A new response to the need to govern change

Artificial intelligence, robots and drones, immersive platforms, blockchains. The rapid decentralisation of the IT world is changing the world we live in. This change invests the way we work and produce, govern, join forces, communicate, produce culture and live. Markets, supply chains and business models are also changing. So too are the ways of generating value, employment and wealth. A new balance is emerging between the public and private sectors.

With Blockchain the global network is returning to its original vocation

Thanks to Blockchain and its technological nature driving web 3.0, the global network is returning to its original vocation of decentralised infrastructure: information belongs to everyone and everyone is invited to take part, contribute and share, without centralising knowledge, technology, data and services, yet outlining a shared advantage with an open approach.

A dedicated Competence Center

Almaviva has long since been experimenting with and creating decentralised solutions involving blockchains and distributed ledger technology (DLT), due to impact that these technologies have on business, providing adequate solutions to the need to govern the changes taking place, also in the wake of entirely new needs emerging in relation to ethics, transparency, trust and privacy.

Thanks to an active presence in the development communities at a global level and constant supervision of the Open Source and Enterprise scenarios (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda are just a few examples), Almaviva experts are endowed with the necessary vision, knowledge and integration skills.

Collaboration, distribution, consensus. In all markets

If the implementation of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin is certainly the most famous usage case, Almaviva was nonetheless quick to grasp the technology’s potential, regardless of the assets governed, and has long since been proposing the technology’s use in other new and extremely diversified scenarios in which it becomes crucial to rely on new models of transparency, quality and security. This while striving to contain infrastructure costs.

Collaboration, distribution and consensus are the key words of this technology, already experimented by Almaviva in many concrete applications in public and private sector organisations. Some of the sectors involved include the agrifood, automotive, health, transport and digital administration industries.

Public or private? The third way proposed by AlmavivA

The debate on which Blockchain model to use is ongoing and complex. Typically permissionless for public Blockchains, or rather where everyone enjoys free access and can perform any role within the network; a Blockchain defined in this way, if widespread in terms of use and number of nodes, also guarantees the immutability of transactions.

Permissioned, on the other hand, is used for private or consortium-serving Blockchains, which are better paired with a “with permission” approach, based on one or more “trusted” subjects who are authorised to write the register, which makes it possible to avoid the use of cryptocurrencies and all the issues linked to them.

So, should you choose a public Blockchain or a private or consortium Blockchain? AlmavivA experience suggests a third way: a hybrid model which goes beyond this dichotomy and allows the full exploitation of the capabilities of both formats.

Almaviva hybrid model

Almaviva hybrid model combines the typical advantages of a permissioned Blockchain - such as the lack of cryptocurrency, high throughput and platform access control - with those of a permissionless Blockchain, also recognised at a regulatory level due to its guarantee of immutability, a feature which leads to the application of this technology in the majority of cases.

The architectural solution offered by Almaviva makes it possible to exploit heterogeneous Blockchain ecosystems to the full: by defining interoperability and communication criteria, the focus can shift to the functions, while the technologies are optimised transparently without adversely affecting service levels.

Almaviva: real production-ready solutions for public and private organisations

Almaviva stands beside all organisations seeking to radically transform their processes and business through innovative and sustainable architectures. By integrating the most advanced decentralised technologies, Almaviva proposes solutions that reduce the adoption and implementation complexity also thanks to proprietary production-ready products and its proven software integrator experience, thus tangibly boosting the digital transformation process of clients and partners.

Almaviva solutions: innovative characteristics and disruptive process models