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TIL Rakuten has a cloud services business, but I'm still not sure what it is. Clicking on one of the pages for Rakuten Symphony (https://symphony.rakuten.com/a

TIL Rakuten has a cloud services business, but I'm still not sure what it is. Clicking on one of the pages for Rakuten Symphony (https://symphony.rakuten.com/automation/a-single-platform https://symphony.rakuten.com/automation/a-single-platform) I think I'm even more confused: "A single platform, where all operational data sits powering real-time AI driven feedback loops for continuous workflow improvements. In the platform, automation enablement scales to the size of the wanted business rather than being limited by the operational headcount." I feel like an entire graduating class of MBAs is kept employed just maintaining this page.

anthomtb 4y ago
If you are a VP of a mobile operator who has KPI's of "integrate AI", "drive automation", and "stable headcount" then that page pretty much says take-my-money.
still_grokking 4y ago
> "A single platform, where all operational data sits powering real-time AI driven feedback loops for continuous workflow improvements. In the platform, automation enablement scales to the size of the wanted business rather than being limited by the operational headcount." Reads as someone shuffled some buzz words and took a random sample. But OK, I guess you can't do anything wrong with this approach in MBA land…
harpratap 4y ago
Rakuten's Cloud business (aka Symphony) is made for Telecom Companies wanting to switch away from traditional RAN model to OpenRAN. It's not really a direct competitor to AWS or GCP (although AWS, GCP and Azure seems to be making big progress in getting Telecos to switch their 5G infra to public cloud). Symphony is nothing but a wrapper on top of vendor software from the likes of Mavenir, Nokia, NEC, Altiostar etc. There is not much real engineering done by Rakuten themselves, they just get different vendors under same umbrella and ask them to play nice with each other. Source: Used to work in Rakuten's Cloud divisions

anthomtb 4y ago

If you are a VP of a mobile operator who has KPI's of "integrate AI", "drive automation", and "stable headcount" then that page pretty much says take-my-money.

still_grokking 4y ago

> "A single platform, where all operational data sits powering real-time AI driven feedback loops for continuous workflow improvements. In the platform, automation enablement scales to the size of the wanted business rather than being limited by the operational headcount." Reads as someone shuffled some buzz words and took a random sample. But OK, I guess you can't do anything wrong with this approach in MBA land…

harpratap 4y ago

Rakuten's Cloud business (aka Symphony) is made for Telecom Companies wanting to switch away from traditional RAN model to OpenRAN. It's not really a direct competitor to AWS or GCP (although AWS, GCP and Azure seems to be making big progress in getting Telecos to switch their 5G infra to public cloud). Symphony is nothing but a wrapper on top of vendor software from the likes of Mavenir, Nokia, NEC, Altiostar etc. There is not much real engineering done by Rakuten themselves, they just get different vendors under same umbrella and ask them to play nice with each other. Source: Used to work in Rakuten's Cloud divisions