Press release, 8 August 2022
Stockholm, Sweden — Following the signing of the agreement at the beginning of July, Elisa Polystar has now completed the acquisition of the UK-based Cardinality Ltd. The acquisition is consistent with Elisa Corporation’s strategy to grow digital services internationally and accelerate the development of its telecom software business under Elisa Polystar.
Cardinality is a supplier of cloud-native data management (DataOps), service assurance and customer experience analytics for communications service providers (CSPs) globally.
Driven by a shared desire to exploit the full potential of the data available to network operators, Elisa Polystar and Cardinality offer a powerful, telco industry-leading data management and AI-driven analytics and automation portfolio with comprehensive data ingestion and cloud-native capabilities, enabling simultaneous top- and bottom-line improvements for network operators.
Anssi Okkonen, CEO of Elisa Polystar: “We are excited to welcome the experts from Cardinality to Polystar. Cardinality’s skillset enables us to offer more effective data management at scale, allowing operators to fully exploit the opportunities of the cloud. In our view, success begins with a flexible data management platform, it is complemented by AI-driven analytics and completed with automation software. Our combined portfolio accomplishes all of this. With this transaction, Elisa Polystar is taking tangible steps on our journey to make self-driving networks happen.”
Elisa Polystar is a world-leading network automation and service assurance solutions provider, serving over 120 CSPs globally. With its background as an international business of Elisa, Finland’s largest CSP, Elisa Polystar’s solutions are proven and tested in live networks. The technologies from Cardinality complement and strengthen Elisa Polystar’s service assurance and automation portfolios.
Read more on the initial announcement (5 July 2022): Elisa Polystar acquires Cardinality Ltd, strengthening its portfolio with comprehensive data ingestion and cloud-native capabilities
About Cardinality Ltd
Cardinality Ltd was founded in 2015 to enable organizations to achieve amazing outcomes with data analytics. At Cardinality, we empower our customers to deploy best-in-class solutions on a platform that is award winning, high performing, and easy to use. The strength of our technology, combined with our expertise in helping organizations get the most value from their data, enables Cardinality to help our customers move forward on the digital transformation journey. Cardinality’s cloud-native Cardinality.io platform was forged in the highly complex world of telecom data analytics. With award-winning AI capabilities, super-fast streaming that can handle upwards of 50 billion events per day, and a DataOps engine that can easily move data from edge to core to cloud, Cardinality helps some of the world’s largest communications service providers solve their most complex data challenges.
About Elisa Polystar
Elisa Polystar is a leading global provider of cloud-native AI-driven solutions, empowering Communication Service Providers (CSPs) in their journey towards self-driving networks.
With a proven portfolio spanning data management, network analytics, and automation, we transform CSP networks, ensuring exceptional customer experiences and operational excellence.
Our innovative AI-driven analytics have consistently reduced OPEX and CAPEX for hundreds of CSPs worldwide, fostering closed-loop network operations and automation across RAN, transport, and core domains.
As a vendor-agnostic telco expert, we seamlessly integrate with various hardware platforms and technologies, leveraging our unique advantage of testing innovations in Elisa's live network.
Elisa Polystar is part of the Elisa Group, a pioneer in telecommunications, Hyperautomation and digital services, serving over 5 million customers in Finland and Estonia.
Elisa Polystar is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 by an Accredited Certification Body.
