BlockApps announced the expansion of the TraceHarvest network
with Amazon Web Services (AWS). BlockApps' TraceHarvest blockchain solution
will leverage AWS to provide TraceHarvest's agribusiness customers fast,
flexible access to the cloud.
TraceHarvest allows customers to track and trace the full
lifecycle of agricultural products starting at the seed source using
blockchain. BlockApps began working with AWS on TraceHarvest in late 2020 and
is already expanding services and capabilities utilizing AWS's cloud and
technology services.
Leveraging the speed and elasticity
of AWS, BlockApps will accelerate its customers' journeys to more streamlined,
sustainable supply chains. BlockApps will support customers across the
agriculture industry to create a healthier, transparent, and more inclusive
food system. Specifically, AWS will support TraceHarvest customers in their
adoption of cloud services, bring technical and industry expertise to the
TraceHarvest community, and co-invest in building tools to automate the
customer on-boarding process to TraceHarvest, allowing customers to accelerate
realization of seed and crop insights.
"BlockApps and AWS technologies
complement each other to create the robust, digitalized seed traceability
solution in TraceHarvest. It is with technologies like these that Bayer Crop
Science can securely manage seed provenance information in real-time," says
Michael Pareles, Open Innovation Lead at Bayer Crop Science. "Bayer can improve
crop performance, data sovereignty, farmer livelihood and sustainability
practices alongside a whole digital ecosystem of partners, distributors and
growers."
The collaboration strengthens the
sustained business venture between BlockApps and AWS, who first started working
together in 2017 when the BlockApps STRATO blockchain platform was
made available in AWS Marketplace.
"Working with AWS since 2017 has
been crucial for our enterprise customers to easily access our STRATO
blockchain technology. On top of the core technology, their reliable cloud
infrastructure and flexible services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3), have unlocked even more opportunities for our customers to use
STRATO," said Kieren James-Lubin, President and CEO at BlockApps. "Now we are
taking another important step by providing agriculture industry members with
the specific tools and integrations they need to effectively collaborate and
get even more business value from TraceHarvest."
The AWS and BlockApps teams are
also working to ensure the solution meets modern cloud technology and
architecture standards by completing an AWS Well-Architected Review for
TraceHarvest and the STRATO platform. Once complete, TraceHarvest and STRATO
will be fully certified in accordance with AWS architectural standards and
design best practices - providing strong technological certification to
compliment the industry-specific agriculture standards which TraceHarvest has
already met for over two years.
"With AWS, top global agriculture
companies - from large enterprises like Bayer Crop Science to early stage
start-ups - spend less time and money on infrastructure and innovate faster,
bringing new products to market and advancing the industry," said Elizabeth
Fastiggi, Head of Worldwide Business Development for Agriculture, Amazon Web Services,
Inc. "We are delighted to be working with BlockApps to help our customers bring
traceability to their supply chains, improve business efficiency, and advance
sustainability initiatives with measurable impact."
With BlockApps' expansion of
TraceHarvest alongside AWS, members of the agribusiness value chain can now
join and access the TraceHarvest network via AWS and enjoy simple, cost
effective infrastructure with greater support than ever from BlockApps, AWS,
and the agriculture business community.