Shimie Hortig

President & Chief Executive Officer, Amdocs

Search every verified Shimie Hortig interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Shimie Hortig, President and Chief Executive Officer at Amdocs, discussed the company’s cloud partnership with AWS during an interview at Mobile World Congress in February 2024. He said that over the past year, Amdocs customers had progressed from initial cloud adoption to moving mission-critical core systems to AWS Cloud, citing transformations at Bell Canada and PLDT. Hortig identified generative AI, network cloudification, and SaaS as key focus areas for 2024, highlighting the joint amAIz platform for telco-specific AI capabilities and the ConnectX digital BSS suite. Hortig also emphasized Amdocs’ commitment to supporting customers at various stages of cloud migration, whether they use recent cloud-native systems or older implementations. He noted that the partnership with AWS has driven innovation and financial benefits for customers, and he expressed satisfaction with the progress made, while also acknowledging the importance of security and customer satisfaction in SaaS environments.