SingTel and Australia's Telstra have both announced initiatives aimed at diversifying their enterprise product lines with innovative new services.
SingTel has teamed up with Microsoft to launch the Cloud Operating System Network (COSN) in Asia-Pacific, the first operator in the region to do so.
COSN is designed to allow customers to move their data and workloads between the public cloud, a dedicated private cloud and SingTel’s virtual private cloud.
It uses SingTel's hybrid cloud platform SingTel Managed Cloud, and will allow customers to use Microsoft applications over the operator's cloud infrastructure.
“Our customers can keep their mission-critical data on-premises while harnessing the limitless computing power and storage of cloud on a pay-as-you-use basis,” SingTel Group Enterprise vice president Lee Han Kheng said.
Telstra separately announced the debut of a new business app marketplace. The operator aims to make Telstra Apps Marketplace a one-stop-shop for finding and buying the best business apps.
The marketplace will feature a catalog of apps – including Box and DocuSign – for business customers of all sizes.
Telstra is particularly targeting the 75% of Australian small businesses that are spending up to $1000 each year on paper, and aims for the marketplace to serve as a repository for apps that can eliminate these redundancies.