CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
TIBCO | September 29, 2021
TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in enterprise data, empowers its customers to connect, unify, and confidently predict business outcomes, solving the world's most complex data-driven challenges., TIBCO announced the global 2021 Partner Excellence Awards winners at its annual TIBCO NOW™ conference, showcasing how partners bring to market limitless agility and innovation to drive greater impact on customer success. The awards acknowledge members of the TIBCO Partner Program who consistently excel in developing, marketing, and delivering advanced technology to customers in today’s digital economy. The award winners are selected based on revenue, year-over-year growth, and participation in TIBCO programs that help generate demand and drive pipeline.
“As a channel-led organization, every partner in our ecosystem plays an essential role in driving and delivering superior customer experiences, Today's winners have shown that with the right approach, resources, and by taking advantage of the programs and resources at their disposal, they succeed. These organizations and the teams behind them exemplify and echo our partner mantra that we are always better together."
said Tony Beller, senior vice president of worldwide partner ecosystems and OEM sales, TIBCO.
Enterprise Partner of the Year
Cognizant, winner of the Enterprise Partner of the Year Award, is one of the world’s leading professional services companies. The company’s unique, industry-based, consultative approach transforms clients’ business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. A TIBCO partner for 15+ years, Cognizant delivers digital transformation success to more than 400 customers, with a team of over 5,000 integration consultants to meet industry demands. Cognizant’s Integration and Process Management practice brings together the best of TIBCO’s product portfolio, such as TIBCO Cloud™ Mashery, TIBCO Cloud™ Integration, TIBCO® Data Virtualization, TIBCO Spotfire®, and more. These solutions come together to deliver a Cloud-first and API-first model for sustained value creation across industries.
SMB Sales Partner of the Year
Genware Computer Systems Inc, winner of the SMB Sales Partner of the Year Award, works with clients to implement solutions that deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. Adaptive to customers’ needs, Genware provides companies with the systems and services required to enable better decision-making, powered by TIBCO. Genware develops solutions that source and integrate data, leveraging data virtualization to create federated data sources and drive information through visual and streaming analytics. The company’s data science practice applies advanced TIBCO solutions to better understand and predict outcomes. Genware has three solutions featured in the TIBCO Solution Showcase, including Presentation Studio, The Connected Production Platform, and Gi-Dental. All three solutions have received formal validation through the TIBCO Partner Validation Program.
OEM Partner of the Year
Cerner, winner of the OEM Partner of the Year Award, is a global healthcare technology company. The Cerner Healthcare Extensibility Platform (HEP) provides solutions that enable writing cross-application workflows with Cerner and non-Cerner applications, orchestrating care and financial processes throughout the hospital enterprise. HEP employs TIBCO BusinessEvents® to write complex event processing rules and TIBCO BusinessWorks™ for service orchestration, which empower customers to easily automate, streamline, and connect applications.
Asia Pacific and Japan Partner of the Year
Ascention PTY Ltd., winner of the Asia Pacific and Japan Partner of the Year Award, continues to lead as clean data experts with in-depth knowledge and extensive experience in data governance, data management, shared data assets, and pursuing quality data-driven solutions for APJ customers. By combining TIBCO products, such as TIBCO Data Virtualization, TIBCO EBX®, TIBCO Spotfire, and TIBCO® Messaging, Ascention launched its Citizen360™ offering in July 2020. Citizen360™ enables users to create the best citizen experience across all channels through a unified view of all touchpoints. As a TIBCO Gold Partner in 2021, Ascention expanded its footprint in APJ with the acquisition of the Information Builders (ibi) client base in APJ. The acquisition marked a continued exclusive partnership with TIBCO, adding more than 30 new clients across Australia, Guam, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, and Singapore, further strengthening our joint presence in the region.
Europe, Middle East, and Africa Partner of the Year
Apgar Consulting, winner of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Partner of the Year Award, is a leading data advisory company recognized by analysts for supporting customers in their journey to build a foundation for trusted data. The company serves both large enterprises and SMBs, tapping on TIBCO’s Unify capabilities, it implemented several preconfigured solutions to address market needs. For example, its Data Catalog solution was built with TIBCO’s master data management and data virtualization capabilities, and enhanced with significant data governance policies and best practices. Both Apgar’s Data Catalog and MDM Finance solutions are featured in the Solution Showcase with their MDM Finance solution recently receiving formal validation through the TIBCO Validation Program. Committed to growing their business with TIBCO, the Apgar Consulting team increased by 25 percent in the last year, while also achieving the highest number of TIBCO Certified Associates and TIBCO Certified Professionals on the Unify Track.
Latin America Partner of the Year
Aria PSW SAS, winner of the Latin America Partner of the Year Award and TIBCO’s leading partner in Colombia, specializes in supporting companies acquiring technological solutions to solve complex digital transformation challenges. The company efficiently develops and optimizes business processes through technologies, integration, and process automation. Aria’s expertise is rooted in strong integration consulting practices and is committed to positioning TIBCO EBX as a solution for Colombian companies to embark on their digital journeys.
