Oracle recently renewed a strategic agreement with American multinational telecommunications holding company AT&T. This will give AT&T new capacity and capabilities for its database and application workloads running in Oracle Cloud.
“AT&T’s cloud transition is a critical initiative for our business,” said Jon Summers, senior vice president, Information Technology, AT&T. “We’ve worked closely with Oracle on some of our toughest technology challenges over the years, and we’re excited to renew this collaboration for another five years.”
AT&T and Oracle first entered a wide-ranging deal in 2017 involving AT&T moving thousands of its internal databases to Oracle Cloud. The new five-year deal will build on the use of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and other Oracle Cloud services by AT&T.
AT&T will use Oracle Cloud ERP to eliminate manual processes in its ongoing financial and supply chain transformation. It will allow AT&T to use AI for automating the manual processes that slow them down and analytics to help them react to market shifts in real-time. The new machine learning (ML) capabilities in ERP will help AT&T’s procurement teams by automatically categorizing unclassified business transactions and providing greater insight into spending patterns.
IT modernization and data center consolidation will be possible for AT&T by using the OCI services. Oracle Cloud for Telcos, built on the OCI, enables telcos to build new applications or modernize their existing workloads with a range of cloud services including data management, developer services, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
“AT&T is continually reinventing itself to better connect people and businesses, and we’re proud to extend our partnership to support that connectivity,” said Jonathan Tikochinsky, executive vice president, strategic clients group, Oracle. “By using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Fusion Applications, AT&T is able to continue scaling globally and adapting to the evolving telecommunications market.”
Access to Oracle’s portfolio will enable AT&T to expand the use of Oracle Cloud CX to engage customers with personalized content and improve their overall experience. Oracle’s next-generation cloud solutions and Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M will also be certified by AT&T.
