Guidehouse Insights Names Microsoft, Cisco, and Huawei the Leading Smart City Platform Suppliers
City platforms must support new ambitions and health and economic priorities for a sustainable and equitable recovery
A new Leaderboard Report from Guidehouse Insights evaluates the strategy and execution of 12 smart city platform suppliers, with Microsoft, Cisco, and Huawei ranked as the leading market players.
As the number of smart city programs grows and existing projects evolve, the focus is intensifying on more integrated, platform-based approaches. Suppliers are meeting this requirement through the evolution of their underlying technology platforms, the development of integrated operations centers, the provision of advanced analytics and visualization tools, and the creation of extensions to their partner ecosystems. Click to tweet: According to a new Leaderboard report from @WeAreGHInsights, Microsoft, Cisco, and Huawei are the leading smart city platform suppliers.
“Increasing interest in smart city platforms is a logical outcome of the continued evolution of smart city programs,” says Eric Woods, research director with Guidehouse Insights. “These three leaders demonstrate different approaches to delivering a smart city platform; however, they share a strong technology foundation, a commitment to city innovation, an extensive ecosystem of partners, and an established market footprint.”
According to the report, the ultimate value of a smart city platform for city leaders is the ability to extend and transform the services provided to all city stakeholders. As cities map out their recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, their platform strategies will need to evolve to support the new priorities for health, safety, and economic revival. They also need support for their ambitions for a just, equitable, and sustainable recovery. Flexibility and adaptability will be key in this time of great uncertainty.
The report, Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard: Smart City Platform Suppliers, examines the strategy and execution of 12 leading smart city platform suppliers with the capacity to support a broad portfolio of smart city solutions using common platform technologies and spanning multiple operational and service areas. These smart city suppliers are rated on 10 criteria: vision; go-to-market strategy; partner ecosystem; product strategy; geographic reach; market presence; sales and marketing; product features; product integration; and staying power. Using the Guidehouse Insights proprietary Leaderboard methodology, vendors are profiled, rated, and ranked with the goal of providing industry participants with an objective assessment of these companies’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the global smart city platform market. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
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*The information contained in this press release concerning the report, Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard: Smart City Platform Suppliers, is a summary and reflects the current expectations of Guidehouse Insights based on market data and trend analysis. Market predictions and expectations are inherently uncertain and actual results may differ materially from those contained in this press release or the report. Please refer to the full report for a complete understanding of the assumptions underlying the report’s conclusions and the methodologies used to create the report. Neither Guidehouse Insights nor Guidehouse undertakes any obligation to update any of the information contained in this press release or the report.