Vodafone Group announced a new six-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud. In what Vodafone says is a significant expansion of their existing agreement, the companies will jointly build a powerful new integrated data platform to help Vodafone better capitalise on its data and share the information and analytics across its markets.
The platform, called ’Nucleus’, will house a new system ‘Dynamo’, which will drive data throughout Vodafone to enable it to more quickly offer its customers new, personalised products and services across multiple markets. Dynamo is expected to help Vodafone to tailor new connectivity services for homes and businesses through the release of new features such as providing a sudden broadband speed boost.
Capable of processing around 50 TB of data per day, Nucleus and Dynamo are considered "industry firsts". Being built in-house by Vodafone and Google Cloud specialist teams, the project involves up to 1,000 employees of both companies located in Spain, the UK and the US.
Vodafone said it has already identified more than 700 use-cases to deliver new products and services quickly across its markets, support fact-based decision-making, reduce costs, remove duplication of data sources, and simplify and centralise operations. The speed and ease with which Vodafone’s operating companies in multiple countries can access its data analytics, intelligence, and machine-learning capabilities will also be vastly improved.
In addition to improving Vodafone services, the data may be used to provide third-party services, such as the anonymised data provided for Covd-19 public sector management. The system will also include a 'digital twin' of many of Vodafone's most important internal support systems, for testing new functions, and a replica of its network infrastructure.
Vodafone also will re-platform its entire SAP environment to Google Cloud, including the migration of its core SAP workloads and key corporate SAP modules such as SAP Central Finance.
On the back of their collaborative work, Vodafone and Google Cloud will also explore opportunities to provide consultancy services, offered either jointly or independently, to other multi-national organisations and businesses.
