TORONTO — Optiva Inc., which provides cloud-native revenue management software for telecom service providers, announced today a multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud.
This expanded partnership with Google Cloud is designed “to help telecom operators and service providers accelerate their digital transformations and journey to the cloud, private and public, and deployment on the edge,” reads an Optiva press release.
Through this collaboration, Optiva customers will be able to purchase the company’s flagship products — Optiva BSS Platform and Optiva Charging Engine — via Google Cloud Marketplace as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, the release explains.
“Optiva will leverage Google Cloud and Anthos to enable telecom operators and service providers to seamlessly deploy and operate BSS applications across public clouds, on-premise data centers and at the network edge,” the release says.
Google Cloud and Optiva have worked together since 2018, “leading to the first deployment in the world of a cloud-native telecom charging solution on the public cloud,” according to the release.
“Optiva has led the telecom industry in developing and deploying BSS and converged real-time charging solutions on the public cloud,” said John Giere, CEO of Optiva, in the release.
“Expanding our partnership with Google Cloud will significantly enhance time to innovation and deliver operational automation and cost savings for our telecom, MVNO and MNO customers as they embrace BSS modernization and digital transformation,” Giere said.
“Innovation on the edge along with cloud technologies continues to drive digital transformation across the telecom industry at an incredible rate,” said Leen Kashyap, director of edge and connectivity ecosystems at Google Cloud.
“We’re pleased to have Optiva’s solutions available on Google Cloud Marketplace to provide customers the solutions and expertise they need to make the most of their cloud investments and digitally transform their business.”
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