Professional Services Business challenge SmartRural aims to help farmers worldwide use analytics to shrink their costs and ecological footprint. As a lean start-up, the company needed a more cost-effective option than scaling out its on-premise analytics platform. Transformation SmartRural migrated its cutting-edge analytics offering to bare metal servers in the IBM Cloud, delivering high levels of performance, security and scalability without up-front capital investment. “Thanks to the IBM Cloud, we have a future-ready platform to help farmers around the world use precision agriculture to enhance the efficiency of their production.” —Ana Antunes, Agronomist, SmartRural Business benefits: Up to 60% faster analytics processing helps deliver rapid insights to farmers Enables SmartRural to grow its client base cost-effectively Supports international expansion with practically unlimited scalability SmartRural Empowering farmers to adapt to a changing climate with advanced analytics in the IBM Cloud Solution components IBM® Cloud™ bare metal servers Client Name SmartRural Company Background Based in Valladolid, Spain, SmartRural supports farmers with technology solutions to enable cost-effective, environmentally friendly operations. Combining cutting-edge geological investigation, drone photography and analytics methodologies, SmartRural helps clients to design more effective irrigation systems, combat pests and increase crop yields. Business challenge SmartRural aims to help farmers worldwide use analytics to shrink their costs and ecological footprint. As a lean start-up, the company needed a more cost-effective option than scaling out its on-premise analytics platform. The benefit SmartRural has accelerated its analytics process by up to 60 percent while keeping operational costs under control, enabling the company to onboard new clients and expand the business internationally. Pull Quote “Thanks to the IBM Cloud, we have a future-ready platform to help farmers around the world use precision agriculture to enhance the efficiency of their production.” —Ana Antunes, Agronomist, SmartRural Solution components IBM® Cloud™ bare metal servers Case study Link https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/smartrural-cloud-analytics-farming Based in Valladolid, Spain, SmartRural supports farmers with technology solutions to enable cost-effective, environmentally friendly operations. Combining cutting-edge geological investigation, drone photography and analytics methodologies, SmartRural helps clients to design more effective irrigation systems, combat pests and increase crop yields. Share this