SLT forays into Cloud based Data Virtualisation and enables ‘Analytics as a Service’

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), country’s world class enterprise solutions provider and the licensed national backbone network operator has joined hands with dataWerks GmbH, an innovative data virtualisation solutions provider that offers a radically new approach to delivering real time business insights to business organisations. 

The solution will be offered on ‘Akaza’ SLT’s cloud platform. SLT’s cloud based Data Virtualization and Analytics Service will enable real time big data analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions for enterprises in Sri Lanka. 

“As customer data environments get more and more complex, and with increased competitive pressure, the need for real time big data analytics and Business Intelligence will assume new importance for any enterprise,” said SLT GM-Enterprise Solution M.I. Deen. Adding further he said, “Being the National ICT solutions provider, SLT is highly focused to offer the best data management solutions in a cloud environment to enterprise customers.”

With this partnership, SLT business customers will be able to virtualise their entire data set, no matter the number or types of data source, and enable real time data access to business intelligence tools and other applications. This new ‘data mashup’ technology will allow users to quickly combine and correlate data from different systems whether held as structured or unstructured data. Integrated insights can be quickly generated and delivered via multiple platforms, at half the cost and half the time when compared to legacy data warehousing technology.

“What is truly ground breaking about this service from SLT, is that enterprises no longer have to invest large sums of money on hardware and infrastructure upfront and then wait several months until an IT project is completed. SLT enterprise customers can elect to securely virtualise their entire data set and have this ready to go within weeks,” said dataWerks CTO Tony Andris. Adding further he said, “SLT’s willingness and ability to innovate with new service offerings will greatly benefit enterprises in Sri Lanka. SLT will be the first to market with data virtualisation solutions in the region. Any enterprise that is looking into Data Warehouse or Data Lakes projects to gain a holistic view across all their data sources should look no further and get in touch with SLT.” 

SLT will also provide 24/7 support and service assurance to help maintain all customer networks.

SLT data virtualisation and analytics solutions are aimed at equipping local enterprises with the full range of ICT solutions to help succeed in the global arena. Speed, connectivity and security are key demands businesses make and SLT’s wide portfolio of services is perfectly poised to meet and exceed these expectations. SLT’s rich portfolio of flexible hosting solutions offers businesses the assurance that their mission critical communication infrastructure is safe under SLT’s expertise.