BIGGEST CHALLENGE IS DATA INSIGHTS ACROSS VALUE CHAIN

Orange Business Services is a network native digital operator with five strategic propositions supported by consultants, data and cloud experts, and a cyberdefense team. The company combines modular, end-to-end IoT business services with underlying infrastructure covering every aspect of IoT - data generating objects, networks, data storage, data visualisation and analytics.

The solutions address five major intersecting challenges: establishing digital workspaces, improving customer experience, facilitating Industry 4.0, collecting, processing data, and transforming and safeguarding network infrastructure.

In smart cities, the company provides complex systems integration for operating efficiency, and solutions including Urban Services, Safe City, Interactive Office, and Smart Eco Energy. No single company – no matter how large and capable - can build and sustain an enterprise-scale model for continuous, perpetual transformation.

Orange Business Services has a large ecosystem of partners, including world leaders like AWS, Quppa, OneMind, Microsoft and Cisco, as well as innovative start-ups, which enables the company to deliver simplicity and better TCO, total cost of ownership through digital integration and orchestrations.

Partnerships are one of the cornerstones of Orange Business Services, working alongside the world’s best technology companies, to deliver tailored solutions within a digital transformation

Advait Thakur

Data IoT AI Expert, Orange Business Services, Middle East and Africa.

programme for an enterprise or developing smart city.

The biggest challenge to successful enterprise digital adoption is centred around the right data insights across the entire technological value chain and the life cycle of products and services. The biggest roadblocks are complexity - aligning business goals with digital strategy, managing network, cloud interdependencies and multiple vendors.

Key Takeaways

l Improving sustainability of cities is an urgent priority.

l Digital tools organised into systems of systems and run by progressive ecosystems of partners, can help.

l Intelligent cities offer our best hope in meeting the challenge of climate change.

l Digital twin technology means more accurate data on emissions and could also simulate impact on coastal cities and buildings.

l No single company, can build and sustain an enterprise-scale model for continuous, perpetual transformation.

l Orange Business Services has an ecosystem of partners, including AWS, Quppa, OneMind, Microsoft and Cisco.

l This enables Orange Business Services to deliver simplicity and better TCO, total cost of ownership through digital integration and orchestrations.

l Partnerships are one of the cornerstones of Orange Business Services, working alongside the world’s best technology companies.

In the intelligent city, digital technology is embedded across all city operationsdeployments should be based on core values, liveability, workability, sustainability aligned with the economic, social, and environmental needs of current, future generations. The deployment challenge is siloed data – an intelligent city needs a continuous flow of data within the ecosystem and a core platform to generate learning and value. In addition, the absence of standardised regulatory and data sharing platforms may hinder smart city projects.

Cities, municipalities, governments and businesses need help to define, drive and implement digital strategy in sectors, such as transport and logistics, retail, banking, energy, petrochemicals, plus public sector to drive e-government transition. The primary motivation for digital transformation is to better serve customers, citizens, create more personalised products and services, improve ESG.

Digitally transformed businesses deliver competitive gains from cost reduction and revenue growth that contribute to higher profits, through the efficiencies of optimised and automated functions. In MEA, greenfield city developments are intelligent by design and deliver higher ROI through innovative services, and the intersection of data and AI drives economic acceleration.

Improving sustainability of cities is an urgent priority and digital tools and solutions, organised into systems of systems and run by progressive ecosystems of partners, can help.

Intelligent cities offer our best hope in meeting the challenge of climate change, with a vital role as incubators of human, digital innovation harnessing and building on their experience.

According to EY research, digital twins could reduce a building’s carbon emissions by 50%, improve operational, maintenance efficiency by 35%, space utilisation by 15%, and increase human productivity by 20%. Digital twin technology means more accurate data on emissions and could also simulate , predict weather patterns and impact on coastal cities and buildings. n