NEWS
MTN initiates Digital
Transformation with Oracle
Cloud Applications
Rocket
challenge
targets local
coding skills
A
ddressing the growing skills gap
within software development, Axiz
has sponsored the Rocket APT Challenge
and encouraged 39 students to participate
in the regional round of the Rocket.Build
coding challenge.
“This is a fantastic innovation challenge
that provides students with an opportunity
to hone their coding skills on a leading
software platform,” said Colleen Becker, Axiz
Pre-sales Engineer.
“South Africa is by far the bigger pool
of entrants and we are excited to see
who is selected for the global Rocket.Build
2019 Hackathon.”
S
outh Africa based mobile
telecommunications major, MTN,
has chosen Oracle Cloud Applications
to drive one of the largest digital
transformations in the global telecom
industry across all its core business
operations. The implementation will help
MTN drive efficiency, scale operations
and integration across its local and
regional operations.
help MTN deliver value for all stakeholders
and create differentiation needed to
achieve market leadership.” Participants are required to design an app
on Rocket’s MultiValue application platform
in support of the challenge theme, ‘Improve
your Community’. Consisting of three regions:
EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, three
winners from each region will be selected and
awarded various cash prizes.
Under this initiative, MTN will implement
Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP); Supply Chain Management (SCM);
Enterprise Performance Management
(EPM); Customer Experience (CX);
Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Oracle
Service Cloud solutions. The nine developers will also be given an
all-expenses-paid trip to Massachusetts, USA
in June 2019 to participate in Rocket.Build
2019, where they will compete in teams
of three to decide the global winner of the
Rocket APT Challenge. The winning team will
share a grand prize of US$24,000.
The implementation will drive further
productivity through automation,
self-service, IoT and mobile application
capabilities, as well as enhancing
management visibility across all
business operations for real time
performance measurement.
The Rocket APT Challenge is open to
undergraduate students aged 18 and older
who are currently studying engineering,
science, or technology at an accredited
college or university.
“With clear signs of economic recovery
across key African markets, MTN’s
decision to undertake large scale Digital
Transformation will be instrumental in
achieving strategic business objectives,”
said Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President –
Business Applications, ECEMEA, Oracle.
“We are confident that the deployment of
the Oracle Cloud enabled digital core will
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Arun Khehar, Senior Vice President –
Business Applications, ECEMEA, Oracle
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