SPIE helps with deployment of AI in companies in collaboration with NVIDIA

Malakoff, 3 October 2024 - SPIE ICS, a French digital services company and subsidiary of SPIE, the independent European leader in multi-technical services in the areas of energy and communications, is working with NVIDIA to advance artificial intelligence (AI) for business on the French market. As an Elite partner within the NVIDIA Partner Network, SPIE ICS has developed multiple customised AI-platform projects for its customers.

SPIE ICS deploys its expertise to integrate NVIDIA virtual GPUs¹

SPIE ICS started working with NVIDIA in 2017 on projects to transform physical workstations into 3D virtual workspaces. Thanks to SPIE's integration of NVIDIA's GPU virtualisation software (vGPU), users are able to remotely access the accelerated IT infrastructure and software required to perform their day-to-day tasks from any device. This increases flexibility and productivity at a time when remote working has become commonplace in all business sectors, while also ensuring a level of data security that meets European regulations.

Since 2019, SPIE ICS has been integrating accelerated computing to enable complex tasks to be performed from any device. The integration is also optimised for NVIDIA AI Enterprise, a software platform designed to create and deploy business and generative AI applications, as well as continuous data sciencepipelines² in a secure and managed way. NVIDIA AI Enterprise also comprises NVIDIA NIM, a series of easy-to-use inference microservices to accelerate the deployment of basic models on any cloud or data centre, and NIM Agent Blueprints to lend developers a helping hand when creating AI applications using one or more AI agents.

SPIE ICS thus deploys customised AI platforms for large French industrial groups. Here, it uses all its integration expertise by basing the size of the IT infrastructure on the specific needs of its customers, with either cloud-based or on-premises solutions³. SPIE ICS is now one of the only French digital services companies to be an Elite partner within the NVIDIA Partner Network in the VGPU⁴ and Compute categories.

"Companies are really warming to the subject of AI and many are now starting to look at how they can integrate it into their IT system. The return on investment that they can generate is becoming clearer and more concrete", says David Daulon, director of the End User Computing department⁵ at SPIE ICS. "To meet these new needs, SPIE ICS is deploying customised AI platforms by providing the processing power and software expertise alongside platform dimensions that are consistent with the challenges of decarbonisation. We are currently the only company offering this expertise."

AI: a strategic pillar for SPIE ICS to consolidate its role as a high-value player for organisations

Faced with an evolving market, SPIE ICS has made artificial intelligence one of its strategic pillars for the next four years, with the aim of developing new tools to optimise business processes. This strategy is based on a twofold approach: "AI for all", which takes the form of a day-to-day assistant available to all company employees, and "AI for everything", through which SPIE ICS will develop and offer specialist subject-specific assistants for its customers.

"The rapid democratisation of new technologies is pushing IT business areas to transform. Our strategic plan for 2024-2027 aims to take into account the new needs of CIO and, in particular, to accelerate AI in order to offer improved performance and make IT infrastructure even more agile", says Xavier Daubignard, managing director of SPIE ICS. "The mission pursued by SPIE ICS remains unchanged: to be the trusted digital transformation partner for our customers, by acting as a provider of high added-value services."