Cities stand to gain immensely from Digital Platform Technology, yet the journey to build and sustain transformative platforms has often been complex and costly—until now.

ComUnity City-as-a-Platform puts the power of advanced digital platform technology in the hands of cities, enabling them to transform and scale city service delivery at low marginal cost, with reduced complexity and risk.

City-as-a-Platform streamlines the connection of people, organisations and resources across city value streams. It empowers cities to deliver scalable, resilient and trusted platforms and services that rapidly and sustainably evolve and improve city operating models. The efficient digitalization of city services significantly reduces the cost of city operations and service delivery, while improving service impact and revenue collection.

To provision a Sandbox Environment to test the solution, click on the ‘Get Now’ button and select Innovator Plan.

Key Benefits:

Scalability of high impact city services with relatively low marginal cost
Rapid onboarding and scaling of city participants and stakeholders (residents, visitors, employees, businesses, partners)
Flexible, transformative service models and monetization
Faster time-to-market and agility to pivot or expand the service models quickly
Continuous evolution of City-as-a-Platform features without downtime
Ecosystem thinking – allowing others to build-on and benefit from your City platform

Key Features:

City-as-a-Platform provides a full-stack digital platform backbone running in Microsoft Azure and includes a set of digital city services accelerators that enable cities build digital delivery capability with speed and continue momentum in tight, efficient cycles of delivery.

Foundation for Innovation: Provides a digital platform and services base layer that cities and partners can build upon
Extensibility: Allow third-party developers or users to create extensions, apps, or integrations
Scalability: Designed to handle increasing usage and evolving requirements
Digital Ecosystem Creation and Operation: Platform creates and supports ecosystems where multiple city players and stakeholders (developers, residents, visitors, businesses, partners) interact

City-as-a-Platform includes:

Patterns, blueprints and templates for a vast array of proven digital city services that drive the pillars of city service delivery
Digital Platform Backbone

Unified Experience Layer – Delivery and management of omni-channel experiences
Business Operations Layer – Optimization and enhancement of business processes and operations
Platform Operations Layer – Delivery of platform operating model
Data Platform Layer – Connect, organize, manage, store, productize data for use in digital operations model
Cloud Infrastructure and Services Management Layer – Provision, manage, observe, optimize
Developer, Operator and Business Management interfaces, experiences and environments to enhance platform lifecycle management; including: design, build, deployment, operations, management, analysis, reporting, and innovation
Dynamic Platform Core – standardizes and normalizes data interactions and interoperability across the platform layers and across the customer platform ecosystem
Deep Integration with your Azure Environment, invoking and managing key Azure infrastructure and services

This offer deploys Azure resources (e.g. Virtual Machines Azure SQL Database etc.) into your Azure Subscription. These resources will incur additional Azure infrastructure charges, billed separately by Microsoft. For a detailed estimate tailored to your needs, please use the Azure Pricing Calculator with the recommended configurations detailed in each Plan. We recommend monitoring your costs using Azure Cost Management + Billing.

Platform business models enabled by the ComUnity Platform deliver scale at significantly lower marginal cost and risk, with faster time-to-market and accelerated time to value for new propositions, features and services.

To get started and provision your own Sandbox, click on the ‘Get Now’ button and select Innovator Plan.

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City-as-a-Platform: Digital Service Platform for Cities

Autor: ComUnity