Canadian firm Tooq has selected NetFoundry’s edge and IoT platform for secure and simple provisioning, management and networking of its retail analytics offering.

By embedding North Carolina-based NetFoundry’s programmable networking as cloud orchestrated software, Tooq ensured its retail AI analytics were secure and reliable. It eliminates the complexity and limitations of on-site hardware deployments, firewall configuration, VPNs, private mobile APNs, dedicated circuits, bastion hosts and jump servers.

“As a world class innovator, Tooq was born to capture, analyse and provide data points that facilitate data driven decision making to improve the productivity of our retail customers,” said Ronaldo Moura, CEO of Tooq. “Our partnership with NetFoundry is accelerating our ability to design and deliver innovations to our customers. By integrating NetFoundry’s edge and IoT platform into our analytics deployed at the edge, Tooq is transforming the retail industry in Brazil by delivering unique insights into customer behaviour powered with live data.”

With the Tooq platform measuring in-store traffic patterns and flows, retailers can develop an understanding of their store conversions, customer behaviour patterns, and in-store journey rates. Tooq develops edge to cloud technology ecosystems that integrate software, intelligence and edge connectivity. Devices are deployed to multiple edge locations to capture data and securely exchange these data with AI and ML engines running in multiple clouds.

NetFoundry CEO Galeal Zino said: “Embedding secure provisioning, management and networking into Tooq’s solutions, as pure software, means that Tooq and Tooq customers get security, agility and reliability without being handcuffed to hardware, networks or clouds. Instead, they control a programmable stack so can continue to innovate.”

Organisations can start instantly with fully managed SaaS services – NetFoundry’s network platform as a service (NPaaS) in which NetFoundry manages all underlying infrastructure, while the organisation controls it via software, APIs and SDKs. Removing the on-site provisioning and management, infrastructure deployments, and VPN, APN and firewall management can saves organisations at least 40%. Further savings are realised by reducing the possibilities and impacts of security breaches by moving to a zero trust architecture.