BBM Messenger Selects Pythian for Major Google Cloud Platform Migration

Ottawa, Ontario (ots/PRNewswire) -

Pythian (http://www.pythian.com/), a global IT services company
that helps businesses adopt technologies to better compete, announced
today that Creative Media Works, operating as BBM Messenger, has
selected Pythian to help them move their mission-critical IT
infrastructure for Android, iOS and Windows consumer BBM from
BlackBerry on-premise data centers in Canada to Google Cloud Platform
(GCP) in Asia.

BBM is one of the largest mobile messaging applications in the
world. Since it was created in August 2005, BBM has evolved from a
pure messaging application (text and video) to a social ecosystem
unifying chat, social, commerce and services, including bill payment,
top-up, vouchers/coupons, games, video, comics, shopping, travel,
career and polls.

In order to accommodate a significant increase in media
consumption by its global users, and to improve performance across
key markets, BBM recognized that migrating its databases to the cloud
was a business imperative. The company chose Google Cloud Platform as
their cloud platform and enlisted Google to help them find a services
provider that had experience with both on-premise data centers and
Google Cloud Platform to migrate their complex IT infrastructure to
the cloud as quickly as possible.

BBM also aligned with Pythian's delivery model. "We need a partner
who shares our urgency, and can accommodate our needs as our business
evolves in both North America and Asia. Pythian's remote work model
allows us to scale up as required on short notice and even around the
clock, providing the flexibility that we need," said Matthew Talbot,
CEO of Creative Media Works, the company that operates and runs BBM
globally.

Pythian puts its full stack experience to work to go beyond
traditional 'lift-and-shift', architecting a cloud solution that will
be automated and take full advantage of the agility and scalability
of GCP's cloud services.

About BBM

On 27 June 2016, Creative Media Works, a division of PT Elang
Mahkota Teknologi Tbk. (Emtek, IDX: EMTK) - one of Indonesia's
largest media, content and technology businesses - announced a
long-term strategic alliance with BlackBerry Limited to accelerate
consumer BBM's research and development in offering new and exciting
features, services and content to the global consumer market. As part
of this strategy, BBM is making its APIs available to expedite the
growth of partners and consumer services such as:

- Content - music and video streaming, games, sports, news, celebrity
blogs, horoscopes and more
- Commerce - shopping, gifting and coupons/vouchers
- Online to Offline Commerce - booking movies, travel, health
services, real-estate or job postings
- Finance - P2P payments, money transfer, mobile phone re-charge, and
utilities billing

Creative Media Works now operates under the BBM banner as a
standalone consumer focused business with teams operating from
Waterloo, Mississauga, Ottawa, Singapore, Jakarta, UAE and South
Africa. For more information, visit http://www.bbm.com.

Trademarks, including but not limited to BBM and BBM Design are
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under license, and the exclusive rights to such trademarks are
expressly reserved.

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Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries

About Pythian

Pythian is a global technology services company that helps
businesses compete by adopting disruptive technologies such as
advanced analytics (https://www.pythian.com/advanced-analytics/), big
data (https://www.pythian.com/big-data/), cloud
(https://www.pythian.com/cloud-services/), databases
(https://www.pythian.com/dba-services), DevOps
(https://www.pythian.com/devops/) and infrastructure management
(https://www.pythian.com/infrastructure-management/) to advance
innovation and increase agility. Specializing in designing,
implementing, and managing systems that directly contribute to
revenue growth and business success, Pythian's highly skilled
technical teams work as an integrated extension of our clients'
organizations to deliver solutions that enable the strategic use of
data, accelerate software delivery, and ensure reliable, scalable IT
systems.

For more information on Pythian services for Google Cloud
Platform, visit https://www.pythian.com/google-cloud-platform/.

Media Contact:

Lesley Slack

+1-613-818-6855

media@pythian.com

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