AI Magazine February 2021 | Page 21

Bell Canada ’ s key partners

Couchbase
We were interested in augmenting our data ecosystem with a distributed database that can address a variety of use cases especially for transactional workloads . As we move towards more real time workflows , a data solution supporting fast transactional workloads is critical . Couchbase is successfully providing us the solution for such workloads . Couchbase is now the backend for multiple realtime transactional applications .
NETSCOUT
Network performance characterization is a key component of network operations and ultimately understanding customer experience . Netscout is used to support our network operations and understand the impact of network performance on user experience .
Elastic
We were looking at augmenting our big data ecosystem with an industry leading log / search analytics solution . Log analytics is key for network and service operations by enabling real-time monitoring , troubleshooting and automation actions for log events from network devices and applications . The Elastic stack will provide an integrated and user-friendly framework to ingest and store log data and then perform log analytics at scale .
MicroStrategy
Microstrategy is one of our initial partners , it is widely used for enterprise grade operational dashboards . A key to using Microstrategy for us is the richness in enterprise features .
Cloudera
Our core on-premises enterprise grade big data ecosystem is based on Cloudera providing an integrated solution of open source data components augmented with enterprise grade features . Cloudera is used for a variety of use cases spanning network planning , build and operations . Our Cloudera deployment is one of the largest in Canada and since inception in 2016 , we ’ ve executed 1,500 use cases with each use case having concrete quantifiable business benefits .
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