Comviva, a mobility solutions firm, has announced a collaboration with IBM to deliver its next generation BlueMarble solution on the IBM Cloud for Telecommunications. BlueMarble is intended to power digital transformation for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) in the 5G and Edge era.
Digital customer experiences
Comviva’s BlueMarble enables CSPs to modernize their business platforms without having to undertake large, complex transformation cycles. Offering a complete digital customer lifecycle from discovery, shopping, ordering, and billing to payment and care, the solution is designed to provide a digital platform with ready-to-configure microservices and flexible user interface components to enable contemporary customer experiences across different channels, as well as a scalable and agile market solution for CSPs to monetize infrastructure and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives.
Manoranjan Mohapatra, Chief Executive Officer at Comviva, said, “5G introduces fundamental changes to the way Business Support Solutions work for evolving digital services. It is essential for CSPs to embrace Cloud native technologies that provide differentiated competitive advantage for supporting new revenue models. Our BlueMarble solution is 5G native and now ready to run on the IBM Cloud for Telecommunications. The integrated solution is designed to empower CSPs with a future proof next-generation platform for rapid transformation and monetization of existing network infrastructure as they prepare for 5G evolution.”
Unlocking 5G and Edge
This collaboration is in line with Comviva’s parent company, Tech Mahindra’s NXT.NOW charter, that focuses on investing in emerging technologies and solutions that enable digital transformation and evolving needs in the 5G era. Tech Mahindra is part of IBM’s partner ecosystem collaborating on the IBM Cloud for Telecommunications to help network equipment providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), software-as-a-service providers, and hardware partners accelerate business transformation by unlocking the power of 5G and Edge. The IBM Cloud for Telecommunications is engineered to integrate advanced AI and automation processes at the edge and speeds services deployment while simultaneously reducing overall costs.
Bill Lambertson, Vice President and Distinguished Industry Leader for IBM Global Telecommunications, said, “We are excited to bring together Comviva’s BlueMarble order capture solution with IBM’s Sterling Order Management using Telco standard TM Forum Open APIs that are enabled on IBM Cloud for Telecommunications. We look forward to extend this API driven integration on joint client engagements.”
This collaboration aims to allow Tech Mahindra and IBM to establish a standards-based integration of new Telco solutions with clients’ existing systems using TM Forum APIs enabled on IBM Cloud for Telecommunications. Comviva’s BlueMarble solution implements these APIs to help enable agile adaptation, and to address specific client needs, such as integrating solutions from IBM and its partner ecosystem. The BlueMarble solution can also integrate with IBM’s Sterling Order Management to offer clients a choice of billing solutions.
Comviva has previously worked with regional companies to deliver richer gaming experiences and drive digital ecosystems.
