Axiata Digital Labs wins at 15th Annual TM Forum Excellence Awards at DTW in Copenhagen

From left: ADL IOT and Middleware Head of Practice Sandaruwan Jayasinghe; DTE Head of Practice Udaka Kappagoda; DevOps Head of CEG Udaya Priyankara; Chief Technology Officer Namal Jayathilake receive the award from TM Forum Collaboration and Innovation Executive Vice President Andy Tiller 

• Recognised for outstanding work digitally transforming telecommunications industry

TM Forum, the industry association driving digital transformation through collaboration, announced the winners of its 2022 Excellence Awards during the first day of the Digital Transformation World (DTW) global event.

Axiata Digital Labs (ADL), an innovative digital transformation solution provider, was announced as the recipient of the 2022 Excellence Award in the Cloud-native IT & networks for the entry ‘Axonect Hybrid/Multi cloud orchestrator to enable Axiata Digital Transformation’. ADL developed the Axonect Hybrid Cloud Orchestrator using learnings from the TM Forum Catalyst program and by aligning the solution with TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and Open APIs. 

The goal of the platform was to facilitate rapid, yet sustainable, cloud adoption in the Axiata Group Berhad operating companies (OpCos) to accelerate their journey to become digital telcos.

Since 2007, TM Forum’s Excellence Awards have recognised the world’s leading companies for innovative achievements spanning digital transformation, business and IT agility, customer centricity, cross-industry partnering and collaboration, and product and service innovation across six themes. 

This year the over 70 entries received were judged by a panel of 22 independent industry experts. As a neutral, non-profit organisation, TM Forum ensures that the awards are wholly impartial, celebrating important examples of industry success and delivering valuable peer recognition.

“We’re delighted that TM Forum recognised ADL’s efforts in enabling Axiata Group OpCos to accelerate their cloud adoption journey,” said Axiata Digital Labs Chief Technology Officer Namal Jayathilake. “The Axonect Hybrid/Multi Cloud Orchestrator drew heavily from past TM Forum Catalysts, ODA and Open API standards to deliver a product that helps telcos maximise resource utilisation, reduce TTM and improve the overall experience with the latest cloud technologies. 

“We are especially grateful to Celcom Axiata, Dialog Axiata, Ncell Axiata and XL Axiata for continuing to support and collaborate with ADL as we showcase our enterprise solutions on a global stage.”

Speaking on this remarkable achievement, Axiata Group Group Chief Information Officer Anthony Rodrigo said: “As we continuously advance our IT stack, built on the fabric of TM Forum ODA, I am pleased to see yet another enabler of this architecture come to life;  ADL’s Axonect Hybrid/Multi cloud orchestrator has been successful  in optimising varied cloud implementations of the respective operating companies.”

 “TM Forum’s Excellence Awards are amongst the toughest and most respected in the telecommunications industry. We had a remarkable selection of submissions this year and it was an extremely difficult decision to choose between all the companies partnering and innovating to improve the industry. Congratulations to all the winners this year, you reflect the best cases of customer experience, digital transformation, automation, and innovation worldwide,” remarked Head Judge of the TM Forum Excellence Awards, Omdia Chief Analyst Camille Mendler.