1. 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
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.
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