NEC will supply a Software-as-a-Service platform that will provide a variety of services to small and midsized companies affiliated with Telefónica S.A.. NEC will construct and provide the infrastructure platform for a range of application software targeting businesses and homes via SaaS platforms.
Through this SaaS platform, Telefónica will provide a variety of business application software, such as CRM and asset management tools, as SaaS business for small to midsized companies. The range of business applications is scheduled to increase in the future.
The companies are slated to jointly expand areas such as PaaS (platform-as-a-service) and DaaS (desktop-as-a-service), which are highly valued aspects of the growing cloud computing field, to which the above mentioned SaaS platform evidently will be integrated in the future. Looking forward, NEC aims to capitalize on this opportunity to promote the expansion of cloud computing business for telecom carriers throughout the world.
