(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula
DOHA: Ooredoo, one of the region's leading ICT providers, is driving business innovation with the winners of its Battlefield Hackathon, including an 'Office in a Box for small businesses, an intelligent chatbot, and an artificial intelligence-backed network management solution.
As part of Ooredoo's commitment to employee enablement, talent development, and innovative business solutions, the company sponsored this adrenaline-packed 8-hour-long internal hackathon to foster the development of innovative business solutions.
Nine teams of innovators, designers, and developers made of Ooredoo employees competed in three categories: financial capabilities related to the Ooredoo Mobile wallet, operational excellence for next-generation digital experiences, and security ideas for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisi, COO Ooredoo Qatar, said: 'Our largest-ever Battlefield Hackathon shows the strength of Qatar's talent in developing solutions to solve the business challenges of tomorrow. By collaborating on creative solutions to business challenges, the participating teams now have the opportunity for their solutions to be incubated and brought to market by Ooredoo.
The first-place team, Transformers 1, won QR10,000 for its 'Office in the Box solution aimed for small- and medium-sized enterprises to open new sales channels using services running on Ooredoo's Qatar Data Centre.
Virtuality, the second-place team, won QR8,000 for its 'Ooredoo Assistant, which simplifies customer communication with an intelligent chatbot for personalising customer relationships.
In third place was the Phoenix team, which won QR5,000 for self-diagnosis and network performance of connected devices, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and robotics. Al Kubaisi added: 'Ooredoo's Battlefield Hackathon underscores our role as a dynamic, agile, and innovative organisation that is supporting our Ooerdoo Family in developing new ideas and ways of thinking.
'In one day, these three winners developed breakthrough innovations that would normally take months to create.
Business customers can leverage the Ooredoo Advantage, making Ooredoo 'Best for Business, thanks to its breadth and depth of talent, best fixed and mobile networks, broadest portfolio of ICT services and solutions, and trusted partner for 60 years.
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