The Smart City is at the Core of the Region's Economic Future
Demonstrating its total commitment to the smart city concept, the entire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region is fostering a series of bold new experiments in digital technology and sustainable development.
Provence is Home to a State-of-the-Art Software Sector
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region features the third-largest software and IT services sector in France with 21 000 employees and 1500 companies. The ecosystem is home to businesses with diverse specialties including pure player developers, software providers, software and computer engineering firms, and IT services companies.
Microelectronics are being reimagined in Provence thanks to IoT technology
Provence is the birthplace of the smart card industry. With standard-bearers such the international semi-conductor leader STMicroelectronics and Gemalto, the world’s top smart card manufacturer in the 1990s when the company was known as Gemplus, the local sector paved the way for the widespread adoption of smart card technology in France and around the world.
The Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis is a top strategic location to develop e-commerce activities. The metropolis is the leading European interconnection platform, a great advantage to companies, which benefit from high-performance network infrastructure and world-class data centers and their capacity to support high volumes of transactions or high peaks in sales.
The elite cities for data services in Europe have always been known by the acronym “FLAP” for Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, and Paris. But now, with the emergence of Marseille as a new leader in data centers and network connections, FLAP is becoming FLA"M”P. Industry leaders such as Interxion, TDF, and Jaguar have invested heavily in infrastructure in Aix-Marseille-Provence, transforming the area into a global hub for the transmission and storage of computer data.