North America Partner of the Year
iSteer, winner of the North America Partner of the Year Award for the third year in a row, maintains their status as the North America Partner of the Year by consistently leveraging TIBCO’s Connect, Unify, and Predict product portfolios to deliver future-proof and sustainable solutions to customers. The company’s TIBCO Center of Excellence brings together expertise from over 150 global TIBCO professionals and enables successful rollouts of full-stack API, integration, master data management, data governance, and data science Green Field Transformation initiatives. As a TIBCO North American partner, iSteer provides full-stack TIBCO capabilities to customers across manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods, healthcare, and financial technology industries. Built with TIBCO technology, iSteer delivers customer success with solutions like IoT-based predictive asset maintenance, a credit risk scoring system, B2B supply chain modernization, farm-to-fork connected food and beverages, and healthcare interoperability across the payer and providers. The iSteer Credit Risk Scoring System is both validated through the TIBCO Validation Program and featured in the TIBCO Partner Solution Showcase.
ISV Partner of the Year
u-blox, winner of the Global ISV Partner of the Year Award, is a global technology leader in positioning and wireless communication in automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. The company’s smart and reliable solutions, services, and products enable people, vehicles, and machines to communicate wirelessly over cellular and short-range networks. The u-blox Thingstream platform enables mass-volume IoT devices to communicate with the cloud cost-effectively from anywhere across the globe. Together with TIBCO, the IoT data derived from any u-blox device can be transformed by TIBCO’s Connected Intelligence platform into powerful business insight. The u-blox and TIBCO joint solution, soon to be one of the next solutions featured in the TIBCO Solution Showcase, empowers customers to solve challenges more efficiently in fields such as manufacturing, logistics, telematics, and healthcare.
Global Innovation Partner of the Year
Bahwan Cybertek (BCT), winner of the Global Innovation Partner of the Year, is a global provider of digital transformation solutions in predictive analytics, digital experience, and digital supply chain management. The BCT-TIBCO core team consists of veteran digital transformation solution and technology experts, driving innovation through outcome-based business models and proven IP solutions. The team delivers noteworthy projects across geographies, including large-scale digital transformation, customer enterprise, and operational intelligence solutions using the TIBCO Connected Intelligence platform. Learn more about four of BCT’s solutions powered by TIBCO as featured in the TIBCO Solution Showcase, including DropThought, PRIMA, rt360, and the Fuel Station Automation Project. The Fuel Station Automation Project has also received formal validation through the TIBCO Validation Program.
TIBCO Engagement Expert
Key Partner, winner of the Engagement Expert Award, is an innovation-oriented digital integrator that delivers advanced technologies to create real value for customers. The company operates in all industry sectors, offering consulting services, turnkey applications, and integrated ICT solutions, helping customers improve business performance. Key Partner’s solution, ApiShare, as featured in the TIBCO Partner Solution Showcase, is a business-oriented service providing each API client a high-level view of their API ecosystem and solutions to establish a comprehensive, governing infrastructure. During its 2021 Partner Certification Days, KeyPartner achieved a total of 381 certifications.
About TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc. unlocks the potential of real-time data for making faster, smarter decisions. Our Connected Intelligence platform seamlessly connects any application or data source; intelligently unifies data for greater access, trust, and control; and confidently predicts outcomes in real time and at scale.
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VMWARE
Vodafone | November 12, 2021
Vodafone is now expanding its partnership with VMware to deploy the full VMware Telco Cloud Platform in all European markets. This means that in addition to utilizing Telco Cloud Infrastructure for NFV, Vodafone will leverage VMware Tanzu for Telco and VMware Telco Cloud Automation to orchestrate all network functions and services, regardless of vendor, to run its core networks.
Vodafone’s continued partnership with VMware supports the company’s technology strategy, Tech 2025. As part of this five-year plan, Vodafone will focus on developing a network platform starting with the rollout of 5G SA that will be then followed by many other digital network features utilizing cloud-native architecture powered by VMware. These include voice over internet and next generation of videoconferencing and virtual/augmented reality, all orchestrated into the correct network slices according to different customer requirements.
“We’ve made great strides in modernizing and virtualizing our core network. Now we must turn our attention to layering in automation, software engineering and cloud-native principles to simplify operations and accelerate how quickly we can deploy new applications. VMware Telco Cloud Platform will help us achieve these goals and reach our Tech 2025 targets faster.”
Johan Wibergh, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone
Vodafone has already begun the rollout of VMware Telco Cloud Platform in eight markets – Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and U.K. – and will expand to all 11 of its European markets over time.
“As service providers modernize their networks to transition to 5G, they require a single platform to automate and streamline delivery of multi-vendor network functions across network core, RAN and edge. VMware Telco Cloud Platform provides this unifying platform to simplify operations, accelerate automation and increase feature velocity across all parts of the network,” said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “Through its partnership with VMware, Vodafone is modernizing its network infrastructure with automation built in, setting them up for long-term success as they roll out 5G services to even more markets in the coming years.”
