Ascom Cloud Based Alarm Solution allows the customer to send different types of alarms to their staff using Ascom’s smartphone app for alarms
The alarm and messaging system from Ascom is the company’s first solution delivered as Cloud Based using Microsoft Azure - a cloud computing service created by Microsoft. The client is a well known automotive company in Sweden with factories in four different countries.
- In the past years we have done several on-premise installations of our new, software based platform for customers in Europe, North America, and Asia. This is our first cloud-based installation and it shows that our platform meets our customers’ needs for future proof software solutions, says Johan Norrman, Head of Global R&D at Ascom.
Opportunities and benefits from Cloud migration trends
The term “cloud services'' refers to a wide range of services securely delivered on demand to companies or customers over public or private networks as opposed to being delivered from a traditional on premise data centre.
Adoption of cloud services delivers a number of benefits for the customer such as lower cost of implementation, reduction in on premise hardware and associated support requirements, easier scalability and increased flexibility. For the vendor, benefits include improved cost competitiveness, shorter sales cycles and increased recurring revenues.
Significant improvements
The major automotive company is mainly used to inform personnel in different types of production areas about problems and other issues, and also to prepare for example a shift of sheet metal press tools.
Other important areas are alarms about failure in production lines to technicians in maintenance dept, information about lack of material in production lines and production information to e.g. team leaders.
Ascom Cloud Based Alarm Solution allows the customer to leverage the convenience and cost savings by converging multi-site installations into a single instance. The result is significant improvements in single point of administration, transfer of maintenance and flexibility of deployment.