Telefónica partners with Huawei to create Big Data product suite

Telefónica and Huawei have entered into partnership to launch a set of Big Data products aimed at enterprises that want to develop their own internal use-cases as well as to sell data applications to their clients.

These Big Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) products will be marketed under the brand of LUCA, Telefónica’s data unit. Initially, the agreement provides customers four core services – Hortonworks Data Platform-as-a-Service to help store, process and analyze data; Big Data Integration to migrate data to the cloud; Data Governance to control the quality and security of data; and Data Miner to help create insights from data through analytical algorithms and complex structured and unstructured data integration. Each of the services can be self-deployed for use by the customer on demand. They are infrastructure-agnostic, meaning they can be deployed over a variety of Infrastructure-as-a-Service environments.

In the first phase of deployment, Telefónica and Huawei will focus on providing these services over Telefónica’s cloud infrastructure in Latin America. Customers will benefit from Telefónica’s proximity as a single provider as well as the quality and security of its infrastructures.

This method of providing services on demand helps customers avoid long hardware procurement cycles and large investments as well as reduce the time-to-market.

Huawei has gone through a journey of transformation and along the way has accumulated valuable technological expertise in the domains of cloud, big data and AI. It has been instrumental in the creation of Big Data platforms in many telco operators both in China and overseas.

This partnership with Huawei will allow Telefónica to widen its portfolio of Big Data and Data Analytics-related services under the LUCA brand helping customers to accelerate the digitalization process of their businesses and be more competitive.

“This agreement helps us to reinforce our Big Data Tools-as-a-Service offering, enabling our clients to deploy their use-cases on our cloud infrastructure,” commented Elena Gil, CEO of LUCA. “Our portfolio combines these tools with consulting and analytics capabilities as well as with business insights derived from our data, delivering end-to-end solutions to companies and public entities, which want to capture the value of data. At Telefónica, we are committed to becoming the travel companion of our customers in their digital transformation journey.”