The digital business hub will provide API as a Service and is designed to enable enterprises and Mobile network operators, or MNOs, to transform the way they engage and partner in the digital ecosystem.
WSO2, an open source cloud application development and middleware company may soon be expanding in UAE's smart city infrastructure among other key verticals along with Pacific Controls, said Kumi Thiruchelvam, CEO - WSO2.Telco while launching Middle East's first digital business hub on Tuesday in Dubai.
"We are proud to have partnered with Pacific Controls to further a digital business hub vision, designed to accelerate national and regional digital strategies for MNOs, enterprises and digital marketplace. The digital business hub will facilitate exposing of multiple third party API - application program interface is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications - to accelerate digital innovation. While APIs are the life blood of the digital ecosystem, digital identity management, a key component of the solution, is essential to providing more and more services securely across multiple devices, added Thiruchelvam.
The digital business hub will provide API as a Service and is designed to enable enterprises and Mobile network operators, or MNOs, to transform the way they engage and partner in the digital ecosystem. The digital business hub will also contribute towards the acceleration of the on-going transformation of Dubai into the world's most advanced and connected Digital Marketplace.Dilip Rahulan, executive chairman and chief executive officer, Pacific Controls, said: "We are delighted to partner with WSO2.Telco in this advent to accelerate delivery of digital services in the Middle East region. Offered as a platform across the Middle East, the digital business hub will serve as the gateway for innovation, collaboration, entrepreneurial development. Users can experience access to various digital services in a new transformed engagement format which would enable quicker go-to-market strategy."
The launch of the Digital Business Hub follows successful WSO2.Telco hub deployments in Singapore and India which currently serve a combined total of over one billion mobile subscribers. The Digital Business Hub in Dubai will be jointly owned by Pacific Controls and WSO2.Telco and will be hosted in Pacific Controls' state-of-the-art Jebel Ali Data centre. The Digital Business Hub incorporates features similar to the other two Hubs, and further provides the ability to connect with the other hubs, making it part of a global ecosystem. Notable features of the Hub are built-in APIs for Operator network services, monetisation, and a powerful Identity Gateway which is GSMA Mobile Connect Compliant.
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