Vodafone and Google Cloud build AI and ML platform to boost network

Date:
Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:20:06 +0000

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New AI Booster platform dramatically scales and accelerates Vodafone's capabilities

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Vodafone hopes a new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform built on Google Cloud will dramatically enhance its ability to use intelligence in its back-end and consumer-facing operations.

The new AI Booster platform can handle thousands of ML models a day,
providing the scale necessary for the operator to use the technology across its global markets.

The capability of the platform accelerates development time from around five months to just four weeks, enhancing Vodafones agility and the ability to deliver new services for both its internal teams and its customers. Areas of interest include customer experience , network performance and research and development. Vodafone AI

It is easier said than done to embed AI and ML into the fabric of the organisation and rapidly build and deploy ML use cases at scale in a highly regulated industry, explained James Ma, Head of Technical Account Management, Telco, EMEA at Google Cloud. Accomplishing this task means not only having
the right platform infrastructure, but also developing new skills, ways of working, and processes.

As a technology platform, were incredibly proud of building a cutting-edge MLOps platform based on best-in-class Google Cloud architecture with in-built automation, scalability and security, added Ashish Vijayvargia, Analytics Product Lead at Vodafone. Read more

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The result is were delivering more value from data science, while embedding reliability engineering principles throughout.

AI Booster builds on a global data platform built by the two organisations last year. The Nucleus platform houses a system Dynamo that collects and migrates information from Vodafone's various repositories around the world into a single cloud-based resource. This data ocean provides the vast amounts of data that the ML models on AI Booster rely on to function.

Vodafone is also moving its entire SAP environment and all of its Big Data
and Business Intelligence workloads to Google Cloud, while it is also using cloud-based performance management tools across its entire operation.

Vodafones flourishing relationship with Google Cloud is a vital aspect of our evolution toward becoming a world-leading tech communications company, said Cengiz Ucbenli, Global Head of Big Data and AI, Innovation and Governance at Vodafone. It accelerates our ability to create faster, more scalable
solutions to business challenges like improving customer loyalty and
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