Oracle, on February 15, announced that Japan’s second-largest telecommunications company and also the operator of the au mobile phone service, KDDI Corporation has selected Oracle in order to support an overall upgrade when it comes to core charging as well as the rating platform. In order to enable decreasing operational expenses along with fast-track service innovation through a resilient and AI-ready infrastructure, KDDI is going ahead and replacing its legacy system with Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing running on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure- OCI besides making utmost use of other complementary Oracle solutions.
Being a part of its growth strategy, KDDI is going to leverage the cloud-native Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing solution. Because of this, KDDI looks forward to offering customers customized and also insight-driven experiences, getting support from Oracle, in order to help grow and streamline as well as manage revenue flows throughout numerous business models.
According to Katsuya Masuda, General Manager, Information Systems Division, KDDI Corporation
“The implementation of Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing represents a pivotal step in KDDI’s long-term strategy. With Oracle, we can rapidly innovate, confidently scale, and consistently deliver an exceptional experience to our growing subscriber base.”
Widening the business transformation
Interestingly, KDDI has made most notable use of its telecommunications foundation, especially 5G and data-driven initiatives along with generative AI, so as to add thrust to the business growth through delivering value-added services across expansion areas like digital transformation, financial services, and energy. In order to continue this kind of expansion, KDDI had to modernize the charging and rating system that it has to capture new market opportunities, take into account the fast-evolving technical needs, and also build a future-ready as well as agile billing foundation. The legacy platform of KDDI had gone on to incur high infrastructure costs as well as rising operational demands pertaining to specialized resources, which even slowed its time-to-market when it came to new offerings.
After a comprehensive evaluation, KDDI went ahead and opted for Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing for its alignment with its business objectives and also its ability to go ahead and demonstrate off-the-shelf as well as proof-of-concept viability for almost 1,000 use cases. For instance, when tested on OCI, the highly efficient architecture that it possesses demonstrated the capacity to attain major cost reductions, which helps KDDI to put forth its resources to other projects.
Through leveraging the built-in features in Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing, like charging and rating along with tariff plan configuration, KDDI can even avoid developing custom code for every product trait in order to enable more frequent and dependable product releases, thereby helping to elevate the development productivity when it comes to new products and services and also enabling much faster releases. Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing can also enable KDDI to offer certain insight-driven charging, payment, rating, and collection experiences in terms of broadband and content, along with other services that can be integrated throughout the digital channels by way of using TM Forum APIs.
The Oracle Customer Solutions for Industries team is going to work in close proximity with Fujitsu as a development and execution partner so as to roll out Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing, hence offering KDDI dependable delivery governance in addition to a clear roadmap to support more business models at scale.
According to Andrew Morawski, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Applications, Regulated Industries, “It has been our privilege to partner with KDDI throughout their digital transformation, and KDDI’s move to Oracle Cloud Scale Charging and Billing is the next step in our long partnership. By combining industry-proven charging and rating, hyperscale cloud infrastructure, a next-generation data platform, and expert services, we can help KDDI gain business insights that can transform how it operates, serves customers, and create new avenues for revenue growth.”