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Jean-Marc Lazard, CEOFounded in 2011, the company works toward eliminating complexities faced during development of Smart City solutions. “Today’s vendors and government CIOs are confronted with adversities while applying a broad and top-down approach in their smart city planning,” explains Lazard. “This approach culminates in the form of technical complexity, organizational intricacies, and heavy expenses that can leave smart city innovation languishing on the drawing board.” Sidestepping some of these roadblocks, OpenDataSoft provides a turnkey SaaS platform that enables easy transformation of data into apps and innovative services. The platform serves as an open data portal and a smart city data hub that helps the government, citizens, and start-ups explore, visualize, share, and innovate ways to use data. “Our solution was created keeping in mind the heightened focus on IoT, open data, and smart city strategies that require ultra-simple access to all useful data,” asserts Lazard.
The OpenDataSoft Smart Cities platform handles large-scale, real-time data from IoT-enabled objects and infrastructure that play a pivotal role in smart city transformation. Apart from data management, the solution instantly transforms the datasets into easy-to-understand interactive data visualizations consisting of tables, graphs, charts, maps, and pictures. Furthermore, the platform’s API-centric design, featuring automatic generation of RESTful APIs, straightforward API customization, Swagger integration and a metering and payment option that monetizes data published via these APIs, adds to its customer friendliness.
Our solution has been created keeping in mind the heightened focus on IoT, open data, and smart city strategies that requires ultra-simple access to all useful data
Armed with such dexterity, the platform also offers granular security that is ideal for both private and public data sharing. “Besides smart city and government arenas, our platform is also capitalized by various other businesses for internal data sharing, open innovation, and B2B services,” expresses Lazard.
Reflecting on one of the instances, the city of Paris, which has a deep commitment to open data and open government, and an equally strong vision for smart city development, capitalized on OpenDataSoft’s open data portal and smart city data hub to gain new ease in sharing, exploring, and reusing their data. The platform also enabled the client to build close collaboration with their ecosystem partners in transportation, utilities, and energy. “Our solution best suited the needs of client, given the ease with which their partners could participate, attain robust generation of APIs, and flexible security,” extols Lazard.
In the pursuit of building superior offerings, OpenDataSoft envisions hosting a global open data platform where any organization can share and publish data—analogous to YouTube. “We’ve seen the way data producers and re-users connect to form a community around our customers’ portals,” quotes Lazard. “Delivering a similar experience on an international scale will prove productive for numerous communities around the globe.” Alongside cultivating such innovative ideas, the company aims to expand their global footprint in the U.S. to ensure relentless progression in the landscape of Smart City solutions.
Opendatasoft joins AWS ISV Accelerate Program
Monday, March 27, 2023
Data democratization leader extends collaboration and unlocks co-sell opportunities
BOSTON and PARIS: Opendatasoft, announced that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program.
The AWS ISV Accelerate Program is a co-sell program for AWS partners who provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. It helps AWS partners, such as Opendatasoft, drive new business by directly connecting them with the AWS Sales organization.
"Achieving membership of the AWS ISV Accelerate Program is a milestone in our continuing journey with the AWS Partner Network, and demonstrates the growing importance of data democratization to successful organizations across the globe," said Jean-Marc Lazard, CEO and co-founder of Opendatasoft. "It extends our reach in geographies such as Canada and North America, Europe and the Middle East while making it simpler for AWS customers to benefit from our leading data democratization software."
Opendatasoft is an all-in-one SaaS platform that enables data democratization by allowing organizations to create and share data experiences internally or with stakeholders in their ecosystems, including customers, business partners, and citizens. Over 350 organizations globally use Opendatasoft to accelerate their digital transformation and generate data value in their ecosystems, with over 2,500 data projects launched on the Opendatasoft platform.
As well as co-sell opportunities the AWS ISV Accelerate Program will provide Opendatasoft with access to a range of marketing benefits, and widens the company's global reach. Joining the ISV Accelerate Program is part of Opendatasoft's deepening relationship with AWS. The majority of Opendatasoft customers are already hosted on AWS where they benefit from the platform's reliability, scalability and geographical coverage as well as connectivity to services such as Amazon S3 – Amazon Simple Storage Service.
Effectively sharing data internally and externally is the lifeblood of today's agile, data-driven organizations using the AWS cloud. The AWS ISV Accelerate Program helps participating members align their technology with AWS sales to improve the overall co-sell experience. It brings the best of what AWS has to offer efficiently and powerfully for desired customer outcomes. As customers look to benefit from data democratization, solutions such as Opendatasoft's platform will be an attractive option.
City of Long Beach extends open data portal with Opendatasoft
Friday, May 05, 2023
Leading digital city focuses on engaging users and citizens with open data
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES: Opendatasoft, a global leader in the democratization of data, today announced that the City of Long Beach in California has extended its use of Opendatasoft’s technology to power its open data portal.
Named a top 10 digital city for 12 consecutive years by the Center for Digital Government, Long Beach first deployed Opendatasoft in 2020. The new contract will see the city further develop its portal, including focusing on data-driven storytelling to increase transparency and engagement while connecting new data sources and making them available to citizens and other stakeholders.
The City of Long Beach open data portal currently contains 20 datasets with over 930,000 records. It covers areas as diverse as the status of service requests submitted via the city’s 311 reporting system, animal shelter data, employee diversity demographic information and an inventory of trees planted across the city. As part of its commitment to openness and engagement the Long Beach team has created dashboards and visualizations for the majority of its datasets. This ensures that its data is inviting, engaging, and understandable to citizens.
“Over the past three years we’ve built a close partnership with Opendatasoft, helping us deliver compelling data experiences that build trust and transparency with our citizens and other stakeholders,” said Behrang Abadi, Digital Services Bureau Manager, City of Long Beach. “As a forward-thinking city, open data is essential to our strategy and our new agreement will extend how we use Opendatasoft, creating more visualizations and dashboards to inform and engage our community.”
Home to approximately 470,000 people, the multiple award-winning and innovative City of Long Beach offers all the world-class amenities of a large metropolitan city while maintaining a strong sense of individual and diverse neighborhoods nestled together along the California coast.
“The City of Long Beach has developed a strong reputation as a digital leader, focusing on how technology and data can benefit both citizens and its ongoing operations,” said Franck Carassus, Chief Sales Officer and co-founder of Opendatasoft. “Building on its success and best practice, Long Beach now has innovative plans to extend its use of open data, providing a perfect example of how data can transform city government and relationships with citizens.”
Company
OpenDataSoft
Management
Jean-Marc Lazard, CEO
Description
A provider of a cloud-based turnkey platform that enables easy transformation of data into apps and innovative services
