Airtel, Google partner to provide cloud solutions
Bharti Airtel and Google Cloud on Monday have entered into a long-term collaboration to deliver cloud solutions to Indian businesses, oering a suite of cutting-edge cloud solutions from Google Cloud to fasttrack cloud adoption and modernisation for Airtel’s customers.
In addition, Airtel will provide a suite of cloud managed services to its customer base of more than 2,000 large enterprises and one-million emerging businesses. Through this collaboration, the two companies are targeting the large and growing Indian public cloud services market, which is expected to reach $17.8 billion by 2027 (as per IDC), Airtel said in a statement.The two companies will
Gopal Vittal, Managing Director and CEO
bring together their unique strengths of connectivity and AI technology to develop industry-leading artificial intelligence/ machine learning (AI/ ML) solutions that Airtel will train on its large data set.
These unique solutions will drive greater value to Airtel’s customers and will include geospatial analytics solutions with advanced location intelligence for trend-spotting, predictive capabilities, market assessment, site selection, risk management, and asset tracking; voice analytics solutions for superior conversational applications trained across languages; and marketing technology solutions to forecast consumer behaviour, perform tailored audience segmentations, and streamline content creation with highprecision contextual ads at reduced costs, it said.
IOT SOLUTION
In addition to these oerings, Airtel has developed an endto-end IoT solution designed for the utility sector that combines connectivity, Google Cloud services, and application software under one oering, enabling seamless, hasslefree, and faster deployment.
To power its cloud-based solutions business, Airtel has also set-up a managed services centre in Pune with 300+ experts who are being trained to champion Google Cloud services and develop world-class tech solutions, the Sunil Bharti-owned company said.
“As India accelerates its digital transformation, cuttingedge cloud and AI solutions will be at the heart and centre of this change,” Gopal Vittal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Ocer, Airtel, said.
He said with Google Cloud, Airtel will jointly address this market opportunity with secure and scalable cloud solutions for government, enterprises, and emerging businesses.
Airtel will also leverage Google Cloud’s gen AI capabilities to transform its customer experiences and interactions across its oerings of mobile, broadband, and digital TV, and to streamline its internal processes and operations. Airtel will also extend these capabilities to its B2B customers in India and globally, Vittal added.