Discover how Schneider use Linkbynet to strenghen its IoT digital services

1. Cloud
Success Story
LINKBYNET strengthens Schneider
Electric’s IoT based digital services
85%
15%
Solution deployed :
To enable its connected offers, Schneider Electric decided
to develop a powerful digital platform named EcoStruxure.
The platform’s approach yields significant benefits:
1. Efficiency | maximizing the potential by sharing the
same features across business units
2. Consistency | customers can enjoy a coherent, user-
friendly experience through a single platform
3. Interoperability | Maximizing value by pooling data
with the aim of eventually cross-selling solutions
4. Manageability | Enabling fair distribution of IoT
platform support and operational costs
5. Collaboration | Allowing for cross BU digital offers
while sharing the development workload
Business challenge :
At Schneider Electric, more than 60 product lines are
developing a wide range of connected devices and digital
services. These businesses are looking for innovative ways
to manage their assets, their lifecycle, their performance
and operational efficiency. Moreover, because of changes
in the market, Schneider Electric needed to maintain their
competitive edge by transforming their business into one
of recurring services built on top of best-in-class systems
and products.
There were 3 main objectives:
• Leverage the connectivity and analytics to bring
business value from a massive amount of collected
data
• Accelerate the go-to-market of new connected offers
• Strengthen customer engagement and improve user
experience
The solution required the inclusion of specific functions to
meet the business lines’ expectations, i.e. Security, Sensing,
Mobility, and Analytics in a scalable cloud approach.
« With LINKBYNET, we stepped up from an Operations standpoint. The collaboration between Schneider
Electric, Microsoft Azure and LINKBYNET gave rise to more secure and more robust digital services. »
Yoann BERSIHAND, DevOps Manager. Schneider Electric
Edge Control
Apps, Analytics & Services
Connected Products
Buildings Datacenters Industries Grid
End-to-end
Cybersecurity
Cloudand/orOn-
Premises
EcoStruxure
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Hundreds of thou-
sands of connected
devices all over the
world
PaaS services
IaaS services
99,99%
3 Major
ContinentsAvailability rate worldwide presence%

2. LINKBYNET is a major player in the outsourcing of cloud
services, web e-business, and information systems. Since
2013, LINKBYNET has also positioned itself as Cloud Ser-
vice orchestrator to better support companies in their
migration to the Cloud.
LINKBYNET has offices in France, Canada, the United
States, Asia and Mauritius. It employs more than 650
people worldwide and achieved a turnover of 50 million
Euros in 2016.
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Benefits
• The business lines quickly adopted the EcoStruxure
platform.
• The number of integrated connected devices on the
platform has grown rapidly.
• An Always On, reliable platform with autoscaling
while on-boarding new digital offers.
• Schneider Electric’s DSP team can focus exclusively
on their core business activities.
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy and
automation management, with operations in more than
100 countries, uses its expertise and solutions to ensure
that life is on for its customers and to ensure safe, reliable,
efficient, sustainable and connected energy.
As a leader in energy management and automation,
Schneider Electric enables its customers to do more with
less in a more connected, distributed, intelligent and
increasingly energy-intensive world.
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A digital platform leveraged by worldwide business lines
must be reliable and highly available. To do this, Schneider
Electric decided to build a cloud architecture based on
Microsoft Azure services.
Schneider Electric also wanted to have a fully managed
solution for their digital platform and so needed a partner
to build the operational ecosystem around it and operate
it 24/7. This now allows the Digital Services Platform
team (DSP) to focus on their core activities and run their
innovation roadmap for businesses.
LINKBYNET was chosen to manage the whole EcoStruxure
platform, built on a PaaS approach (Platform as a Service).
Schneider Electric selected LINKBYNET for their technical
expertise on Azure PaaS services and their ability to
partner up on a tailor-made solution. Our shared solution
is constantly evolving as business requirements change.
The worldwide presence of LINKBYNET was also a key
factor in strengthening the relationship between our two
companies, both on a global level and in the regions where
our business lines are located. What’s more, LINKBYNET
deployed new security operational capabilities such as
SIEM (Security Information and Events Management),
backup of our data and services configurations, as well as
vulnerability management solutions.
Linkbynet’s ability to meet Schneider Electric’s critical
business requirements by implementing Microsoft Azure
guidelines and their flexibility in heavily customizing the
monitoring and backup configurations on the different
Azure PaaS Services when not yet fully built-in, were
other reasons why Schneider Electric placed their trust in
LINKBYNET.