The operator’s B2B unit made a number of announcements at its annual Summit for customers, including ‘Europe’s first Anti-drone as a Service’ and sovereignty all the way
Over the last two days, the operator’s B2B unit welcomed more than 1,000 clients to the Orange Business Summit in Paris and introduced four new solutions based on trusted cloud-based environments and powered by AI. Orange Business believes it is uniquely positioned as an operator, integrator and platform provider.
Aliette Mousnier-Lompré, CEO of Orange Business, said, “We aim to empower organisations to scale and innovate securely, enabling them to thrive amid uncertainty. In that context and at Orange Business, we believe that possibility starts with tech you trust.”
Europe’s first Anti-drone as a Service
At the Summit, Orange Business debuted the Orange Drone Guardian, which is says is Europe’s first Anti-drone as a Service solution. It detects, identifies and classifies intrusive drones in low-altitude airspace across France. There are plans to extend coverage to other European countries. It is designed for operators of critical infrastructure, public authorities and major event organisers. It relies on a sovereign infrastructure operated by Orange, combined with “advanced detection technologies”.
There are more details here.
Extending Live Intelligence
Orange Business is extending the capabilities of Live Intelligence, an internal AI platform built by Orange which about 100,000 of its 124,000 employees choose to use. This is “an incredible and an industry benchmark for adoption,” said Hriday Ravindranath, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Orange Business, in a recent interview.
The AI stack which underpins Live Intelligence, is shared with Orange Business. In 2024, the B2B unit productised the platform and took it to market. At the Summit, Orange Business extended its capabilities with Live Intelligence Studio. This is a new a plug-and-play generative AI platform that customers can use to develop, deploy and manage intelligent AI agents “securely in a trusted infrastructure to automate tasks and analyse data with a human touch,”. the firm says.
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Live Collaboration
Live Collaboration is designed to give enterprises more control over their data, their costs and architectural choices, helping them address issues like cloud spend, vendor lock-in and new digital vulnerabilities. It offers a set of modular collaboration tools which Orange Business describes as trusted and sovereign.
It consolidates professional collaboration tasks, like messaging, calendars, document co-editing, video conferencing and intranet into a single unified platform operated by Orange, end to end, and hosted on Cloud Avenue SecNum. Orange’s Cloud Avenue has relationships with all the main US hyperscalers and qualified for SecNumCloud in July 2025.
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Enterprise voice plus trust and AI
Orange Business is integrating trust and AI into enterprises’ spoken communications to help them guard against more sophisticated threats such as detecting deepfakes. Orange Business claims it will also drive more trusted, personal engagement between customers and a company’s employees through branded calling, customer care augmented by AI, plus agentic telephony.
The latter is designed to get the best outcome from calls for both parties as it can understand context, provide a certain level of answers and plan the next action.
More information here.
