Local authorities are accelerating their data strategies, with a growing priority: breaking down information silos to improve the management of public policies and territories. The latest barometer published by the Observatoire Data Publica confirms this trend: data platforms and hypervisors are gradually becoming part of the local government landscape. At national level, the French Ministry of the Interior embarked on this path in 2023, with the creation of a hypervisor to support the management of major events. Built on Suadeo’s data platform, this hypervisor is now deployed within the Interministerial Crisis Management Unit. This use case, featured in Alliancy magazine, further demonstrates the operational value of Suadeo Olympe, its Hypervisor extension, in crisis management.
Managing a territory or a crisis situation involves multiple stakeholders, information systems and data sources. The challenge lies in bringing all this information together, ensuring its reliability and making it immediately actionable through an intuitive operational environment.
This has been Suadeo’s driving vision for more than 22 years: empowering decision-makers and business users, without requiring technical expertise, to analyse data independently and respond quickly to make informed decisions and take action.
While the data platform provides the foundation for data governance and exploitation, its true value lies in the business applications it enables. Suadeo extensions are built by combining the platform’s modules, much like assembling Lego bricks. Each application addresses a specific business need, such as real-time maritime monitoring or fraud detection.
Among these extensions is Suadeo Olympe, a hypervisor designed to centralise and geolocate information and events across a territory, accelerate decision-making and coordinate field resources in real time.
An operational response to crisis management challenges: the French Ministry of the Interior and DGSCGC use case
Used by the Interministerial Crisis Management Unit, under the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Crisis Management (DGSCGC), the French Ministry of the Interior’s hypervisor demonstrates the solution’s operational value. It consolidates and shares information in real time with the stakeholders involved in crisis situations and major events.
In its investigation published on 13 October 2026, Alliancy magazine highlights the operational benefits of the system, including automated information reporting, reduced manual data compilation and fewer risks of human error.
Julien Anthonioz-Blanc, Head of Cross-functional Digital Projects at the French Ministry of the Interior, sums up the philosophy behind the system:”The tool is an accelerator, not a crutch” (Read the article Alliancy : Behind the scenes of digital crisis management | Alliancy – Digital & Business)
A model that can be scaled across local authorities
Interministerial crises are not the only situations where this approach proves valuable. The need for coordination and a shared, real-time view is just as critical at city and inter-municipal level.
Digital sovereignty and Data and AI projects were growing priorities for two-thirds of local authorities in 2024, compared with 40% in 2022 (Source: Data Publica Observatory – 2025 Barometer).
Although 15% of local authorities are considering deploying a hypervisor*, indicating that the market is still maturing, demand is growing and gaining momentum. The Ministry of the Interior’s experience has demonstrated the effectiveness of Suadeo’s Hypervisor extension and reinforced the company’s commitment to adapting its platform capabilities to the specific needs of local authorities.
Fully sovereign, Suadeo Olympe brings together data from different departments and partner organisations to facilitate territorial coordination, event monitoring and the management of critical situations. By bringing together multiple applications, the hypervisor also enables the coordination of resources and all stakeholders involved, from decision-makers to field teams. It can be used to anticipate events, trigger operational information flows and send alerts to citizens.
Suadeo’s artificial intelligence further enhances the capabilities of the platform’s latest version. Designed as on-demand capabilities, native AI agents assist both technical and business users across a wide range of tasks: configuring data pipelines, analysing data, detecting weak signals and hidden correlations, generating decision-support materials, triggering field operations, predicting risks and adjusting action plans accordingly.
Risk management, public safety, major events, fleet and traffic monitoring, public service optimisation and continuity: these are just some of the areas in which the Olympe hypervisor supports public-sector operations.
Live demonstrations at the upcoming Adopt AI Summit
Live demonstrations of Suadeo Self Data Services®, the platform’s data foundation, and its business applications will take place at the Adopt AI Summit on 3 and 4 December in Paris.
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* Source : Observatoire Data Publica – 2025 Barometer
