, ICT convergence and the move to the cloud all require greater operator agility but achieving that is not easy so we also explore the main challenges involved, before looking to the future.

• 08 Nov 2016

Internet giants face advertising crisis

The internet companies have taken the world by storm over the last 10 years, but diversification will decide who the winners are in 10 years’ time.

• 07 Nov 2016

Microsoft Teams launches to take on collaboration segment

Collaboration, unified communications and enterprise mobility are three trends which have partly powered the digital evolution, and now Microsoft has weighed in to capitalize on the buzz.

• 02 Nov 2016

Huawei Operations Transformation Forum 2016 – Day 1

Scott is lucky enough to get a trip to ‘the Venice of the East’ – Wuzhen in China – to attend Huawei’s Operations Transformation Forum 2016. In this video Scott wraps up a busy first day at the event, reviewing some keynote highlights and chatting to Ed Barton of Ovum.

• 02 Nov 2016

Facing up to digital transformation; the evolution of managed services

The advent of the internet has been lauded by some as technology’s great stride forward, it has also created a new demographic which is changing the way the world operates; say hello to the millennials.

• 20 Oct 2016

The night a mentalist left me questioning my own existence

It was a moment that doesn’t happen too frequently in life.

• 06 Oct 2016

Amdocs surprises everyone by hosting a legitimately funny conference

Almost everyone hates conferences. Specifically, that awkward moment at the start of a day, where no-one really knows how it’s going to go.

• 05 Oct 2016

Ending the Digital Transformation Paradox

In recent years, the incredible increase in demand for online connectivity, fueled by the mobile internet boom, has created an overwhelming challenge for communication service providers (CSPs), resulting in a market situation we call the “digital transformation paradox.”

• 29 Sep 2016

Apple sees Deloitte on digital transformation

Gadget giant Apple has persuaded consulting firm Deloitte to dedicate 5,000 of its strategic advisors to flogging iPads to businesses.

• 29 Sep 2016

Digital transformation is a chicken-and-egg thing

Digital transformation was once again at the forefront of another technology conference, although once more things got somewhat circular as people mostly grappled with what the term actually means.

• 28 Sep 2016

Are telcos ready for the second industrial revolution?

Imagine you could predict the future, how would you use your power? Would you make millions or inform the telco industry how digital will impact telcos in five years?

• 27 Sep 2016

Google has a crack at defining digital transformation

Digital transformation is a buzzword that entrenched itself in the tech and business worlds, but who actually knows what it means? Google’s Yuval Dvir had a go at pinning down a definition.

• 27 Sep 2016

40% of today’s organizations will no longer exist in 10 years – Cisco

Digital transformation is one of those ubiquitous buzzwords; everyone offers it and everyone’s doing it, but Cisco’s Bas Boorsma think not many companies get it.

• 22 Sep 2016