Highlight:

  • Elisa and Google Cloud to join hands to enhance cloud transformation and work on future projects across several locations.
  • Elisa and Google Cloud’s strategic partnership will deliver better operational efficiencies and compelling customer experiences.

Elisa, a digital service provider, announced a strategic alliance with Google Cloud and Finnish telecommunications to fast-track its cloud transformation journey and unite on future joint innovations across several locations.

With this strategic partnership, Elisa will be able to use Google Cloud’s infrastructure, storage, data analytics, and hybrid cloud management tools to amplify its go-to-market strategies, delve into cutting-edge computing opportunities, and enrich customer experience for its clients.

Elisa and Google Cloud will collaborate to:

Fast track Elisa’s International Digital Services (IDS) cloud transformation:

Elisa Polystar, a part of Elisa Group, is prospecting the latest cloud-based network assurance and automation features with Google Distributed Cloud, Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.

Support Elisa’s expansion of hybrid cloud management services portfolio:

Elisa has integrated Google Cloud into its hybrid cloud services offering, to deliver cloud capacity and management with their expert services. The strategic business partnership between Google Cloud and Elisa last year helped more than 30 clients make their private cloud environment more advanced with the joint-to-market solution. A leading healthcare provider in Nordics has already implemented this hybrid cloud connectivity for its operations.

Manoeuvre Anthos as a telco cloud partner for Elisa:

Elisa is manoeuvring Google Cloud’s Anthos as an on-prem cloud solution to host its Cloud-native Network Functions (CNF). Cloud-native 5G core can be used as a trial application to analyze the benefits that Google Cloud can offer for operators maintaining and operating the cloud platform as well as for CNF vendors taking advantage of Google Cloud’s APIs, toolset, and containers as a service (CaaS) layer.

Enrich customer experience:

Elisa is making the most out of Google Cloud’s products and services like data analytics, AI, ML, infrastructure, and other advanced tools to deliver better operational efficiencies and a compelling customer experience.

Experts’ view:

“We’re at a pivotal moment in our cloud journey, and we wanted a cloud partner that would support our next steps in our digital development. We are a customer-centric organization continuously transforming our business, and we’re looking forward to collaborating with Google Cloud on joint innovations for our global customers,” said Veli-Matti Mattila, Elisa, CEO.

“The telco sector is undergoing significant modernization, and Google Cloud’s expertise in data analytics, multi and hybrid cloud management and edge computing is supporting industry players to navigate this change. Elisa is a market leader in telecommunications and digital services, and we’re proud to be part of its digital transformation journey,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud.