Atos launches innovative edge-to-cloud 5G and AI-enabled solution
11/08/2022
Atos has announced the launch of Atos Business Outcomes-as-a-Service (Atos BOaaS), a 5G, edge and Internet of Things (IoT) offering developed in collaboration with Dell Technologies that brings the advantages of cloud architecture to the edge and far edge to deliver artificial intelligence (AI)-based business value augmented with end-to-end automated deployment, monitoring and management.
Edge computing has added complexity to digital systems and the IoT generates significant amounts of highly valuable data that remains untapped. Combining the expertise of Atos and Dell, Atos BOaaS will enable organisations to obtain meaningful, rapid and repeatable business outcomes out of IoT data streams and analytics and manage their IoT ecosystem from a single dashboard.
Atos BOaaS brings to the market one of the most innovative AI applications at the edge, powered by Dell. Dell’s Streaming Data Platform creates reliable, fast and secure data pipelines from edge to cloud that enable analytics. Atos wraps up all the technology components, with extra services, into a full consumption model that enables clients to focus on the business benefits of analytics at the edge and in the cloud.
Atos BOaaS revolutionises digital operations by virtually removing the need for on-site technology support, which decreases its overall carbon footprint. Atos BOaaS can save hundreds of tons of CO2 per year per client.
In addition, the annual positive economic and environmental impact of Atos BOaaS on 1000 retail stores can be calculated as follows: 66,000 h saved on maintenance, compliance and updates; and up to +1-2% revenue saved, corresponding to
$4.2 million (approximately £3.4 million) saved in digital support.
Atos’s innovation, with the development of Atos BOaaS, was recognised at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas. Here, Dell awarded Atos the 2022 Dell Technologies Global Alliances – Global Excellence in Innovation Award, which recognises Atos’s unwavering commitment to helping customers succeed in the data era.
Atos BOaaS can detect the imminent failure of equipment at the far edge and the edge and can trigger a series of automated actions, from ordering new hardware and alerting the maintenance crew, to managing delivery and configuration of the edge-to-cloud platform. Atos BOaaS improves asset utilisation in retail, theme parks and manufacturing industries by providing a fully automated and managed cloud environment at the edge, to scale.
Atos BOaaS is a zero-touch deployment model, meaning that settings, configurations and applications are automatically and securely provisioned on the devices. This enables clients’ technology teams to configure or modify thousands of devices at the far edge remotely from the cloud. Atos BOaaS provides an App Market that allows clients to deploy complex analytics and applications at the edge, such as predictive maintenance to prevent downtime or simple temperature or vibration monitoring. The Atos Computer Vision platform is also available in the Atos BOaaS App Market for clients to run AI- and scenario-based analytics on their existing video surveillance equipment.
Atos BOaaS simplifies complex digital operations to the point that untrained retail personnel, for example, can handle on-site operations aided by the automation built into Atos BOaaS. Once they have installed the new device, as easily as they would plug in a lamp, applications are automatically deployed and business operations are initiated or resumed.
