Enterprises today are navigating a perfect storm—an environment where hype cycles move faster than business cycles, technology evolves quicker than procurement processes, and geopolitical tensions are reshaping the digital landscape in real time. The pace of change is relentless.
We’re in an era where transformation itself has to transform. Cloud, AI, Agents, edge, private 5G, quantum—each promises a revolution, yet integrating them into something that creates business value, is harder than ever. The old playbook of multi-year roadmaps and point solutions simply doesn’t work anymore.
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Recently, a CIO of a large enterprise captured the sentiment perfectly: “I don’t just need the right answer for today. I need the right platform for tomorrow.” That single sentence sums up the new enterprise dilemma. The question is no longer which technology to adopt, but how fast you can adapt. Customers want faster access to innovation, flexibility to pivot when market or regulatory winds shift, and the ability to do it all at a lower cost.
In other words, the winners will be those who can continuously modernize—who treat technology not as a one-off project, but as a living, evolving ecosystem that grows with their business.
Our platform strategy hits those needs head-on: we blend our core assets with partner innovation, so customers get new capabilities quickly, without heavy integration. And because it’s an open ecosystem, they can build, swap and scale on their own terms. By combining our trusted infrastructure, network intelligence, and global reach with a vibrant ecosystem of technology partners, we’re creating a foundation that enterprises can build on, adapt, and extend as their needs evolve.
From strategy to action: creating a platform advantage for enterprises
For enterprises to truly reinvent themselves with technology, they need the right Digital Infrastructure foundations. At Orange Business, we define Digital Infrastructure through the lens of the three Cs: connectivity, cloud and cybersecurity. These are the essential building blocks that enable agility, innovation, and resilience in an AI-first world. That’s where Orange Business platforms come in. Each is designed around a core enterprise need and delivered in a model that enables faster innovation, flexibility, choice and cost optimization.
Evolution Platform delivers secure network services to support our customers’ business outcomes. Evolution Platform merges secure connectivity, cloud connectivity and cybersecurity into one intelligent fabric combining our global reach, secure and resilient backbone, and rich partner ecosystem. It lets enterprises manage their data movements with real-time visibility, automated controls, and a unified way to oversee all their secure connectivity ecosystem. The result: simplified operations, enhanced protection, and the agility to adapt as business demands shift.
Cloud Avenue delivers a consistent cloud experience across hybrid environments, balancing innovation, trust, and compliance. It helps enterprises orchestrate applications flexibly, optimizing for performance, cost, and sovereignty. With Cloud Avenue, customers gain the freedom to choose where to run their IT and AI workloads.
Live Intelligence helps enterprises accelerate AI adoption. It provides a trusted foundation to scale AI responsibly, eliminate shadow AI, and empower teams with compliant, secure access to AI models. By enabling AI agents that augment the workforce, it boosts productivity, enhances employee experience, and helps reimagine every job with intelligent assistance—all while ensuring transparency, traceability, and control.
Together, these platforms give enterprises a total digital infrastructure experience. Because enterprise customers expect to consume services in a digital, hyperscaler-like experience, we’re transforming how Orange Business delivers services, not just what we offer. With our new IT stack, we’re creating a human-centered digital journey. Every step is becoming simpler, faster, and smarter, powered by AI that removes friction, enhances agility, and accelerates value.
Power of ecosystem collaboration
For customers, the real value of our platform comes from choice, speed, and impact. By integrating partner innovation directly into our core assets, enterprises gain instant access to a growing range of solutions that meet their unique needs.
Evolution Platform offers a rich ecosystem of services with 14 leading connectivity and security partners providing services from SD-WAN and Secure Access to Cloud Connectivity, Voice, and Virtual Firewalls—giving customers flexibility and faster results. As more partners join, the ecosystem scales naturally, generating a flywheel effect where collaboration fuels more innovation, more choice, and increasingly better business outcomes.
Cloud Avenue and Live Intelligence build equally strong partnerships with model builders, hyperscalers, and AI-native startups, ensuring enterprises don’t miss the latest AI innovation.
Platformization in action
With Evolution Platform, we are creating the hyperscaler of next-generation secure connectivity—already delivering real impact for 300+ customers across industries and geographies. A US retailer is modernizing its network with SD-WAN and integrated security, closing data centers and cutting operational costs by 15%. A European manufacturer is accelerating its cloud journey, streamlining connectivity and operations. A European healthcare client can now integrate acquisitions in days instead of months. Enterprises like Haier Europe are accelerating their cloud transformation and leveraging modern network architecture built on Evolution Platform.
The biggest challenges in AI adoption today are the lack of scalable infrastructure, trust deficit, and pressure for faster ROI —and our platforms directly address them. With Live Intelligence, an energy company is using AI agents to assist field technicians, saving up to 90 minutes per week per employee. A large bank is deploying AI coding assistants to augment developers and accelerate software delivery. Meanwhile, Cloud Avenue provides the scalable, secure and compliant infrastructure foundation to deploy and manage these innovations seamlessly, turning AI ambition into real business impact. LightOn, which develops generative AI solutions for businesses, needed more powerful and secure hosting to support its ambitions. It chose Cloud Avenue, developed by Orange Business, for its reliable high-performance environment, computing power, and cost control.
Looking ahead: The future which we can’t predict
We are witnessing the reinvention of the technology stack from the ground up—GPUs, AI factories, agentic platforms, and new digital experience layers are reshaping how enterprises operate and how people interact with technology. The traditional SaaS world is being redefined by agent-assisted browsers and AI-native platforms, signaling one of the most profound disruptions of our time.
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my career is that during periods of disruption, it’s just as critical to recognize what isn’t changing as what is. What remains constant is the enterprise drive for faster innovation, greater choice, and cost efficiency. These enduring needs are the foundation of our platform strategy—a foundation that enables enterprises to move with confidence through uncertainty, harness the power of an ecosystem and continuously build, adapt, and innovate for the future.
Discover more on how Platformization can accelerate our AI-first transformation, speed up innovation and give you the security and flexibility to innovate. Contact our team at Orange Business today here.
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