VMware Telco Cloud Platform is a cloud-native platform that enables service providers to rapidly deploy and efficiently operate multi-vendor CNFs and VNFs with agility and scalability across 5G and other networks that span from the core and the edge to the radio access network (RAN). The two fundamental elements of this architecture are VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure and VMware Telco Cloud Automation – both of which Vodafone will deploy across its European markets.
About VMware
VMware software powers the world’s complex digital infrastructure. The company’s cloud, app modernization, networking, security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver any application on any cloud across any device. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough technology innovations to its global impact.
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SERVER VIRTUALIZATION
Robin.io | October 26, 2021
Robin.io and AirHop Communications announced a strategic partnership to provide solutions that deliver automated improvements in the performance of Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN) and end-user quality of experience while reducing the costs, complexities and deployment times for Mobile Network Operators (MNO) and Cloud Service Providers (CSP) rolling out 5G and other next-gen networks and services.
By working in close strategic partnership, Robin and AirHop enable the expedited deployment of cloud-native Open RAN in an operationally optimized solution. The AirHop and Robin partnership significantly reduces the development time for systems integrators, MNOs and CSPs by enabling a smooth path to integration and orchestration of self-optimizing Open RAN solutions, which greatly eases the cost and operational effort needed for productization. Robin and AirHop technologies are key enablers for Rakuten Mobile’s 4G/5G network in Japan as well as the Rakuten Communication Platform (RCP) delivering virtualization, standardization, optimization and automation of 5G Open RAN, leading to more cost efficiency, innovation and affordability.
Robin.io core technologies—Multi Cluster Automation Platform (MDCAP), Cloud Native Platform (CNP), and Cloud Native Storage (CNS)—will provide a cloud native infrastructure for onboarding network functions. The technologies also will deliver hyper-automation that orchestrates and manages the lifecycles of bare-metal infrastructures, third-party appliances, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), Cloud-native Network Functions (CNFs) and services. They deliver these capabilities with built-in logging, monitoring and policy engines, for closed loop automation, managed through a single pane of glass. Robin solutions provide intuitive and declarative interfaces that auto-discover and auto-configure resources for the service’s entire life-cycle, reducing deployment complexity, time-lines and human error.
AirHop provides a suite of real-time network intelligence solutions delivering Radio Access Network (RAN) automation and performance optimization for coverage and capacity, network configuration, mobility optimization and network operations. AirHop’s eSON solution is commercially hardened with large-scale deployments at Reliance Jio and Rakuten Mobile. eSON provides MNOs with deployment flexibility supporting optimization applications for disaggregated vRAN architectures as a pre-standard, near-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) platform and as xApps/rApps on emerging near real-time and non-real-time RIC platforms based on O-RAN standards. eSON applications optimize performance across Rakuten Mobile’s end-to-end cloud native wireless network for macro cell, small cell and HetNet coverage use cases delivering improved spectral efficiency of the network, resulting in higher throughput and more capacity, reduced operational expenses through automated configuration and issue resolution, and dynamic balancing of user traffic across the network. eSON360 provides AI/ML based rApps across a broad spectrum of target RAN optimization use cases.
“We are pleased to be partnering with Robin on this autonomous network journey. AirHop real-time RAN optimization and Robin.io hyper-automation are driving both horizontal and vertical automation in Rakuten Mobile’s industry leading RCP resulting in operational cost reductions, deployment acceleration and improved performance of Open RAN.”
Yan Hui, CEO of AirHop
“Working together, Robin and Airhop are delivering a platform that telecom operators can successfully deploy across the entire 5G stack on cloud-native infrastructure at scale, including near real-time network automation and performance optimization reducing deployment and operations cost,” said Partha Seetela, CEO and CTO of Robin.io. “The solution enables operators to successfully manage their network functions across thousands of sites and delivers improved spectral efficiency of the network, resulting in higher throughput and more capacity. This announcement reinforces the importance of our Robin partner ecosystem that includes best-of-breed hardware and software technology vendors essential to accelerate the time to value for our telco customers."
About AirHop Communications
AirHop Communications is a leader of advanced 4G/5G RAN intelligence solutions. AirHop’s flagship eSON is a cloud-native near real-time RAN optimization solution for closed loop optimization of RAN resources delivering significant gains in spectral efficiency, lower operating costs and improved end-user quality of experience across 4G and 5G networks. AirHop’s eSON360 provides AI/ML based applications across a broad spectrum of target 4G and 5G RAN optimization use cases. eSON and eSON360 solutions, backed by a comprehensive portfolio of patents, are fully virtualized, robust and commercially deployed at scale by leading MNOs across both traditional network architectures and Open RAN architectures. AirHop is headquartered in San Diego, California.
About Robin.io
Robin.io, the 5G and application automation platform company, delivers products that automate the deployment, scaling and life cycle management of data- and network-intensive applications and for 5G service chains across edge, core and RAN. The Robin platform is used globally by companies including BNP Paribas, Palo Alto Networks, Rakuten Mobile, SAP, Sabre and USAA. Robin.io is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.
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