During the second year of the project, Dawex has accelerated to deploy its solutions to European countries, while strengthening its communication and commercial capabilities. Thanks to the work conducted to provide our clients with the most advanced, complete and easy-to-use platform, Dawex has been able to reach major milestones.
Obviously, we had take into account the impacts of the environment in which we operate. These impacts can be of different kinds:
- New entrants to the market
- Evolution of user needs
- Economic context
- New regulations or termination of existing agreements relating to data exchange
Between November 2019 and October 2020, the data exchange market has thus undergone many major developments:
- The arrival on the market of AWS Data Exchange: a data marketplace for specialized data sellers to large corporations,
- The launch by Snowflake of a Data Exchange-Edge computing offer, allowing its users to monetize access to data (not to exchange them)
- The end of the privacy shield between Europe and the United States, which calls into question the flow of data between these two economic zones
- The presentation by Europe of its new Data Strategy, which prioritizes the creation of Data Spaces from a list of sectors already identified
The Covid-19 crisis which had major economic impacts:
- For Dawex: prioritization of expenses and actions to be carried out
- For our clients: the crisis has durably impacted the business and operations of our clients
- For the market: an increase of awareness of the importance of exchanging data
All these changes, all these evolutions, naturally led to an evolution of the market, and of Dawex solutions to tackle these changes. As early as 2018, Dawex launched its Data Exchange Platform offering, in order to meet the needs of organizations wishing to orchestrate their own data exchange platforms. The project allowed Dawex to commercially deploy this new offer in Europe, alongside the Global Data Marketplace, and to address Europe's new priority: the creation of Data Spaces, allowing data to circulate within and across sectors. Today, with its clients, Dawex is already creating data spaces bringing together hundreds of players across Europe, exchanging data using its Data Exchange technology.
- Deploy several new Data Exchange Platforms covering 5+ business sectors
-- An EU initiative for the sharing of agricultural data (Agriculture)
-- A Japan-based trading corporation (trading of goods and services)
-- A major provider of financial and advisory services (financial)
-- Covid-19 Data Exchange Platform (health)
-- A collective project to meet the challenges of transparency and the promotion of quality approaches throughout the sector (Agrifood)
- Sign multiple Data Exchange Advisory missions for large corporations, to support them in the setting up of a Data Exchange strategy, preparing data exchange ecosystem.
- Continue the recruitment and development of Dawex, despite the Covid and economic crisis : Around 50 people actually working at Dawex
- Made the Global Data Marketplace growth (12,000+ companies)
- Deployed 8 new EU countrie for the second year of the project (15 in total)
- Increase Dawex brand awareness and visibility across Europe
-- Press releases : Hundreds of coverages worldwide and in Europe
-- Awarded Technology pioneers by the World Economic Forum
-- Recognitions /reviews by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, BCG, 451 Research, etc.
- Built new partnerships with worldwide corporations (Arm, Bouygues Constructions, Microsoft) and Consultancies (Deloitte, Smart City Insights)
- Test and increase the level of security of the Dawex technology
- Two pen tests conducted in 2019 and 2020 to assess the level of security of Dawex
- Certification of the platform achieved in October 2020 (SOC)
- Made the infrastructure and architecture of the platform evolve to be fully scalable to market requirements and clients needs: compatibility with new sovereign and European cloud providers (3DS Outscale, OVH, Orange Cloud for Business) and new worldwide cloud services (Microsoft Azure)
- Improved the user experience on the Dawex Global Data Marketplace with new functionalities and features
